Science, Technology and Environmental Education - HDR supervision
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For future HDR supervision, research areas of interest are listed in the individual staff profiles and staff welcome enquiries from prospective research students.
Supervision experience - Staff have recently been involved in supervising research such as the following topics or areas:
PhD topics
- Internationalising the curriculum through the Deakin Global Experience Program: outcomes and influential factors.
- The essential contextuality of Environmental Education: Issues, implications and future directions.
- Teacher Recruitment and Retention in Remote Northern Territory Schools
- Working towards environmental sustainability in Ballan: A case study
Masters topics
- Exploring teacher experiences, attitudes and beliefs about their enactment of an explicit values-based curriculum at a Victorian government primary school”
- The causes of engagement and motivation in the Middle Years of school
- How do Students and Teachers in a Hong Kong Private School Describe a ‘Good Student?
- Creating best practice in Queensland outcomes-based junior secondary mathematics work programs.
- Process, Policy and Practice in Environmental Education
- Technology Education and the ELF from Primary through to Secondary Schooling
Honours topics
- Understanding children’s engagement with environmental sustainability in the early years.
- How do teachers investigate scientific concepts in an Early Childhood environment
HDR topics
- Blended learning in a higher education multicultural environment
- Information Communication Technology in Secondary Science Education in Sri Lanka
- How differences of opinion influence students' capacity to think geographically
Masters topics
- Problem- based Learning enhances student engagement in Secondary School Mathematics Classrooms
PhD topic
- Japanese Lesson Study in the Hume Hub: A school-based innovation for primary science pre-service teacher education
PhD topics
- Primary pre-service teachers’ mathematical content knowledge.
- Factors Influencing Students’ Choice of Mathematics at University.
- Evaluating models of 1:1 implementations within a P-12 School
Master topics
- Integration of Technology in the Secondary English and Humanities Classroom
- An innovative approach to linear functions
Honours topics
- Revealing teaching and learning approaches to science education in early childhood settings
PhD topics
- Roles and experiences of Marine educators in mediating community action and policies to protect coastal and marine environments.
PhD topics
- The Use of Spatial Thinking in the Teaching of Secondary Science
- Teaching Undergraduate Physics: Prospects for Vietnam from Developed Countries’ Experience.
- Adolescents’ action competence through experiencing an international scholastic interchange in the context of climate change.
- (PhD scholarship holder for ARC Discovery Project: Enhancing the quality of Science Learning through a representation-intensive pedagogy).
Master topics
- Perceptions of Student Learning in Informal Settings
- Teachers’ perceptions of Scientific Inquiry and how it can be implemented in the Science Classroom.
PhD topics
- Rethinking Student Agency and School Community
- Partnerships: The Knowledge Producing School
Master topics
- Primary Science Education in a Rural Setting
- Literature review unit Primary technology (Design)
Honours topics
- How children interact with animals in early years environments
PhD topics
- Teaching and learning mathematics and science in a second or third language
- Task-related emotions in mathematics education
- Multi-dimensional assessment of student capabilities in mathematics and science
- Constructing representations in science pedagogy
- Teaching undergraduate physics: Prospects for vietnam from developed countries’ experiences
- Representing and questioning for quality learning in science
- The use of the spatial sciences in the teaching of secondary science
- Ontological possibilities for rethinking teaching of the “nature of science”
- Understanding children’s environmental lifeworlds through visual and conversational narrative
- Reporting large-scale assessment on a single formative-summative scale
- Marine educators: Linking personal commitment, education and public policy
- Adolescent’s action competence in a community and their social network: a case study in education in environmental science, climate change and cultural diversity
- Teacher knowledge in formative assessment: putting it into practice
- The role of science education in reducing violence towards others
- Native English speaking teachers and Taiwanese English teachers’ professional identity
- The role of practical activities in primary school science
- Ontological possibilities for rethinking teaching of the “nature of science”
- English as an international language and teacher professional identity
Research programs available to prospective students
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