peter c taylor's r&d group

Web Sites

• Transformative Education Research Group

  • Facilitator: Peter Taylor
  • Facilitator: Emilia Afonso
  • Facilitator: BalChandra Luitel

  

  
  

  This is the Transformative Education Research Group Web site (incorporating 'Cultural Studies of Science & Mathematics Education'), established in 2004 and located at Curtin's Science and Mathematics Education Centre.

• Constructivism (SMEC 706)

  • Facilitator: Peter Taylor

  

  This Doctoral unit enables students to develop an in-depth understanding of constructivist theory. Students explore contemporary constructivist theory and its intersection with critical social theory and postmodernism. This exploration involves reflective thinking about learning during the unit and thinking creatively about practical implications. 

• Projects (SMEC 691, 692, 591, 592)

  • Unit Tutor: Peter Taylor
  • Unit Tutor: Christine Howitt
  • Unit Tutor: BalChandra Luitel
  • Unit Tutor: Paula Joyce
  • Unit Tutor: Darrell Fisher

  

  This Web site provides resources for Masters and Postgraduate Diploma research projects (SMEC 691, 692, 591, 592).
• Curricula (SMEC 612)

  • Unit Tutor: Peter Taylor
  • Facilitator: BalChandra Luitel

  

  This Masters unit challenges taken-for-granted assumptions about curriculum. Students explore how various curriculum images determine their attitudes and beliefs about teaching and learning. Whilst curriculum discourse is often restricted to elaborations on the 'What' and the 'How' of curriculum, we also explore the 'Why' and the 'Who'. The question of Who is the Self that teaches? is explored by use of narrative, envisioning and self-study.
• Socially Response-Able Mathematics Project

  • Unit Tutor: Peter Taylor

    

  
  

  Australian School Innovations in Science, Technology & Mathematics Project (ASISTM) - Bill Atweh & Peter Taylor, SMEC, Curtin University of Technology

• Innovative Educational Research - Universidade Pedagogica

  • Teacher: Peter Taylor
  • Teacher: Rodel Maceda

    
• Rodel Learning Course

  • Teacher: Peter Taylor

  Differential Calculus
• Constructivism (SMEC 706)

  • Teacher: Peter Taylor

  

  This unit enables you to develop an in-depth understanding of constructivism as an epistemological referent with implications for your teaching, learning and research practices. You will explore various aspects of contemporary constructivist theory and their intersection with related theories such as critical social theory and postmodernism. This exploration involvesreflective thinkingabout your learning during this unit and creative thinkingabout practical implications of constructivist theory. 

• Constructivism 2004 (SMEC 706 )

  • Teacher: Peter Taylor

    

  This unit enables you to develop an in-depth understanding of constructivism as an epistemology with implications for your teaching, learning and research practices. You will explore various aspects of constructivist theory and their intersection with related theories such as critical social theory and postmodernism. This exploration involves critical self-reflective thinking. Although the unit doesn't provide practical tips for today's classrooms, it does provide morally powerful ideas for constructing a better future for education.
• SMEC 706 - Constructivism 2003

  • Teacher: Peter Taylor

    

  This unit enables students to develop in-depth understandings of constructivism as a psychology and a philosophy of learning. It explores various aspects of Constructivist theory and its intersection with related theories such as critical theory and postmodernism. At all times, the focus is on the relationship between theory and the practice of learning and teaching.
• SMEC 706 - Constructivism 2002

  • Teacher: Peter Taylor

    

  This unit enables students to develop in-depth understandings of constructivism as a psychology and a philosophy of learning. It explores various aspects of Constructivist theory and its intersection with related theories such as critical theory and postmodernism. At all times, the focus is on the relationship between theory and the practice of learning.
• Masters & PgDip Projects (SMEC 691, 692, 591, 592 )

  • Teacher: Peter Taylor

  

  This web site provides resources for Masters and Postgraduate Diploma research projects (SMEC 691, 692, 591, 592).
• SMEC Postgrad Colloquium

  • Teacher: Peter Taylor

  

  This "course" is to help SMEC postgraduate students to get together and keep in touch.
• Culture Studies of Science & Maths Education

  • Teacher: Peter Taylor

  

  This is the Culture Studies of Science and Mathematics Education Group web site located at Curtin's Science and Mathematics Education Centre. Our group was established in 2004, and is affiliated with the Culture Studies in Science Education International Research Network and the CSSE international journal.

• Transformative Educational Research (TER)

  • Teacher: Peter Taylor

  

  
  

  This web site (under construction) provides a set of resources for anyone interested in my transformative educational research program.

  Peter Taylor

  1 January 2007