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Clive Chappell

Phone: +61-2-9514-3700

Fax: +61-2-9514-3737

E-mail: Clive.Chappell@uts,edu.au

Education

Master of Education, GCSE, Bachelor of Science

Current Position

Clive Chappell is Senior Lecturer in the UTS Faculty of Education as well as Senior Research Fellow in the RCVET. He is also currently Programme Director for the Bachelor of Education (Adult Education) at the University.

Professional experience

Clive is involved in teaching, research and consultancy in the areas of Human Resource Development and Vocational Education and Training Clive's particular areas of professional expertise include issues to do with the development and implemenation of competency standards for industries and organisations and he has been a consultant to many organisations and professional bodies undertaking this process. These have included medical scientists, architects, Australian Gas, NSW Dept of Community Services and the Queensland Senior Executive Service. Clive has also designed, delivered and evaluated a course to develop the training skills of Chinese technical teachers in the Chinese steel industry and has recently completed a 2 year project for the government of Mexico which involved designing and delivering training programs in Mexico on developing competency based curricula and teaching competency based vocational education and training programs.

Research

Clive's experience in vocational education research can be gauged by the invitations he receives to speak at conferences. He has been a keynote speaker at national and international conferences organised to discuss issues to do with Training Reform including Competency and Professional Education, University of Canberra, Competency Standards and Teachers, Department of School Education Victoria, , Professional Competency Standards, Annual Conference of the Australian Audiological Society, Quality and Competency Standards, National Centre for English Language Teaching and Research, The Literacy Equation: Competence = Capability?, Australian Council for Adult Literacy and the International Conference - Thailand Work and Training Reform- Time For National Standards. He has also developed a competency profile for NSW TAFE teachers Professional Competence and the Initial and Continuing Education of NSW TAFE Teachers. He has extensive experience in Industry-institution collaboration with companies from the private as well as the government sector. In his current research Clive is examining vocational education and training policy and its effects on the identities of teachers in the public sector (PhD in progress), work-based learning and organisational development and the globalisation of education and training.

Selected publications

Chappell C , Gonczi A and Hager P, (1994) Kangan and developments in TAFE teacher education in Kangan 20 Years on , National Centre for Vocational Education Research. Adelaide

Chappell C, Gonczi a & Hager P (1995) Competency-based Education in Foley G (ed) Understanding Adult Education and Training, Allen & Unwin, Sydney.

Chappell C & Melville B (1995) Professional Competence and the Initial and Continuing Education of NSW TAFE Teachers, Sydney, University of Technology, Sydney Printing Services.

Chappell C & Hager P (1995) Values and Competency Standards in Journal of Further and Higher Education vol 18.3

Chappell C & Hager P (1995) Problem-Based Learning and Competency Development, The Australlian Journal of Teacher Education vol 20 (1)

Chappell C (1996) Professional Competence and TAFE Teachers, Australian Vocational Education Review vol 3(1) 1-6

Chappell C (1996) Knowledge in an age of uncertainty Proceedings of the Standing Conference on University Teaching and Research in the Education of Adults 26th annual Conference, Leeds

Chappell C (1996) Quality and Competency Standards Prospect A journal of Australian TESOL vol 11(1) 59-71

Chappell C (1996) Post-compulsory education and training a modernist project, The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Vocational Education Research. vol 4(1) 14-35

Nicholl C & Chappell C (1998) Policy Effects: 'Flexible learning in higher education and the 'de-differentiation' of the vocational sector, Studies in Continuing Education vol 20 (1) 39-50

Chappell C (1998) Changing TAFE in new times, Australian Journal of Teacher Education-special edition (pub pending)