Dr Terri Redpath

Terri came to Deakin initially as a  tutor in curriculum and pedagogy and as a Drama teacher in the Arts discipline area. She was appointed to her role as a lecturer at the Warrnambool Campus in 2008. Having taught in secondary schools in both Victoria and Queensland she brings a range of practical skills from her teaching career as a secondary English, Drama, History, EAL and Media teacher and more recently as a school academic mentor (2014-2016) in the DU/TFA programme.

Terri returned to post graduate study initially to gain knowledge and qualifications to assist her  ESL teaching . This study reignited her passion for learning and for research and she is currently enjoying writing up findings arising from the data gathered for her PhD thesis.  

Terri's PhD research  aims to demonstrate the impact of disruptive communicative affordances in teaching and learning contexts, and to signpost paradigmatic principles of learning and teaching suited to future curriculum development in a communicatively connected world.

Since 2013 she has explored the intersections between contemporary communicative strategies and traditional learning modes to demonstrate how place- based communication is experienced, ‘storied’ and understood in contemporary learning places.  

Other main research interests:

Autoethnography

Post-qualitative research

ESL listeners in mainstream educational settings

Reflective Practice

Hand held technologies in teaching spaces

Terri's teaching interests centre around inclusive and innovative ways to engage all learners from early childhood to tertiary level. She has broad experience teaching across various discipline areas at Deakin and this contributes to her cross disciplinary approach 

• Multimodal approaches to teaching and learning 
• The role of listening in learning
• Enhancing  learning through drama and poetry
• Place based teaching and learning
• The role of hand held technologies in education

Units taught 2016-2018

EEE751 Teaching: Promoting Successful Learning (TFA)

ECL410 ECL410 - Literacy Teacher - Researchers In New Times

EEO311  Learners Living In Their World: Humanities Perspectives

Previous Units taught:

EEE307 Creating Effective Learning Environments

EEE308 - Curriculum Assessment and Reporting

EXR 490 Research Design and Development (honours supervision)

ECA 409 Teaching the Arts in primary school-Drama

ECA 410 Arts Eduacation Focussed Study- Drama
ECE 306 Language and Literacy Development
ECE 306 Young Children's Art and Drama
 

Appointed to Deakin in 2008, Terri Redpath has taught across a range of discipline areas, mainly at the Warrnambool Campus.

Having qualified with a BA DipEd at Monash University, she taught Drama, English and History in the secondary school system in both Victoria and Queensland before  developing teaching and research interests in teaching English as an additional language (EAL). While completing a Master's degree in TESOL(2006) she was in charge of a program for secondary level international students in a mainstream setting. Her research interests broadened when teaching at Deakin and she completed an additional research methodology focused Master's degree(2011) culminating in a case study on the impact of technology on the listening behaviour of tertiary students and subsequent changes observed in multi literacies pedagogies.

She is currently enrolled part time in a PhD at the ANU in the School of Politics and International Relations | Research School of Social Sciences | College of Arts & Social Sciences. Her PhD findings from rural place- based learning projects draw on post- qualitative methodologies and link to her interests in technology use in education. 

Deakin Excellence in Team teaching Award 2010- Warrnambool 
Deakin Excellence in Team Teaching Award 2009- Early Years Literacy

Recent Projects:

Techno-historical trails of Peek Whuurong historical sites created by local students ( with Dr Julianne Lynch)

Supporting early years literacy learning with iPods and iPads(with Dr Julianne Lynch)

Listening in the field: exploring the cross- cultural communication affordances of a short stay university study abroad experience