Awards
Research Interests
A central question that animates my research is: What supports quality teaching? I have applied this question to curriculum-based teaching and learning in schools, my own teaching within initial teacher education, and more broadly to teaching in the academy. I am deeply interested in the scholarship of teaching.
My research coalesces around the practice of teaching and lived experiences of teachers and learners. I have published in relation to teacher development and teacher preparation programmes and systems, practice-focused research in initial teacher education, pre-service teacher identity development as culturally responsive and sustaining teachers, twenty-first century education and development of critical information literacy, curriculum issues and development (with a particular focus on social sciences education), gender relations and ICT.
A major research project I was involved in as a co-investigator was the Teaching and Research Learning Initiative (TLRI) research project titled "Shifting the conceptualisation of knowledge and learning in the integration of the new New 九州影院Curriculum in initial and continuing teacher education." My current research projects relate to practice-oriented assessment in teacher education and exploration of the complexity of teaching.
I am co-director of the Pedagogies of Possibility (PoP) research group.
- Teacher learning
- Curriculum studies and curriculum issues
- Social sciences education
- Gender relations and ICT
- Knowledge and learning
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Recent Publications
- Abbiss J. (2020)听Curriculum in Secondary Education (New Zealand).听Education and Childhood Studies : 1-9.听.
- Abbiss J. and Vanassche E. (2019)听Practice-focused research in initial teacher education.听Oxford Research Encyclopedia: Education : 1-25.听.
- Fickel L. and Abbiss J. (2019)听Supporting secondary pre-service teacher identity development as culturally responsive and sustaining teachers.听FIRE: Forum for International Research in Education 5(2): 138-158.听.
- Fickel LC., Abbiss J., Brown E. and Astall C. (2018)听The Importance of Community Knowledge in Learning to Teach: Foregrounding M膩ori Cultural Knowledge to Support Preservice Teachers' Development of Culturally Responsive Practice.听Peabody Journal of Education 93(3): 285-294.听.
- Abbiss J. (2016)听Critical literacy in support of critical-citizenship education in social studies.听set: Research Information for Teachers 2016(3): 29-35.听.
