Deidre Le Fevre

Deidre Marjorie Le Fevre is a New Zealand academic and is a full professor at the University of Auckland, specialising in educational leadership, teacher training, and education improvement.

Academic career

Le Fevre trained as a teacher in Palmerston North while completing a Bachelor of Education at Massey University. Le Fevre says that during her teacher training, she was different to her peers as her high school experience had not been a good one, and she wanted to change the system. "I... held the strong view that education and schooling needed to change. High school hadn’t worked well for me or for many other young people at that time. I wasn’t interested in maintaining the status quo." Le Fevre then joined the faculty of Washington State University, where she continued her interest in using video to improve practice: "I would video myself teaching my education courses and the students would analyse and critique me! This was when I really realised the importance of vulnerability, of being willing to take risks in order to learn and change."

Le Fevre has co-authored two books, Leading powerful professional learning: Responding to complexity with adaptive expertise and Leading professional learning: Practical strategies for impact in schools with Helen Timperley, Fiona Ell and Kaye Twyford (2019).

Selected works

Books

Helen Timperley, Diedre Le Fevre, Fiona Ell, Kaye Twyford Leading professional learning: Practical strategies for impact in schools (Acer Press, December 2019) ISBN 9781742865409 Deidre Le Fevre, Helen Timperley, Fiona Ell, Kaye Twyford Leading powerful professional learning: Responding to complexity with adaptive expertise (Corwin Press, September 2019) ISBN 9781544386812

Papers