e/Robert Parkes

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has gloss	eng: Dr Robert Parkes is Deputy Head of School (Teaching and Learning) in the School of Education, at the University of Newcastle, Australia, a position he has held since February 2008. He is a Senior Lecturer in Curriculum Theory, History Education, and Media Literacy. He has worked as a fulltime martial arts instructor, shiatsu practitioner, and lecturer in oriental medicine at a natural therapies college in Brisbane; and a History, ESL, Learning and Technology Support Teacher in a suburban High School in Sydney. During his undergraduate education at the University of Sydney, Robert was named a Deans List Scholar, received the Newcombe Hodge Essay Prize, and graduated from the University of Sydney with a Class I Honours Degree and the University Medal in Education. From 2003-2006 he lectured at Charles Sturt University (Bathurst), where he was a founding member of the Subjectivities in Teacher Education (SITE) community of scholars lead by Professor Bill Green and Professor Jo-Anne Reid.
lexicalization	eng: Robert Parkes
instance of	c/Australian academics