Lorraine Ling

Lorraine Ling is Dean of College of Education, Victoria University, Australia and Emeritus Professor, La Trobe University, Australia. Lorraine’s academic and research interests include: educational administration and leadership; higher education policy construction; the changing nature of academic work; values in education; and curriculum design and development. Lorraine has conducted educational consultancies in many countries including Indonesia, Vietnam, Finland, U.S.A., Scotland and Ireland. She has been chair of the Association for Teacher Educators in Europe – Research and Development Centre for the Professional Development of Teachers. Recent publications include: Stephenson, J. and Ling, L. (Eds), Challenges to Teacher Education in Difficult Economic Times: International perspectives (Routledge, 2013); Ling, L. Knowledges, Discontinuities, Spirals and Universities, in T. Fitzgerald (Ed) Advancing Knowledge in Higher Education: Universities in Turbulent Times (IGI Global, 2014); and Ling L. and Mackenzie N., An Australian Perspective on Professional Development in Supercomplex Times, Psychology, Society and Education (2015).

Publications

Preface
Preface
Lorraine Ling, Peter Ling. © 2020. 5 pages.
This Preface is included in the book Emerging Methods and Paradigms in Scholarship and Education Research.
Introduction: Employing Paradigms in Scholarship and Education Research
Introduction: Employing Paradigms in Scholarship and Education Research
Peter Ling, Lorraine Ling. © 2020. 21 pages.
Methods and paradigms in scholarship and education research are addressed in this book. Boyer's scholarships of discovery, integration, application, and teaching, along with...
The Power of the Paradigm in Scholarship in Higher Education
The Power of the Paradigm in Scholarship in Higher Education
Lorraine Ling. © 2020. 34 pages.
In this chapter, the six paradigms explored in this book – positivist, neo-positivist, interpretivist, transformative, pragmatic, and supercomplexity – are described and the key...
Denouement: Untying the Knot
Denouement: Untying the Knot
Lorraine Ling, Peter Ling. © 2020. 11 pages.
Research is generally regarded as falling within the scholarship of discovery. However, here authors and editors also explore the application of the paradigms to the scholarships...
Methods and Paradigms in Education Research
Methods and Paradigms in Education Research
Lorraine Ling, Peter Ling. © 2017. 397 pages.
The tools used in data collection have the ability to influence the ways information is perceived and generated. Analyzing research processes is a concept that can be overlooked...
Introduction: Employing Paradigms in Education Research
Introduction: Employing Paradigms in Education Research
Peter Ling, Lorraine Ling. © 2017. 18 pages.
The title of this book refers to both methods and paradigms in education research. Both are addressed, but this book is distinguished from others in that the research paradigm...
The Power of the Paradigm: Methods and Paradigms in Education Research
The Power of the Paradigm: Methods and Paradigms in Education Research
Lorraine Ling. © 2017. 23 pages.
In this chapter, the six paradigms explored in this book—positivist, neo-positivist, interpretivist, transformative, pragmatic and supercomplexity—are described and the key...
Conclusion: Paradigm Paradiddle
Conclusion: Paradigm Paradiddle
Lorraine Ling, Peter Ling. © 2017. 7 pages.
Authors of the chapters of this book have reflected on education research undertakings and research paradigms applicable to their work. Their writing is revisited here as it...
Knowledges, Discontinuities, Spirals, and Universities
Knowledges, Discontinuities, Spirals, and Universities
Lorraine Ling. © 2014. 19 pages.
This chapter is deliberately designed to disturb socially constructed and traditional human linear thinking, and as such, the chapter reflects a spiral approach to the content...