Dr Tom Stehlik

Adjunct Senior Lecturer UniSA Education Futures

email Tom.Stehlik@unisa.edu.au

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Research Degree Supervisor

About me

Before retiring at the end of 2017 I worked at the University of South Australia from 1991, teaching and researching in the areas of adult education, organisational development and teacher education. I am now an adjunct Senior Lecturer with the School of Education and still supervise doctoral candidates.

UniSA Education Futures

Focused on developing education professionals, UniSA Education Futures contributes to innovation in education practice through quality teaching, learning and research excellence.

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Research

Research themes

Transforming societies

Research focus

Education
Specialist Studies in Education
Curriculum and Pedagogy
Education Systems
Adult and Vocational Education

Highlights

Workplace Learning, organisational culture,Learning communities, communities of practice,Steiner Education and Waldorf Schools,School transitions and student engagement,School governance and educational leadership

Research

Outputs

Research since 2008 is shown below. To see earlier years visit ORCID, ResearcherID or Scopus

Open access indicates that an output is open access.

Books

Year	Output
2019	Stehlik, T 2019, Waldorf schools and the history of Steiner education: an international view of 100 Years, Palgrave Macmillan, Switzerland. 4
2018	Stehlik, T 2018, Educational philosophy for 21st century teachers, Palgrave Macmillan, United States. 31
2011	Stehlik, TP & Patterson, J 2011, Changing the paradigm : education is the key to a socially inclusive future, Post Pressed, Mt Gravatt, Qld.

Chapters

Year	Output
2014	Short, T, Stehlik, T & Piip, J 2014, 'Building leadership capability: what it means for organisations', in T Short & R Harris (eds), Workforce development: strategies and practices, Springer, Singapore, ch. 12, pp. 187 - 209.
2014	Stehlik, T, Short, T & Piip, J 2014, 'The challenges of leadership in the twenty-first century', in R Harris & T Short (eds), Workforce development: perspectives and issues, Springer, Singapore, ch. 11, pp. 193-211. 1
2014	Stehlik, TP 2014, 'A school for the community or a community for the school? 21st Century challenges for Waldorf Schools', in L Burrows & T Stehlik (eds), Teaching with spirit: New perspectives on Steiner Education in Australia, Immortal Books, Australia, ch. 19, pp. 205-212. 3
2011	Stehlik, TP 2011, 'Conclusion: changing the paradigm - moving forward to more equitable educational outcomes for all young people', in T Stehlik & J Patterson (eds), Changing the paradigm: education is the key to a socially inclusive future, Post Pressed, Mt Gravatt, Qld, ch.10, pp. 157-168.
2011	Stehlik, TP 2011, 'Relationships, participation and support: necessary components for inclusive learning environments and (re)engaging learners', in T Stehlik & J Patterson (eds), Changing the paradigm: education is the key to a socially inclusive future, Post Pressed, Australia, ch. 7, pp. 122-133.
2009	Stehlik, T 2009, 'Rhythym, ritual and reverence: practical spirituality in the Waldorf curriculum', in P Willis (ed.), Spirituality, mythopoesis and learning, Post Pressed, Australia, ch. 13, pp. 166-180.
2009	Stehlik, T 2009, 'Waldorf schools as communities of practice for AVE and social sustainability', in P Willis, S McKenzie & R Harris (eds), Rethinking work and learning: adult and vocational education for social sustainability, Springer, Germany, pp. 249-260. 5
2008	Stehlik, TP 2008, 'Thinking, Feeling, and willing: How Waldorf schools provide a creative pedagogy that nurtures and develops imagination', in Timothy Leonard and Peter Willis, Pedagogies of the Imagination: Mythopoetic Curriculum in Educational Practice, Springer, Netherlands, pp. 231-243. 8 3

Journal Articles

Year	Output
2020	Stehlik, T, Carter, J, Price, D & Comber, B 2020, 'Hanging out in the city of tomorrow: a participatory approach to researching the importance of music', Pastoral Care in Education, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 273-289. 1 1
2014	Rubin, M, Denson, N, Kilpatrick, S, Matthews, KE, Stehlik, T & Zyngier, D 2014, ''I am working-class': subjective self-definition as a missing measure of social class and socioeconomic status in higher education research', Educational Researcher, vol. 43, no. 4, pp. 196-200. 59 59 20
2013	Nordlund, M, Stehlik, T & Strandh, M 2013, 'Investment in second-chance education for adults and income development in Sweden', Journal of Education and Work, vol. 26, no. 5, pp. 514-538. Open access 18
2013	Stehlik, T 2013, 'Addressing disengagement from schooling through community action networks', Journal of Educational Enquiry, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 15-24. Open access 2
2013	Stehlik, TP 2013, 'Self-publishing with a small commercial press: A matter of academic survival', International Journal of the Book, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 53-60.
2013	Stehlik, TP 2013, 'Self-publishing:a creative solution to academic survival in the commercial world', International Journal of the Book, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 53-60. Open access
2011	Stehlik, TP 2011, 'Launching a career or reflecting on life? Reasons, issues and outcomes for candidates undertaking PhD studies mid-career or after retirement compared to the traditional early career pathway', Australian Journal of Adult Learning, vol. 51, special edition, December, pp. 150-169. 6 5
2010	Stehlik, T 2010, 'Mind the gap: School leaver aspirations and delayed pathways to further and higher education', Journal of Education and Work, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 363-376. 14 7

Conferences

Year	Output
2018	Stehlik, T 2018, 'Thinking outside the classroom: engaging young people in learning through 'not-school' programs and pedagogies', in M Carmo (ed.), International Conference on Education and New Developments 2018; END 2018, InScience Press. Open access
2013	Stehlik, TP 2013, 'Higher degree studies in mid to late career : reasons, reflections, realities', in C Kawalilak & J Groen (eds), 32nd National Conference of the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education (CASAE), Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education, pp. 576-584. Open access
2011	Stehlik, TP 2011, 'Addressing disengagement from schooling: some findings from recent Australian research', in (eds), 7th International Conference on Education (ICE), National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, pp. 284-290.
2009	Becker, K, Short, TW & Stehlik, TP 2009, 'Developing leadership and management capability for the future of an industry', in Beaumont, Nicholas;N Beaumont (ed.), 23rd ANZAM Conference 2009, Monash University, pp. 1-16.
2009	Stehlik, TP 2009, 'Assessing prior learning and current competency in educating adult educators: a quality issue for higher education providers in the Australian context', in A Papastamatis et al. (eds), Educating the adult educators: quality provision and assessment in Europe, ESREA, pp. 689-697.
2008	Stehlik, TP 2008, '(Re)constructing academic identities through practice', in tarja Kantola, Hans Mantyla, Anna Leena Mutanen, Nelli Fagerudd, Susanna Bjorklund, Marianne Ekman, Conference on Regional Development and Innovation Processes, Porvoo and Haaga-Helia.
2008	Stehlik, TP 2008, 'Mind the gap: School leaver aspirations and delayed pathways to further and higher education', NCVER.

Reports

Year	Output
2011	Stehlik, TP, Short, TM, Piip, JK & Becker, K 2011, A capability framework for rail leadership and management development: research report P4.104, CRC for Rail Innovation, Australia. Open access
2010	Stehlik, TP, McCallum, FL, Maher, K & Morrison, A 2010, Addressing disengagement in the early years: Issues and opportunities, UniSA, Adelaide, South Australia. Open access

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

Organisation	Country
Department of Premier & Cabinet - SA	AUSTRALIA
Flinders University	AUSTRALIA
Monash University	AUSTRALIA
Queensland University of Technology	AUSTRALIA
Umeå University	SWEDEN
University of Newcastle	AUSTRALIA
University of Queensland	AUSTRALIA
University of South Australia	AUSTRALIA
University of Tasmania	AUSTRALIA
Western Sydney University	AUSTRALIA

External engagement & recognition

Engagement/recognition	Year
Endeavour Executive Fellowship Department of Education, Australian Government	2014

Other

Fellow of the Torrens Resilience Institute,ANTaR (Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation),Board member, Mt Barker Waldorf School for Rudolf Steiner Education - School Board, (Community organisation) , 2013 to 2014,Governing Council member representing UniSA, Marden Senior College - Governing Council, (Community organisation) , 2013 to 2014

Teaching & student supervision

Highlights

I teach in a number of programs - the Bachelor of Education (Adult, Vocational and Workplace Learning), the Graduate Certificate in Education (Specialisation), the Graduate Diploma in Education (Adult, Vocational and Workplace Learning), the Master of Education (TESOL)and the Bachelor of Education (Junior Primary / Primary),I also supervise a number of part-time and full-time students in Masters, Professional Doctorate and PhD programs.,In 2012 I received a UniSA Supported Teacher Award

Teaching & student supervision

Research degree supervision

Supervisions from 2010 shown

Thesis title	Student status
The impact of casualised teaching on teacher professional identity within the TAFE sector	Current
Youth Voice: Developing young entrepreneurs in the creative industries - an investigation in low SES community contexts	Current
A learning memoir of a quest for authentic living	Completed
Accessing the inaccessible: restoring the pathways to wellbeing and learning for a young person on the autism spectrum through holistic-relational practice	Completed
Acts of meaning - a professional and personal journey out of, and in to, meaning	Completed
Choosing caring over curing: an autoethnography of the palliative care nurse	Completed
Cross-cultural mentorship of international medical graduates: the discursive formation of the ideal physician	Completed
Education for all ... careers for some? Second-chance education for adult learners	Completed
Exploring leadership talent practices in the Australian rail industry	Completed
Fostering children’s capacity for empathic reasoning: the role of community of inquiry in an empathic pedagogy	Completed
Re-claiming legitimacy in partnership?: evidence-based challenges for enabling sustainable economic development through multi-stakeholder partnerships between technical and vocational education and training and small business, in a neoliberalist polic	Completed
Socially sustainable practice: voices from within scholarly communities	Completed
Socio-spatial reproduction? a quantitative case study of secondary education mobilities, Adelaide	Completed
Student engagement and retention: looking for pathways forward	Completed
Teachers and students in alternative schools: narratives from the margins of public education	Completed
The price of learning a study on the cross cultural adjustment of Chinese secondary school students in South Australia	Completed
The story of Green School Bali: an integral narrative of sustainable education	Completed
There's got to be more! the third age life of rural women of action	Completed
Virtual communities as locations for catalyzing research to praxis	Completed

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