Dr Matthew Thomas

Matthew Krehl Edward Thomas (BA [Hons] La Trobe, GCertHELT, GCertAIB Deakin, GDipEd, PhD UniMelb) SFHEA is a Senior Lecturer in Education (Pedagogy and Curriculum) at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. He is the Director of Professional Experience. Matthew lectures in teaching (pedagogy) and curriculum (design) and trains postgraduate researchers. In addition, he works internationally leading humanitarian projects through global immersion programs. He is a former schoolteacher with a background in leadership, strategy, and negotiation. Matthew’s research is focused on enhancing initial teacher education and seeks to critically disrupt dominant power relations by examining the structures of teaching and learning (power, time, social justice) and how these privilege learners unevenly. Central to his work is a commitment to merging theory with practice and enhancing the development of teachers’ pedagogy, inclusion, and human rights. Matthew’s research critiques the systems in which educators are formed and practise and works to enhance teaching practice at a system level, focusing on the development of highly capable, relational teachers for a more equitable society. He co-edited Post-Qualitative Research and Innovative Methodologies (Bloomsbury Academic) and Inclusive Education is a Right, right? (Brill) and has published numerous journal articles. His most recent research explores the intersection of temporality and commodification of personal data.

• Initial Teacher Education
• Sociology of Time & Education
• Human Rights
• Surveillance Capitalism

• Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA)
• British Education Research Association (BERA)
• European Educational Research Association (EERA)
• Victorian Institue of Teaching (VIT)
• Higher Education Academy (HEA)

• Research Methodology & Methods
• Global Experience & Intercultural Understanding
• Pedagogy
• Curriculum

Currently Teaching

• EDX707 - Research Project
• EDX703/4 - Research Paper
• EDX705/6 - Minor Thesis

Previously Taught

• EDX701 - Research Design Development and Method
• EPR783 - Reflecting On Professional Experience
• EPR781 - Planning For Learning In Professional Experience
• EEE751 - Teaching: Promoting Successful Learning
• EEE752 - Planning and assessment with diverse learners

Ask me about?

• Sociology of Time and Education
• Initial Teacher Education
• Human Rights
• Surveillance Capitalism

• Bearman, M. Corrin, L. Taylor, D. Thomas, M.K.E. (2023) Sustainability of teaching and learning innovations in higher education. HERDSA, Brisbane

• Thomas, M. K. E., Downes, N, Johnstone, K. Heyting, E. (2023). Safer Learners Everybody’s business: The case for child safe training in ITE, Deakin University, Waurn Ponds Campus.
   
• Black, R. Garrard, R, Thomas, M.K.E. (2023). Education for Social Justice: Academic resistance in Critical Times, Deakin University, Waurn Ponds Campus.
   
• Thomas, M.K.E. Robertson, N. Mooney, A. (2023). Things we didn’t see coming: How to overcome the crisis in teacher education? Deakin University, Waurn Ponds Campus.
   
• Thomas, M. K. E., & Whitburn, B. (2021). Assessment for Inclusion: Off the clock and just in time What is assessment for inclusion?, Deakin University, Melbourne Campus.

• Thomas, M. K. E., & Whitburn, B. (2019). Risks in TIme to Inclusive Educational Rights Education in an Era of Risk – the Role of Educational Research for the Future, Hamburg, Germany.

• Skourdoumbis, A., Rowolle, S., & Thomas, M. K. E. (2019). Using the Bourdieuian notion of ‘Economism’ to theorize education policy representations of innovation and creativity Educational Research and Educational Policy-Making, Manchester, United Kingdom.
   
• Skourdoumbis, A., & Thomas, M. K. E. (2019). Teaching As Improvisation: New Education Policy Directions Of Pedagogy. Education in an Era of Risk – the Role of Educational Research for the Future, Hamburg, Germany.
   
• Thomas, M. K. E., & Whitburn, B. (2018). TIES: The Inclusive Education Summit, Deakin University, Waterfront Campus.

• Thomas, M. K. E. (2017). The Erosion of the Public: From Romper Stomper to Woof-Woof Summer Institute in Qualitative Research:Putting Theory to Work.
   
• Thomas, M. K. E. (2017). Temporality and Diffraction: Visual Possibilities. Summer Institute in Qualitative Research: Putting Theory to Work, Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom.
   
• Thomas, M. K. E., McKnight, L., & Bellingham, R. (2016). Symposium: In defence of the dark arts: merging theory and method to transfigure education research Australian Association for Research in Education, Melbourne, Australia.

• Thomas, M. K. E. (2016) Left behind: What possibility remains for a pedagogy of insurrection in the current Australian context Australian Association for Research in Education Annual International Conference, AARE, Melbourne, Australia MCG, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
   
• Thomas, M. K. E. (2013). Manufacturing consensus: does pedagogy shape what is common sense? AARE 2013: Shaping Australian Educational Research. Australian Association for Research in Education Annual International Conference, Adelaide.
   
• Thomas, M. K. E. (2011). The Empty Child: The Reproduction Of Culture Through Schooling. AARE Conference 2011, Hobart, Tasmania. 

Websites

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Twitter @whoseprivacy

• Postgraduate Teaching at Deakin 
   
• How to set successful goals in VCE
   
• https://www.abc.net.au/education/socially-created-barriers-to-inclusion-are-what-disable-students/14104632   

• Innovating Teacher Education (ITE)
  Prioritises the co-production of research-informed partnerships and alliances across the eco-systems of educational provision that includes early childhood, school and higher education.

• Being and Becoming Learners (BBL)
  Explores innovative, creative and ethical ways in understanding and engaging diverse learners within early childhood, schooling, home and communities to enhance understanding of the ecologies in which they live, learn and play.

• 2022 Faculty Teaching & Learning Award: Teaching and Learning innovations that inspire.

• 2019 SFHEA Senior Fellow: Global Recognition HEA Fellowship demonstrates a personal and institutional commitment to professionalism in learning and teaching in higher education.
   
• 2017 ESRI REDI inaugural Travelling Fellow: Education and Social Research Institute (ESRI) & Research for Educational Impact (REDI)
   
• 2016 RCA Award: Research Coaching Australia Faculty Award

Current Projects:

• Safer Learners
• Chronopolitics
• Critical Times: Producing the global graduate in a pandemic
• Improving Mentoring in Teacher Education
• Horsham Wimmera Multi-Provider Teaching Academy of Professional Practice
• Innovative ITE intervention to address teacher workforce supply
• Graduate Certificate of Secondary Digital Technologies
• Access Quality Teaching
• Multi-Provider Teaching Academy: A Professional Practice Model for workforce creation in Rural and Regional Victoria
• Global Immersion Experience's for Pre-Service Teachers

Past Projects:

• Study and Pilot testing of a Multi-Provider Teaching Academy & Professional Practice Model for workforce creation in Rural Victoria
• What a difference a school makes: Effective schools serving vulnerable communities
• Global Immersion Experience's for Pre-Service Teachers
• National Exceptional Teaching for Disadvantaged Schools Review: NETDS
• Inclusive education is a Right, right? (Brill)
• The Inclusive Education Summit Conference Committee
• Graduate Teacher Conferences (GTC)
• Higher Education Partnership and Participation Program (HEPPP)
• Twilight Seminar Series: Diversity and Inclusion
• National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education (NCSEHE)
• Melton & Wyndham: Strengthening Connections between School, Young People, Parents and Community.
• Educational Consciousness: Pop Up Schools
• Koorie Inclusive School Wide Positive Behaviour Support (SWPBS)