School of Education
Dr Kiprono Langat
Lecturer
BAEd Kenya, MEd (International Ed) (Hons) PhD NE
Kiprono Langat
Bio
A teacher by profession, Kiprono Langat has previously taught in both primary and high schools and at the university in Australia and Kenya . Kiprono is currently a Lecturer in Literacy and Social Studies. Since being awarded MEd (Hons) Class 1 with speciality in International Education (UNE), Kiprono has broadened his research and interest in comparative understandings about teaching and learning in global context. In October 2006, Kiprono received the New England Award which recognises this involvement in the full international experience and the many opportunities available to develop life skills.
Research
Kiprono’s doctoral research focused on psychoanalytic inquiry of teaching pedagogies, specifically, teachers’ reading positions of prescribed classroom texts. The thesis has a direct link to researching and developing education as a public good, in particular the teaching and learning of English language in local and international contexts.
His Class 1 Honours Master’s degree thesis draws on a number of theoretical perspectives from the field of international education but with particular focus on discourses of the current trends in public education contexts. The study is an analysis of discourses of education, poverty and sustainable development in rural and regional areas. The research goes beyond the mere rhetoric of education for all to identify and analyse major discourses and narratives embedded in themes such as ‘partnership’ both nationally and internationally in the formulation of regional educational policies.
Kiprono’s research passions include:
- Rural teacher education and school(ing) practices
- Curriculum area literacies
- International education
- Rethinking social change and sustainability (Indigenous Australian and Kenyan education contexts)
- Refugee studies
Current collaborative research projects
- How do assessment practices within the Faculty of Education support and enhance student learning? - 2008 Innovation in Learning & Teaching Fund.
- Leadership, ethnicity and diversity: Examining school leadership in ethnically diverse schools in regional New South Wales .
Teaching
- Social Studies
- Literacy
- Learning and Professional Development
Professional Engagement
Membership
2007 June CSU Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Committee
2005 Oct Queensland College of Teachers
2004 Oct A ustralia and New Zealand Comparative and International Education Society
2002 May African Studies Association of Australasia & the Pacific
2002 March Australian Literacy Educators’ Association
2001 Jan Board of Directors, Centre for African Postcultural Studies, Nairobi , Kenya .
2000 April Australasia Evaluation Society
Community Service
2007 Feb Collaborate with interagency service providers to ensure improved engagement of newly arrived (humanitarian) migrants in local community, and as part of broader City of Wagga Wagga Social Plan
2007 April Member of Education for Sustainability consortium (with teachers, principals, public and private environmental consultants in Wagga region)
2004 Feb Member of the Online Volunteers, a United Nation’s community engagement initiative