All publications

Books

• Mayer, D., Dixon, M., Kline, J., Kostogriz, A., Moss, J., Rowan, L., Walker-Gibbs, B. & White, S. . (2017). Studying the effectiveness of teacher education: Early career teachers in diverse settings. Singapore: Springer.

Book chapters

• Mayer, D. (2019). Knowledge, policy and practice in learning teaching in Australia. In M. T. Tatto & I. Menter (Ed.), Knowledge, Policy and Practice in Teacher Education Bloomsbury: London.
• Mayer, D., Cotton, W. & Simpson, A . (2017). Teacher education in Australia. In George W. Noblit (Ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education Online: Oxford University Press.
• Mayer, D., Allard, A., Moss, J. & Dixon, M. . (2016). Initial Teacher Education and Assessment of Graduates in Australia. In John Chi-Kin Lee & Christopher Day (Ed.), Quality and Change in Teacher Education: Western and Chinese Perspectives (pp. 149–162), Cham: Springer.
• Mayer, D. (2016). Policy driven reforms and the role of teacher educators in professionalising teacher education. In B. De Wever, R. Vanderlinde, M. Tuytens & A. Aelterman (Ed.), Professional Learning in Education - Challenges for Teacher Educators, Teachers and Student Teachers (pp. 23–37), Gent: Academia Press.
• Mayer, D. & Reid, J. (2016). Professionalising Teacher Education: Evolution of a Changing Knowledge and Policy Landscape. In J. Loughran & M. L. Hamilton (Ed.), International Handbook of Teacher Education (Vol. 1) (pp. 453–486), Singapore: Springer.
• Mayer, D. (2013). The continuing 'problem' of teacher education: Policy driven reforms and the role of teacher educators. In X. Zhu & K. Zeichner (Ed.), Preparing teachers for the 21st century (pp. 39–52), Berlin: Springer.
• Mayer, D., Pecheone, R. & Merino, N. (2012). Rethinking teacher education in Australia: The teacher quality reforms. In L. Darling-Hammond & A. Lieberman (Ed.), Teacher Education around the World: Changing policies and practices (pp. 110–129), Abingdon: Routledge.
• Mayer, D. (2011). "But that's the thing; who else is going to teach besides the idealist?" Learning to teach in emotional contexts. In C. Day & J. Chi-Kin Lee (Ed.), New understandings of teacher's work: Emotions and educational change (pp. 137–150), Dordrecht: Springer.

Journal articles

• Stacey, M., Talbot, D., Buchanan, J. & Mayer, D. (in press). The development of an Australian teacher performance assessment: Lessons from the international literature. Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education. DOI:10.1080/1359866X.2019.1669137
• Ell, F., Simpson, A., Mayer, D., McLean Davies, L., Clinton, J. & Dawson, G. (2019). Conceptualising the impact of initial teacher education. Australian Educational Researcher, 46(1), 177–200. DOI:10.1007/s13384-018-0294-7
• Mayer, D. (2019). A positive professional learning culture for retention and success in early career teaching. Impact: Journal of the Chartered College of Teaching, 5(Spring), 53–56.
• Rowan, L., Kline, J. & Mayer, D. (2017). Early career teachers' perceptions of their preparedness to teach "diverse learners": Insights from an Australian research project. Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 42(10), 71–92. DOI:10.14221/ajte.2017v42n10.5
• Mayer, D. . (2015). What is classroom ready? How do we determine it? . Professional Educator.
• Rowan, L., Mayer, D., Kline, J., Kostogriz, A. & Walker-Gibbs, B. . (2015). Investigating the effectiveness of teacher education for early career teachers in diverse settings: The longitudinal research we have to have. Australian Educational Researcher, 42(3), 273–298. DOI:10.1007/s13384-0140163-y
• Mayer, D. . (2014). Forty years of teacher education in Australia: 1974-2014. Journal of Education for Teaching, 40(5), 461–473. DOI:10.1080/02607476.2014.956536
• Mayer, D. (2014). The appropriation of the professionalization agenda in teacher education. Research in Teacher Education, 4(2), 39–44.
• Allard, A., Mayer, D. & Moss, J. (2014). Authentically assessing graduate teaching: Outside and beyond neo-liberal constructs. Australian Educational Researcher, 41(4), 425–443. DOI:10.1007/s13384-013-0140-x
• Mayer, D. . (2013). Policy driven reforms and the role of teacher educators in reframing teacher education in the 21st century. Waikato Journal of Education, 18(1), 7–19.
• Gallant, A. & Mayer, D. (2012). Teacher performance assessment in teacher education: an example in Malaysia. Journal of Education for Teaching, 38(3), 295–307. DOI:10.1080/02607476.2012.668330
• Mayer, D., Mitchell, J., Santoro, N. & White, S. (2011). Teacher educators and 'accidental' careers in academe: An Australian perspective. Journal of Education for Teaching, 37(3), 247–260.

Other

• Mayer, D. (2019). Measuring quality in teacher education: Complexity and finding future research directions (Invited seminar), University of Edinburgh, Scotland. 23 September.
• Mayer, D. (2019). The Connections and Disconnections in Teacher Education Policy, Research and Practice (Inaugural professorial seminar), University of Oxford. 3 June.
• Mayer, D. (2019). Teacher education research, policy and practice: Unravelling the global policy entanglements and finding future research directions (Invited seminar), University of Glasgow, Scotland. 27 June.
• Mayer, D. (2019). Situated professional learning for retention and success in early career teaching, Paper presented at the Association for Teacher Education in Europe (ATEE) Conference, Bath, UK. August.
• Mayer, D. (2019). Retention and success in early career teaching: A situated perspective on learning teaching and doing teaching (Invited keynote lecture), Swedish Research Council conference. Gothenburg, Sweden, 3-4 December.
• Mayer, D. (2019). Alignments and tensions between teacher education research, policy and practice, Paper presented at the International Study Association for Teachers and Teaching (ISATT) 19th Biennial conference, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania. July.
• Mayer, D., Allard, A., Bates, R., Dixon, M., Doecke, B., Kline, J., Kostogriz, A., Moss, J., Rowan, L., Walker-Gibbs, B., et al . (2015). Studying the Effectiveness of Teacher Education - Final Report, November 2015. Geelong, Australia: Deakin University., .
• Mayer, D. (2015). InSights: An approach to the accreditation of initial teacher education programs based on evidence of the impact of learning teaching, May 2015. Melbourne, Australia: Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL)., .
• Mayer, D., Doecke, B., Ho, P., Kline, J., Kostogriz, A., Moss, J., North, S. & Walker-Gibbs, B. . (2013). Longitudinal Teacher Education and Workforce Study (LTEWS): Final report, November 2013. Canberra, Australia: Commonwealth of Australia., .