Faculty of Education
Research @ CSU
The Faculty of Education at CSU is a steadily growing, vibrant community of inquiry,
with a growing reputation for innovative and high-quality research and scholarship in the fields
of Education, Human Movement and Information Studies. The Faculty is strongly committed to research
and scholarship across all these fields of interest and endeavour, with currently a good mix of
experienced, highly successful senior researchers and early-to-mid career researchers, as well as
a small but growing body of doctoral and postdoctoral researchers. Its work in this regard ranges
from the local and regional through the national to the global, although - given its immediate
geographical location - it has particular interests in and orientations towards New South Wales
and the Murray-Darling Basin. In this regard, it is looking to develop a comprehensive research
program addressed to the challenges and needs of inland Australia.
Accordingly, at a meta-theme level the Faculty has formally agreed to work with the following research foci:
- education for rural-regional sustainability
- professional practice and social change
- A third meta-theme ('Information Culture and Learning') is currently being negotiated.
Within this overarching framework, the research and scholarship of the Faculty ranges from studies in early childhood education and teacher education through vocational education and training (VET), rural schooling and rural (teacher) education, science education, exercise physiology and sports medicine, and media history, librarianship and information management, with a growing interest in curriculum, leadership and policy studies.
An important aspect of the Faculty's developing research culture and concentration is the formation and maintenance of research groupings, or 'Communities of Scholars'. It currently has three such groups in operation, namely 'Research in Vocational Education and Training' (RIVET), 'Subjectivities in Teacher Education' (SITE), and 'Information Literacy and Learning in Different Contexts' (ILLDC). It is also heavily involved in one of the University's three Strategic Research Centres, namely RIPPLE (Research in Professional Practice, Learning and Education - www.edu.au/research/ripple). Among other things, this entails research into professional practice and professional education in fields such as teaching and librarianship.
The Faculty welcomes enquiries about its programs and commitments in research and scholarship, and we actively seek to build collaborative research partnerships with other interested groups.
Further information on the specific research interests and expertise of the Faculty's staff will be available shortly.
Contact:
Professor Bill Green, SubDean Research & Scholarship
Phone: +61 2 6338 4563
Email: bigreen@csu.edu.au