Dr Jennifer GIDLEY is a psychologist, educator and futures researcher. In France, 2009, Jennifer was elected President of the World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF) (2009-2013). WFSF (http://www.wfsf.org/) is a global scholarly futures organization that has been operating for over forty years. See RMIT news story.
Jennifer currently works as a Research Fellow in the Globalization and Culture Program of the Global Cities Research Institute at RMIT University, Melbourne. She brings to the program her internationally recognized expertise in the futures studies field and a transdisciplinary understanding of global shifts in culture and consciousness. She was lead researcher and author of the winning essay in the 2009 IAU/Palgrave International Essay Prize, co-authoring the essay with Gary Hampson, Leone Wheeler and Elleni Bereded-Samual. The essay, “From Access to Success: An Integrated Approach to Quality Higher Education informed by Social Inclusion Theory and Practice” was published in the international journal Higher Education Policy, 2010. See RMIT news story.
Her transdisciplinary career includes experience as a school and community psychologist, teaching principal, academic teacher and researcher, and consultant, spanning three decades and all educational levels. A significant pedagogical achievement was to found and direct an innovative private school inspired by Rudolf Steiner’s philosophy and pedagogy in rural Australia (1984-1994). A significant academic achievement was to co-design, develop, convene and instruct the online component of the Masters in Strategic Foresight at Swinburne University, Melbourne (2003-2006).
Jennifer is currently based in Melbourne, but travels widely for research collaboration leading to speaking invitations over the last ten years in Australia, Europe (France, Germany, Luxembourg, Spain, Sweden), North and South America, Africa (Egypt) and Asia (Shanghai, Taiwan, Malaysia). She works globally, creating networks—both conceptual and human—between futures studies and other transversal fields, such as integral studies, global studies, transdisciplinary studies, postformal pedagogies and global youth movements.
Jennifer has researched and published widely in educational and youth futures, and global socio-cultural change, including two books, a monograph and dozens of refereed journal articles and scholarly book chapters. See also http://rmit.academia.edu/JenniferGidley
She is a member of several national and international advisory board and serves on the editorial boards of several peer-reviewed academic journals, including:
* Futures: The Journal of Policy, Planning and Futures Studies;
* Policy Futures in Education;
* Journal of Futures Studies: Epistemology, Methods, Applied and Alternative Futures;
* The Journal of Integral Theory and Practice;
* Integral Review: A Transdisciplinary and Transcultural Journal for New Thought, Research and Praxis; and
* RoSE: Research on Steiner Education.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS SINCE 2000
(See also the RMIT Research Repository for links to some of Jennifer’s research)
BOOKS/MONOGRAPHS
Gidley, Jennifer (Under Contract), "The Emergence of Postformal Pedagogies: Educating for the Complexity of Planetary Futures" in Shirley Steinberg and Kenneth Tobin (Eds.) “Explorations of Educational Purpose Series.” Contract with Springer: Dordrecht, The Netherlands.
Gidley, J., Bateman, D., & Smith, C. (2004). Futures in Education: Principles, Practices and Potential, Monograph No 5, The Strategic Foresight Monograph Series. (http://www.swinburne.edu.au/business/research_reports.html#2)
Gidley, J and Inayatullah, S. (Eds.) (2002). Youth Futures: Comparative Research and Transformative Visions, Praeger, Westport, Connecticut.
Inayatullah, S. and Gidley, J. (Eds.) (2000). The University in Transformation: Global Perspectives on the Futures of the University, Bergin &Garvey, Westport, Connecticut.
REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES
Gidley, J. M., Hampson, G. P., Wheeler, L., & Bereded-Samuel, E. (2010) From Access to Success: An Integrated Approach to Quality Higher Education informed by Social Inclusion Theory and Practice, Higher Education Policy, 23 pp. 123-147 [PAPER WON INTERNATIONAL PRIZE]
Gidley, Jennifer, (2010) An Other View of Integral Futures: De/reconstructing the IF Brand, Futures: The journal of policy, planning and futures studies, 42(2) pp. 125-133.
Büssing, Arndt, Föller-Mancini, Axel, Gidley, Jennifer, Heusser, Peter, (2010) Aspects of Spirituality in Adolescents, International Journal of Children’s Spirituality, 15(1).
Steger, M. B. and Gidley, J. M. (2009) Introduction to Special issue of New Political Science on “The Changing Face of Political Ideologies in the Global Age,” 3(4).
Gidley, Jennifer, Fien, John, Smith, Jodi-Anne, Thomsen, Dana C., and Smith, Timothy F. (2009) Participatory Futures Methods: Towards Adaptability and Resilience in Climate-Vulnerable Communities, Environmental Policy and Governance, 19(6) pp. 427-440.
Molz, Markus, & Gidley, Jennifer, (2008) A transversal dialogue on integral education and planetary consciousness: Markus Molz speaks with Jennifer Gidley. Integral Review: A Transdisciplinary and Transcultural Journal for New Thought, Research and Praxis, 6, pp. 47-70. (Editorially reviewed article in a refereed journal)
http://integral-review.org/current_issue/index.asp
Gidley, Jennifer (2007) The Evolution of Consciousness as a Planetary Imperative: an Integration of Integral Views. Integral Review: A Transdisciplinary and Transcultural Journal for New Thought, Research and Praxis, Issue 5, p. 4-226.
http://integral-review.org/back_issues/backissue5/index.htm
Gidley, Jennifer, (2007) “Educational Imperatives of the Evolution of Consciousness: The Integral Visions of Rudolf Steiner and Ken Wilber”, The International Journal of Children’s Spirituality, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 170-135.
Gidley, Jennifer, and Hampson, Gary, (2005) The Evolution of Futures in School
Education, Futures, Vol. 37, pp. 255-271.
Gidley, Jennifer, (2005) Giving Hope back to our Young People: Creating a New Spiritual Mythology for Western Culture, Journal of Futures Studies, (Vol 9, No 3, Feb.), pp. 17-29.
Gidley, Jennifer, (2001) Globalization and its Impact on Youth, Journal of Futures Studies, (Vol 6, No 1, August), pp. 89-106.
Gidley, J. (2001) An Intervention Targeting Hopelessness in Adolescents by Promoting Positive Future Images, Australian Journal of Guidance & Counselling. (Vol 11, No 1, November), 51-64.
Inayatullah, S. and Gidley, J. (2000) Trends Transforming the University: Virtualize, Disappear or Transform. On the Horizon, Vol. 8, No. 2. pp. 1-6.
CHAPTERS IN SCHOLARLY BOOKS
Gidley, Jennifer, (In Press) “Evolving Higher Education Integrally” in Esbjörn-Hargens, S, Gunnlaugson, O, Reams, J, Integral Education: Serving Teachers, Students, and the Classroom, State University of New York Press, New York.
Gidley, Jennifer, (2009) “Educating for Evolving Consciousness: Voicing the Emergenc-y for Love, Life and Wisdom, ” The International Handbook of Education for Spirituality, Care and Wellbeing, Springer: New York.
Gidley, Jennifer, (2008) “Beyond Homogenisation of Global Education” in S. Inayatullah, M. Bussey and I. Milojevic (eds) Alternative Educational Futures: Pedagogies for an Emergent World, Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, pp. 253-268
Gidley, J., and Hampson, G., (2008) “Integral Approaches to School Educational Futures”, in S. Inayatullah, M. Bussey and I. Milojevic (eds) Pedagogy for Emergent Futures: the Alternative Futures of Education, Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, pp. 285-303.
Gidley, J. (2006) Spiritual Epistemologies and Integral Cosmologies: Transforming Thinking and Culture, in Integral Learning and Action: A Call to Wholeness, (Eds), Awbrey, S, Dana, D, Miller, V, Robinson, P, Ryan, M M, Scott, D K, Peter Lang Publishing.
Gidley, Jennifer (2004) The Metaphors of Globalisation: A Multi-layered Analysis of Global Youth Culture, in the Inayatullah, S. (Ed.), Causal Layered Analysis Reader, Tamkang University Press, Tamkang, Taiwan.
Gidley, J. (2002) Global Youth Culture: A Transdisciplinary Perspective, in Gidley, J and Inayatullah, S. (Eds.) (2002). Youth Futures: Comparative Research and Transformative Visions, Praeger, Westport, Connecticut.
Gidley, J. (2001) 'Education for All' or Education for Wisdom, in Manish Jain, Unfolding Learning Societies: Deepening the Dialogues, Vimukt Shiksha, Issue 9, Shikshantar.
Gidley, J (2000) Unveiling the Human Face of University Futures, in Inayatullah, S. and Gidley, J. (Eds.) (2000). The University in Transformation: Global Perspectives on the Futures of University, Bergin and Garvey, Connecticut.
Inayatullah, S. and Gidley, J. (2000) Introduction: Forces Shaping University Futures, in Inayatullah, S. and Gidley, J. (Eds.) (2000). The University in Transformation: Global Perspectives on the Futures of University, Bergin & Garvey.
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