ProfessorAmanda Mooney

In her capacity as Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning), Amanda is a collaborative, values-driven and strategic leader responsible for overseeing faculty-wide teaching and learning initiatives and operations aligned with institutional priorities. She is responsible for innovation, quality assurance, building teaching capability, curriculum and assessment governance and the continuous enhancement of teaching and learning across the Faculty of Arts and Education. As Deputy Chair of the University Teaching and Learning Committee and Chair of the Faculty Curriculum Committee, Amanda brings expertise in curriculum and assessment design, academic governance, policy, and teaching capability to advance faculty and university initiatives that enhance student experience and outcomes.

With a disciplinary background in education, and after nearly a decade as a teacher of Health and Physical Education, VET and Applied Learning in secondary schools, Amanda returned to the tertiary sector in 2007.  Since then, she has been involved in the leadership, design and delivery of initial teacher education and professional studies in education, led assessment reform and practice-based curriculum interventions that span Early Childhood, Primary and Secondary Teacher Education and Higher Education Teaching and Learning.  Amanda has held leadership roles in Deakin’s School of Education as the Associate Head of School (Teaching and Learning), Higher Degrees by Research Coordinator and Course Director that have collectively cultivated expertise in leading curriculum innovation and design, teaching excellence and assessment and feedback practices that support student experiences and graduate outcomes.  Amanda's teaching expertise focuses on pedagogy, curriculum and assessment practices as they relate to teachers' work, particularly for the role they can play in the pursuit of (more) socially just practices in education.

Amanda is a member of the Research for Educational Impact (REDI) strategic research and innovation centre at Deakin University, contributing primarily to the interdisciplinary theme of 'Diversity and Social Justice in Education'.  Amanda's research collectively focuses on addressing issues that constrain socially just practices in health and physical education, sport, schooling and professional education settings and identifying factors that support more inclusive educative practices across a range of settings. This has spanned the contexts of teacher education, elite women's sport, areas of social disadvantage, rurality and regionality to support the health, wellbeing and learning of those experiencing vulnerability.