Education Research

Teaching, Learning & Early Education

The Teaching and Learning group focuses on strengthening engagement in teaching and learning, transforming educational contexts for effective teaching and learning, supporting and empowering learners, educators, families, and other stakeholders, and sharing perspectives on teaching and learning to inform policy and practice.

Specifically, group researchers aim to:

Improve outcomes for learners in across Territory, Northern Australia and near Asian and Pacific neighbours
Promote collective, open enquiry and action that makes a difference in the teaching, learning and living environments for children, families and educators
Strengthen alliances with educators, community and educational stakeholders
Explore the impact of current approaches to teaching and learning and their relevance to acquisition of skills, understandings, knowledges, attitudes, values and identities in learning contexts and communities
Improve patterns of success and inclusion in educational contexts, especially for Indigenous learners
Enrich teaching and learning experiences across contexts, disciplines, and sectors including schools, early childhood centres, and higher education
Enhance the capacity of families, educators and educational communities to impact positively on educational outcomes for learners in a range of contexts
Improve teaching and learning from a research-informed policy and practice base
Make a significant contribution to teaching and learning knowledge bases for Northern Australia
Promote learner inclusion and engagement to improve learning outcomes

Work in the Teaching and Learning group is driven by five key strategic commitments:

Engagement with schools and educational communities to enhance teaching and learning for relevance and quality.
Knowledge and innovation generation for educational improvement.
Capacity building for learners, communities and educational contexts.
Building and sustaining stakeholder collaborations and partnerships for educational and social improvement.
Mobilising teacher, family, community action for learning.

Key areas of research and scholarship

Early childhood education
ESL
Early intervention
Language learning
Literacy learning
Digital technologies in learning
Middle schooling

Education Research

Improve outcomes for learners in across Territory, Northern Australia and near Asian and Pacific neighbours

Promote collective, open enquiry and action that makes a difference in the teaching, learning and living environments for children, families and educators

Strengthen alliances with educators, community and educational stakeholders

Explore the impact of current approaches to teaching and learning and their relevance to acquisition of skills, understandings, knowledges, attitudes, values and identities in learning contexts and communities

Improve patterns of success and inclusion in educational contexts, especially for Indigenous learners

Enrich teaching and learning experiences across contexts, disciplines, and sectors including schools, early childhood centres, and higher education

Enhance the capacity of families, educators and educational communities to impact positively on educational outcomes for learners in a range of contexts

Improve teaching and learning from a research-informed policy and practice base

Make a significant contribution to teaching and learning knowledge bases for Northern Australia

Promote learner inclusion and engagement to improve learning outcomes