Dr Ruth Arber

Senior Lecturer in Education (TESOL)
Co-Director Centre for Teaching and Learning Languages (CTaLL)
Director Master of TESOL (Education), Graduate Certificate of TESOL (Education)
 

My research experience and interests has three strands. The first extends my interest in identity and difference in education, its implications for understanding how discourses of race and ethnicity are played out in schools and its consequences for critical and inclusive education. The second applies to my more recent application of this work for the study of internationalization and cosmopolitanism in schools and education systems which are becoming increasingly globalised. The third brings together my long experience as a teacher of English as a second and foreign language and is concerned with the implementation of good teaching practice in diverse contexts worldwide.

Centre for Teaching and Learning Languages
Research for Educational Impact (REDI)
Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE)
American Education Research Association (AERA)
Australian and New Zealand Comparative and International Education Society (ANCZIES)
Australian Council of TESOL Associations (ACTA) Co-editor of TESOL in Context
 

My interest in socio-cultural and critical theory and to a social justice approach underpin my strong commitment to teaching practice.
 

ETL 700 Pedagogy for EAL Classrooms
ETL 701 TESOL Method
ETL 706 Reflective Practice in EAL and Languages Classrooms
ETL 715 Internationalising the Curriculum

Identity and difference

English as an Additional Language or Dialect (EAL/D), Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) and languages pedagogy and practice

Social justice

Globalisation

International education

Race and multiculturalism

Multicultural and intercultural education

Multilingualism

Social cultural theory

Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA)

Weinmann, M., Kanaizumi, R. & Arber, R. (2018). Navigating language, culture and internationalisation: (Re)Orientating English language education in Japan. Paper presented at Colloquium Language ideologies and practices in Asia: Exploring the global East-West dichotomy, at the Sociolinguistics Symposium 22, University of Auckland, 27–30 June.

Weinmann, M. & Arber. R. (2018). Orientating Multilingualism: Navigating Language teacher identities. Paper presented at Symposium Education for Cultural Diversity: International Perspectives on Changing Policy and Curriculum Engagement, American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, New York, 13–17 April 201

Neilsen, R.P. Weinmann, M., & Arber, R. (2018). Navigating the Languages education policy landscape: traversing the gap between contention and practice. Sociolinguistics Symposium 22, Auckland, New Zealand.

2012 - ongoing Assoc. Editor TESOL in Context
2012 Co-Convener 2012 TASA Sociology of Education symposium "Disrupting inequality: What has and what can Sociology of Education do to make a difference?". 2009 Committee Member Victorian Association for Teachers of Multicultural Education (VATME)
2003/4 Secretary, Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) 2004 Melbourne Conference Committee
2003 Reviews Editor, TESOL in Context, Journal of Australian Council of TESOL Associations
1995 2000 Committee Member, Victorian Association for Teachers of Multicultural Education (VATME)
1996/2001 Convener Critical literacy discussion group Faculty of Education, Monash University
1998/2000 Chair, Education Research Community of Staff and Students (ERCSS)

Four online language courses to try in isolation and how to actually commit to your goal. news.com.au. (21 April 2020).

Mandarin now most popular foreign language in Victorian state schools. Sydney Morning Herald. (16 June 2019).

Will more Australians take on the challenge of learning another language? SBS News (radio). (14 November 2018).

Applications open for English Teaching Scholarships. Media release from the Northern Territory Minister for Education. (15 June 2018).

Why learn a language in Australia today? Michiko Weinmann & Ruth Arber: this, Deakin University. (26 September 2017)

This is what we need to do to boost languages learning in Australian schools. AARE EduResearch Matters. (21 November 2016).

Researchers encourage learning a new language for new year. Whitehorse Leader. (4 January 2016).

What should be at the top of your New Year’s resolution list? news.com.au (3 January 2016).

Stereotypes alive and well in classrooms. The Age (October 20, 2008).

2003 Monash Education Alumni Award (Doctoral)
1996/2000 Australian Postgraduate Award

2013 DRG How Melbourne teachers practise Asia literacy: Religious dimensions Neilsen, R; Arber, R; Weinman, M; Kostogriz, A                                                                                                                                             
2013 CRG The Global educator: The implications of teacher mobility on teacher education,policy and practice. Arber, Vongales- macrow

 

2012 - 2015 ARC Linkage Grant
Halse, Prof Christine ; Mansouri, Prof Fethi ; Arrowsmith, A/Prof Colin A; Moss, A/Prof Julianne ; Arber, Dr Ruth E; Denson, Dr Nida ; Priest, Dr Naomi; Webster, Dr Robert S Webster
Intercultural understanding in primary and secondary schools

2009- 2013 ARC Linkage Grant

Prof JA Blackmore; Dr RE Arber; Prof LE Farrell; Prof MT Devlin Investigating mismatches between Australian international graduate destinations and skill shortages

Investigating mismatches between Australian international graduate destinations and skill shortages
2012 DRG
Ruth arber, Athena Vongalies macrow
The global educator: The implications of teacher mobility on teacher education, professionalism and practice.
2012 small grant the manifestion of religious identity and relationships in Australian educational institutions
2009 ARC Linkage Grant

A Prof Alex Kostogriz, Dr R, Arber. Dr Z. Golebiowski
Supporting the English academic literacy of international students: A case study of TESOL program in an Australian University

A/Prof Alex Kostogriz, Dr Ruth Arber, Dr Bernadette Walker-Gibbs, Dr Simone White & Dr Joanne OMara (Mentor: Professor Diane Mayer) The professional practice of beginning teachers: What counts as effective teaching in disadvantaged schools

Professor Jill Blackmore, Professor Di Mayer; Assoc Professor Alex Kostogriz; Dr Ruth Arber; Dr Athena Vongalis-Macrow; Dr Richard Johnson; Dr Andrea Gallant; Dr Dawn Joseph; Dr Jennifer Angwin) Internationalisation, Inclusivity and Knowledge Work

2008 Research development fund
With Rod MacClean
Career change and intercultural English and ESL teachers

With Jill Blackmore Social-cultural impacts of fee-paying International students in Australian secondary schools and their implications for curriculum, policy and practice

2007 Deakin University Central Research Grant (CRG)

Received with Jill Blackmore Central Research Grant (CRG)
Impact of internationalization on secondary schooling and teachers


2005 Deakin University Just missed out Central Research Grant (CRG)
Received Deakin University Central Research Grant (CRG) International students in local Victorian government schools

2003-4 Deakin University - Research Initiative Grant (RIG)
Changing school communities: International students in government