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John McIntyreJohn McIntyre

B Ed MA (Hons)Syd PhD UTS

 

Phone: +61 2 9514 3999

Fax: +61 2 9514 3737

E-mail:John.McIntyre@uts.edu.au

 

 

Current Position

Director, UTS Research Centre for Vocational Education and Training Faculty of Education (RCVET), a key national centre funded by Australian National Training Authority (ANTA). Member of the 'researching adult and vocational learning' (RAVL) research group, a designated key research strength of the university.

Teaching

Doctoral research supervision: the construction of learner identities in vocational education and training; adoption of traineeships in IT; academic identity and institutional change; cultural factors in vocational learning; practitioners’ adoption of flexible delivery in TAFE; cultural factors and women’s experiences of the health system; community agencies and access to legal information; older learners' experiences of literature.Core teaching: Research Perspectives in Education (013348) and Design & Method In Educational Research (013349).

Research

Principal researcher, national and state research reports on vocational education and training (VET) and adult community education (ACE) in Australia, including studies of: early school-leavers at risk, the vocational role of adult community education (ACE) agencies, participation in adult learning; pathways from informal to formal VET; the economics of ACE delivery; enterprise training in Australia, and factors affecting outcomes of participation by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students in VET..PhD (By Publication) on policy, provision and participation in adult community education (1999). Funding agencies include the Australian National Training Authority (ANTA), NREC and the NSW Board of Adult Community Education and the Victorian Adult Community and Further Education Board of Victoria.

Work in progress

1. Managing the RCVET’s ANTA national key centre program, investigating the changing character of vocational learning in Australian vocational education and training. 2. Analyis of VET participation by student home postcode in Sydney and Melbourne using AVETMISS data and 1996 Census mapping (McIntyre 1999 and ongoing).3. Client groups, regional factors and provider equity strategies (with V. Volkoff and M Egg, RMIT, National Research and Evaluation Committee, 2000). 4. Governing Mutual Obligation (with R.Wickert and A. Lee, ARC Small Grant). 5. Professional development in adult community education (for ACFE, Victoria)

Community service

Member, Executive of the Australian Vocational Education and Training Research Association (AVETRA); member of the NSW Executive, Adult Learning Australia (formerly AAACE).

Publications

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Symes, C. and McIntyre, J. (eds) (forthcoming). Working Knowledge: The New Vocationalism in Higher Education. Open University Press.

McIntyre, J., Melville B, Schwenke, C., and Freeland, J. (1999). Early School Leavers at Risk. Adelaide: National Centre for Vocational Education Research.

McIntyre, J., and Wickert, R. (in press). Research at work for policy: the negotiated management of meanings, in Garrick, J. and Rhodes, C. (eds). Research and Knowledge at Work, Routledge.

McIntyre, J. and Solomon, N. (1998). Deschooling vocational knowledge, in Vocational Knowledge and Institutions,:Changing Relationships. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Post-Compulsory Education and Training. Brisbane: Griffith University (forthcoming in Symes & McIntyre).

McIntyre, J. and Solomon, N. (1998). Globalisation, vocational institutions and the rise of work-based learning. In Researching Learning and Work. A first international conference, organised by Leeds University School of Continuing Education. (forthcoming in Symes & McIntyre).

McIntyre, J. (1998). Policy symbolism and economic realities: ACE, equity and the market. In Anderson, D and Ferrier, F. (1998). Different Drums, One Beat: Social and Economic Goals of Education and Training. Adelaide: National Centre for Vocational Education Research

McIntyre, J. (1998). What do we mean `research influences policy'? in McIntyre, J. and Barrett, M. (eds). VET Research: Influencing Policy and Practice, Proceedings of the inaugural conference of the Australian Vocational Education and Training Research Association. Sydney, AVETRA.

McIntyre, J. (1998). Arguing an interpretive method, Chap 14 and Using databases in qualitiative research, Chap 8 in Higgs, J. (ed). Writing Qualitative Research. CPEA R & D Series. Sydney: Hampden Press.

McIntyre, J., and Kimberley, H. (1997). Planning pathways for Women from ACE to VET. Research report and provider handbook. Fremantle: WA Department of Training.

McIntyre, J., Brown, A. and Ferrier, F. (1997). The Economics of ACE Delivery. Research report commissioned by the NSW Board of Adult and Community Education. Sydney: BACE

McIntyre, J. (1997). Restructuring adult education: research, policy and the state. In Armstrong, P, Miller, N and Zukas, M (eds). Crossing Borders, Breaking Boundaries, Proceedings of the International 27th Annual SCUTREA Conference. London: Standing Conference on University Teaching and Research in the Education of Adults. pp 295-299.

McIntyre, J., Foley, G., Morris, R. and Tennant, M. (1995). ACE Works: The Vocational Outcomes of ACE Courses in NSW. Sydney: Board of Adult and Community Education.

McIntyre, J., Solomon,N., Ardler, W., Morley-Warner,T. and Spindler,L. (1996).Culture Matters: Factors Affecting the Outcomes of participation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students in Vocational Education and Training. Research report for the Research Advisory Council of ANTA. Research Centre for Vocational Education and Training. Sydney: University of Technology, Sydney.

McIntyre, J. (1995). Community and corporatism: a critique of the concept of community adult education. Australian Journal of Adult and Community Education, 35 (5): 178-186.

McIntyre, J. (1995). Understanding research in adult education and training. In G.Foley (ed). Understanding Adult Education and Training, Sydney: Allen and Unwin.

McIntyre, J. (1993). Research paradigms and adult education, Studies in Continuing Education. 15(2): 80-87.