ProfessorRussell Tytler

I have had a range of teaching positions, including as a Lecturer in Physics in Australia and Africa, and 10 years as a science teacher and coordinator in a secondary school. I have a strong interest in innovation in science teaching and science teacher education, with a particular focus on supporting reasoning in science, and the generation of authentic settings and inquiry approaches in the teaching and learning of science.

In schools, this led to involvement with the Science Teachers' Association in raising the profile of student investigative projects in the science
curriculum, and in pioneering a negotiated subject on 'issues in science'. I have worked with primary and secondary teachers on a range of research
projects and professional learning projects, and have been involved in system wide curriculum generation and writing in the area of curriculum reform and teacher pedagogy, including the influential monograph "Re-imagining Science Education' .

At Deakin I set up a school based science teacher education approach in which pre-service teachers are responsible for teaching small groups of primary school students as part of the workshop, and reflect on that process. This initiative has been in place for 30 years, and has spawned further work of this kind.

Current interests in promoting innovative teaching and learning in schools through researching with teachers include:
Guided inquiry pedagogies involving students reasoning through constructing representations
Teaching and learning socio-scientific issues
Interdisciplinary STEM approaches
Climate Change education focused on student agency

I am supervisor or associate supervisor for a number of PhD students inscience, mathematics and environmental education and am particularly
interested to work with PhD students in the area of student reasoning andlearning, and pedagogy in science and mathematics, teacher learning, and
climate change education.