Faculty of Arts and Education

School of Education


   Dr. George Aranda

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Position Research Fellow in Science Education
Email george.aranda@deakin.edu.au
Area School of Education Research
Phone +61 3 925 17037
Campus Burwood
Location M1.09
Role and profile Research Fellow
Communications Officer - CREFI, The Australian Educational Researcher
Teaching responsibilities EES101 Science Communication
EES240 Teaching Primary Science
Research interests Science Communication
Representation of Scientists in Popular Culture
Science Education
Use of Narrative in Science Communication
Speculative Fiction
Philosophy in Schools
Current research projects Chief Investigator: Science Book Clubs: A Case Study
Research Fellow:
CLLC: Investigating the impact of professional learning for teachers and their students' learning outcomes.
Equalprime: A Cross-national Study of Teaching and Learning in Primary Science Classrooms
CRISP: Constructing Representations in Science Pedagogy
Qualifications PhD Applied Science, Swinburne University of Technology
BAppSci(Hons)Psychophysiology, Swinburne University of Technology
Memberships Australian Science Communicators
Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE)
Conferences Australian Science Communicators 2012 - Presented: Science Book Clubs: A way to communicate science?

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22nd April 2013