Exploring New Understandings of Teaching and Learning Science and Maths

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Faculty of Education

2025 David Clarke Memorial Lecture presented by Deakin Distinguished Professor Russell Tytler

Q230  Theatre, Level 2

<h3>The <a href="https://education.unimelb.edu.au/news-and-events/deans-lecture-series/david-clarke-memorial-lectures" title="https://education.unimelb.edu.au/news-and-events/deans-lecture-series/david-clarke-memorial-lectures" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">David Clarke Memorial Lecture</a> commemorates Professor Clarke's life and significant contributions to learning and teaching.</h3> <h3>Exploring New Understandings of Teaching and Learning Science and Maths</h3>Current policies in science and mathematics education are limited by their focus on a single prescribed pedagogy, within a narrow theoretical base. This lecture uses Professor David Clarke’s advocacy of ‘complementary accounts’ to argue that contemporary understandings of learning and teaching imply the need for multiple theoretical perspectives to inform effective practices.Professor Russell Tytler draws on research into practice-based, interdisciplinary approaches to science and mathematics framed through semiotic and aesthetic, disciplinary literacy perspectives. This includes research from the Science of Learning Classroom, designed to produce comprehensive data to accommodate multiple interpretive accounts.This presentation will argue that such perspectives offer rich possibilities for fostering the important curriculum capabilities of critical and creative thinking. Date: Wednesday, 29 October 2025Time: 5.30pm Light refreshments | 6.00pm LectureVenue: Q230 Theatre, Level 2, 234 Queensberry Street, University of MelbournePlease Note: Due to the theatre's limited capacity, please only register for a seated ticket if you are sure to be attending in person. A ticket type to receive a copy of the recording is available for those that are unable to attend.<a href="https://experts.deakin.edu.au/330-russell-tytler/about" title="https://experts.deakin.edu.au/330-russell-tytler/about" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Russell Tytler</a> is Deakin Distinguished Professor and Chair of Science Education at Deakin University. He researches student reasoning and learning through multimodal disciplinary languages, socio scientific issues and reasoning, school-community partnerships, and STEM curriculum policy and practice. He is widely published and has led a range of research projects, including current STEM projects investigating a guided inquiry, semiotically informed pedagogy for interdisciplinary mathematics and science, and representing contemporary science R&amp;D in schools to support an informed Climate Change Education. He is a member of the Science Expert Group for PISA 2015 and 2025.<h4> </h4>

Professor David ClarkeProfessor David Clarke became a valued member of the Faculty of Education in 1994, dedicating his expertise and passion to the institution until his passing in 2020. He was internationally well known for his establishment and leadership of a substantial, extensive, innovative research programme in video-based classroom research involving more than 20 countries. He founded the International Centre for Classroom Research (ICCR) in 2003, a facility unique in its support of the generation, storage and collaborative analysis of complex classroom data. Under the leadership of Professor Clarke, the ICCR hosted a number of internally and externally funded research projects supporting an extensive international network of researchers.For most of his educational research career, spanning almost 40 years, Professor Clarke focused on moving the field towards greater, critical self-reflection, and increasingly sophisticated research designs as well as research tools for understanding complex teaching and learning practices in different parts of the world. These lectures honour the life of Professor Clarke and his substantial contribution to the Faculty and the research and education communities around the world.

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