Robyn is Professor of Teacher Education and the Arts and Associate Dean for Academic Programs in the Faculty of Education and Social Work. She lectures in Curriculum, English and Drama, working with both undergraduate and postgraduate students. She is passionate about the role that the Arts can play in learning and has a commitment to innovative teaching and learning at all levels of education. She particularly enjoys working with educators interested in reforming their curriculum practices.
Robyn's teaching, research and extensive publications include a focus on the use of drama strategies with literature to enhance children's English and literacy learning. Teacher education, especially the experiences of early career teachers and the role of mentoring, sustaining curriculum innovation and evaluation, inquiry and case based learning and the use of arts informed inquiry in educational research are also current research interests. Robyn has worked as a mentor at Curl Curl North Primary School for the past fifteen years and is also working in partnership with Sydney Theatre Company on the School Drama project to develop the drama skills of primary teachers. She is also currently a Chief Investigator on a large ARC Linkage Project, TheatreSpace: Accessing the Cultural Conversation with colleagues from the University of South Sydney Griffith University and the University of Melbourne and thirteen major theatre industry partners including Bell Shakespeare, STC and the Sydney Opera House.
Robyn's monograph, The Arts and Australian Education: Realising Potential, was recently released by the Australian Council of Educational Research. She has authored/co-authored four books: Curriculum and Assessment: A Narrative approach Teaching; Challenges and Dilemmas with Susan Groundwater-Smith and Rosie Le Cornu, Beyond the script Take 2: Drama in the classroom with Jennifer Simons and Action Learning in Schools: Reframing Professional Development with Peter Aubusson and Garry Hoban by Routledge. She is editor of Beyond the Reading Wars: Towards a balanced approach to helping children learn to read and Teaching and Communicating: Rethinking Professional Experiences with Tom Lowrie and Joy Higgs.
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