Professor Rosemary Johnston is Head of Education at UTS and Founding Director of the Australian Centre for Child and Youth: Culture and Wellbeing. This is an innovative interdisciplinary 21st century centre that integrates technology, research, teac
...MoreProfessor Rosemary Johnston is Head of Education at UTS and Founding Director of the Australian Centre for Child and Youth: Culture and Wellbeing. This is an innovative interdisciplinary 21st century centre that integrates technology, research, teaching and practice in all fields pertaining to the culture and wellbeing of children and youth.
The Centre has staff and advisory expertise in areas that include: literacy; school education; indigenous education; children's health; curricula, including the proposed National Curriculum; children's literature and culture; drugs and alchohol abuse; parenting practices; healthy lifestyles for sports participation; child and family law; play and playground spaces; adolescents' online/digital/mobile cultures.
Professor Johnston is currently setting up and leading the Centre's interdisciplinary project, Literate Australia, which is an umbrella for a number of cell projects that have specific outcomes relating to the education, culture and wellbeing of children and youth.
Literacy - and the idea of a literate nation - are not just educational issues but relate to and are influenced by health, parenting practices, communities and cultures of influence, and the larger sphere of government policies. Literate Australia is committed to developing community initiatives that enhance not only skills, but the imaginations and minds that help to generate creative and civil societies.
Previous appointments:
* Associate Dean Teaching and Learning in the Faculty of Education UTS Semester 1 2008
* Director Teacher Education UTS 2004-2007
* H.W. Donner International Research Chair in the Faculty of Humanities at Åbo Akademi University, Finland, working with an interdisciplinary doctoral training program which included literature, language, semiotics, cultural studies, folklore, education and gender studies.
* Director of the Centre for Research and Education in the Arts (CREA) UTS 1998-2006. CREA's application, Creating Community ~ Connecting Communities, was shortlisted in the 2002 Australian Awards for University Teaching Institutional Award: Category 3 - Innovative and practical approach to the provision of educational services to the local and/or regional community.
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