Angela Fitzgerald

• PhD
• Professor (Associate) at University of Southern Queensland

In the current higher education context, performative metrics encourage academics to categorise their work as teaching or research or engagement. While institutional rhetoric often promotes collaborations across disciplinary boundaries and with industry and community groups, bureaucratic structures tend to discourage any straying from familiar disc...

STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) clubs are gaining momentum as a means for engaging students in STEM-related activities. Despite this growth, there have been limited attempts to examine the conditions that inform practice in these informal educational spaces. This paper addresses that gap through a comprehensive literature revie...

[NOTE: This article is open access at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13562517.2020.1769056 . ] * * * * * "Higher education institutions promote interfaculty collaborations in research and education projects, but few studies have examined the challenges of such collaborations. This case study investigates how a heterogeneous interfacu...

In 2007, the Monash-Kings College London International Centre for the Study of Science and Mathematics Curriculum edited a book called The Re-emergence of Values in Science Education. In his review of this book, Derek Hodson (2008) stated, “The book is timely, in that it reflects a discernible shift in the science curriculum in many countries towar...

This chapter seeks to probe the complexities inherent in the notion of values by positioning this work within the context of our experiences and knowledge of the tensions that play out at the UNESCO World Heritage site of Petra situated in Jordan. Petra becomes a case study of sorts with the voices of various stakeholders at this site becoming the...

At a basic level, it makes sense to involve pre-service teachers in school-based experiences (SBE) as a way of preparing them for the teaching profession. Little is known, however, about how SBEs might prepare pre-service teachers as future teachers of particular learning areas. The purpose of this study was to explore the impacts and highlight the...

In 2007, the Monash-Kings College London International Centre for the Study of Science and Mathematics Curriculum edited a book called The Re-emergence of Values in Science Education. This book reflects on how values have been considered since this original publication, particularly in terms of socio-cultural, economic and political factors that ha...

The subculture of science has ‘borders’ that many find difficult to negotiate. These borders become more complex the further understandings of science are from traditional western perspectives. This paper therefore examines the experiences of two western pre-service teachers’ teaching science in a non-western context--the Cook Islands. The lens of...

A guide for pre-service teachers to principles and practice for successful teaching and learning through all stages of schooling. In this ground-breaking book science education is explored as a learning continuum across all years of schooling from Foundation to Year 12. The expert authors, members of Monash University's Science Education Research...

Using identity as a frame, this chapter captures the realities of the author grappling with her own practices in becoming a teacher educator through a series of raw and genuine narratives that draw on professional experience as a context for learning and growth. In the context of this work, professional experience is imagined as school-based experi...

This book takes a fresh look at 'professional experience' in initial teacher education in Australia. Using collaborative narrative methodologies, the authors critically explore the ways in which one faculty of education engages with schools, industry, the teaching profession and government policy to deliver an innovative professional experience pro...

NB:. This is the penultimate proofing draft of the chapter, which eventually appeared in the edited collection, "Re-imagining Professional Experience in Initial Teacher Education: Narratives of Learning." ************************************************ ABSTRACT: This opening chapter is written by the book’s editors. They set out the historical, cu...

Many primary school teachers, when supported by opportunities that assist them to reframe their thinking about the nature of science, appear to demonstrate a capacity to willingly use new perspectives to reconsider science learning and teaching. In particular the need for science to be explored as a human endeavour and the need to generate for stud...

This book presents a collection of research-based narratives exploring the learning of pre-service teachers and teacher educators in a range of international professional experience (IPE) settings. The narratives, based on over 20 years of IPE managed by an Australian faculty of education, capture the lessons learnt from the IPE program from a vari...

From tour guide to travel agent, tourist to traveller—what does conceptualizing who I am in these ways offer in terms of how I make sense of my experiences in leading and learning from the International Professional Experience program? To start with, it captures my imagination. At different times in the past two years, I can clearly envisage myself...

This collection presents a variety of perspectives and experiences of learning about teaching and learning during International Professional Experience (IPE), in a range of global contexts. As such programs are becoming increasingly popular in many universities, it is timely to explore this dimension of teacher education, and the personal and profe...

To help support primary school students to better understand why science matters, teachers must first be supported to teach science in ways that matter. In moving to this point, this paper identifies the dilemmas and tensions primary school teachers face in the teaching of science. The balance is then readdressed through a research-based examinatio...

Evidence is fundamental to the practice of nutrition and dietetics yet few dietitians pursue research as a career path. The aim of this study was to explore elements of undergraduate teaching and learning in nutrition and dietetics that supports research skills development and inspires students to pursue research. This researched formed part of a p...

Cambridge Core - Education, History, Theory - Learning and Teaching Primary Science - by Angela Fitzgerald https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/learning-and-teaching-primary-science/29C305317D24902EA0DAD9FFEC2B62B6

The possibilities inherent in the collection and use of video footage point to an important innovation for classroom research. Unfortunately, researchers often experience uncertainty about incorporating video into their methodological approach as it can present a potential minefield of operational, technical, and ethical issues that require conside...

If the status and quality of science education in schools is to improve, efforts need to be made to better understand the classroom practices of effective science teachers. Teachers are key players in a re-imagining of science education. This book explores how two primary school teachers, identified as effective practitioners, approached science te...