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Associate Professor Gloria Dall'Alba
Associate Professor

Gloria Dall'Alba

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Overview

Background

Gloria Dall'Alba is an Honorary Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of Queensland and higher education consultant at GD Higher Ed Consulting. Her research focuses on learning and teaching in higher education and the workplace, with a particular interest in educating for the professions and the philosophy of higher education. After completing a PhD at Monash University in Australia and Postdoctoral Fellowship at Gothenburg University in Sweden, she has held positions at the University of Queensland, the University of Melbourne and RMIT University, as well as at Karolinska Institute and a secondment to Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. She has published widely on a range of issues relating to higher education, workplace learning and research inquiry. A strong strand of her research is interdisciplinary. She has collaborated with researchers from Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, Ireland, Sweden and the USA from the fields of higher education, pharmacy, business, dentistry, engineering, forensic science, medicine, nursing, philosophy and physics.

For further details on publications: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8337-0530

Availability

Associate Professor Gloria Dall'Alba is:
Not available for supervision
Media expert

Fields of research

Qualifications

  • Bachelor (Honours), James Cook University
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Monash University

Research interests

  • Education for the professions

  • Learning and teaching in higher education

  • Philosophy of higher education

  • Learning in workplace settings

Works

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131 works between 1981 and 2024

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2023

Journal Article

Toward responsive attunement as health professionals

Dall’Alba, Gloria (2023). Toward responsive attunement as health professionals. Studies in Continuing Education, 1-18. doi: 10.1080/0158037x.2023.2193388

Toward responsive attunement as health professionals

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2022

Journal Article

Making the familiar unfamiliar: re-thinking teaching in higher education

Dall’Alba, Gloria (2022). Making the familiar unfamiliar: re-thinking teaching in higher education. Higher Education Research and Development, 42 (3), 1-14. doi: 10.1080/07294360.2022.2105822

Making the familiar unfamiliar: re-thinking teaching in higher education

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2020

Journal Article

Toward a Pedagogy of Responsive Attunement for Higher Education

Dall’Alba, Gloria (2020). Toward a Pedagogy of Responsive Attunement for Higher Education. Philosophy and Theory in Higher Education, 2 (2), 21-43. doi: 10.3726/ptihe022020.0002

Toward a Pedagogy of Responsive Attunement for Higher Education

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2020

Journal Article

Bodily grounds of learning: embodying professional practice in biotechnology

Dall’Alba, Gloria and Sandberg, Jörgen (2020). Bodily grounds of learning: embodying professional practice in biotechnology. Studies in Higher Education, 46 (9), 1-17. doi: 10.1080/03075079.2019.1711047

Bodily grounds of learning: embodying professional practice in biotechnology

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2019

Journal Article

Re-imagining active learning: Delving into darkness

Dall’Alba, Gloria and Bengtsen, Søren (2019). Re-imagining active learning: Delving into darkness. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 51 (14), 1477-1489. doi: 10.1080/00131857.2018.1561367

Re-imagining active learning: Delving into darkness

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2018

Book Chapter

Reframing expertise and its development: a lifeworld perspective

Dall’Alba, Gloria (2018). Reframing expertise and its development: a lifeworld perspective. The Cambridge handbook of expertise and expert performance. (pp. 33-39) edited by K. Anders Ericsson, Robert R. Hoffman, Aaron Kozbelt and A. Mark Williams. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781316480748.003

Reframing expertise and its development: a lifeworld perspective

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2014

Journal Article

Authentic assessment for student learning: an ontological conceptualisation

Vu, Thuy T. and Dall'Alba, Gloria (2014). Authentic assessment for student learning: an ontological conceptualisation. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 46 (7), 778-791. doi: 10.1080/00131857.2013.795110

Authentic assessment for student learning: an ontological conceptualisation

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2014

Book Chapter

A phenomenological perspective on researching work and learning

Dall'Alba, Gloria and Sandberg, Jörgen (2014). A phenomenological perspective on researching work and learning. International handbook of research in professional and practice-based learning. (pp. 279-304) edited by Stephen Billett, Christian Harteis and Hans Gruber. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-94-017-8902-8_11

A phenomenological perspective on researching work and learning

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2009

Journal Article

Learning professional ways of being: Ambiguities of becoming

Dall'Alba, Gloria (2009). Learning professional ways of being: Ambiguities of becoming. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 41 (1), 34-45. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-5812.2008.00475.x

Learning professional ways of being: Ambiguities of becoming

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2009

Book

Learning to be professionals

Dall'Alba, G. (2009). Learning to be professionals. 1 ed. Dordrecht: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-90-481-2608-8

Learning to be professionals

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2007

Journal Article

An ontological turn for higher education

Dall'Alba, Gloria and Barnacle, Robyn (2007). An ontological turn for higher education. Studies In Higher Education, 32 (6), 679-691. doi: 10.1080/03075070701685130

An ontological turn for higher education

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2006

Journal Article

Unveiling professional development: A critical review of stage models

Dall'Alba, Gloria and Sandberg, Jorgen (2006). Unveiling professional development: A critical review of stage models. Review of Educational Research, 76 (3), 383-412. doi: 10.3102/00346543076003383

Unveiling professional development: A critical review of stage models

2024

Book Chapter

Embodied Being in Higher Education

Dall’Alba, Gloria (2024). Embodied Being in Higher Education. Being and Becoming Through Higher Education. (pp. 1-15) Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore. doi: 10.1007/978-981-97-2062-0_1

Embodied Being in Higher Education

2024

Book Chapter

Bodily Grounds of Learning: Embodying Professional Practice in Biotechnology

Dall’Alba, Gloria and Sandberg, Jörgen (2024). Bodily Grounds of Learning: Embodying Professional Practice in Biotechnology. Being and Becoming Through Higher Education. (pp. 85-107) Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore. doi: 10.1007/978-981-97-2062-0_6

Bodily Grounds of Learning: Embodying Professional Practice in Biotechnology

2024

Book Chapter

Re-imagining Active Learning: Delving into Darkness

Dall’Alba, Gloria and Bengtsen, Søren (2024). Re-imagining Active Learning: Delving into Darkness. Being and Becoming Through Higher Education. (pp. 161-177) Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore. doi: 10.1007/978-981-97-2062-0_9

Re-imagining Active Learning: Delving into Darkness

2024

Book Chapter

Toward a Pedagogy of Responsive Attunement for Higher Education

Dall’Alba, Gloria (2024). Toward a Pedagogy of Responsive Attunement for Higher Education. Being and Becoming Through Higher Education. (pp. 49-65) Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore. doi: 10.1007/978-981-97-2062-0_4

Toward a Pedagogy of Responsive Attunement for Higher Education

2024

Book Chapter

Re-imagining the University: Developing a Capacity to Care

Dall’Alba, Gloria (2024). Re-imagining the University: Developing a Capacity to Care. Being and Becoming Through Higher Education. (pp. 253-263) Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore. doi: 10.1007/978-981-97-2062-0_15

Re-imagining the University: Developing a Capacity to Care

2024

Book Chapter

Making the Familiar Unfamiliar: Re-thinking Teaching in Higher Education

Dall’Alba, Gloria (2024). Making the Familiar Unfamiliar: Re-thinking Teaching in Higher Education. Being and Becoming Through Higher Education. (pp. 237-251) Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore. doi: 10.1007/978-981-97-2062-0_14

Making the Familiar Unfamiliar: Re-thinking Teaching in Higher Education

2024

Book Chapter

Embodied Knowing in Online Environments

Dall’Alba, Gloria and Barnacle, Robyn (2024). Embodied Knowing in Online Environments. Being and Becoming Through Higher Education. (pp. 109-135) Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore. doi: 10.1007/978-981-97-2062-0_7

Embodied Knowing in Online Environments

2024

Book Chapter

Authentic Assessment for Student Learning: An Ontological Conceptualisation

Vu, Thuy T. and Dall’Alba, Gloria (2024). Authentic Assessment for Student Learning: An Ontological Conceptualisation. Being and Becoming Through Higher Education. (pp. 195-209) Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore. doi: 10.1007/978-981-97-2062-0_11

Authentic Assessment for Student Learning: An Ontological Conceptualisation

Funding

Past funding

  • 2011 - 2013
    Knowing in professional practice: Enhancing the relationship between professional education and practice
    ARC Discovery Projects
    Open grant
  • 2005
    Embodied Knowing in Higher Education
    University of Queensland Research Development Grants Scheme
    Open grant
  • 2004
    2004 Travel Scheme Cat 2_Univ London; 2 weeks in Sept 2004
    UQ Travel Grants Scheme
    Open grant
  • 2003 - 2005
    Learning in virtual environments
    UQ New Staff Research Start-Up Fund
    Open grant

Supervision

Availability

Associate Professor Gloria Dall'Alba is:
Not available for supervision

Supervision history

Completed supervision

Media

Enquiries

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  • Education for the professions
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