Emeritus Professor Wayne Sawyer

Emeritus Professor Wayne Sawyer

Casual Consultant/Advisor - HSC Project,
Professional Team, School of Education

Emeritus Professor,
Dean's Unit, School of Education

Biography

Wayne Sawyer's research interests include secondary English curriculum, literacy policy, developing teachers as researchers and effective teaching, particularly in low SES communities.

As part of larger teams, Prof Sawyer has carried out case study-based projects on effective teaching in the NSW HSC, effective teaching in Years 7-10, effective teaching in relation to boys’ education and the engagement of students from low SES backgrounds. He is a former President of the NSW English Teachers’ Association, a former editor of the journal, English in Australia and a former Chair of the NSW Board of Studies English Curriculum Committee. He has produced research reports for the NSW Board of Studies and the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (co-authored) on major reviews of English curriculum in those states.

He has authored or edited many books for audiences of both school teachers and academics. Recent books include:

 McLean Davies, L., Doecke, B., Mead, P., Sawyer, W. and Yates, L. (2023), Literary Knowing and the Making of English Teachers: The Role of Literature in Shaping English Teachers' Professional Knowledge and Identities London and New York: Routledge.

Goodwyn, A., Manuel. J., Roberts, R.l, Scherff, L., Sawyer, W., Durrant, C. and Zancanella, D. (eds) (2023) International Perspectives on English Teacher Development: From Initial Teacher Education to Highly Accomplished Professional  London and New York: Routledge.

Goodwyn, A., Durrant, C., Sawyer, W., Scherff, L. and Zancanella, D. (eds) (2019) The Future of English Teaching Worldwide: Celebrating 50 years from the Dartmouth Conference, London and New York: Routledge.

Sawyer, W. (ed) (2019) Charged with Meaning: Becoming an English Teacher Sydney: Phoenix Education 

Gannon, S., Hattam, R. and Sawyer, W. (eds) (2018) Resisting Educational Inequality: Reframing Policy and Practice in Schools Serving Vulnerable Communities London and New York: Routledge.

Sawyer, W., Munns, G., Zammit, K., Attard,C.,Vass, E. and Hatton, C. (2018) Engaging Schooling : Developing Exemplary Education for Students in Poverty. London and New York: Routledge. 

Munns, G., Sawyer, W. Cole, B. & Fair Go Team ( 2013) Exemplary Teachers of Students in Poverty. London and New York: Routledge.

His awards include:

  • International Federation for the Teaching of English Award for 'an internationally distinguished contribution to scholarship in the field of English in education’
  • Australian Professional Teacher Associations Award for Meritorious Contribution to the Profession;
  • Australian Learning and Teaching Council Award for Teaching Excellence in the Social Sciences;
  • Honorary Life Member, NSW English Teachers’ Association;
  • Honorary Life Member, Australian Association for the Teaching of English;
  • NSW Professional Teachers’ Council Award for Outstanding Service to Professional Associations;
  • NSW Institute of Educational Research Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis;
  • NSW Minister for Education and Training and Australian College of Education Quality Teaching Award for University Teaching

This information has been contributed by Emeritus Professor Sawyer.

Qualifications

  • PhD University of Western Sydney
  • MA University of Sydney
  • MEd University of Sydney
  • DipEd University of Sydney
  • BA University of Sydney

Professional Memberships

  • International Association for Research in L1 Education (1999)
  • NSW English Teachers Association, Honorary Life Member (1990)
  • Australian Association for the Teaching of English, Honorary Life Member (1990)

Organisational Unit (School / Division)

  • Professional Team, School of Education
  • Dean's Unit, School of Education

Contact

Email: W.Sawyer@westernsydney.edu.au
Phone: (02) 47360 795
Mobile:
Location: K.2.27
Penrith (Kingswood)

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Publications

Books

  • McLean Davies, L., Doecke, B., Mead, P., Sawyer, W. and Yates, L. (2023), 'Literary Knowing and the Making of English Teachers: The Role of Literature in Shaping English Teachers' Professional Knowledge and Identities', : Routledge 9780367618636.
  • Goodwyn, A., Durrant, C., Sawyer, W., Scherff, L. and Zancanella, D. (2019), 'The Future of English Teaching Worldwide: Celebrating 50 Years from the Dartmouth Conference', : Routledge 9781138495210.
  • Sawyer, W., Munns, G., Zammit, K., Attard, C., Vass, E. and Hatton, C. (2018), 'Engaging Schooling: Developing Exemplary Education for Students in Poverty', : Routledge 9781138673519.
  • Gannon, S., Hattam, R. and Sawyer, W. (2018), 'Resisting Educational Inequality: Reframing Policy and Practice in Schools Serving Vulnerable Communities', : Routledge 9781138089303.
  • Sawyer, W., Brock, P. and Baxter, D. (2007), 'Exceptional outcomes in ESL/literacy education: Findings from AESOP', : Post Pressed 9781921214127.
  • Sawyer, W., Baxter, D. and Brock, P. (2007), 'Exceptional outcomes in English education: Findings from AESOP', : Post Pressed 9781921214097.
  • Belanger, J. and Sawyer, W. (2006), 'Investigating Language', : Phoenix Education 1876580836.
  • Sawyer, W. (2006), 'Shakespeare's world : Teacher Resource Book', : Phoenix Education 1921085126.

Chapters in Books

  • McLean Davies, L. and Sawyer, W. (2023), 'Knowledge, making and English teachers', Literary Knowing and the Making of English Teachers: The Role of Literature in Shaping English Teachers' Professional Knowledge and Identities, Routledge 9780367618636.
  • McLean Davies, L., Doecke, B., Mead, P., Sawyer, W. and Yates, L. (2023), 'Narratives, insights and next steps for questions of literary knowledge and English teaching', Literary Knowing and the Making of English Teachers: The Role of Literature in Shaping English Teachers' Professional Knowledge and Identities, Routledge 9780367618636.
  • Sawyer, W. (2023), 'Knowing and making : classroom curriculum and pedagogy', Literary Knowing and the Making of English Teachers: The Role of Literature in Shaping English Teachers' Professional Knowledge and Identities, Routledge 9780367618636.
  • McLean Davies, L. and Sawyer, W. (2023), 'Literary knowledge debates', Literary Knowing and the Making of English Teachers: The Role of Literature in Shaping English Teachers' Professional Knowledge and Identities, Routledge 9780367618636.
  • Doecke, B., McLean Davies, L., Mead, P., Sawyer, W. and Yates, L. (2023), 'Autobiographies of the question', Literary Knowing and the Making of English Teachers: The Role of Literature in Shaping English Teachers' Professional Knowledge and Identities, Routledge 9780367618636.
  • Sawyer, W. (2023), 'Literature and literacy : the ever-varying constants', Literary Knowing and the Making of English Teachers: The Role of Literature in Shaping English Teachers' Professional Knowledge and Identities, Routledge 9780367618636.
  • Sawyer, W., Manuel, J. and Durrant, C. (2023), 'Balancing intervention and agency : reform agendas and innovations in initial teacher education in Australia', International Perspectives on English Teacher Development: From Initial Teacher Education to Highly Accomplished Professional, Routledge 9780367766900.
  • Sawyer, W., MaLean Davies, L. and Mead, P. (2023), 'Literature, university education and the making of English teachers', International Perspectives on English Teacher Development: From Initial Teacher Education to Highly Accomplished Professional, Routledge 9780367766900.
  • Sawyer, W. (2023), 'Expert English teachers as/in groups', International Perspectives on English Teacher Development: From Initial Teacher Education to Highly Accomplished Professional, Routledge 9780367766900.
  • McLean Davies, L., Yates, L. and Sawyer, W. (2022), 'Investigating literature as knowledge in school English', International Perspectives on Knowledge and Quality: Implications for Innovation in Teacher Education Policy and Practice, Bloomsbury Academic 9781350178403.
  • McLean Davies, L. and Sawyer, W. (2020), 'On being 'well read'', Bloomsbury Handbook of Reading Perspectives and Practices, Bloomsbury Academic 9781350137561.
  • Sawyer, W. and Durrant, C. (2019), 'Dartmouth and personal growth in Australia : the New South Wales and Western Australian curricula of the 1970s', The Future of English Teaching Worldwide: Celebrating 50 Years from the Dartmouth Conference, Routledge 9781138495210.
  • Sawyer, W. (2019), 'Growth through English and The Uses of English : literature, knowledge and experience', The Future of English Teaching Worldwide: Celebrating 50 Years from the Dartmouth Conference, Routledge 9781138495210.
  • Sawyer, W. and Munns, G. (2019), 'Alternative messages of hope : pedagogies, consensus and a fairer go', Confronting Educational Policy in Neoliberal Times: International Perspectives, Routledge 9781138556157.
  • Doecke, B., McLean Davies, L. and Sawyer, W. (2018), 'Blowing and blundering in space : English in the Australian curriculum', The Australian Curriculum: Promises, Problems and Possibilities, Australian Curriculum Studies Association 9781875864775.
  • Gannon, S., Hattam, R. and Sawyer, W. (2018), 'Researching educational sites serving 'disadvantaged' (sub)urban communities : reframing policy and practice', Resisting Educational Inequality: Reframing Policy and Practice in Schools Serving Vulnerable Communities, Routledge 9781138089303.
  • Zammit, K. and Sawyer, W. (2018), 'Teacher development through collaborative research in low SES contexts : a tale of two schools', Resisting Educational Inequality: Reframing Policy and Practice in Schools Serving Vulnerable Communities, Routledge 9781138089303.
  • Hattam, R., Sawyer, W. and Gannon, S. (2018), 'Reclaiming educational equality : towards a manifesto', Resisting Educational Inequality: Reframing Policy and Practice in Schools Serving Vulnerable Communities, Routledge 9781138089303.
  • Gannon, S. and Sawyer, W. (2015), 'Literacy, literature and moral panic in Australia', International Handbook of Progressive Education, Peter Lang 9781433128752.
  • Sawyer, W. (2014), 'English teachers, low SES students and intellectual challenge : cases from Australia', International Perspectives on Teaching English in a Globalised World, Routledge 9780415504461.
  • Sawyer, W. (2014), 'Polic(y)ing creativity', Language and Creativity in Contemporary English Classrooms, Phoenix Education 9781921586873.
  • Doecke, B., Parr, G. and Sawyer, W. (2014), 'Stepping from the known to the unknown : rethinking creativity in English classroms', Language and Creativity in Contemporary English Classrooms, Phoenix Education 9781921586873.
  • Mayes, E. and Sawyer, W. (2014), 'Teachers for a Fair Go : the teacher as researcher in low SES contexts', Contemporary Issues of Equity in Education, Cambridge Scholars Publishing 9781443863322.
  • Sawyer, W. (2014), 'Teachers for a Fair Go', Contemporary Issues of Equity in Education, Cambridge Scholars Publishing 9781443863322.
  • Sawyer, W., Callow, J., Munns, G. and Zammit, K. (2013), 'What exemplary teachers do', Exemplary Teachers of Students in Poverty: The Fair Go Team, Routledge 9780415531566.
  • Orlando, J. and Sawyer, W. (2013), 'A fair go in education ', Exemplary Teachers of Students in Poverty, Routledge 9780415531566.
  • Munns, G. and Sawyer, W. (2013), 'Student engagement : the research methodology and the theory', Exemplary Teachers of Students in Poverty, Routledge 9780415531566.
  • Arthur, L., Callow, J., Cole, B., Gilbert, S., Hatton, C., Hertzberg, M., Mooney, M., Munns, G., Nanlohy, P., Orlando, J., Pares, L., Power, A., Sawyer, W., Vozzo, L. and Zammit, K. (2013), 'A new Monday morning and beyond', Exemplary Teachers of Students in Poverty, Routledge 9780415531566.
  • Sawyer, W. (2013), 'Literacy in English', Literacy Across the Curriculum, Common Ground Research Networks 9781612291420.
  • Sawyer, W. (2012), 'English in the national curriculum : what knowledge?', The Australian Curriculum : Observations of a Journey : a Critique of Phase 1 Learning Areas and General Capabilities, Australian Curriculum Studies Association 9781875864966.
  • Munns, G., Arthur, L., Hertzberg, M., Sawyer, W. and Zammit, K. (2012), 'A fair go for students in poverty : Australia', Changing Schools: Alternative Ways to Make a World of Difference, Routledge 9780415558600.
  • Sawyer, W. and Howie, M. (2011), 'Literature teaching in The Australian Curriculum: Retaining key pratices', Creating an Australian Curriculum for English: National Agendas, Local Contexts, Phoenix Education 9781921586538.
  • Sawyer, W. (2011), 'Grammar, Standard Australian English and the Australian Curriculum: English: What could principled implementation look like?', Creating an Australian Curriculum for English: National Agendas, Local Contexts, Phoenix Education 9781921586538.
  • Sawyer, W. (2010), 'English in Australia and New Zealand', The Routledge International Handbook of English Language and Literacy Teaching, Routledge 9780415469036.
  • Gannon, S., Howie, M. and Sawyer, W. (2009), 'Charged with Meaning', Charged with Meaning: Reviewing English, Phoenix Education 9781921586187.
  • Sawyer, W. (2009), 'The Growth Model of English', Charged with Meaning: Reviewing English, Phoenix Education 9781921586187.
  • Sawyer, W. and Watson, K. (2009), 'Teaching Shakespeare today: An introduction', Charged with Meaning: Reviewing English, Phoenix Education 9781921586187.
  • Sawyer, W. (2009), 'Applications - Further Classroom Resources: Poetry', Charged with Meaning: Reviewing English, Phoenix Education 9781921586187.
  • Sawyer, W. (2009), 'Applications: Shakespeare', Charged with Meaning: Reviewing English, Phoenix Education 9781921586187.
  • Sawyer, W. (2009), 'Further Applications: Writing', Charged with Meaning: Reviewing English, Phoenix Education 9781921586187.
  • Manuel, J., Brock, P., Sawyer, W. and Carter, D. (2009), ''What is within becomes what is around': Imagination, Innovation, Creativity', Imagination, Innovation, Creativity: Re-Visioning English in Education, Phoenix Education 9781921586194.
  • Sawyer, W. (2009), 'Language and literature: Revisiting some defining moments in the history of English', Imagination, Innovation, Creativity: Re-Visioning English in Education, Phoenix Education 9781921586194.
  • Sawyer, W. (2009), 'Knowledge about language' and grammar', Charged with Meaning: Reviewing English, Phoenix Education 9781921586187.
  • Doecke, B., Howie, M. and Sawyer, W. (2006), 'The Present Moment', Only connect : English teaching, schooling and community, Wakefield Press 1862546983.
  • Doecke, B., Howie, M. and Sawyer, W. (2006), 'Starting Points', Only connect : English teaching, schooling and community, Wakefield Press 1862546983.
  • Sawyer, W. (2006), 'Just add 'Progressivism' and Stir: How We Cook Up Literacy Crises in Australia', Only connect : English teaching, schooling and community, Wakefield Press 1862546983.
  • Sawyer, W. (2005), 'Becoming a new new critic', Writing=learning, AATE and Wakefield Press 1862916770.
  • Sawyer, W. (2004), 'Seminal books on English teaching', Reviewing English in the 21st Century, Phoenix Education 1876580410.
  • Sawyer, W. (2004), 'Writing practices', Reviewing English in the 21st Century, Phoenix Education 1876580410.
  • Thomson, J., Sawyer, W., Mitchell, D., Watson, K. and Gold, E. (2004), 'Literature practices: Approaches to Poetry', Reviewing English in the 21st Century, Phoenix Press 1876580410.
  • Sawyer, W. and Watson, K. (2004), 'The revolution in the teaching of Shakespeare', Reviewing English in the 21st Century, Phoenix Education 1876580410.
  • Sawyer, W., Watson, K., Sharpe, T. and Thompson, J. (2004), 'Language in schools - some questions and answers', Reviewing English in the 21st Century, Phoenix Education 1876580410.
  • Sawyer, W. (2003), 'Seven Up', Big screen, small sceen, St Clair Press 1876757108.

Journal Articles

  • Sawyer, W. (2023), 'Reading publics and a curriculum in literature', Curriculum Journal, vol 34, no 2 , pp 231 - 247.
  • Green, B., Sawyer, W. and Roberts, P. (2023), 'Dividing practices : senior English and social inequality in New South Wales', The Australian Educational Researcher, vol 50, no 5 , pp 1379 - 1400.
  • Sawyer, W. and McLean Davies, L. (2021), 'What do we want students to know from being taught a poem?', Changing English, vol 28, no 1 , pp 103 - 117.
  • McLean Davies, L., Bode, K., Martin, S. and Sawyer, W. (2020), 'Reading in the (post)digital age : large databases and the future of literature in secondary English classrooms', English in Education, vol 54, no 3 , pp 299 - 315.
  • Yates, L., McLean Davies, L., Buzacott, L., Doecke, B., Mead, P. and Sawyer, W. (2019), 'School English, literature and the knowledge-base question', The Curriculum Journal, vol 30, no 1 , pp 51 - 68.
  • McLean Davies, L. and Sawyer, W. (2018), '(K)now you see it, (k) now you don't : literary knowledge in the Australian Curriculum : English', Journal of Curriculum Studies, vol 50, no 6 , pp 836 - 849.
  • Sawyer, W. (2017), 'Low SES contexts and English [Garth Boomer Address 2017]', English in Australia, vol 52, no 3 , pp 11 - 20.
  • Sawyer, W. (2016), 'The grammar of memory', Changing English, vol 23, no 2 , pp 158 - 171.
  • Sawyer, W. (2016), 'Peter Medway : of his time?', English Teaching: Practice and Critique, vol 15, no 1 , pp 22 - 39.
  • Sawyer, W., McLean Davies, L., Gannon, S. and Dowsett, P. (2016), 'Mid-Atlantic crossings : some texts that emerged from Dartmouth', English in Australia, vol 51, no 3 , pp 40 - 51.
  • Sawyer, W. (2015), 'Challenge, community and a fair go', Scan, vol 34, no 2 , pp 29 - 36.
  • Williams, C., Gannon, S. and Sawyer, W. (2013), 'A genealogy of the 'future' : antipodean trajectories and travels of the '21st century learner'', Journal of Education Policy, vol 28, no 6 , pp 792 - 806.
  • Sawyer, W. (2013), 'A timely voice : Garth Boomer on literature', English in Australia, vol 48, no 3 , pp 27 - 39.
  • Sawyer, W. (2010), 'Structuring the new English in Australia : James Moffett and English teaching in New South Wales', Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, vol 17, no 3 , pp 285 - 296.
  • Green, B., Sawyer, W. and Burgess, T. (2010), 'Re-Reading James Moffett', Changing English: Studies in culture and education, vol 17, no 3 , pp 237 - 240.
  • Sawyer, W. (2010), 'English in the national curriculum: What knowledge?', Curriculum perspectives, vol 30, no 3 , pp 50 - 52.
  • Sawyer, W. (2010), 'Writing (in) the nation', English in Australia, vol 45, no 2 , pp 7 - 20.
  • Arthur, L. and Sawyer, W. (2009), 'Robust hope, democracy and early childhood education', Early Years. An International Journal of Research and Development, , pp 163 - 175.
  • Sawyer, W., Singh, M. and Zhao, D. (2009), 'Boys' literacy : negotiating the territory', English in Australia, vol 44, no 3 , pp 19 - 28.
  • Singh, M. and Sawyer, W. (2008), 'Democracy and robust hope : Queensland's education and training reforms for the future', Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, vol 3, no 3 , pp 223 - 237.
  • Sawyer, W. (2008), 'English teaching in New South Wales since 1971: Versions of Growth', Changing English, vol 15, no 3 , pp 323 - 337.
  • Sawyer, W. (2008), 'The National Curriculum and enabling creativity', English in Australia, vol 43, no 3 , pp 57 - 67.
  • Sawyer, W. (2007), 'New/Small news in the English curriculum', English in Australia, vol 42, no 3 , pp 43 - 54.
  • Sawyer, W. (2007), 'The powerfully literate citizen', English in Australia, vol 42, no 2 , pp 44 - 47.
  • Gannon, S. and Sawyer, W. (2007), ''Whole language' and moral panic in Australia', International journal of progressive education, vol 3, no 2 , pp 30 - 51.
  • Sawyer, W. (2007), 'English as mother-tongue in Australia', L1 Educational studies in language and literature, vol 7, no 1 , pp 71 - 90.
  • Doecke, B., Green, B., Kostogriz, A., Reid, J. and Sawyer, W. (2007), 'Knowing practice in English teaching? Research challenges in representing the professional practice of English teachers', English Teaching: Practice and Critique, vol 6, no 3 , pp 4 - 21.
  • Sawyer, W. and Van De Ven, P. (2007), 'Starting points: Paradigms in mother-tongue education', L1 Educational studies in language and literature, vol 7, no 1 , pp 5 - 20.
  • Doecke, B., Howie, M. and Sawyer, W. (2007), 'Keywords', English in Australia, vol 42, no 1 , pp 30 - 44.
  • Sawyer, W., Singh, M., Woodrow, C., Downes, T., Johnston, C. and Whitton, D. (2007), 'Robust Hope and Teacher Education Policy', Asia Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, vol 35, no 3 , pp 227 - 242.
  • Baxter, D. and Sawyer, W. (2006), 'Whole school literacy sucess against the odds', Literacy learning : The middle years, vol 14, no 2 , pp 9 - 17.
  • Sawyer, W. (2006), 'The condition of music : The aesthetic turn in english', English in Australia, vol 41, no 2 , pp 27 - 34.
  • Doecke, B., Howie, M. and Sawyer, W. (2006), 'Keywords in Australian context', English Teaching: Practice and Critique, vol 5, no 3 , pp 137 - 160.
  • Sawyer, W. (2005), 'English and literacy: a more open marriage or time for a divorce', Literacy learning: the middle years, vol 13, no 1 , pp 11 - 19.
  • Ayres, P., Sawyer, W. and Dinham, S. (2004), 'Effective teaching in the context of a Grade 12 hihg stakes external examination in New South Wales, Australia', British educational research journal, vol 30, no 1 , pp 142 - 165.
  • Dinham, S. and Sawyer, W. (2004), 'Mobility and highly effective teachers: revisiting beliefs about 'over-stayers'', Pedagogies, policies and politics of mobility: Melbourne studies in education, vol 45, no 2 , pp 83 - 97.
  • Sawyer, W. (2004), 'English in Australia: Complying or disappearing', English teaching: practice and critique, vol 3, no 2 .
  • Sawyer, W. (2002), 'The States of English in Australia', English Teaching: practice and critique, .
  • Sawyer, W. and Watson, K. (2001), 'Mother-tongue teaching in Australia: The case of New South Wales', L1: Educational Studies in language and Literature, vol 1, no 1 , pp 87 - 104.

Other Publications

  • 2016, 'Building on Children's Linguistic Repertoires to Enrich Learning: A Project Report for the NSW Department of Education', Report
  • 2015, 'Evaluation of the Impact of Selected Reforms: Improving Teacher Quality National Partnership', Report
  • 2012, 'Learning to Play the 'Classroom Tennis' Well: IELTS and International Students in Teacher Education', Report
  • 2012, 'Motivation and Engagement of Boys: Evidence-based Teaching Practices: A Report Submitted to the Australian Government Department of Education, Science and Training (Appendices)', Report
  • 2012, 'Motivation and Engagement of Boys: Evidence-based Teaching Practices: A Report Submitted to the Australian Government Department of Education, Science and Training (Main Report)', Report
  • 2010, 'Engaging Middle Years Boys in Rural Educational Settings', Report

Previous Projects

Title: Identifying and Analysing Process in Schooling Producing Outstanding Educational Outcomes [via University of New England]
Funder:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
Western Researchers: Wayne Sawyer and Stephen Dinham
Years: 2001-01-01 - 2003-12-31
ID: P0009540
Title: English Stage 4-5 LIterature Project Brief
Funder:
  • Office of the Board of Studies
Western Researchers: Wayne Sawyer
Years: 2001-05-02 - 2001-12-30
ID: P0010824
Title: Review of the Inner West Regional Office
Funder:
  • Catholic Education Office
Western Researchers: Wayne Sawyer and Stephen Dinham
Years: 2000-06-13 - 2000-10-31
ID: P0012376
Title: The provision of research on teacher secondments and placements to university education faculties
Funder:
  • Department of Education, Science and Training
Western Researchers: Wayne Sawyer, Kevin Watson, Debra Costley and Susanne Gannon
Years: 2006-06-16 - 2006-10-30
ID: P0015148
Title: HSC Teaching Quality Strategy
Funder:
  • Department of Education (NSW)
Western Researchers: Kathryn Holmes, Nathan Berger, Susanne Gannon and Wayne Sawyer
Years: 2020-01-22 - 2021-12-23
ID: P00026286
Title: Evaluation study of the impact of professional learning on teacher capacity in implementing curriculum planning and assessment frameworks (COGS)
Funder:
  • NSW Department of Education & Training
Western Researchers: Wayne Sawyer and Christine Johnston
Years: 2007-08-31 - 2009-08-31
ID: P0015840
Title: The identification of successful teaching methodologies in the NSW Higher School Certificate
Funder:
  • Department of School Education
Western Researchers: Stephen Dinham, Wayne Sawyer and Paul Ayres
Years: 1997-07-16 - 2000-12-31
ID: P0013384
Title: Teachers For a Fair Go: A study of teachers who 'make a difference' to students in poverty
Funder:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
  • NSW Department of Education & Training
Western Researchers: Geoff Munns and Wayne Sawyer
Years: 2008-02-29 - 2012-11-30
ID: P0015674
Title: Engaging Middle Years Boys in Rural Educational Settings
Funder:
  • NSW Department of Education & Training
Western Researchers: Geoff Munns, Wayne Sawyer, Bronwyn Cole, Mary Mooney, Anne Power and Katina Zammit
Years: 2007-09-01 - 2008-12-01
ID: P0015810
Title: School and University Partnerships to Enhance Student Outcomes: Developing a model of sustainable professional learning
Funder:
  • Department of Education, Science and Training
Western Researchers: Kevin Watson, Wayne Sawyer, Beth Southwell and Allan Morton
Years: 2006-06-20 - 2007-12-31
ID: P0015132
Title: The Uses of the Bologna Process in the Internationalisation of Universities: A Comparative Study of Developments in Higher Education Policy in Australia, China and Netherlands
Funder:
  • University of Western Sydney
Western Researchers: Michael Singh, Wayne Sawyer and Steve Wilson
Years: 2006-12-20 - 2008-06-30
ID: P0015396
Title: Motivation and engagement of boys: Evidence-based teaching practices
Funder:
  • Department of Education, Science and Training
Western Researchers: Toni Downes, Geoff Munns, Michael Singh, Wayne Sawyer, Robyn Gregson, Anne Power, Leonie Arthur, Shirley Gilbert, Judith Thistleton-Martin and Andrew Martin
Years: 2005-01-01 - 2005-11-01
ID: P0014520
Title: The efficacy of IELTS in choosing potentially successful students for teacher education courses. What is an appropriate score?
Funder:
  • IELTS Australia Pty Limited
Western Researchers: Michael Singh and Wayne Sawyer
Years: 2008-06-24 - 2010-03-23
ID: P0015775
Title: Investigating literary knowledge in the making of English teachers [via Uni of Melbourne]
Funder:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
Western Researchers: Wayne Sawyer
Years: 2016-05-20 - 2021-12-31
ID: P00022631
Title: Building on children's linguistic repertoires to enrich English learning
Funder:
  • Department of Education
  • Department of Education
Western Researchers: Margaret Somerville, Jacqueline D'Warte and Wayne Sawyer
Years: 2015-01-08 - 2016-01-31
ID: P00022445
Title: Evaluation of the Impact of Professional Experience Reform Measures [via Uni of New England]
Funder:
  • Department of Education
Western Researchers: Wayne Sawyer
Years: 2012-03-28 - 2014-06-30
ID: P00020480

Supervision

Emeritus Professor Sawyer is available to be a principal supervisor for doctoral projects

Previous Supervision

Thesis Title: 'The Sacred and the Profane': Writing the Secondary English Subjects and the Delimiting of Professional Identity
Field of Research: Education Studies; Curriculum Studies
Thesis Title: The Use of Mobile Devices for Self-Directed Learning Outside the Classroom Among EFL University Students in Saudi Arabia
Field of Research: English As A Second Language Teaching; Other Education; English Language
Thesis Title: How can the NSW Quality Teaching (QT) Model be used as a Teachers Self-Reflection Tool to Enhance Teaching Chinese through a Communicative Approach: An Action Resarch Project
Field of Research:
Thesis Title: How Does a Beginning Chinese Foreign Language Teacher Improve Teaching Chinese through a Communicative Approach via Reflection? An Action Research Project
Field of Research: Curriculum Studies
Thesis Title: The place and art of writing alongside secondary English students in rural communities: An ethnographic case story of writerly identities
Field of Research:
Thesis Title: English K-6 syllabus and support document (1994) Imperilled by politics and paradigm shifts
Field of Research:
Thesis Title: Show Me: Developing a Broader View of Visual Literacy in Education
Field of Research: Education
Thesis Title: Documenting Pedagogical Change: The Teaching of Literature in NSW Secondary Schools 1990-2001, with Special Reference to the Teaching of Shakespeare
Field of Research: Teacher Education: Secondary
Thesis Title: The Story of Writing Macao - A Pedagogy for Creative Writing in a Non-Native Context
Field of Research: Education
Thesis Title: The Effects of Explicit Spelling Lesson Programs on Performance Outcomes of Upper Primary Students
Field of Research: Education
Thesis Title: How Role Play Addresses the Difficulties Students Perceive when Writing Reflectively about the Concepts they are Learning in Science
Field of Research: Education Studies
Thesis Title: A Bilingual Second Language Teacher Teaching Bilingually: A Self-study
Field of Research: Teacher Education, N.e.c.
Thesis Title: Journey to the West: Reading Communicative Language Teaching in Australia
Field of Research: Language And Literature, N.e.c.
Thesis Title: Reading Respect in Australian Schooling
Field of Research: Education
Thesis Title: Discourses in Australian Policy on Asian Languages: A Study of Metaphor
Field of Research: Southern Asian Languages
Thesis Title: Crazy by Design. Brain research and adolescence: Implications for classroom teaching, teacher learning and possibilities of teacher research.
Field of Research: Curriculum And Education Studies; Teacher Education: Secondary; Education
Thesis Title: Popular Culture and Engagement in Teaching Mandarin: An Action Research
Field of Research: Education
Thesis Title: Asian International Teacher Education (AITE) students in Australia: Unfolding the Different Perceptions of their Challenges, and Disentangling their Sources of Struggle
Field of Research: Education
Thesis Title: Mapping Early Speech: A Description of Standard Australian English in the First Two Years of School in Four Very Remote Central Western Desert Aboriginal Communities
Field of Research: Teacher Education: Special Education; Teacher Education; Other Education
Thesis Title: Investigating the Lived Experiences of Career Change Teachers within New South wales Department of Education High Schools.
Field of Research: Other Education
Thesis Title: Inclusion or Illusion: A Mixed Methods Study of Pedagogical Practices to Enhance Pre-service Teachers' Preparedness for Contemporary Inclusive Teaching
Field of Research: Curriculum And Education Studies; Teacher Education; Other Education
Thesis Title: The Effectiveness of Using Chinese Poetry to Teach Chinese to Non-background Speakers: An Action Research Study in an Australian High School
Field of Research: Education Studies; Teacher Education: Secondary; Language And Literature

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