The LLE research group brings together diverse fields of expertise to examine learning and education as a life-wide process across schooling, work, family and community.

Our research

Our research investigates teaching and learning in schools and post-secondary education (VET and higher education); career-long professional learning; and learning in families, communities and social movements. We have strong existing relationships with our research partners and our track record demonstrates impactful outcomes for multiple stakeholders.Our research group is distinctive for its focus on life-wide and life-spanning perspectives. We research how learning and education can produce positive change for young people, professionals, organisations and society, through both individual and collective practices.

Across a diversity of settings and approaches, we share a curiosity about how learning and education can be strengthened and mobilised for positive change.  We are committed to improving learning and also enhancing people’s access to education and its benefits to individuals and society. We don’t just study the nature of learning and investigate critical questions about dominant ideologies and the politics of education, and how education can expand what is possible.

We pursue these goals through close collaboration with industry and communities, and through the rich expertise we bring to the study of learning, education and change. We have expertise in a range of methodological approaches to address questions about pedagogy, curriculum theory and design, technology support learning, innovation, languages, literacies, special and inclusive education, equity and diversity, leadership, professional and everyday practices, social movements, agency, responsibility and policy.  

News updates

Talking Teachers podcast

As Australia’s teacher shortage continues to impact the learning and lives of young people in schools across the nation, a new podcast series by LLE members Jane Hunter and Don Carter promises to unpack the challenges and offer clear solutions to this pressing issue. Talking Teachers explores the root causes of the teacher shortage crisis and offers innovative approaches to address it.

Research Seminars

Prof Margaret Somerville (Western Sydney University) and Dr Sarah Powell (Macquarie University) will present: "Becoming-with fire and rainforest: Emergent curriculum and pedagogies for planetary wellbeing" Thursday 20 April, 1100-1200 AEST.  Register for Somerville & Powell seminar here

 

Contact us

Email:  LLEresearch@uts.edu.au

LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/groups/14024336/