Gideon Boadu

Summary

Dr Gideon Boadu is a Lecturer in Curriculum and Pedagogy Education at RMIT University. Dr Boadu has held leadership roles and taught undergraduate and postgraduate Education programs across mutliple higher education institutions in Australia and overseas. 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 more than a 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 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 education policy and practice.

“Teachers' resoning about their descipline informs their pedagogical reasoning and how they teach the subject in the classroom. Pedagogical reasoning is the middle ground of the pedagogical process and the centre of the nexus between meaning and classroom practice,” Dr Boadu said.

Dr Boadu has published his research in several journals and book chapters. He has also presented his research at conferences in Europe, Australia, and UK. Dr Boadu’s research makes critical contributions to history education, public histories and teacher education globally.

Dr Boadu’s current research focuses on young people’s making of histories using photographs and archives, regenerative histories (and futures), representations of historical and democratic consciousness in history curricula, the role of artificial intelligence in education and history, and preservice teacher professional preparation.

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