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Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Research Group
Research into teaching and learning has a long and proud tradition in the discipline of education. Recently, it has received important spurs to even higher levels of attention by the emphasis by accreditation and registration bodies in Australia to ensure that undergraduate or pre-service teacher education include a strong element of professional research and practitioner inquiry as a means for teachers to be equipped to pursue lifelong learning. Additionally, more recent focus in the university sector to matters of high quality teaching and learning, the teaching-research nexus and the scholarship of teaching finds welcoming soil in the disciplinary work of education faculties.
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Research Group (SoTL) has interests in a wide range of teaching and learning in the tertiary sector, including:
- Our own pedagogies, including innovation, the use of ICTs, new approaches to assessment
- Tertiary curriculum reform and history
- The project of teacher education
- The politics and policy contexts for teaching and learning in teacher education
- Issues of student learning, through e.g. the professional experience program, problem-based learning, group work, reflective practice
- The development of future directions for Teaching & Learning in education, including the ‘Green teacher’
- Cultural competence
- Learning for graduates in Induction and Continuing education
- Connections to social movements
- Internationalisation/globalisation movements and their implications for teaching and learning in education, including international students, cross-country collaborations
- Teacher education as a contribution to reconciliation
- Research supervision as pedagogy
- Values and ethics in teaching
- Diversity in teaching and learning across different sectors and modes from early childhood, schooling, post-compulsory, adult, VET, popular, activist and community education
Recent studies of research on Australian teacher education, one of the key domains in education schools, suggest that research is fragmentary and incoherent. This research group will attempt to contribute to development and consolidation of high quality research on teaching and learning in the field of education in tertiary settings. The group aims to provide a space for reflection, analysis and critique of current practices with a view to continual improvements to our teaching.
Members
Faye McCallum (Group Leader)Yvonne Zeegers(Deputy Group Leader)
David Badenoch
Marie Brennan
Briony Carter
Cathy Hammond
Clare Hay
Bill Lucas
Denise MacGregor
Jeff Meiners
Anna Rogers
Hannah Soong
Lyn Tonkin
Christy Ward