Mr Michael O'Donoghue

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I am Senior Lecturer in the School of Education Mawson Lakes Campus, Program Director of the Bachelor of Education (Middle and Secondary) and coordinator of the Religion Studies subject area. These reflect my interests in Education and Religion Studies. In the former my interest is in teacher education and the social context of education. In the latter my interests are in Ancient Egyptian Religion and religious phenomena. I am Honorary Research Associate in Anthropology (Egyptology) at the South Australian Museum and offer courses for the WEA on aspects of Ancient Egypt as well as taking study tours to Egypt. I also support a local study group of interested people who meet to work on hieroglyphic texts.

In the Valley of the Kings with the tomb of Tutankhamun in the far left background

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• Religion Studies, particularly ancient Egyptian religion, phenomena of religion, religion in Australia.
• Education, particularly education policy

Master of Education, 1990 University of Adelaide.

Graduate Diploma in Religious Education, 1979 Adelaide C.A.E.

Bachelor of Education, 1978 Salisbury C.A.E.

Recent

O’Donoghue, Michael (2009 forthcoming) ‘Interpreting Religion: the case of Jihad’ Australian Religion Studies Review Vol. 22 No. 1

O’Donoghue, Michael 2007 ‘Celebrating the Past: 2006 AASR Presidential Address’ Australian Religion Studies Review Vol. 20 No. 1

O’Donoghue, Michael and Alan Reid 2004 ‘Revisiting enquiry-based teacher education in neo-liberal times’ Teaching and Teacher Education 20 (2004) 559-570

O’Donoghue, Michael and Robert Crotty 2004 The Phenomena of Religion: an application to Ancient Greek Religion Resource material for SSABSA’s Year 12 Greek Religious Experience at: http://www.ssabsa.sa.edu.au/support/society/2cst/2cst-menu.htm

O’Donoghue, M and Crotty R. 2003 ‘A strategy for teaching about the religious worlds of today.’ Journal of Religious Education Vol. 51, 2 pp19-22

O’Donoghue, M et al 2003 Finding A Way: The Religious Worlds of Today. 2E Melbourne: Collins-Dove. (co-author).

O’Donoghue, M and Reid, A 2001 Shaping the Future: Educating Professional Educators (107 pages, University of South Australia)

O’Donoghue, M 1999 ‘The Letters to the Dead and Ancient Egyptian Religion’ Bulletin of the Australian Centre for Egyptology. Vol 10 pp 87-104

O’Donoghue, M 1999 ‘The Egyptian Column at the South Australian Museum’ Records of the South Australian Museum 31 (2): 127 -147.

O’Donoghue, M 1993 Myth, Ritual and the Sacred: Introducing the Phenomena of Religion. Texts in Humanities: University of South Australia.(part author)

I am able to provide media comment in the following areas of expertise:

Discipline: Religion Studies

• Ancient Egypt