Mr John Pardy - Researcher Profile

John Pardy

Address

Faculty of Education
Building 6, Clayton

Biography

John has worked as TAFE teacher, and as a Vocational Education and Training (VET) Curriculum and Policy Officer for the Victorian and the Australian governments before coming to Monash. Within the Faculty of Education John teaches in the pre-service and graduate teacher education program, in the Bachelor of Adult Learning and Development and in the Masters of Education program. He completed a research Masters on TAFE Learning and has undertaken doctoral research into social class and applied learning.
John has undertaken research funded by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) on student pathways between TAFE and University. More recently he has carried out research for the Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development’s Higher Education and Skills Group on access and equity. 

Research & Supervision Interests

    • Technical, Vocational and Adult education, and Applied Learning  
    • Social theory and education systems and experiences
    • History of Education

Qualifications

MASTERS OF EDUCATION
Institution: Monash University
Year awarded: 2006
POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA IN ARTS
Institution: University of Melbourne
Year awarded: 2000

Publications

Book Chapters

Pardy, J., 2010, An Australian worker navigating precarious work and fluid subjectivity, in Learning and Work and the Politics of Working Life. Global transformations and collective identities in teaching, nursing and social work, eds Terri Seddon, Lea Henriksson and Beatrix Niemeyer, Routledge, UK, pp. 173-185.

Journal Articles

Pardy, J., Seddon, T.L., 2011, Making space for VET learning after the Bradley Review: Rethinking knowledge to support inclusion and equity, Cambridge Journal of Education [E], vol 41, issue 1, Routledge, United Kingdom, pp. 53-65.

Conference Proceedings

Pardy, J., 2008, No Class here: The disavowal of social class, Re-imagining Sociology. The annual conference of The Australian Sociological Association, 2-5 December 2008, TASA, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 1-16.

Pardy, J.E., 2007, Education credentials and working lives, Evolution, Revolution or Status Quo? VET in New Contexts, 11 April 2007 to 13 April 2007, AVETRA, http://www.avetra.org.au/publications/AVETRAConference07Papers.shtml, pp. 1-12.

Other

Angus, L., Golding, B., Hodge, S., Brown, M., Clemans, A., Pardy, J., Seddon, T.L., Guthrie, H., McLean, D., Moodie, G., Smith, H., Toner, P., Waterhouse, P., Wheelahan, L., 2012, No to TAFE reform, The Herald Sun, The Herald and Weekly Times, Melbourne, Australia.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:
(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Attitudes of employers towards Competency Based Completion of Electricians Apprenticeships.
Supervisors:
Pardy, J (Main), Anderson, D (Associate).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Sound learning - applying musical theory and understandings in tertiary education.
Supervisors:
Southcott, J (Main), Pardy, J (Associate).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Sustaining the Second Chance Option.
Supervisors:
Faulkner, J (Main), Pardy, J (Associate).
Program of Study:
(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
The person of the mindfulness teacher, is currently obscured in the literature for the same reasons that the person of the therapist is hidden in psychotherapy.
Supervisors:
Simmonds, J (Main), Pardy, J (Associate).