Dr. Ania Lian
Senior Lecturer
School of Education
Charles Darwin University
Australia
Biography
Dr. Ania Lian is a senior lecturer in Teaching and Learning and course manager of Master of Education International at Charles Darwin University (CDU), Vice-President of AsiaCALL, Research and Innovation, and Member of the Editorial Board of two journals: the Rangsit Journal of Arts and Sciences (Bangkok, Thailand) and the AsiaCALL Journal.
Research Interest
The main focus of Ania's work is pedagogy, and specifically the use of technology to support literacy and second language learning. In her work, she draws on cross-disciplinary research which informs her understanding of factors which impact on and interact with learning (and teaching). Other areas of her expertise and research include capacity building and quality assurance in Higher Education, research methodology and supporting educational and social change. AREAS OF EXPERTISE The themes below reflect Ania's current research engagements Wellbeing and Sustainability Wellbeing and primary children’s resilience Building school communities to promote children’s wellbeing, community cohesion, as well as students’ social and cultural capital Neuroscience and education Digital Learning Pedagogy in areas of Early Childhood literacy Second language teaching/learning (including TESOL) Developing Digital Learning (ICT) coaching program / whole school strategies Neuroscience and ICT support for learning Developing pedagogic learning resources using ICT Language, Culture and Identity Neuroscience of aesthetics – implications to fine arts, communication, literacy and academic writing Knowledge and Epistemologies Inclusive pedagogies: accounting for Indigenous and non-indigenous knowledges in school contexts Philosophy of inquiry. Mentoring and research supervision strategies. Critical examination of intellectual frameworks informing research and teaching approaches
Publications
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Bodnarchuk, A., Lian, A., Napiza, C. and A. Cash (2015). Academic writing as aesthetics applied: creative use of technology to support learning through the development of its visual, kinaesthetic and rhythmic dimensions, as well as critical thinking, in: A. Lian, Koo Yew Lie, P. Kell (2015), Challenges in global learning: international contexts and cross disciplinary perspectives (forthcoming). Cambridge Scholars Publishers, Cambridge.
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Bodnarchuk, A., Lian, A., Napiza, C. and A. Cash (2015). Academic writing as aesthetics applied: creative use of technology to support learning through the development of its visual, kinaesthetic and rhythmic dimensions, as well as critical thinking, in: A. Lian, Koo Yew Lie, P. Kell (2015), Challenges in global learning: international contexts and cross disciplinary perspectives (forthcoming). Cambridge Scholars Publishers, Cambridge.
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Midgley, K., Cash, A., Napiza, C. and A. Lian (2015). Direct Instruction for “at-risk children†and the Australian Curriculum: toward a better understanding of the appeal of behaviourist paradigm in cross-cultural contexts of learning, in: A. Lian, Koo Yew Lie, P. Kell (2015), Challenges in global learning: international contexts and cross disciplinary perspectives (forthcoming). Cambridge Scholars Publishers, Cambridge.
