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The Educational Leadership Academic Group Academic Group brings together academics in Educational Leadership from a range of education focused contexts, including early years, primary, secondary and tertiary settings and into adulthood.

Researchers

Researchers in the research group. Showing 8 of 8.

A/Prof Daniela Fimiani Acquaro

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DR Teresa Angelico

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A/Prof Lawrie Drysdale

DR Helen Goode

Prof David Gurr

Prof Pasi Sahlberg

DR Robert Sbaglia

DR Pauline Thompson

Projects

Projects conducted by research group members

Displaying 10 projects from 15 for the research group.

A Next-Generation Approach for Selecting School Leavers for University

2024 - 2029

Active

Understanding the Phenomenon of Permission to Teach (PTT) Teachers in Australian Schools: A Multi Stakeholder Study

2026 - 2027

Active

Sustaining a Viable Teacher Workforce Through Understanding Teachers\2019 Career Pathways.

2025 - 2026

Active

Greater Bendigo, Greater Shepparton, Mildura and Wodonga Placements Plus Programs 2024-2025

2024 - 2026

Active

2024 CEM Ballarat Improving Literacy in Secondary Schools

2024 - 2024

Completed

Greater Shepparton Multi-Provider Teaching Academy of Professional Practice (M-Tapp)

2021 - 2023

Completed

Scholarly Works

Scholarly Works by research group members

Displaying 10 scholarly works from 405 for the research group.

Impact of context-tailored rural teaching placements on preservice teachers’ commitment to teach in a rural area

S Murphy, L Baxter, K Murphy, D Acquaro

Journal article | 2026 | Australian Educational Researcher

A common strategy for jurisdictions confronting teacher shortages in rural schools is to support programs that encourage preservic..

‘We Love Nature and Nature Loves Us’: Children’s Observations on their Relationship with the More-than-Human World

A Harper, T Gray, P Sahlberg

Journal article | 2026 | International Journal of Early Childhood

Open access

Nature play is gaining momentum in primary schools. However, few studies have actively incorporated children’s voices. Even rarer ..

Educational Leaders Making Sense of and Leading Through Turbulent Times

D Gurr, C Hudson, N Jarni

Journal article | 2026 | Education Sciences

This essay describes a leadership domains and capabilities framework and a futures thinking framework that educational leaders can..

Equity in practice: school leaders’ perspectives in Scotland and South Australia

C Senior, P Sahlberg, GC Savage

Journal article | 2026 | School Leadership and Management

Education systems worldwide position equity as a central policy objective, yet its advancement depends heavily on school-level int..

An accidental guru: The making of an education warrior

P Sahlberg

Journal article | 2026 | International Journal of Educational Development

This reflective essay traces the author’s journey from a village school in northern Finland to international roles in educational ..

Educational design research as a form of teacher professional learning: a systematic review

M Liu, D Gurr, R Dunn

Journal article | 2026 | Asia Pacific Education Review

This study examines teacher professional learning (PL) in Educational Design Research (EDR) through a systematic review, integrati..

Understanding the Factors Influencing the Work of Middle Years iSTEM Teacher Leaders

E Stevenson, P Thompson

Journal article | 2025 | International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education

Financial, educational and political imperatives have driven the uptake of integrated science, technology, engineering, mathematic..

Addressing the unnatural divide: why health and education are the necessary foundations of equitable child outcomes

P Sahlberg, A Ojinnaka-Psillakis, SR Goldfeld

Journal article | 2025 | Medical Journal of Australia

The First Future Healthy Countdown 2030 progress report: tracking Australian children and young people’s health and wellbeing to drive accountability

G Frykberg, A Ojinnaka-Psillakis, P Saw, K Kapeke, C Kim, A Furlong, S Maury, AMH Price, PD Sly, T Dee Hawkins, K Muse, P Sahlberg, P Warrilow, FJ Stanley, J Cory, C Wallace, A Valvasori, N Brown, CA Olsson, Y Wang, et al.

Journal article | 2025 | Medical Journal of Australia

What fully funded public schools could do

P Sahlberg, T Cobbold

Journal article | 2025 | Medical Journal of Australia

News

News by research group members

Displaying 5 news articles from 5 for the research group.

Australia’s school funding system is broken. Here’s how to fix it

Glenn Savage, Pasi Sahlberg

As Australian students begin the final term of 2024, governments are in the middle of a bitter standoff over public school funding for next..

October 13, 2024

conversation Article

Students in Melbourne will go back to remote schooling. Here's what we learnt last time and how to make it better

Wee Tiong Seah, Cath Pearn, Daniela Acquaro

On Sunday, Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews announced government school students in prep to Year 10 in metropolitan Melbourne and the Mitch..

July 12, 2020

conversation Article

Being a teacher during COVID-19

Natasha Ziebell, Daniela Acquaro, Wee Tiong Seah, Catherine Pearn

COVID-19 thrust our school communities into a rapid transition to remote learning which affected almost every facet of school-based educati..

July 5, 2020

pursuit Article

The problem with staffing rural schools

Hernan Cuervo, Daniela Acquaro

Encouraging student teachers to complete placements in rural schools as a way to address the chronic shortage of teachers in the bush isn’t..

April 25, 2018

pursuit Article

A new class of teachers

Daniela Acquaro

It’s a hard business. Intellectually demanding, physically exacting, and emotionally full-on. That’s what a new generation of student teach..

September 24, 2015

pursuit Article

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Educational Leadership Academic Group

The Educational Leadership Academic Group Academic Group brings together academics in Educational Leadership from a range of education focused contexts, including early years, primary, secondary and tertiary settings and into adulthood.

Our Research

Researchers

Projects

A Next-Generation Approach for Selecting School Leavers for University

Understanding the Phenomenon of Permission to Teach (PTT) Teachers in Australian Schools: A Multi Stakeholder Study

Sustaining a Viable Teacher Workforce Through Understanding Teachers\2019 Career Pathways.

Greater Bendigo, Greater Shepparton, Mildura and Wodonga Placements Plus Programs 2024-2025

2024 CEM Ballarat Improving Literacy in Secondary Schools

Greater Shepparton Multi-Provider Teaching Academy of Professional Practice (M-Tapp)

2023 CEM Ballarat Improving Literacy in Secondary Schools

Strong Start: Fair Funding of Australian Government Primary Schools

Evaluation of the Teaching and Leadership Practices Across the Flexi Schools

Literacy Across the Curriculum. An Evaluation of Literacy at Parade College.

Scholarly Works

Impact of context-tailored rural teaching placements on preservice teachers’ commitment to teach in a rural area

‘We Love Nature and Nature Loves Us’: Children’s Observations on their Relationship with the More-than-Human World

Educational Leaders Making Sense of and Leading Through Turbulent Times

Equity in practice: school leaders’ perspectives in Scotland and South Australia

An accidental guru: The making of an education warrior

Educational design research as a form of teacher professional learning: a systematic review

Understanding the Factors Influencing the Work of Middle Years iSTEM Teacher Leaders

Addressing the unnatural divide: why health and education are the necessary foundations of equitable child outcomes

The First Future Healthy Countdown 2030 progress report: tracking Australian children and young people’s health and wellbeing to drive accountability

What fully funded public schools could do

News

Australia’s school funding system is broken. Here’s how to fix it

Students in Melbourne will go back to remote schooling. Here's what we learnt last time and how to make it better

Being a teacher during COVID-19

The problem with staffing rural schools

A new class of teachers

Support Our Research

Contact Us