Associate Professor Leonard Cairns

Job title:	Associate Dean Development
Qualifications:	BComm(Applied Psych) Hons (UNSW), MEd (Hons),(Sydney) MEd (Arizona), PhD
Location:	Clayton, building 6, room 220A
Phone:	+61 3 990 52861
Email:	Len.Cairns@Education.monash.edu.au
Fax:	N/A

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Teaching commitment

• EDF6903,SEMESTER1,2009
  
• EDF6828,(PART)SEMESTER1,
  
• EDF6904,SEMESTER2,2009
  

Biography

Len Cairns has been an active Teacher Educator in Universities since 1971. Major research and teaching interests are in: Capability, especially in organisations and individuals,Workplace Learning, Leadership and Management, Literacy especially the reading process Supervision of the practicum in Teacher Education Organisational Change and Development International Education, with reference to development of Global Capability, Workplace Learning Learner-Managed Learning Self-Efficacy. Len is a Past Chair of the Workplace Learning SIG of the AERA (USA).Len also is a Visiting Professor in the Institute for Work-Based Learning at Middlesex University, London, England.

Research Interests

Organisational and Executive Leadership

Capability, Capable Organisations and the Capable Teacher.

Leadership and Change in organisations especially with regard to Sustainable Leadership and Resource Management.

The Reading Process and Early Literacy

Workplace Learning, Work and Happiness

Teacher Education, especially Supervision of the Practicum, Classroom Management, and The teaching/learning processes.

Self-efficacy, Teacher Efficacy and Collective Efficacy.

Social capital and its development in regional Communities.

Professional Associations

• AERA (American Educational Research Association)
• AARE (Australian Association for Educational Research)
• EERA (European Educational Research Association)

Community Service

• Council Member, The Alpine School, Victoria
• Past President, Rotary Club of Moe, Victoria

Supervision

PhD

Edwin Achorn (High Value Knowledge in two Rural Communities)

Carolyn Theodore (The Gippsland Community Leadership Programme and Social Capital)

Publications

Cairns, L.G., Malloch, M., and Burns, G.,(2005), Learning Work, Paper presented at American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, April (Workplace Learning SIG, Session 29.071)

Townsend, P., & Cairns, L. (2003). Developing the Global Manager Using A Capability Framework. Management Learning, 34(3), 313-327

Cairns, L, Post-Compulsory Schooling/Workplace Vocational Education and Training Initiatives, (paper at an Invited Symposium (20.057) Workplace Learning Issues from Global Perspectives, American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 21-25, 2003

Seddon , T., and Cairns, L.G., (2002), "Enhancing Knowledge in Organisations: developinmg capacity and capability through learning and leadership" Chapter in P Gronn (Section Ed), Second International Handbook of Educational Leadership, Klewer.

Dyson, M., Cairns, L.G, Reeves, M., and Hesse, A., An alternative to the traditional educational program for year nine students: A new issue to research in an unchanging system Australian Association for Research in Education, Annual Conference, Brisbane, 2002 (Fully Refereed Paper)(Proceedings published ISSN 1324 9320)

Cairns, L.G., and Stephenson, J., (2001),Peripheral Social Learning in the Workplace and the Development of Corporate Capability: The Role of NVQs, Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 53 (3), 443-446.

Hase, S., Cairns, L. and Malloch, M. (1998). Capable organisations: the implications for vocational education and training. Adelaide: NCVER/ANTA.

Cairns, L. (1998). Teachers, training and development. Chapter inn Tony Townsend (Ed). The primary school in changing times. London: Routledge, 48 - 79.

Cairns, L. (1998). Capability, human capability, social capital, and learning societies: individual and corporate contributions. In Ian Falk (Ed). Learning communities, regional sustainability and the learning society. Launceston: University of Tasmania. Centre for Research & Learning, 55 - 66.

Malloch, M., Cairns, L. and Hase, S. (1998). Learning in the workplace: implications of the Capability Learning Model. [Microfiche]. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), San Diego, USA, 1-17 April 1998. Springfield VA: Education Resources Information Centre (ERIC). ED418330.

Cairns, L. (1998). The capable teacher: the challenge for the 21st Century. Paper presented at the ATEA 28th Annual Conference: Teacher Education; challenge and creativity, Melbourne, 1998.