Summary
Dr Gideon Boadu is a Lecturer in Curriculum and Pedagogy at RMIT University. With experience across various higher education institutions, Dr Boadu has held leadership roles in teacher education and taught across undergraduate and postgraduate programs. His research explores history curricula, public histories, teacher disciplinary and pedagogical reasoning, and digital histories. Dr Boadu is accepting HDR supervision.
Highlights
Dr Gideon Boadu is a Lecturer in Curriculum and Pedagogy in the School of Education at RMIT University. Before joining RMIT, Dr Boadu worked in various higher education institutions in Ghana and Australia, accruing valuable experience in undergraduate and postgraduate programs over the last decade. Dr Boadu has held previous leadership roles as Program Director for postgraduate ITE programs, Head of Department for Initial Teacher Education, and Acting Head of School of Education. He has also been consulted for course development by various organisations. At RMIT University, Dr Boadu is currently the Program Manager for Master of Teaching Practice (Primary Education) and Master of Teaching Practice (Secondary Education). He teaches into both undergraduate and postgraduate education programs and oversees RMIT’s innovative employment-based postgraduate teacher education program for candidates seeking to change careers, in partnership with the Victorian Department of Education. Dr Boadu believes that career change teachers are valuable to today’s schools and classrooms as their fusion of professional expertise, subject knowledge, and teaching skills is essential to preparing young Australians for the present and future.
At the broadest level, Dr Boadu’s research focuses on history curricula, public histories, practical approaches history teaching and learning, and the ways in which publics make, engage with, and interpret histories. In the last decade, he has investigated history teacher disciplinary and pedagogical reasoning and classroom practice, technology-enhanced history teaching including the use of virtual reality, public interpretations of history, family histories, and (pre-service) teacher professional development and wellbeing.
“How teachers reason about their discipline informs how they reason about it pedagogically and in turn how they teach it,” Dr Boadu said.
“Pedagogical reasoning is the middle ground of the pedagogical process and the centre of the nexus between meaning and classroom practice,” He added.
Dr Boadu has published several research outputs in journals and books. He has also presented his research at international conferences in Europe, Australia, and UK. Dr Boadu’s research makes critical contributions to history education and public histories globally, bringing to attention under-researched issues and contexts.
Dr Boadu’s current research focuses on young people’s making of histories using photographs and archives, representations of historical and democratic consciousness in history curricula, representations of inclusion and belonging in history curricula, and the role of artificial intelligence in historical research, education, and pedagogy.
Dr Boadu is a Co-convenor of the Critical Forest Collaboratory which brings together international researchers to explore forests’ scientific, educational, ecological, historical, and cultural role in contemporary contexts https://www.criticalforestlab.com/.
Dr Boadu is also a member of the International Network of Historical Consciousness and Democratic Consciousness which is currently researching the intersections between historical and democratic consciousness in history curricula.
Dr Boadu is an Editorial Board member for History Education Research Journal; Historical Thinking, Culture & Education; and Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. He is also an Associate Editor for Journal of Research in Innovative Teaching and Learning.
Dr Boadu is currently accepting HDR supervision of Research Masters and PhD students. Prospective research students can contact him at gideon.boadu@rmit.edu.au to discuss their research ideas, projects or interests.
Recent Edited Books
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-61388-3
https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-7722-9
Dr Boadu teaches across primary and secondary (undergraduate and postgraduate) ITE programs. Courses he has developed and taught at RMIT University include:
TCHE2711 Method 1: Curriculum and Pedagogy in Years 7 to 10
TCHE2712 Method 2: Design, Implementation and Innovation in Secondary Schools
TCHE2660 Approaches to Educational Research and Inquiry
TCHE2665 Teaching the Humanities
TCHE2633 Inquiry Across the Curriculum
TCHE2603 Assessment and Evaluation
Acknowledgement of Country
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.