Griffith University

Cert Teaching, GDip Special Education, B Education Studies, GDip School Counselling, M Educational Studies, PhD
Senior Lecturer, Education and Professional Studies
Contact details for Dr Lorelei Carpenter

Research expertise

Dr Lorelei Carpenter has worked in the area of Inclusive Education, Special Needs Education and Personal Counselling for more than twenty years. She currently teaches in the area of Inclusive Education. Lorelei's primary interest is in exploring how society defines and treats people of difference. She began researching the effect of ADHD on mothers in the mid 1990's as part of her doctoral studies and has since extended this area to include mothers of children with ASD. Her work is informed by a theoretical and methodological framework of narrative inquiry.
Lorelei recently co-authored a book Motherhood in the Margins: mothering a child with ADHD or ASD (2009) with colleague Dr elke emerald. This book employs a Narrative Inquiry approach to examine the construction of categories of motherhood, especially in the context of mothering a child with a disorder. Lorelei and elke are currently researching and co-authoring a book that investigates the construct of resilience as it applies to motherhood.

Current projects

• Motherhood resilience
• Teaching internship, mentoring and building better school/university relationships

Current teaching areas

• Inclusive education
  
• Working with students with special educational needs
  

Publications

Books

• Hyde, M., Carpenter, L. & Conway, R. (Eds). (2010). Diversity and inclusion in Australian schools. South Melbourne, Victoria: Oxford University Press.
• Carpenter, L. & Emerald, E. (2009). Stories from the margin: Mothering a child with ADHD or ASD. Teneriffe, Queensland: Post Pressed.
  

Book chapters

• Carpenter, L. (2010) Understanding Autism Spectrum Disorder. In M. Hyde, L. Carpenter & Conway, R. (Eds). Diversity and inclusion in Australian schools. (pp. 267-289). South Melbourne, Victoria: Oxford University Press.
• Carpenter, L. & Thompson, R. (2010) Supporting behaviour change. In M. Hyde, L. Carpenter & Conway, R. (Eds). Diversity and inclusion in Australian schools. (pp. 137-168). South Melbourne, Victoria: Oxford University Press.
• Hyde, M. Carpenter L. & Conway R. (2010) Inclusive education: The way to the future. In M. Hyde, L. Carpenter & Conway, R. (Eds). Diversity and inclusion in Australian schools. (pp. 336-343). South Melbourne, Victoria: Oxford University Press.
• emerald, e. & Carpenter, L. (2010). ADHD, mothers and the politics of school recognition. In. L. Graham (Ed). (De) Constructing ADHD: Critical guidance for teachers and teacher educator.  (pp. 99-117). New York: Peter Lang Publishing.
• Carpenter, L. & Blance, B. (2007). Teaching internships and the learning community. In T. Townsend & R. Bates (Eds). Handbook of Teacher Education, Globalisation, standards and professionalism in times of change. (pp.301-314). Springer: The Netherlands.
• Carpenter, L. (2002). The ADHD dilemma: understanding and managing the condition. In W. Rogers (Ed). Teacher leadership and behaviour management. (pp. 113-27). Paul Chapman Publishing, London.

Journal articles

• Austin, H. & Carpenter, L. (2008). Troubled, troublesome, troubling mothers: The dilemma of difference in women's personal motherhood narratives. Narrative Inquiry, 18(2), 378-392.
• Carpenter, L. & Austin, H. (2008). How to be recognised enough to be included? In International Journal of Inclusive Education, 12(1), 35-48.
• Carpenter, L. & Austin, H. (2007). Silenced, silence, silent: Motherhood in the margins. Qualitative Inquiry, 13(5), 660-674. Sage Publications, USA.

Refereed proceedings

• Woods, A., Carpenter, L. & Lack, P. (2005). Community partnerships in teacher education programs: Volunteering and student teacher identities (2005). In Teacher Education: Local and global, Center for Professional Development, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland.
• Carpenter, L. (2005). Managing diversity and difference: developing support initiatives for NESB students in teacher education programs. In Teacher Education: Local and global, Center for Professional Development, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland.
• Carpenter, L., Cavanagh, J. & Hyde, M. (2005). Teacher education students attitude towards inclusive education. In Stimulating the "Action" as participants in participatory research. School of Cognition, Language and Special Education, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland.
• Carpenter, L. & Johnson, P. (2004). Are the complexities of professional practice supported by university policy? In Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) conference papers, Melbourne, Australia.
• Carpenter, L. & Blance, B. (2003). Internships: Are they for all? In NZARE/AARE Conference Proceedings 2003, NZARE & AARE, Auckland.
• Carpenter, L. & Blance, B. (2003). Teaching internships and the learning community. In Teachers as leaders: Teacher education for a global profession, International Yearbook on Teacher Education, ICET, Wheeling, IL USA.

Non-refereed proceedings

• Carpenter, L. & Matters, P. (2003). Learning communities today - who benefits? In NZARE/AARE Conference Proceedings 2003, NZARE & AARE, Auckland.
• Cooper, M. & Carpenter, L. (2003). Teachers as Leaders and mentors of Beginning Teachers. In International Yearbook on Teacher Education, Monash University, Melbourne.
• Carpenter, L. (2002). The problematic of developing a school university partnership program: Challenges, growth and reciprocity. In AARE Conference Papers 2002, Australian Association for Research in Education, Brisbane, Queensland.

Proceedings (edited volume of conference proceedings)

• Carpenter, L. & Cooper, M. (2002). Continuing education of teachers - towards 2010. In Teacher Education 2010: ATEA Forum 2002: Proceedings of the 30th Annual Australian Education Association Conference, Toowoomba Education Centre, Toowoomba Queensland.
• Carpenter, L. & Russell, N. (2002). School university partnerships: A new approach. In Teacher Education 2010: ATEA Forum 2002: Proceedings of the 30th Annual Australian Education Association Conference, Toowoomba Education Centre, Toowoomba Queensland.