Discipline

Based
Research-
School of
Education
Dr. Andrew Skourdoumbis
(Higher Degree Research
Co-Ordinator)

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 Our Higher Degree Research (HDR) disciplines

• Applied Learning Professional Education and Training

• Arts Education
• Curriculum, Pedagogy and Professional Learning
• Early Childhood
• Education, Leadership, Governance and Policy
• Health and Physical Education
• Humanities
• Inclusive Education
• Language, Literacies and Learning
• Mathematics Education
• Science, Technology and Environmental Education
• TESOL, EAL/D and Languages
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 Number of HDR Students...

We currently have 174 HDR students in

the School of Education
168 PhD students

6 Masters students.

Many of our students are Part – Time;

120 of the students are part – time (all
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of the masters students are p/t).
 Academic Staff

Approximately 100 academic staff

eligible to supervise.

76 Active supervisors.

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 Our Research Centre

REDI-Research for
Educational Development
and Innovation

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 Research Areas

REDI is formed around four distinctive programs that

address key contemporary education issues:
• children, young people and their communities
• curriculum, assessment and digital learning
• education, governance and policy
• science, technology, engineering and mathematics
education.
REDI collaborates in interdisciplinary research that crosses
all sectors: kindergartens, schools, universities, vocational
education and training and community education.

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 We also have CRADLE and CTaLL

Centre for Centre for

Research in Teaching and
Assessment and Learning
Digital Learning Languages

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 Deakin researchers are involved in a number of
innovative education research projects.

Deakin’s Chair in Education Professor Amanda Keddie received a prestigious Fulbright

Senior Scholarship to work with world-renowned gender, relationships and equity
experts in the United States to conduct research into how schools can help change the
story on gendered violence.

Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow Associate Professor Ly Tran led a team
that conducted research on reciprocal intercultural supervision, resulting in the
publication of a series of guides that support three key stakeholders in higher degree
research: international candidates, supervisors and research training managers.

Professor of New Media Education Julian Sefton-Green brought teachers together to

develop strategies to research what the children at their schools did with digital media
at home and with friends. This culminated in the development of the Researching the
Everyday Digital website – a useful resource for all Australian teachers.

A team led by Chair in Science Education and Alfred Deakin Professor Russell Tytler is
working as part of a major national program to increase the study of science and
technology in secondary education. They've developed a trailblazing 'representation
construction'-guided inquiry pedagogy. It's achieving dramatic improvements in
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student performance and influencing science educators around the world.
 Some of our current ‘discipline specific’ PhD
projects

Spatial Reasoning Tasks that Impact on Students' Geometric Reasoning Skills (Maths)
Associations between student emotions and mathematics classroom tasks. (Maths)
Exploring the Dynamics of Ethnolinguistic Identity Reconstruction of the Iranian Migrant Minorities
of Azeri and Kurdish Background with Persians in Australia. (Languages Education)
Spirituality, Religion and the National School Chaplaincy Program. (Curriculum)
Written corrective feedback in second language writing. (Languages Education)
Visualizing the Cosmos - Teaching Cosmology using Art, VR and AR in High School Physics in the era
of Big Data. (Science)
A Critical Exploration of Environmental objectives. (Science)
Implementing Educational Computer Games to improve students' performance in classroom
practice in maths learning. (Maths)
Investigating Primary Pre-Service teachers' change in self-efficacy in teaching numeracy within a
cross disciplinary teaching project. (Maths)
Interculturality in an Australian girls' school. (Humanities)
Children's agency: Exploring early childhood educator-child interactions. (Early Childhood)

9 Understanding Experiences of Cloud Learning in Higher Education. (Adult Learning)

 Areas for more research ‘potential’...

Education policy…specific to ‘School Education’,

Teachers, Curriculum, Assessment.
Curriculum...specific to ‘School Education’.
Maths Education...
Science Education...
Literacy...
Humanities...
Pedagogy ...
Early Childhood...
Inclusive Education...
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