Education Program Staff

Name: Les Pereira

Qualifications:

• Associate Diploma in Mechanical Engineering, SELTEC, London , 1982
• Associate Diploma in Electronics, SELTEC, London , 1985
• Bachelor of Arts (Science/maths), Open University , UK , 1992
• Postgraduate Diploma in Education, University of Western Australia,  1993
• Master of Science (Education), Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia, 2002
• Doctor of Philosophy (Education), Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia (Under examination)

Short Professional Biography:

Les held a range of promotional positions in the Western Australian state school system before moving into tertiary education. His main research interests are in human development and in understanding our relationship with the world in which we live. This has encouraged interest in several areas including: integral philosophy; postmodernism; adult education; transformative education; studies in consciousness; morality and ethics; and the nexus of the individual and the collective.

Industry Commercial Experience and Industry Links:

Prior to moving into education, Les had a successful career as an engineer. In this capacity he has worked in private industry and for government bodies.

Publications, Conferences and Awards:

Book Chapters

• Pereira, L. J. (in press). Developing perspectival understanding. In J. Wallace & P. C. Taylor (Eds.), Qualitative research in postmodern times: Exemplars for science, mathematics and technology educators . Dortrecht, The Netherlands: Springer.
• Pereira, L., Settelmeier, E., Taylor, P.C. & Pereira, C. (2005). Fictive Imagining and Moral Purpose: Autobiographical Research as/for Transformative Development. In W-M. Roth. (Ed.), Auto/Biography and Auto/Ethnography: Praxis of research method. Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense Publishers.

Journal Articles

• Pereira, L. J. (1996). Stepping out with the constructivists. Australian Science Teacher's Journal, 42 (2), 26-28.

International conferences

• Pereira, L. & Taylor, P.C. (2005). Rewriting History: A poetic approach to the moral transformation of leadership practice. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), April 11th - 15th, Montreal, Canada.
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  Pereira, L. & Taylor, P.C. (April, 2005). Method, methodology and methodolatry: A search for the Holy Grail? Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), April 11th - 15th, Montreal, Canada
  
• Pereira, L. J. (2004). Towards no-method: Reassessing foundational constructs in research methodology. Paper presented at the Fifth International Conference for Qualitative Research, September 6th-8th, Bournemouth, England.

State Conferences

• Pereira, L.J., Taylor, P.C., & Pereira, C. E. (2004). Rewriting history: A poetic approach to the moral transformation of leadership practice . Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE), November 27th - December 2nd, Melbourne, Australia.
• Naylor, D. & Pereira, L.J. (2004). Integrated Classrooms in tertary educational settings . Paper presented at the Australian Teacher Education Association (ATEA), July 7th - 10th,  Bathurst, Australia.

Links and News Items:

 Les has a Home Page that can be found at http://www.lespereira.com

Activities:

Professionalism

• Member, Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE)
• Member, American Education Research Association (AERA)
• Member, AERA Special Interest Group (SIG) - Self-Study of Teacher Education Practices