Faculty of Arts and Education

School of Education


   Dr. Gail Chittleborough

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Position Senior Lecturer
Email gail.chittleborough@deakin.edu.au
Area School of Education
Phone +61 3 924 43830
Campus Burwood
Location M M1.12
Role and profile Senior Lecturer
Active Researcher
Teaching responsibilities EES240 Primary Science Education 1 Unit Chair
EES340 Primary Science Education 2 Tutor
ESJ460/760 Studies in Curriculum (Senior Chemistry) Unit Chair
EXE740 Independent Reading Study Unit Chair
ESE499 The Independent Project Tutor
Masters Supervision
Doctoral Supervision
Research interests Models and modelling in science education
ICT in science education
The role of chemical representations in learning chemistry
Pre-service teacher education
Current research projects OLT 2013-2014 School-based pedagogies and partnerships in primary science
teacher education led by Dr Linda Hobbs,
and Dr Coral Campbell Deakin University Waurn Ponds campus, Dr Gail
Chittleborough Deakin University Burwood
campus, Dr Sandra Herbert Deakin University Warrnambool campus, Dr John
Kenny The University of Tasmania, Dr Mellita
Jones - ACU Ballarat campus, Dr Christine Redman - the University of
Melbourne, Dr Jeffrey King (RMIT University)

ARC Discovery Grant 2012-2014 Enhancing the Quality of Science Learning
through a Representation-intensive Pedagogy
Principal Researcher: Professor Russell Tytler (Deakin University) Associate
Researcher(s): Professor Prain Vaughan (La
Trobe University),Associate Professor Garry Hoban (University of Wollongong),
Professor Peter Aubusson (University of
Technology, Sydney), Dr Peter Hubber (Deakin University), and Dr.Gail
Chittleborough (Deakin University)

ARC Discovery Grant 2011-2013 Exploring quality primary education in different
cultures: a cross-national study of
teaching and learning in primary science classrooms EQUALPRIME
Team: Prof Russell Tytler, Prof Mark W Hackling, Dr Peter J Hubber, Dr Gail D
Chittleborough, Dr Karen J Murcia, Prof Dr Joerg Ramseger, Prof Hsiao-Lan S
Chen, Prof Chao-Ti J Hsiung.

Small Teaching and Learning Grant - 2010 Faculty of Arts and Education An
exploration of the use of new video
technologies in school partnership settings, to enhance science teacher education
practices
Service to the University,
discipline or community  		 Academic Progress and Discipline Committee member
Editorial Board of reviewers for International Journal of Science Education (IJSE)
(since 24/9/01)
Associate Editor of Australian Education Researcher AER
Reviewer for Science SIG AERA conference
Qualifications BA Dip Ed (Macq)
Dip Comp Ed (Melb)
PhD(Curtin)
Grad Cert Higher Education (Deakin)
Memberships
ASERA
STAV
Conferences ASERA
ESERA
Research link View Deakin associated research data
Additional URLs

EQUALPRIME

Switched on secondary science

CRISP- Enhancing the Quality of Science Learning through a Representation-intensive Pedagogy

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22nd April 2013