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Welcome to the School of Teaching, Learning and Development
The School of Teaching, Learning and Development’s focus is on education and advancing scholarship in this field. We are interconnected as faculty in our engagement with such questions as: What is learning? How do we learn? How do we create, enhance, and provoke learning? How do we teach? How do we know learning has occurred? What do we do with this learning? How does the social context influence our teaching? How do we question our learning and actions?
Our engagement also includes key developmental questions that examine child, adolescent, adult and professional development, for example: How does developmental change occur? How does the social context shape development? How can we use research to optimise children’s and teachers’ development?
The courses that you participate in will address some of these questions. We anticipate that you will be challenged, inspired and learn from your engagement with our dynamic and diverse teaching and research community.
Our local, national and international reputation is evidenced through the work of more than fifty academic staff who contribute to our teaching, research and contract leadership. Our teaching and course design demonstrate innovation through the use of multimodal pedagogies and a commitment to creating a vibrant learning community.
Academic staff make significant contributions to teaching and supervision in professional teacher education and liberal arts programmes at undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral levels. In addition, we contribute to social work, human services, special education, leadership and management along with other programmes across the Arts and Science Faculties.
Much of our research focuses on real world problems investigating issues identified in our communities. A number of our academic staff lead contracts that have a substantive impact, e.g. asTTle, Starpath, First-time Principals.
We are responsive to our students and professional communities and take our responsibility seriously to build positive relationships, disseminate research and foster debate that will benefit society.
Importantly, we are committed to celebrating successes that arise from our endeavours. This success is facilitated by our capable administrative staff.
Find out who we are and what we do by exploring this website.
Ka kite ano
Dr Frances Langdon
Head of School
School of Teaching Learning and Development
