Associate Professor Leonora Ritter
Associate Professor
Head of School of Social Sciences and Liberal Studies
BA (Hons), Western Australia: MA Hons, Dip. Ed., New England: PhD, Sydney: MACE : FHERDSA
Leonora Ritter
Teaching
- Australian History and Politics
- Recipient of a 2007 Carrick Citation for 'sustained commitment to quality learning and teaching within and beyond the University'
- 2006 renewed HERDSA Fellowship
- 2005 mentor and assessor in HERDSA Fellowship program
- 2004 awarded HERDSA Fellowship
- 2003 entered on the ACE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HIGHLY ACCOMPLISHED EDUCATORS
- Recipient 2001 NSW DET and ACE Quality Teaching Award
Research
- History of childhood
- Tertiary teaching, particularly assessment, catering for individual differences
Recent publications
L. Ritter, "Unfulfilled promises: how inventories, instruments and institutions subvert discourses of diversity and promote commonality" Teaching in Higher Education to be published in 2007 (Volume 12)
S. Frappell, A. Merritt, C. O'Brien, L. Ritter (28%) Modern History Study Guide, Macmillan Education, Melbourne, (2nd edition, 2006)
L. Ritter, 'Historical and International Perspectives of Childhood' in S. McLeod, editor, The International Guide to Speech Acquisition, Thomson Delmar Learning, New York, 2007, pp 73-77.
L. Ritter, 'Dictatorships' in T.M. Leonard, editor, Encyclopaedia of the Developing World, Routledge, New York, 2006, pp 469-474.
L. Ritter, 'Education' in T.M. Leonard, editor, Encyclopaedia of the Developing World, Routledge, New York, 2006, pp 542-547.
L. Ritter, 'Infant Mortality' in T.M. Leonard, editor, Encyclopaedia of the Developing World, Routledge, New York, 2006, pp 817-818.
Ritter, L. (2004) 'Are the professional cultures of policing and academia compatible?', in P Rushbrook & G. Whiteford, Beyond Your Comfort Zone, Proceedings of the 2004 Continuing Professional Education (CPE) Conference, RIPPLE, Bathurst.
Frappel, S., Merritt, A., O'Brien, C., Ritter, L. (2003) Modern History Study Guide, Macmillan Education, Melbourne.
Ritter, L. (2002) '"Don't mention the war..."; Ensuring graduates can write literate English without distorting assessment outcomes', Research and Development in Higher Education, vol. 25, pp 568-574.
Ritter, L. (2001) Concepts that have shaped the Modern World, Macmillan, Melbourne.
Ritter, L. (2001) 'Avoiding camels; A scholarly approach to creating assessment policy', in M. Kulski & A. Herrmann, New horizons in university teaching and learning: Responding to Change, Centre for Educational Advancement, Curtin University , Perth.
Ritter, L. (2001) 'Inventing juvenile delinquency and determining its cure' in Enders M. & Dupont, B. Policing the Lucky Country, Federation Press, Annandale.
Ritter, L. and Wilson , G. (2001) Assessment Handbook 2001, Charles Sturt University , Bathurst.
Ritter, L. (2001) 'The Many Inventions of Childhood: A Tentative Taxonomy', Childhood, disClosure, a journal of social theory, Number 10.
Ritter, L. (2000) 'The Quest for an effective form of assessment: the evolution and evaluation of a controlled assessment procedure', Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 25: 4, December.
Ritter, L. (2000) 'Pure in Morocco at a Guinea , but Impure in a Paper Pamphlet at Sixpence': paradigms of pornography and the 1888 Collins case in NSW', Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 14: 1.
Ritter, L. (1998) 'Power and Perspectives: A historian's analysis of the management of change at Charles Sturt University from a Federation to a Centralised model', Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 20:1 May.
Ritter, L. (1998) 'Peer Assessment: Lessons and Pitfalls', Peer Assesment in Practice, Staff and Educational Development Association ( UK ), Paper 102, April
Ritter, L. (1990) 'RUSSREV - A Retrospect after Four Years of Classroom Use', Collegiate Microcomputer, ( U.S.A. ), VIII:4, November.
Ritter, L. (1990) 'Oral History and the Use of a Data Base: a Case History', History and Computing, ( U.K. ), 2:1.
Ritter, L. (1990) 'The Interaction between Child-rearing and Social Structure', Northwest Journal of Historical Studies, ( U.K. ),. II:I.
Ritter, L. (1996) 'The Tutorial as a Postmodern tool for effective teaching and
learning', ultiBASE, In-Site, December.
Ritter, P. Ritter, J. Ritter, L., (1997) 'Selbstbestimmung und Educreation in der Familienziehung' in P. Ludwig ed. Summerhill: Authoritare Pedagogik Heute, Beltz Verlag, Weinheim.
Ritter, L. (1997) 'Taking the 'Boring' out by putting the 'Everyday' in', Teaching History, 31:3, September.
See also:
'For the Love of It: Leonora Ritter' in Ballentyne, R., Bain, J., and Packer, J., (1997) Reflecting on University Teaching: Academic's Stories, AGPS, Canberra.
Membership of Professional Associations and Groups
- Australian College of Education
- Higher Education Research and Development Association
