Dr Tony Loughland
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BTch(UTS), BEd(Hons)(UTS), PhD(UTS) Program Director, MTeach (primary) |
Email: Phone: +61 2 9351 6341 Fax: +61 2 9351 6307 Building.Room: A35.807 |
Research interests
Educational systems: administration, management and leadership
- Preschool and primary education
Learning sciences; psychology of education
- Assessment and evaluation
Research on teaching and learning
- Learning & teaching in higher education
Keywords
practitioner enquiry, professional learning networks, teacher education, Moodle, mentoring
Professional biography
Tony is the Director of the MTeach (primary) course. His research interests are practitioner research ,teacher professional learning and the use of Web 2.0 applications such as Moodle for these purposes. Tony has worked in a diverse range of teaching, teacher education and professional consultancy positions throughout NSW.
Professional and community roles
International Advisory Panel, Cambridge Journal of Education
North Sydney Demonstration School Advisory Committee
Current projects
- The use of lesson observation as a mentoring strategy
- Using Digital Phenomenography to analyse Student Wikis in Moodles
- Interactive Pedagogies and Critical Literacy for Year 1
- The Impact of Professional Teaching Standards on the Quality of Teacher Education
Current research students
| Project title | Degree | Research student |
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| How does the interplay between knowledge, attitude and behaviour affect the risks facing Australian adolescents on the internet? | PhD | Jace Davies |
Selected publications
Book chapters
- Loughland, T. (2009). Enhancing Communication with Effective Resources. In Ewing, R. Lowrie, T. Higgs, J. (Ed.), Teaching and Communicating. Rethinking Professional Experiences. Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
Journal articles
- Loughland, A. (2007). Philosophical Inquiry as a Pedagogy About Rather than For Sustainability. The Social Educator, 25(2), 24–31.
- Loughland, A, Healey, D. (2004). Two Cubed: A rationale for creating a community of professional learners at Charles Sturt University Dubbo. Education in Rural Australia.
- Loughland, A, Reid, A. (2003). Factors Influencing Young People's Conceptions of Environment.. Environmental Education Research, , 3–19.
- Loughland, A, Walker, K. (2003). The Socio-Cultural Influences on Environmental Understandings of Australian School Students: A Response to Rickinson. Environmental Education Research.
- Loughland, A, Meyenn, B. (2003). Information Technology across the Teacher Education Curriculum: More Claims than Evidence. Change: Transformations in Education.
- Loughland, A, Reid, A, Petocz, P. (2002). Young People's Conception of Environment: A Phenomenographic analysis. Environmental Education Research.
Conference papers
- Loughland, A. (2008). An Exploratory Study of the Pedagogical Use of Moodle to Scaffold Learning in a Senior Secondary Class. In Loughland T Proceedings of the Authentic Assessment Practices for Student Learning Conference (pp. 19–34). Sydney, 16-17 August, 2007.
- Loughland, A. (2004). Dangerous Orbits: Satellite campuses and educational ideologies in Making Spaces. In .
- Loughland, A, Parkes, R. (2004). Backward mapping and the big idea: employing social constructionist theory in curriculum planning in Making Spaces: Regenerating the Profession Conference Proceedings of ATEA annual conference. In Backward mapping and the big idea: employing social constructionist theory in curriculum planning in Making Spaces: Regenerating the Profession Conference Proceedings of ATEA annual conference.
- Loughland, A. (2003). The Importance of Adults¿ Conceptions of the Environment for Education. In Jeffery, Peter AARE 2002 Conference Papers . Brisbane, 1-5 December, 2002.
- Loughland, A, Reid, A. (2003). Language for Practice: becoming explicit about teaching and learning. In Conference Proceedings of the joint International Council on Education for Teaching and Australian Teaching Education Association Conference.
- Loughland, A. (2002). Papers from the Australian Teaching Education Association Annual Conference. In Papers from the Australian Teaching Education Association Annual Conference.
- Loughland, A. (2002). In Quest of Integration: ICT and Pre-Service Teacher Education in Schools in Challenging Futures Conference Proceedings. In In Quest of Integration: ICT and Pre-Service Teacher Education in Schools in Challenging Futures.