Dr. Luiza Lana Goncalves
Senior Lecturer, Health and Physical Education
Campus
Biography
Dr. Luiza Gonçalves is a Lecturer in Health and Physical Education in the IEAC at Federation University Australia. As an early career researcher she develops projects addressing teachers’ professional development and collaborative practices in education. Luiza accomplished her PhD in 2019 at University of São Paulo, Brazil with an internship at University of Limerick, Ireland. In the same year, she was the recipient of the AIESEP developing countries scholar award. Currently, Luiza has focused her work on collaborative practices in disadvantaged schools and the internationalisation of research. She publishes her work in high-quality Q1 journals in partnership with international scholars. Luiza serves as a member of the Editorial Board of the IJKHE - Taylor and Francis and as a reviewer of diverse academic journals in Health and Physical Education. Luiza’s work with professional development and collaborative practices can be organised into different categories:
- School-university partnerships in Health and Physical Education.
- Democratic practices in higher education.
- Learning communities as a strategy for teachers’ professional development.
- Internationalisation of Research
Fields of research
- Physical education and development curriculum and pedagogy
- Teacher education and professional development of educators
- Higher education
- Publications
Physical education in rural schools: A scoping review
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1177/1356336X251334547
Becoming activist teacher educators: The learning journeys of two physical education cooperating teachers in a school - university partnership
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1177/1356336X251333970