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Professor Sara Ashworth (USA)
Dr. Sara Ashworth is currently director of the Spectrum Institute for Teaching and Learning. After 40 years of teaching and consulting in various academic arenas, Dr. Ashworth is retiring from Florida Atlantic University after 20 years to devote time to the Spectrum Institute. The Spectrum (articulated by Muska Mosston in 1966) is an internationally recognized theory that delineates a framework that underlies all teaching and learning options, shows the relative relationships and contributions among alternative teaching-learning behaviours, and provides a functional and foundational language for approaching pedagogical issues. For 25 years Drs. Ashworth and Mosston worked together to refine, expand, research, and implement in various school settings the Spectrum of Teaching Styles. National and international recognition has been given to the Spectrum. |
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Dr Tim Hopper (Canada)
Dr Hopper’s research interests center on qualitative research methodologies focused on teacher education and physical education. His recent work is on program-wide electronic portfolio development and understanding the complexities of learning to teach from situated learning experiences. Dr Hopper has conducted workshops on TGfU in England, Canada and Hong Kong. He is a co-editor of the next TGfU book to be published from conference papers presented at the
4th International TGfU conference held at UBC in 2008.he has published articles on TGfU, creative dance and innovations in teacher education. Working with his student teachers, he has created a continuously expanding website of TGfU and creative dance units of instruction. |
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Dr Duarte Araújo (Portugal)
Duarte Araújo - Sport Psychologist at Faculty of Human Kinetics – Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal. He teaches sport psychology to sport sciences students (physical educators, coaches, sport managers, fitness instructors). He regularly conducts psychological evaluations oriented to performance enhancement to high level athletes of different sports.
His research involves the study of expert decision-making in sport, which led to him receiving a young researcher awards at the European College of Sport Science in 2001 and at the Association des Chercheurs en Activités Physiques et Sportives (ACAPS) in 2002. His special interest is in applying his research to training and to collaborate with coaches in this application. He is a consultant for many coaches in many sports, essentially about the training of decision-making skill in sports. He organized the contents of the coaches’ courses on behavioural sciences/ sport psychology in three of the main Portuguese Sport Federations: Soccer, Sailing and Golf. |
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Dr Cherrell Hirst, AO (Australia) - Orator of the Fritz Duras Memorial Lecture
In her medical career, Cherrell Hirst gained a national reputation in the field of breast cancer diagnosis and screening as Director of the Wesley Breast Clinic (1984-2001). She was heavily involved in many state and national organisations, committees and conferences. But her most important work was probably in the establishment of various support programs at the Wesley of which The Kim Walters Choices program is the best known. This work with women and families with breast cancer was extended by her roles with the Breast Cancer Network, Encore and the Breast Cancer Association. In addition, her passion for the benefits of education took her to the Council of Queensland University of Technology (QUT) where she served as Chancellor from 1994 to 2004, and to the Brisbane Girls Grammar School Board of Trustees where she served for 16 years, ten as Chair (1996-2006). She has recently served as a member of the Higher Education Endowment Fund. In recognition of her work in the fields of breast cancer and education, Cherrell has been awarded three honorary doctorates, a Centenary Medal in 2003 and the title of Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in 1998. She was named Queenslander of the Year in 1995 and recently was elected to membership of the Academy of the Technological Sciences and Engineering.
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