Professor Susan Groundwater-Smith - Big fish, little fish : teaching and learning in the middle years

Susan Groundwater-Smith

and

Nicole Mockler

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Susan Groundwater-Smith and Nicole Mockler

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About the editors

Susan Groundwater-Smith is an Honorary Professor in the Faculty of Education and Social Work at the University of Sydney. She is the convenor of the Coalition of Knowledge Building Schools (CKBS), a hybrid collection of schools, government and non-government, mainly located in Sydney, which share a brief in participating in teacher research that incorporates student perspectives on their learning. The Coalition engages with a series of cultural institutions such as the State Library of NSW, Sydney Living Museums and the National Maritime Museum, with young people contributing to exhibition design and evaluation. Much of this work is published in Mockler, N. & Groundwater-Smith, Engaging with Student Voice in Research, Education and Community: Beyond legitimation and guardianship (Springer, 2015). A number of Coalition schools have initiated innovative practices in learning and teaching in the middle years and have informed much of the growing understanding of what is possible in this area. Susan has an ongoing and deep commitment to equity in the provision of schooling and believes that issues in relation to teaching and learning in the middle years relate not only to pedagogy, but also to ideals of social justice.

Nicole Mockler is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at the University of Newcastle. She is a former teacher and school leader, and the current focus of her research and writing is teacher professional identity, teacher professional learning and the politics of education. Her most recent books are Engaging with Student Voice in Research, Education and Community: Beyond legitimation and guardianship (with Susan Groundwater-Smith, Springer 2015), Facilitating Practitioner Research: Developing transformational partnerships (co-authored with Susan Groundwater-Smith, Jane Mitchell, Petra Ponte and Karin Ronnerman, Routledge 2013) and Rethinking Educational Practice Through Reflexive Inquiry (edited with Judyth Sachs, Springer 2011).