Les Pereira Books and book chapters
 | Pereira, L. J. (2008). Between the 'Real' and the 'Imagined': Professional Learning, Reflective Practice and Transformational Leadership . Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense. Preview available here: |
Pereira, L., Gregory, P., Kuehs, H., Draper, A., Staker, J., Tomlinson, R. & Pereira, C. (2008). Pemberton Hydroelectric Power Station. Bunbury, Australia: Centre for Regional Sustainable Futures, Edith Cowan University.
This
is a teacher resource for upper primary to middle school. It uses an
integrated 'outside in' planning framework and outlines four units of
work: Science, Mathematics, Society and Environment and English. The
units use the 5 Es framework and target the Western Australian
curriculum.
Pereira, L.J. (2007). Developing perspectival understanding. In P.C. Taylor & J. Wallace (Eds.), Contemporary qualitative research: Exemplars for science and mathematics educators (pp. 189-207). Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer.
This
chapter presents an exemplar of postmodernist research informed by
integral philosophy. It puts forward one way of coming to terms with
the double bind produced from postmodernist thought. The concept of
methodology is explored using multiple ways of knowing.
Pereira, L., Settelmeier, E., Taylor, P.C. (2005). Fictive
Imagining and Moral Purpose: Autobiographical research as/for
Transformative Development, In W-M. Roth. (Ed.), Auto/Biography and Auto/Ethnography: Praxis of research method. Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense.
This
chapter describes the use of auto/biography in qualitative research. My
contribution includes the use of fictive writing to generate
alternative perspectives and the power of this in poetically
(re)creating one's historicity.
Papers
Luitel, B.C., Settelmaier, Pereira, L.J.,
E., Joyce, P., Nhalavilo, E., Cupane & Taylor, P.C.. (in Press). Paradigm wars,
dialogue or dance: Is rapproachement possible and/or desirable. Cultural Studies in Science Education. Link here
This
paper is an invited forum focusing on the Kincheloe and Tobin paper, ‘The Much Exaggerated Death of
Positivism’. It explores the hegemony of positivism in the professional
practices of a group of educators whose research expertise lies in the fields
of science education, mathematics education and leadership education.
Pereira, L.J. (2006). Embedding criticality in tertiary programs (Draft). Accepted for presentation at the annual meeting of the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia.
This
paper discusses the role of universities for societal development in
the context of globalisation. An innovative undergraduate unit aimed at
developing an attitude of criticality among first year students of
education is outlined.
Pereira, L., Taylor, P.C. & Pereira, C. E. (2005). Rewriting history: A poetic approach to the moral transformation of leadership practice. Paper presented at the Annual conference of the American Educational Research Association, Montreal, Canada
This
paper describes an example of writing for inquiry. It investgates my
approach to a moral dilemma I faced as a school leader. It describes
the concept of phronesis and uses two forms, Paul Ricoeur's critical
phronesis and John Wall's poetic phronesis, as key referents for
developing moral leadership.
Pereira, L. & Taylor, P.C. (April, 2005). Method, methodology and methodolatry: A search for the Holy Grail? Paper presented at the Annual conference of the American Educational Research Association, Montreal, Canada. (Email)
This
paper challenges foundational constructs of research methodology.Using
a diachronic approach, and through an application of the seven ways of
knowing (techne, poesis, praxis, dialogos, polis, theoria and
phronesis), Method, research focus, literature reviews, evaluative
standards and research paradigms are examined.
Pereira, L.J., Taylor, P.C., & Pereira, C. E. (2004). Rewriting history: A poetic approach to the moral transformation of leadership practice.
Paper presented at the Annual conference of the Australian Association
for Research in Education (AARE), November 27th - December 2nd,
University of Melbourne, Australia.
This is an earlier version of the paper described above.
Pereira, L.J. (2004). Towards no-method: Reassessing foundational constructs in research methodology. Paper presented at the Fifth International Conference for Qualitative Research, September 6th-8th, Bournemouth, England. (Email)
This
paper describes the concept of no-method and suggests a philosophical
progression beyond espoused mixed-method approaches. This idea is
developed further in the Method, methodology paper above.
Naylor, D. & Pereira, L.J. (2004). Integrated classrooms in tertiary educational settings. Paper presented at the Australian Teacher Education Association, Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia.
This
paper describes a collaboration between myself and Dawn Naylor in which
we integrated the language and science units in the second year of a
pre-service teacher education program.
Pereira, L.J. (2002). The Evolving Spirit of Constructivism: A personal perspective. Unpublished manuscript. Doctoral paper.
This
paper is an essay summarising my understandings of constructivism
following a doctoral level investigation into its various forms. I
discuss the role of this epistemology with respect to my doctoral
thesis and propose Integral Constructivism as a referent informed by
integral philosophy.
Pereira, L.J. (2001). System-wide reform and the individual. Unpublished manuscript.
This report investigates the nexus between systemic attempts at
bringing about change and the perspectives of individual school
leaders. The findings suggest systems evolve through a process of
'natural' selection.
Pereira, L.J. (1996). Stepping out with the Constructivists. Australian Science Teacher's Journal, 42(2), 26-28.
An
early paper that draws parallels between Stepping Out, a professional
development program on literacy, and constructivist perspectives on
learning.