Teacher education and professional learning
Teachers form the largest single professional group in Australia. Research on teacher education examines a wide range of issues, spanning studies of the efficacy of pre-service teacher education programs, analyses of policies driving change in these programs, and explorations of the experience of ‘becoming’ in this key social profession. Research on teacher professional learning also has a wide span, taking in studies of specific interventions to sustain and enhance in-service teacher knowledge professionalism as well as studies of the development of teacher practice and identity over time.
Researchers in this area include:
| Associate Professor Tim Allender | Associate Professor, History of Education, History Curriculum; History Curriculum Coordinator; Combined Degree Programme Director ; Affiliate, History Department, Faculty of Arts; Education III Coordinator; Secondary Practicum Coordinator; Research Manager Keywords: History, Postcolonial, History Curriculum, Feminist History, Classroom Disciplinarity, Knowledge Transfer |
| Associate Professor Judy Anderson | Associate Professor, Mathematics Education; Associate Dean Learning and Teaching; Curriculum Coordinator, Secondary Mathematics Keywords: mathematics, teacher professional development, teachers' beliefs and practices, student motivation and engagement, problem solving |
| Honorary Associate Professor Dianne Bloomfield | Director, Professional Experience; Associate Professor Keywords: professional experience, teacher identity, inservice and preservice professional learning |
| Associate Professor Janette Bobis | Associate Professor, Mathematics Education Keywords: mathematics education, teacher professional development, teacher knowledge, motivation and engagement in mathematics, mental computation |
| Ms Nicole Brunker | Lecturer, Primary Curriculum Studies |
| Associate Professor David Evans | Associate Professor, Special Education; Course Coordinator, MEd(Special and Inclusive Education); Director, Bachelor of Education Honours Program Keywords: Special education, inclusive education, universal design, literacy, numeracy |
| Professor Robyn Ewing | Professor, Teacher Education and the Arts; Acting ProDean Keywords: arts-informed inquiry, drama and critical literacy, primary curriculum, the arts and learning, early-career teachers |
| Professor Peter Freebody | Professor Keywords: equity and literacy education, classroom research, ICT and literacy learning, critical literacy, literacy across the curriculum and the school years |
| Ms Vilma Galstaun | Lecturer in ICT in education; Teaching Teachers for the Future Project Coordinator; First Year Coordinator, BEd (Primary) |
| Dr Robyn Gibson | Senior Lecturer, Visual & Creative Arts Education; Associate Dean, Undergraduate & Preservice programs; Director, Community Relations Keywords: Creative & Visual Arts education, the Arts and learning, arts-informed inquiry |
| Honorary Professor Susan Groundwater-Smith | Honorary Professor, Division of Professional Learning Keywords: Teacher professional learning, student voice, mixed methods in school inquiry |
| Associate Professor Deb Hayes | Associate Professor, School Leadership, Management and School Partnership; Director, Education I-IV Program |
| Ms Kate (Catherine) Keeley | Lecturer; Curriculum Coordinator, Geography, Economics, Business Studies BA/BEd(Secondary combined degree) ; Curriculum Coordinator, Geography, Economics, Business Studies, Legal Studies and Society and Culture Master of Teaching Program Keywords: Early career teachers and accreditation, Aboriginal education, Global education, Juvenile justice, Legal Studies and legal issues within education, Social justice and equality, Environmental education |
| Dr Kevin Laws | Convenor, Management and Leadership Program; Honorary Senior Lecturer Keywords: Organisational culture and change, Program evaluation, Organisational learning, Leadership, International education, Continuing professional development of teachers and teacher educators in Asia and Pacific region |
| Dr Tony Loughland | Director of Professional Experience Keywords: Professional Experience |
| Associate Professor Jacqueline Manuel | Associate Professor, English Education; Convenor, Arts, English and Literacy Education Research Network (AELE); Curriculum Coordinator, Secondary English Education; Affiliate, Department of English, Faculty of Arts; Undergraduate Scholarships Committee |
| Dr Lina Markauskaite | Senior Lecturer, eResearch, Centre for Research on Computer-supported Learning and Cognition (CoCo Research Centre); Research Progress Manager, Division of Doctoral Studies ; Thesis Examination and Progress Review Coordinator, Division of Doctoral Studies; Postgraduate Research Student Coordinator, Division of Doctoral Studies Keywords: epistemic fluency, personal epistemology, knowledge work, teacher knowledge, design knowledge, ICT in education, ICT-enhanced social research methods, eResearch in education, social and epistemic shaping of eResearch |
| Dr Christine Preston | Lecturer, Primary Curriculum Studies; Associate Director Professional Experience (Primary); Lecturer Science Education; Lecturer Early Childhood Science Keywords: Children's interpretation of science diagrams, K-12 science, early childhood science, primary curriculum, marine education, professional experience |
| Dr Lesley Scanlon | Senior Lecturer, Teaching and Learning; Coordinator, Professional Doctorates |
| Associate Professor Alyson Simpson | Associate Professor, English and Literacy Education, Undergraduate and Graduate-entry programs; Associate Dean Undergraduate / Preservice (Student Welfare and Progress) Keywords: children's literature, eLearning, visual literacy, blended learning, discourse analysis, pedagogy |
| Dr Louise Sutherland | Senior Lecturer, Division of Undergraduate and Pre-service Programs; Program Director, MTeach(Secondary); Co-ordinator Science Curriculum K-12 |
| Dr Jennifer Way | Senior Lecturer, Mathematics Education; Associate Dean Undergraduate & Preservice Programs (Policies & Programs) Keywords: mathematics, primary, technologies, engagement, pedagogy, teacher development |
| Ms Catherine Smyth | Associate Lecturer, HSIE K-6 Curriculum and Curriculum Studies ; 4th Year B.Ed (Primary) Coordinator Keywords: History curriculum (K-6), HSIE, Civics and Citizenship Education, primary curriculum, Global Education |
| Honorary Professor Robert J. Tierney | Honorary Professor Keywords: Literacy education, research paradigms and rhetoric of science, assessment, professional development of educators, multimedia and cultural studies |
| Professor Alison Elliott | Chair in Early Childhood Education |
| Dr Derek Sankey | Honorary Associate Keywords: Dynamic Systems Theory, philosophy of science, human development, mind and brain, learning and teaching, school-based teacher education |
| Honorary Professor Jack C Richards | Honorary Professor Keywords: Language Teacher Education, Methodology in Language Teaching, Curriculum Design and Materials Development |
| Mr Martin Parisio | PhD candidate; Teacher of ICT in Education; Postgraduate Fellow; Teaching Assistant - Master of Learning Science and Technology; Faculty Learning Spaces Review Working Party Member Keywords: Learning and teaching, educational design, teaching as design, higher education |
| Ms Neta Steigrad | Associate Lecturer Curriculum: Classical Hebrew and Judaism Keywords: Language teacher education, teacher mentoring, community languages |
| Dr Jen Scott Curwood | Lecturer, English Education and Media Studies |
| Honorary Professor Petra Ponte | Honorary Professor Keywords: Action Research, Practitioner Research, European Continental Pedagogy, Moral Theory, Education for All, Philosophical and Sociological Foundations in Education |
| Ms Katrina Thorpe | PhD candidate; Lecturer |
| Dr Hoa Thi Mai Nguyen | Research Fellow |
| Honorary Professor Anne Burns | Honorary Professor |
| Dr Sabrin Farooqui | Sessional Lecturer and Tutor |
| Mr John Hobson | Lecturer in Indigenous Education; Director, Graduate Indigenous Education Programs Keywords: Australian languages, Indigenous languages education, language revival, Indigenous teacher education, ICT in education. |