STEME

Science Technology Engineering Mathematics and Environmental Education Research Group

Re-imagining futures in STEME

Re-imagining futures in Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics Education

The Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Environmental Education (STEME) research group operates within a strong and vibrant educational research culture at Deakin, aligned with the Centre for Research for Educational Impact (REDI). Education at Deakin is ranked 5th in Australia and 30th in the world (QS Index).

Our research is intensely practice-focused, engaging with teachers, school and education systems to improve teacher learning and practice, student engagement and capability, and to find solutions for system enhancement.

STEME researchers have been singularly productive with government and industry funding and with Australian Research Council (ARC) grants, and have a history of influence on STEM curriculum and policy at state, national and international levels.

We have a range of innovative professional learning programs for teachers, and an active program at the doctorate and masters level.

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Recent STEME Group Journal Articles

Sawatzki, C. May 18, 2020. Financial literacy programs taught in schools are exposed as value-ridden, flawed & totally inadequate. AARE EduResearch Matters. 

Prain, V., Emery, S., Thomas, D., Lovejoy, V., Farrelly, C., Baxter, L., Blake, D., Deed, C., Edwards, M., Fingland, D., Mooney, A., Muir, T., Swabey, K., Tytler, R., Workman, E., & Zitzlaff, T. (2021). Team Teaching in Large Spaces: Three Case Studies Framed by Relational Agency. Teaching Education. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10476210.2020.1868423

Herbert, S. & Bragg, L. A. (online first, 2020). Factors in a professional learning program to support a Teacher’s growth in mathematical reasoning and its pedagogy. Mathematics Education Research Journal.

Gilbert, A., Hobbs, L., Kenny J., Jones, M., Campbell, C., Chittleborough, G., Herbert, S. & Redman, C. (2020). “I realized that science isn’t scary”: In-service teacher insights regarding science-focused partnerships. School-University Partnerships. 13(1), 22-31.

Lim, K., White, P.J., Long, J., & Shaw, J. (2020). An Inquiry-based Introductory Volumetric Titration Without calculations. Teaching Science. 66(3), 24-30.

Schultz, Madeleine, Lai, Ka Fung, Ferguson, Joseph and Delaney, Seamus 2021, Topics Amenable to a Systems Thinking Approach: Secondary and Tertiary Perspectives, Journal of Chemical Education, vol. 98, no. 10, pp. 3100-3109

The mathematics in STEM is too often ignored or trivialised. We describe how
mathematics can be embedded into three STEM activities, ensuring that the mathematics
is not marginalised.

Herbert, Sandra, & Cripps Clark, John. (2020). Putting the M back into STEM: Lessons from STEM professional development. Australasian Mathematics Education Journal, 2(4), 11-17.

Tytler, R., Prain, V., Aranda, G., Ferguson, J., & Gorur, R. (2019). Drawing to reason and learn in science. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1002/tea.21590

White, P.J., Raphael, J., Hannigan, S., & Cripps Clark, J. (2020). Collaborative Reflective Experience and Practice in Education: A model for a self-study community of practice. Australian Journal of Teacher Education. 45(8).

Palmer, M., White, P.J., & Wooltorton, S. (2018). Embodying our future through collaboration: the change is in the doing. Journal of Environmental Education, 49(4), Special Issue: Gender and Environmental Education 2, 309-317.

Contact Us

If you are interested in contacting us please do. The following people may be the best contacts (email linked to their name). You can also find contact details for all staff in the staff profile pages. Chair in Science Education – Professor Russell Tytler
Science, Technology and Environmental Education Teaching and Research Group
Coordinator – Dr. Seamus Delaney
Mathematics Education Teaching and Research Group
Coordinator – Dr. Jill Brown
Website management – Dr. Peta White