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The Teacher Education Academic Group brings together academics in teacher education 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 12 of 19.

Prof Janet Clinton

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A/Prof Kathryn S. Coleman

DR Helen Cozmescu

MS Nadine Crane

MS Anna Farago

DR Robyn Floyd

DR Jessica Gannaway

DR Sacha Healy

Prof Melitta Hogarth

DR Bree Hurn

A/Prof Marian Mahat

DR Pip Robinson

Projects

Projects conducted by research group members

Displaying 10 projects from 124 for the research group.

Ngarrngga

2026 - 2030

Active

A Next-Generation Approach for Selecting School Leavers for University

2026 - 2029

Active

Supporting Teachers to Co-Design Innovative Learning Environments (Co-Ile) for Promoting Quality, Equity & Inclusion in Primary Education

2024 - 2028

Active

Rethinking Collaborative Federalism in Australian Schooling Policy

2023 - 2028

Active

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

2026 - 2027

Active

Scholarly Works

Scholarly Works by research group members

Displaying 10 scholarly works from 1315 for the research group.

Correction: Capturing learning in context: videos as a research method in school learning environments (Learning Environments Research, (2026), 29, 1, (20), 10.1007/s10984-026-09577-0)

M Mahat, M Lang

Journal article | 2026 | Learning Environments Research

Open access

In this article, the caption to Fig 3 was inadvertently given as “Image of B1 in the Brooklyn” but should have been “Image of B1 i..

Digital Storytelling for hacking the Anthropocene across borders

SWISP Lab, SACHA HEALY, Annamaria Neag, KATHRYN COLEMAN

Media | 2026

Digital artefact from presentation "Digital Storytelling for hacking the Anthropocene across borders" that occured in the symposiu..

Honouring Indigenous Knowledges in a Reformed Education Landscape

Jessica Gannaway, Nadine Crane

Book Chapter | 2026

In the Australian educational landscape, there is an increasing push toward integrating Indigenous knowledges and culturally respo..

Capturing learning in context: videos as a research method in school learning environments

M Mahat, M Lang

Journal article | 2026 | Learning Environments Research

Open access

This paper investigates the use of video as a research method for analysing teaching and learning patterns across diverse educatio..

Right to Innovative Learning Environments: An Ecological–Assemblage Lens

E Heidari, M Mahat, MR Saghafi

Journal article | 2026 | New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies

This narrative review conceptualises Innovative Learning Environments (ILEs) as ecological contexts in becoming, examining their r..

Why does SWISP Lab make collage zines?

SWISP Lab, KATHRYN COLEMAN, SACHA HEALY

Original Creative Work | 2026

8pp pop-and-fold style zine about why SWISP Living Lab makes collage zines with its co-researchers and particpants. This a5 sized ..

Why does SWISP Lab make collage zines?

Kathryn Coleman, Sacha Healy

Original Creative Work | 2026

This 8-page pop-and-fold zine by SWISP Lab explores the creative and pedagogical rationale for making “collage zines” within parti..

Inclusion within innovative learning environments: A new materialist stratigraphy of spatio–political assemblages

E Heidari, M Mahat

Journal article | 2026 | Review of Education

Open access

This conceptual inquiry addresses a gap in research on inclusion within Innovative Learning Environments (ILEs): while ILEs are wi..

Personalising pedagogy: rethinking learning spaces in secondary mathematics education

M Mahat, C Bradbeer, B Ryder, S Walton

Journal article | 2026 | Australian Educational Researcher

This study investigates the implementation of personalised learning in mathematics teaching within a prototype learning space at a..

Voicing Matter / Mattering Voice: A/r/tographic Activisms for Becoming Seen and Heard

KATHRYN COLEMAN

Conference Proceedings | 2026

This workshop, developed for the Seen and Heard 2026 Malta Conference, invites participants into an a/r/tographic studio encounter..

News

News by research group members

Displaying 10 news articles from 47 for the research group.

Victorian teachers are striking again. Money alone won’t get them back to school

Marian Mahat

On Thursday tens of thousands of Victorian public school teachers, principals and education support staff are walking off the job in a 24-h..

July 22, 2026

conversation Article

We still don’t know how to fix the global teacher shortage

Marian Mahat, Toby Greany, Chris Bradbeer

Across the world, education systems are facing the same urgent problem: how to attract and keep teachers in the profession. In Australia, E..

September 2, 2025

pursuit Article

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

There’s a new 10-year plan for Australian schools. But will all states agree to sign on?

Glenn C. Savage

The Albanese government has released details of the next funding agreement for Australian schools. The Better and Fairer Schools Agreeme..

July 31, 2024

conversation Article

Australian teachers shouldn’t be afraid to teach Indigenous Knowledge

Melitta Hogarth

Education does not just impart information; it shapes who we are and who we might be. Since 2010, the Australian Curriculum has included an..

April 18, 2024

pursuit Article

A new report wants more funding and better support for Australian schools. But we need a proper plan for how to get there

Glenn C Savage, Jacob Broom

Federal Education Minister Jason Clare released a major report on schools on Monday. This will inform the next round of federal funding ..

December 11, 2023

conversation Article

Australian uni students are warming to ChatGPT. But they want more clarity on how to use it

Jemma Skeat, Natasha Ziebell

ChatGPT is one year old today. Depending on who you ask, this technology either spells great doom or great opportunity for education. Wi..

November 29, 2023

conversation Article

'Teman belajar' yang memunculkan 'pertanyaan serius': bagaimana mahasiswa sikapi AI pada semester pertamanya pakai ChatGPT

Jemma Skeat, Natasha Ziebell

Saat ChatGPT mulai menuai sorotan pada November tahun lalu, muncul spekulasi yang gencar terkait dampak teknologi ini bagi pengajaran dan p..

July 4, 2023

conversation Article

'A study buddy' that raises 'serious questions': how uni students approached AI in their first semester with ChatGPT

Jemma Skeat, Natasha Ziebell

When ChatGPT burst onto the scene in November last year, there was intense speculation about the implications of this technology for univer..

June 23, 2023

conversation Article

University students are using AI, but not how you think

Natasha Ziebell, Jemma Skeat

There has been intense speculation about the role of generative artificial intelligence (AI) – including Chat GPT and other large language ..

June 22, 2023

pursuit Article

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Teacher Education Academic Group

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

Our Research

Researchers

Projects

Ngarrngga

A Next-Generation Approach for Selecting School Leavers for University

Supporting Teachers to Co-Design Innovative Learning Environments (Co-Ile) for Promoting Quality, Equity & Inclusion in Primary Education

Rethinking Collaborative Federalism in Australian Schooling Policy

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

Designing Learning Spaces for Diversity, Inclusion and Participation

Designing Learning Spaces for Diversity, Inclusion and Participation

Learning With the Land

The Sophia Program: Rethinking Space

Dialogic Interactions of Education Students With Australian Picture Books

Scholarly Works

Correction: Capturing learning in context: videos as a research method in school learning environments (Learning Environments Research, (2026), 29, 1, (20), 10.1007/s10984-026-09577-0)

Digital Storytelling for hacking the Anthropocene across borders

Honouring Indigenous Knowledges in a Reformed Education Landscape

Capturing learning in context: videos as a research method in school learning environments

Right to Innovative Learning Environments: An Ecological–Assemblage Lens

Why does SWISP Lab make collage zines?

Why does SWISP Lab make collage zines?

Inclusion within innovative learning environments: A new materialist stratigraphy of spatio–political assemblages

Personalising pedagogy: rethinking learning spaces in secondary mathematics education

Voicing Matter / Mattering Voice: A/r/tographic Activisms for Becoming Seen and Heard

News

Victorian teachers are striking again. Money alone won’t get them back to school

We still don’t know how to fix the global teacher shortage

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

There’s a new 10-year plan for Australian schools. But will all states agree to sign on?

Australian teachers shouldn’t be afraid to teach Indigenous Knowledge

A new report wants more funding and better support for Australian schools. But we need a proper plan for how to get there

Australian uni students are warming to ChatGPT. But they want more clarity on how to use it

'Teman belajar' yang memunculkan 'pertanyaan serius': bagaimana mahasiswa sikapi AI pada semester pertamanya pakai ChatGPT

'A study buddy' that raises 'serious questions': how uni students approached AI in their first semester with ChatGPT

University students are using AI, but not how you think

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