Professional Practice and Ethics in Education Faculty Research Group

As its name implies, members of this research group have a common interest in exploring the professional practices of educators. We adopt sociocultural and critical perspectives on our subject matter, looking at how practices are socially organized, reproduced and transformed in various institutional contexts of education.  Correspondingly, we draw on multiple disciplinary fields and use a wide range of methodologies (institutional ethnography, narrative inquiry, action research, discourse analysis) to bring into relief the role of social contexts and discourses, embodied experiences and professional identities, knowledge and power in the phenomena we study.  In keeping with the ethos of our orientation, we focus in particular on how things are done or ought to be done (i.e., professional ethics).

Our group has significant experiences and numerous publications in various fields of research, particularly in language and literacy studies, curriculum and pedagogy, studies of professional learning and identity, philosophy and sociology of education.

Group members

Asterisk (*) denotes accredited supervisors

• Scott Webster* (leader)
• Scott Bulfin
• Brenton Doecke*
• Pam Feldman
• Daniella Forster
• Graham Parr*
• Phil Payne*
• Chris Peers*
• Ann Ryan*

Adjunct members

• Trevor Gale - University of South Australia
• Bill Green – Charles Sturt University

Associate members - HDR students

Contact

Mrs Prue Madden
Administrative Officer Research
Ph: +61 3 990 52896
Prue.Madden@education.monash.edu.au

Dr Scott Webster
Senior Lecturer
Ph: +61 3 990 50727
Scott.Webster@Education.monash.edu.au