NSWCDE Research

Articles

Andrews, R., Cliff, K., Adlington, R., Ledger, S., Gregory, S., Monteleone, C., Little, C., Maurice, O., & Van Bergen, P. (2025). Stakeholder alignment to government reform: Mapping responses to the Teacher Education Expert Panel (TEEP) proposal to improve the quality of Professional Experience in Australia. The Australian Educational Researcher.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s13384-025-00854-0

Ryan, M., Van Bergen, P. Adlington, R., & Maurice, O, (2025). The positioning of quality and expertise in initial teacher education: Policy enactment in the Australian context. Australian Educational Researcher. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13384-024-0076-z

Van Bergen, P., Ryan, M., Youdell, D., Ledger, S., Carter, D., Maurice, O., Cliff, K., & Andrews, R. (2025). ‘Quality and consequence: Interrogating the drive for new performance measures and funding levers in Australian Initial Teacher Education. Australian Educational Researcher. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13384-025-00826-4

Online articles

Claire Halliday, (2023, August 30). A New Way Forward for Education Research

Mary Ryan, Australian Catholic University. (2023, August 28). The truth about teaching graduates. 

White Paper

Fayyad, F., Carter, D., Gregory, S. (2025), AI in the Education Sector [White paper]. Adaptovate & NSW Council of Deans Education (NSWCDE). White Paper: AI in the Education Sector

Reports

Van Bergen, P., Ryan, M., Cliff, K., Ledger, S., Simons, M., Zundans-Fraser, L., Gregory, S., Adlington, R., Youdell, D., Andrews, R., Monteleone, C., & Little, C. (2018). Preliminary report: Who says what about initial teacher education and whose perspectives are heard? A mapping of stakeholder submissions in response to the Australian Federal Government’s Teacher Education Expert Panel (TEEP) reforms. NSW Council of Deans of Education. http://nswcde.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/nswcde-strategic-teep-mapping-project_preliminary-report.pdf

Loughland, T., Barr, J., de Villiers, G., Winslade, M., Eady, M., Hay, I., Hadley, F., Humphries, J., Hart, N., Cotton, W., Handal, B., James, S., Whannel, R., Monteleone, C., & Donnelly, D. (2021). Examining the role of the school professional experience coordinator in the NSW Department of Education’s Professional Experience Hub School Program (pp. 1–76). http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/28167

NSW Council of Deans of Education. (2023). NSW Council of Deans of Education Response to Teacher Education Expert Panel Discussion Paper [Discussion paper]. NSW Council of Deans of Education. Response to Quality Initial Teacher Education Review Discussion Paper

NSW Council of Deans of Education. (2023). Response to the Quality Initial Teacher Education Review discussion paper [Discussion paper]. NSW Council of Deans of Education. Response to Quality Initial Teacher Education Review Discussion Paper

Books

Winslade, M., Loughland, T., & Eady, M. J. (Eds.). (2023). Work-integrated learning case studies in teacher education: Epistemic reflexivity. Springer. https://doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/28088

NSW Council of Deans Education (NSWCDE) – Research

Grassroots Research Strategy

“Everyone looks to the Deans for direction!”

From 2022-2023 the NSWCDE funded a collaborative project to co-create an educational research strategy. The Grassroots Research Agenda responded to and challenged contemporary issues in education, with the aim to drive an innovative agenda for educational research. Participation in this research included 181 regional and metropolitan education leaders (principals and deputy principals), teachers, academics, curriculum/policy writers, departmental and independent sector colleagues, parents/guardians, and children and young people. Through a series of progressive group forums within three transdisciplinary world cafés, conducted both online and face-to-face, the participants responded to three videocast provocations as an orientation. They were then presented with eight questions as further provocations, to undertake a snowballing data collection and analysis process. Participants’ responses were captured through multiple platforms to apprehend and co-create key research priorities.

The current pressing issues in education, including teacher retention and attraction, inclusivity and accessibility, and climate change, should and must be addressed through imminent educational research. Recommendations that were generated through the forums emerged across six strategic research drivers, which centre the educational research agenda. They are:

1. Determining education for who and what;
2. Authentic explorations on inclusivity and accessibility for all learners;
3. Climate, Country and education as a pressing contemporary assemblage;
4. High-quality education in contemporary times;
5. Attracting and retaining successful, motivated, and capable teachers; and,
6. Effective, relevant, and attuned (quality) teacher education.

Attached is the NSWCDE Grassroots Research Strategy report.

NSWCDE Grassroots Research Strategy