December 2004
A leading educational psychologist is the new director of two of Monash University 's most prominent Faculty of Education research centres.
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| Professor Dennis Moore. |
Professor Dennis Moore, who holds a chair in educational psychology at Monash, now heads the university's Krongold Centre for Exceptional Children and the Elwyn Morey Child Study Centre in the Education faculty at the Clayton campus.
He took up the new positions on 1 November; the centres' previous director, Associate Professor David Harvey, will retire at the end of the year.
After training in his native New Zealand Professor Moore taught at the University of PNG from 1979 until 1985 -- the final two years in the education research unit.
From there he moved to the University of Auckland as associate professor in the Department of Education. He was also director of the university's training program for education psychology and was involved in a three-university consortium that trained resource teachers in learning and behaviour.
"Throughout my career I have been a practitioner, researcher and teacher in education psychology, particularly in special education," he said. "During the last seven years, I have been increasingly involved in research and support of inclusive education, and have worked on strategies to help teachers cater for the diverse student population we face in the education system today.
"For instance, a large number of non-English-speaking students have arrived in schools in Australia and New Zealand in recent years, and that presents an interesting challenge to those education systems."
Professor Moore said the modern concept of inclusive education was concerned with catering for the needs of all students.
"It is one of the roles of the Krongold Centre to help advance that concept," he said.
The Krongold Centre conducts research in educational and developmental psychology, psychological counselling and special education.
The Elwyn Morey Centre provides early childhood intervention programs and services for young children, and their families, with significant developmental delays and disabilities.
"I am also interested in the work of the Elwyn Morey Centre because I have a particular interest in working with children who have pervasive developmental disorders or disabilities -- particularly helping children with autism -- and assisting their parents," Professor Moore said.
"I have been involved in a number of research projects over the past eight years concerned with teaching autistic children and have recently completed an evaluation of a UK-based support program for parents of children with autism."
Robyn Anns
Contact:
dennis.moore@education.monash.edu.au
Ph: +61 3 9905 0706 | 
