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Kate (Catherine) Keeley

BA(UNSW), DipEd(UNSW), LLB(UTS)

Lecturer

Curriculum Coordinator, Geography, Economics, Business Studies BA/BEd(Secondary combined degree)

Curriculum Coordinator, Geography, Economics, Business Studies, Legal Studies and Society and Culture Master of Teaching Program

Email:

Phone: +61 2 9351 2304

Fax: +61 2 9351 2606

Building.Room: A35.812

Research interests

Educational history, sociology and philosophy

  • Sociology of education

Educational systems: administration, management and leadership

  • International and comparative education

Learning sciences; psychology of education

  • Assessment and evaluation

Keywords

Early career teachers and accreditation, Aboriginal education, Global education, Juvenile justice, Legal Studies and legal issues within education, Social justice and equality, Environmental education


Professional biography

Kate was appointed to the faculty in 2008 and is the coordinator of HSIE Secondary Curriculum for both the Master of Teaching Program and the combined BA/ BEd program. She also coordinates the Meeting the Needs of Cultural Diversity unit in the undergraduate program. Prior to her appointment Kate was a lecturer within the Teacher Education Program at Macquarie University and a part-time lecturer within the degree and diploma programs at the Koori Centre at the University of Sydney.

Kate brings to these positions a long career within the NSW Department of Education and Communities as a classroom teacher and member of the school executive. She has also undertaken significant positions within the Department of Education and Communities as the State Manager for the Disadvantaged Schools Program, the Gender Equity Program and the Gifted and Talented Program. Kate has also worked at the NSW Board of Studies as Senior Curriculum Office HSIE and more recently as the Senior Project Manager for the current Years 7-10 Aboriginal Studies. She chaired the Legal Studies Syllabus Committee as well as the HSC Legal Studies Examination Committee. She was for five years the Supervisor of Marking for the HSC Legal Studies Examination. Kate was also a member of the HSC Aboriginal Studies Examination Committee.

Kate was admitted to the NSW Bar in 1984.

Kate is currently undertaking a PhD under the supervision of Professor Raewyn Connell and Associate Supervisor A/Professor Deb Hayes.


Awards

  • 2011 Social Inclusion Scholarship, University of Sydney

  • Teaching Excellence Award, Faculty of Education, University of Sydney, 2011

  • Nominated for Teaching Excellence Award, Faculty of Education & Social Work, University of Sydney, 2010


Professional and community roles

  • Coordinator Global Education Project (AusAid/PTC) USYD

  • Member of the Aboriginal Teachers Association NSW

  • Member Australian Teacher Education Association

  • Faculty ICT Representative

  • Member of the University of Sydney ICT Working Party

  • Member of EDFAC Teaching and Learning Committee


Current projects

  • Currently the coordinator for the USYD EDFAC Global Education Project ($40,000 in 2010 and $25,000 funding grants from NSW Professional Teachers Council/ AusAid (with A/Prof Tim Allender, Dr A Sriprakash)
  • Exploring Culture as a verb: A partnership Program with low ses culturally diverse schools (TIGS Grant $24,000 A/Prof Cruicshank, K Keeley)
  • Meeting the Needs of Cultural Diversity: A Study of the ongoing partnership with Birrong Boys' High School and the students of EDSE 5010 Meeting the Needs of Cultural Diversity (funded by a grant from the NSW Professional Teachers Council/AusAid $5,000 in 2011)
  • Social Inclusion and the Socio-cultural prediction of Teaching and Learning: the Under-privileged of Australia and the Slum Children of India (IPDF $7,000 project 2011/12 (A/Prof T Allender Chief Investigator, Dr A Sriprakash)

Selected publications

Conference papers

  • K Keeley. (2011). Meeting the needs of cultural diversity. In ATEA Annual Conference Valuing Teacher Education: Policy, Perspectives and Partnerships. Melbourne, 3-6 July 2011.
  • K Keeley. (2011). Developing online resources for teaching global citizenship education. In AusAid Global Education Project Conference . Melbourne, 15-17 June.
  • A Sriprakash, T Allender & K Keeley. (2011). Globalising educational knowledge? Schooling and citizenship in India and Australia . In UWS Knowledge/Culture/Social Change International Conference . Sydney, 7-9 November 2011.
  • K.Keeley. (2010). New Teachers, accreditation and their mentors. In ATEA Annual Conference Teacher Education for a Sustainable Future. Townsville, Qld, 4-7 July, 2010.
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