Dr. Gregory Smith

Biography

Dr Greg Smith has had extensive experience teaching school science and managing state-wide science education programmes in Queensland. He has also worked as a Science Educator in Cambridge: Homerton College, Newcastle University, and Loughborough University in the England. Gregory is a Senior Lecturer in Education, and is currently coordinating various undergraduate Science Education units.

Research Interest

Greg’s interest in research is grounded in teaching and learning in primary and secondary classrooms. Such interests include: quality of teaching and learning in schools, based in observable classroom practice that builds on the notions of productive pedagogies authentic pedagogy and professional competence the shape of the Australian Curriculum and the implications for classroom practice students and teachers as cultural workers and border crossers trandisciplinary curriculum discipline knowledge and contextual interrelationships in school curriculum organisation cognitive change and demonstrations of learning Indigenous knowledge and Indigenous perspectives: a place in the Australian curriculum.