Dr. Audrey Porter-DaCosta
Senior Lecturer
Faculty of Education and Liberal Studies
– School of Technical and Vocational Education
- audrey.dacosta@utech.edu.jm
- 8769271680-8
- ext. 3747
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Qualifications
- Doctor of Transformational Leadership – DTL
- MA – International Service
- B.Ed. Home Economics
- Teacher’s Diploma-Home Economics
Specialisation / Teaching Area
Family and Consumer Studies/ Food Service Production and Management:-Undergraduate programme
- Human Sexual Behaviour
- Family in World Perspective
- Family and Consumer Studies Education
- Family Communication
- Families in Crisis
- Parenting Education
- Introduction to Family Counseling
- Teaching Methodology
- Special Methods (Teaching Methodology)
- Sociology
- Psychology
- Consumer Economics
- Family Financial Management
- Ageing Families
Graduate programme
- Family and Community Support
- Families in Crisis
- Dynamics of Aging
- Contemporary Issues in Family and Consumer Studies
Research Interests
- Parenting
- Human Sexuality
- Teaching/Curriculum students’ success
- Children youth and family
- Appreciative inquiry
Professional Membership / Association
- International Federation of Home Economics, active member
- Caribbean Association of Home Economists, active member -currently active member of Research Committee
- Jamaica Home Economics Association
- Jamaica Association for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (former)
Community Service & Outreach Activities
- Chair- Caribbean Association of Home Economists 2022-2024;
- Jamaica Teaching Council – Leader of assessment panel,
- Faculty Counsellor (One of two within FELS) – liaise with Counselling Unit (UTech) providing support and advisement to colleagues and students accordingly;
- Deacon – Church of God in Jamaica. Executive Council member – Church of God in Jamaica
- Board member Leadership Training Institute, Church of God in Jamaica –
- Chair – Board of Evangelism and Mission – Church of God in Jamaica
- Commissioner: Children, Youth and Family Commission and, Worship Evangelism and Discipleship Commission – Church of God in Jamaica
Publications
- Jaipal-Jamani, K., Mayne, H., Ibrahim, S., Porter DaCosta, A., Devonish, D., Williams-Shakespeare, E., Martin, J. & McLean, E. (2021). An Online Professional Development Collaboration: Transforming the practices of TVET Teacher Educators. In T. Bastiaens (Ed.), Proceedings of Innovate Learning Summit 2021 (pp. 37-41). Online, United States: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved June 12, 2024, from https://www.learntechlib.org/primary/p/220360/.
