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Professor J V D'Cruz

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Professor J.V. D'Cruz joined Monash Asia Institute in 2001 as an Adjunct Professor in Australia-Asia Relations, having returned from a four-year research and teaching assignment at the National University of Malaysia. He began his university career in 1971, part-time and simultaneously, at Monash University in the Faculty of Education and at the University of Melbourne in the Department of Political Science. He was to become the foundation head of Philosophy at the then State College of Victoria at Mercy Campus from 1972-1976. From 1976 to 1996 he taught at the Graduate School of Education, LaTrobe University, where he was at different times Chair of the Centre for International and Comparative Education and the Centre for Innovation in Education. He has been a senior advisor to the Victorian Ministry of Education on a number of issues over the years, with two Government reports named after him (The D'Cruz Report 1989 on Adult Basic Education and The D'Cruz Report 1990 on Technology in Education); and he has been a Victorian Government Trustee on the Telematics Course Development Trust Fund between 1991 and 1999. He has been a visiting professor at universities in South and South East Asian countries. More recently, in March 2006, he was Visiting Professor at the Centre for Cultural Diversity and Social Justice, Southern Cross University (NSW), and is Director the Institute for International Education.

Professor D'Cruz has researched and published widely in a number of areas, as series editor of multi-volume publications in the areas of Education and in the areas of Language, Linguistics and Literature; with some 16 authored and edited volumes to his credit in areas such as politics, philosophy, education and culture, and some 16 chapters in books. An expression of his current multi-disciplinary research can be found in a volume published in 2003 by Monash Asia Institute titled Australia's Ambivalence Towards Asia: Politics, Neo/Post-colonialism, and Fact/Fiction (co-authored with William Steele).

Major Publications

  1. Series Editorship
  2. Editorship/Editorial Committees
  3. Books/Monographs/Reports
  4. Chapters of Books
  5. Journal Articles

A. Series Editorship

  1. Series Editor, Language, Literacy and Literature Series, Faculty of Language Studies, National University of Malaysia (UKM), 1998
    10 Volumes already published in this series
    1. Communicating Meaning Across Cultures by Hazidi Abdul Hamid
    2. A Sociolinguistic Window to Cultural Change by Marlyna Maros
    3. Language Allegiance and Language Shift by Mohd Subakir Yasin
    4. Assessing Second Language Learning by Nooreiny Maarof
    5. Reading Legal Cases by Noraini bte Ibrahim
    6. Computer Assisted Language Learning by Norizan Abdul Razak
    7. Translating English Affixes Into Malay by Quah Chiew Kin
    8. Learning Strategies by Radha Nambiar
    9. The Process Approach to ESL Writing by Siti Hamin Stapa
    10. Waiting Like the Dragonfly by Susanna Checketts
  2. Langford, P. and D'Cruz, J.V. Joint Series Editors. Education Australia Series. Longman Cheshire, 1988-1993
    13 Volumes published in the Series
    1. Issues in Australian Education ed. by J.V. D'Cruz and Peter Langford.
    2. Introduction to Research Methods in Education by Robert Burns.
    3. Discipline: An Approach for Teachers and Parents by Merril Jackson.
    4. Beginning Science Teaching by Chris Dawson.
    5. Early Childhood Education by Marjorie Ebbek.
    6. Classroom Discipline ed. by M.N. Lovegrove and Raymond Lewis.
    7. Schools and Classrooms by N. Preston and C. Symes.
    8. Teaching Art, Craft and Design by D. Richardson.
    9. Teaching Primary Mathematics by G. Booker et. al.
    10. Writing in the Primary School by Dan O'Brien.
    11. Music Education in Primary Schools by G. Askew.
    12. Care and Education of Young Children by Patricia Sabastian-Nickell and Rosemary Milne.
    13. Teaching Social Science in Multicultural Australia by Brian Hil

B. Editor / Editorial Committee Member

  1. Contributing editor, Overland quarterly magazine, 2004 (continuing).
  2. Review editor, Evaluation Journal of Australasia, 1993.
  3. Chairperson, Publications Committee, Australasia Evaluation Society, 1993.
  4. Member, Publications Advisory Board, Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, University of Melbourne. 1980-83. Publications included a series of books, research report monographs, and other occasional papers.
  5. Editor of special annual (1971-76) issues on education, Twentieth Century Quarterly Review.

C. Books/Monograph/Reports

  1. D'Cruz, J.V. and William Steele. 2003. Australia's Ambivalence Towards Asia: Politics, Neo/Post-colonialism, and Fact/Fiction. Melbourne: Monash Asia Institute/Monash University Press, Revised and Enlarged Australian second edition, September.
  2. D'Cruz, J.V. and William Steele. 2000. Australia's Ambivalence Towards Asia: Politics, Neo/Post-colonialism, and Fact/Fiction. First Edition. Kuala Lumpur: National University of Malaysia Press. 2000
  3. Wong, Harriet, Shanta Nair-Venugopal, Nooreiny Maarof, Zawiah Yahya and J.V. D'Cruz. (Eds.) 2000. Language and Globalisation: Voices of Asia. Kuala Lumpur: Pearson Education Malaysia.
  4. Rado, M. and D'Cruz, J.V. 1995. English Literacy Needs of NESB Immigrants. Melbourne: Bureau of Immigration and Population Research.
  5. D'Cruz, J V and G. Tham. 1993. Nursing and Nursing Education in Multicultural Australia. Melbourne: David Lovell Publishing, pp 110.
  6. D'Cruz, J.V. and Langford, P. (eds) 1990. Issues in Australian Education. Melbourne, Longman Cheshire, pp. 314 + xx.
  7. D'Cruz, J.V. 1990. Technology in Education: A Study of Policy and Practice in Rural Schools. Melbourne. Ministry of Education, Victoria, Australia. Second, revised and enlarged edition, September, pp. 304 + viii. (The D'Cruz Report 1990) ISBN 0 7241 9750 86.
  8. D'Cruz, J.V. 1990. Adult Basic Education and the Public Culture of Victoria. Melbourne. Division of Further Education, Ministry of Education, Victoria, Australia. First edition. August; pp. xxvi + 81. (The D'Cruz Report 1989) ISBN 0 7306 1628 2.
  9. D'Cruz, J.V. 1990. Technology in Education: A Study of Policy and Practice in Rural Schools. Melbourne. Ministry of Education, Victoria, Australia. First edition, March; pp.157 + Appendix pp. 56. (The D'Cruz Report 1990). ISBN 0 7241 9638 2.
  10. D'Cruz, J.V. 1989. Adult Basic Education and the Public Culture of Victoria, Melbourne. Division of Further Education, Ministry of Education, Victoria, Australia. First edition,, pp. xix + 70. (The D'Cruz Report 1989)
  11. D'Cruz, J.V. and Bottorff, J.L. 1986. The Renewal of Nursing Education: A Cultural Perspective of Continuities and Change. Forward by Prof Judith Parker. Health Education Occasional Monograph No.2. Melbourne: La Trobe University Health Service, vi + 88 pp.
  12. D'Cruz, J.V. and Hannah Wilma (eds) 1979. Perceptions of Excellence: Studies in Educational Theory. Melbourne: The Polding Press, viii + 494 pages. ISBN 0 85884 224 6
  13. D'Cruz, J.V. and Sheehan, P.J. (eds) 1978. The Renewal of Australian Schools: A Changing Perspective in Educational Planning. Melbourne: Australian Council for Educational Research. Second and enlarged edition, viii + 308 pages.
  14. Crittenden, B.S. and D'Cruz, J.V. (eds) 1976. Essays on Quality in Education. Melbourne: Primary Education Pty Ltd, viii + 121 pages.
  15. D'Cruz, J.V. and Gilchrist, M., et.al. 1976. Forces and Issues in Australian Politics. Melbourne: Lloyd O'Neil Publishers, 288p.
  16. D'Cruz, J.V. and Sheehan, P.J. (eds) 1975. The Renewal of Australian Schools: Essays on Educational Planning in Australia after the Karmel Report. Melbourne: Primary Education Pty Ltd. First edition, 180p.
  17. D'Cruz, J.V. and Sheehan, P.J. (eds) 1975. Concepts in Education: Philosophical Studies. Melbourne: Dove Publications, fourth impression, 96 pages.
  18. D'Cruz, J.V. 1973. The Asian Image in Australia: Episodes in Australian History. Melbourne: Hawthorn Press, vii + 95p. SBN 7256 0096 2.
  19. D'Cruz, J.V. and Marie Kehoe (eds) 1973. Readings on Development. Melbourne: M.C.-I.S.O. Publication, 74p.
  20. D'Cruz, J.V. and Marie Kehoe (eds) 1972. Values: Education and Society. Melbourne: M.C.-I.S.O. Publication, 90p.
  21. D'Cruz, J.V. and Coates, T.H. (eds) 1971. A Janus Look at Education. Melbourne: I.S.O. Publication, 65p.
  22. J V D'Cruz, Bernie Neville, Devika Goonewardene and Phillip Darby (eds)
    2008. As Others See Us: The Values Debate. Melbourne: Australians Scholarly
    Publishing. (In Press).
  23. Gloria Davies, J V D'Cruz and Nathan Hollier (eds) Profiles in Courage:
    Political Actors & Ideas in Contemporary Asia. 2008. Melbourne: Australians
    Scholarly Publishing. (In Press).

D. Chapters of Books

  1. D'Cruz, JV and N.M. Bhagia, (2004) 'Accountability in Indian education: perspectives and practices', in Devendra Thakur (Ed) Studies in Educational Development. Reprint. New Delhi, Deep and Deep, 2004, 6 volumes, 3758 pages. ISBN 81-7629-495-0. Vol. 5, Chapter 5.
  2. Raihanah Mohd. Mydin and J.V.D'Cruz (2003) The Cosmopolitanism of an Early Muhammad Haji Salleh and the Quest for a Foundational Imaginary of Home , in Zawiah Yahya (ed) Critical Perspectives on Muhammad Haji Salleh, KL, Malaysia: Dewan Bahasa Pustaka 2003.
  3. Raihanah Mohd. Mydin and D'Cruz, J.V. 1999a. Notions of the self and home in Muhammad Haji Salleh's Time and its people (1978). In Chan Swee Heng, Mohammad Abdul Quayum and Roslie Talif (Eds.) 2000. Diverse voices: readings in language, literature and culture. Serdang, Malaysia: Universiti Putra Malaysia Press.
  4. Raihanah Mohd. Mydin and J.V. D'Cruz. 1999b. Private/public uses of Malaysian literature in English: a reading of Lloyd Fernando's Green is the colour (1983). International conference on teaching and learning proceedings. 2000. Bangi: Faculty of Education, National University of Malaysia.
  5. D'Cruz, J.V. and Langford, P.E. 1990. Education and the Decline of Civil Society. In D'Cruz, J.V. and Langford, P.E. (eds) Issues in Australian Education, Longman, Melbourne.
  6. D'Cruz, J.V. and Conboy, I.1988. Resourcing Distance Education for Rural Identity. In D. Stewart and J.R. Daniel, (eds.) Developing Distance Education. Oslo: International Council for Distance Education, pp.183-6.
  7. D'Cruz, J.V. and White, D.C. 1981. Moral Education in Singapore. In Zajda, J. (ed.) Education and Society in the 1980s: A Comparative Analysis. Melbourne: James and Nicholas, pp.138-151.
  8. D'Cruz, J.V. and Hannah, Wilma. 1979. Beyond Pluralism: Education For an Agreed Cultural Purpose. In D'Cruz, J.V. and Hannah, Wilma (eds) Perceptions of Excellence: Studies in Educational Theory. Melbourne: The Polding Press, 1979, pp.1-12.
  9. D'Cruz, J.V. 1979. Martin Buber: Education in the Renewal of Culture. In D'Cruz, J.V. and Hannah, Wilma (eds) Perceptions of Excellence: Studies in Educational Theory. Melbourne: The Polding Press, 1979, pp.49-73.
  10. D'Cruz, J.V. and Sheehan, P.J. 1978. Culture and the Schools Commission in educational renewal. In D'Cruz, J.V. and Sheehan, P.J. (eds) The Renewal of Australian Schools: A Changing Perspective in Educational Planning. Melbourne: Australian Council for Educational Research. Second and enlarged edition, 1978, pp.3-11.
  11. D'Cruz, J.V. and Sheehan, P.J. 1978. Some Key Issues for the Future of Australian Schools. In D'Cruz, J.V. and Sheehan, P.J. (eds) The Renewal of Australian Schools: A Changing Perspective in Educational Planning. Melbourne Australian Council for Educational Research. Second and enlarged edition, 1978, pp.265-290.
  12. D'Cruz, J.V. 1978. Accountability in Education: The Concept and Its Implications. In D'Cruz, J.V. and Sheehan, P.J. (eds) The Renewal of Australian Schools: Essays on Educational Planning in Australia After the Karmel Report. Melbourne: Australian Council for Educational Research, 1978, pp.126-139.
  13. D'Cruz, J.V. 1977. Towards an Inclusive Notion of Accountability. In Chippendale, P. (ed.) Accountability in Education. St. Lucia (Qld): Queensland University Press, 1977, pp.183-205 (Ch.15).
  14. D'Cruz, J.V. and Marie Kehoe.1973. Introduction. In Some Themes in Christian Social Ethics, by W.G. Smith. Melbourne: M.T.C. and I.S.O., 1973, pp.1-2.
  15. D'Cruz, J.V. 1973. Introduction. In Gilchrist, M.J. Political Questions: A Study of Australian Domestic and Foreign Policy. Melbourne: Advocate Press, 1973.
  16. D'Cruz, J.V. and Duke, Graham. 1973. Modernization: The Concept and Its Problems in Southeast Asia. In D'Cruz, J.V. and Kehoe, M. (eds) Readings on Development. Melbourne: M.T.C.-I.S.O. Publication, 1973. Reprint of previously published article; see below.
  17. J V D'Cruz & William Steele. (2008) Recognising Home in David Martin's Additive Exile: The Necessary Otherthat Puts Us in Relation. In Anna Haebich & Baden Offord (eds). 2008. Landscapes of Exile: Once Perilous, Now Safe. Oxford, UK: Peter Lang.

E.Journal Articles

  1. D'Cruz, JV (2006) Honouring the one and the many gods in the classroom: mythology, multiculturalism and postmodernism. Review article of / Educating Psyche: emotion, imagination and the unconscious in learning / by Bernie Neville (2005). Second edition and enlarges edition. Greensborough, Vic: Flat Chat Press, Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE. * / Borderlands e-journal / , Adelaide University, 5:1, 2006*. *
    http://www.borderlandsejournal.adelaide.edu.au/issues/vol5no1.html
  2. D'Cruz, JV and William Steele. 2004. Doing cultural pluralism in Australia, against the tide: An interim response to reviewers of Australia's Ambivalence Towards Asia. Borderlands quarterly e-journal, Adelaide University; 7 pages. Special section edited by Suvendrini Perera (Curtin University) with forum of some 10 writers discussing Ambivalence.
  3. Supyan Hussin, Noreiny Maroof and J V D'Cruz. 2000. Sustaining an Interest in Learning English and Increasing the Motivation to Learn English: An Enrichment, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (Malaysia). Published in The Internet TESL Journal [Paper originally presented at The Millennium MICELT 2000, 3rd Malaysia International Conference for English Language Teaching, 15-17 May 2000, Melaka , organized by Universiti Putra Malaysia.]
  4. D'Cruz, J.V. and T.G. David. 1990. Universities of Ancient Asia, Africa and Medieval Europe: Origins, Administration and Autonomy. In Journal of Educational Planning and Administration, (4) October.
  5. D'Cruz, J.V. and Caulley, Darrel N. 1990. Tolstoy and the Link Between Evaluation and Decision Making. Network. The Newsletter of the Board of Community Psychologists, the Australian Psychological Society, 6 (3) December, pp. 5-12.
  6. D'Cruz, J.V. and Bessant, J.C. 1989. When Nurses and Teachers Strike: Public Perceptions of 'the betrayal'. Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing, 6, 26-33.
  7. Langford, P.E. and D'Cruz, J.V. 1988. A New Way of Scoring Moral Judgement Interviews. Journal of Moral Education, 18, 103-116.
  8. Langford, P.E. and D'Cruz, J.V. 1988. A New Approach to Coding Moral Dilemma Responses, Resources in Education, 36, 236-7.
  9. D'Cruz, J.V. and Conboy, I. 1988. Distance Education and Rural Development: Second Order Consequences of Educational Technology. Unicorn, 14(1): 10-6.
  10. D'Cruz, J.V. and Conboy, I. 1988. Technological Resources and Related Social Issues in Distance Education Programmes in Small, Remote Rural Schools. Journal of Distance Education, 9(1): 95-105.
  11. D'Cruz, J.V. 1987. Australian Multiculturalism. Insight, Islamic Quarterly Journal, Sydney, 2(3), November.
  12. D'Cruz, J.V. 1987, Public Culture, Multiculture: Competing or Complementary? Bulletin, La Trobe University, 18(5), 16 March 1987. Reprinted in Ethnic Communities Now, Melbourne, April. Reprinted, in Newsletter, Australian Asian Community Welfare Association, 12(3), March-April 1987.
  13. D'Cruz, J.V. and Bhagia, N.M. 1986. Accountability in Indian Education: Perspectives and Practices. Journal of Educational Planning and Administration, 1(1):1-12, New Delhi, April. See, reprint as a chapter in edited volume, 2004, see above D/1.
  14. D'Cruz, J.V. and Bottorff, J.L. 1985. Towards Inclusive Notions of "Patient" and "Nurse". Journal of Advanced Nursing. London.
  15. D'Cruz, J.V. and Bottorff, J.L. 1985. The Nursing Curriculum and Knowledge of Most Worth: An Argument. The Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing, 2(3), March-May.
  16. D'Cruz, J.V. and Bottorff, J.L. 1984. Nursing Education: Getting the Public Involved in Tertiary Change. The Australian Nurses Journal, 13(11):47-49. Reprinted in The Australasian Health and Healing: Journal of Alternative Medicine, 4(1):19-22, September-November, 1984. Reprinted in Social Survey, 33(6):172-176, 182, July.
  17. D'Cruz, J.V. and Kelabora, L. 1979. Educational Reform in Indonesia Since 1965: a Cultural Critique. New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies 14(2):124-137, November.
  18. D'Cruz, J.V. 1979. T.S. Eliot on Education, Society and Culture. The Forum of Education, 37 (2):9-19, June.
  19. D'Cruz, J.V. and Bagnall, Mary F. 1971. Moderating, Standardization by Consensus in Education: a Victorian Experiment in Teacher Professionalism. The Australian Journal of Education, 15(1):104-117, March.
  20. D'Cruz, J.V. and Duke, G. 1971. Modernization in Diversified S.E. Asia. Asian Studies Series, No. 9. The Australian Student, October 1971.
  21. D'Cruz, J.V. and Duke, G. 1973. Modernization: The Concept and Its Problems in Southeast Asia. Ethos, 1(4): 2-12, November. Reprinted in Readings on Development. (See above).
  22. D'Cruz, J.V. Contributor to Tonkin, C.B. 1971. Secondary Social Science Project, Part 2 - Wesley College Research Experience. Study of Society, 2(3): 6-11, November.
  23. D'Cruz, J.V. 1971. The Foreign Policy of R.G. Menzies, 1939-41: The Concept of the "Western Presence" in Asia. Twentieth Century Quarterly Review, 25:325-55, Winter.
  24. D'Cruz, J.V. and Williams, M.S.1970. Evaluation of the Fenton Social Science Curriculum. Materials Reports and Papers of the National Information Centre for Social Science Education, ACER.
  25. D'Cruz, J.V. and Williams, M.S. 1970. Teaching Social Studies in Secondary Schools: The open society and its allies. The Australian Quarterly 42(1):62-71, March.
  26. D'Cruz, J.V. and Davies, D.J. 1970. The Wesley Summer Seminar: The Rationale and Proceedings. Education News. December.
  27. D'Cruz, J.V. Gandhi: the Uncompromising Truth. Review Article. The Australian Quarterly, 42(2):120-33.
  28. D'Cruz, J.V. 1969. Teaching History in Secondary Schools, Part 2. Twentieth Century Quarterly Review, 23:237-41, Autumn.
  29. D'Cruz, J.V. 1969. Teaching History in Secondary Schools, Part 1. Twentieth Century Quarterly Review, 23:138-43, Summer.
  30. D'Cruz, J.V. 1967. Menzies Foreign Policy, 1939-41: Preserving the Good Life. The Australian Quarterly, 39(3):38-48, September.
  31. D'Cruz, J.V. 1966. Australian Foreign Policy "East of Suez". Twentieth Century Quarterly Review, 21:136-49, Summer.
  32. D'Cruz, J.V. 1965. Japanese Foreign Policy and the Cold War. The Australian Quarterly, 37(3):35-48, September.
  33. D'Cruz, J.V. 1965. William Morris Hughes - A Destruction From Within. Twentieth Century Quarterly Review, 19:197-208, Autumn.
  34. D'Cruz, J.V. 1965. Failure in China, 1860-1900: A Christian Mission Technique Gone Wrong. Twentieth Century Quarterly Review, 19:301-13, Winter.
  35. D'Cruz, J.V. 1964. Attitudes to Japan in the 1930's. Twentieth Century Quarterly Review, 18:315-33, Winter.
  36. D'Cruz, J.V. 1962. The Indian Mutiny and White Australia, 1858. Twentieth Century Quarterly Review, 17:42-59, Spring

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