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Dr. Sharon McDonough

Associate Professor, Teacher Education

Campus

Mt Helen Campus

Biography

Sharon is an internationally recognised researcher in teacher education and teacher development, with a particular focus on teacher wellbeing and teacher resilience. Sharon examines the pedagogy and practice of teacher education, practitioner inquiry as meaningful an authentic professional learning, and how best to prepare teachers for the profession.

She draws on qualitative and creative research methods to examine teacher education, how to develop resilient and mindful educators and educational communities, and how to support and advance a focus on wellbeing across the lifespan in community contexts.

Fields of research

  • Teacher and student wellbeing
  • Teacher education and professional development of educators
  • Continuing and community education

Available for

Professional Comment

HDR Examiner

  • Publications

Inside the game of teacher education: seeing and sharing the troublesome and delightful dimensions of the field

Visualizing data to explore the affective and human dimensions of education research

The Making Academic: Perspectives on Expressive Practice and Wellbeing in Higher Education

Making as Wellbeing: An Autoethnographic Exploration of Academic Maker Identities in Higher Education

Creating Wellbeing: The Role of Making Practices in Academic Contexts

A Call for Change: Creative and Making Practices as Essential Practices to Support Wellbeing and the Transformative Potential of Education Nar

Creatively conventional: visualising data to represent the individual and collective voices of teacher educators