Emeritus Professor Peter Renshaw
Emeritus Professor

Peter Renshaw

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Background

The School of Education is one of the most productive and high profile schools of education in Australia.

Professor Peter Renshaw's research has focussed on learning and teaching processes both at school and tertiary level. With a team of colleagues in the School of Education at UQ, he is currently investigating the quality of teaching and assessment practices in schools across Queensland. In two current ARC projects, with his co-researchers (Dr Ray Brown and Dr Elizabeth Hirst) he is investigating how teachers group and label students, and the effects of these practices on learning outcomes. These projects are framed by a sociocultural theory of education that foregrounds the social and cultural construction of knowledge and identity, and the responsibility of educators to create challenging, inclusive and supportive learning contexts for diverse groups of students. Professor Renshaw was President and Secretary of Australian Association for Research in Education and a member of the Executive for over a decade (1991-2002). He currently is on the International Advisory Board of CICERO Learning, an interdisciplinary research centre at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He has active collaborations with European researchers in the Netherlands and Sweden, studying how teachers deal with student diversity and how they provide inclusive contexts for learning in multicultural classrooms.

Availability

Emeritus Professor Peter Renshaw is:
Available for supervision

Fields of research

Curriculum and pedagogy Education

Qualifications

  • Bachelor (Honours) of Arts, University of Sydney
  • Postgraduate Diploma, University of Sydney
  • Masters (Coursework) of Education, University of Illinois
  • Doctor of Philosophy, University of Illinois

Search Professor Peter Renshaw’s works on UQ eSpace

119 works between 1992 and 2024
All (119) Journal Article (58) Book Chapter (33) Conference Publication (24) Book (2) Other Outputs (2)

1 - 20 of 119 works

2024

Journal Article

Assemblages in Flight: Flickering Ontologies and Wildness in the Formation of Multispecies Assemblages

Renshaw, Peter, Jackson, Kirsty and Tooth, Ron (2024). Assemblages in Flight: Flickering Ontologies and Wildness in the Formation of Multispecies Assemblages. Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 40 (2), 200-215. doi: 10.1017/aee.2024.24

Assemblages in Flight: Flickering Ontologies and Wildness in the Formation of Multispecies Assemblages

2024

Journal Article

“Can’t you just tell us when to teach them how to use an apostrophe?” The worthwhile struggle to cultivate agential preservice teachers in a compliance culture

McLay, Katherine Frances and Renshaw, Peter David (2024). “Can’t you just tell us when to teach them how to use an apostrophe?” The worthwhile struggle to cultivate agential preservice teachers in a compliance culture. Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 52 (3), 350-365. doi: 10.1080/1359866x.2024.2330081

“Can’t you just tell us when to teach them how to use an apostrophe?” The worthwhile struggle to cultivate agential preservice teachers in a compliance culture

2024

Book Chapter

Research on learning during times of crisis

Renshaw, Peter (2024). Research on learning during times of crisis. Re-theorising learning and research methods in learning research. (pp. 313-322) edited by Crina Damşa, Antti Rajala, Giuseppe Ritella and Jasperina Brouwer. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003205838-21

Research on learning during times of crisis

2024

Journal Article

Australian grades 4 to 6 teachers’ beliefs and practices about teaching writing to low SES students

Ng, Clarence, Graham, Steve, Renshaw, Peter, Cheung, Alan and Mak, Barley (2024). Australian grades 4 to 6 teachers’ beliefs and practices about teaching writing to low SES students. International Journal of Educational Research, 124 102304, 102304. doi: 10.1016/j.ijer.2023.102304

Australian grades 4 to 6 teachers’ beliefs and practices about teaching writing to low SES students

2023

Book Chapter

Promoting writing and writing engagement through self-regulation, motivation, effective instruction and perezhivanie

Ng, Clarence and Renshaw, Peter (2023). Promoting writing and writing engagement through self-regulation, motivation, effective instruction and perezhivanie. Literacy Studies. (pp. 29-51) edited by Xinghua Liu, Michael Hebert and Rui A. Alves. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Cham. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-36472-3_3

Promoting writing and writing engagement through self-regulation, motivation, effective instruction and perezhivanie

2023

Journal Article

Speculative spaces: children exploring socio-ecological worlds with mythical nature spirits

Byman, Jenny, Kumpulainen, Kristiina, Renlund, Jenny, Wong, Chin-Chin and Renshaw, Peter (2023). Speculative spaces: children exploring socio-ecological worlds with mythical nature spirits. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood. doi: 10.1177/14639491231162152

Speculative spaces: children exploring socio-ecological worlds with mythical nature spirits

2023

Journal Article

Enchantment and digital technologies: cultivating children’s enchantment with the more-than-human through video-walks in local places

Renshaw, Peter, Jackson, Kirsty, Mortlock, Harriet and Tooth, Ron (2023). Enchantment and digital technologies: cultivating children’s enchantment with the more-than-human through video-walks in local places. The Journal of Environmental Education, 54 (1), 20-32. doi: 10.1080/00958964.2022.2152408

Enchantment and digital technologies: cultivating children’s enchantment with the more-than-human through video-walks in local places

2021

Journal Article

"I got up and did something about it": Bernice's story of advocacy for Karawatha.

Jackson, Kirsty , Mortlock, Harriet , Renshaw, Peter and Tooth, Ron (2021). "I got up and did something about it": Bernice's story of advocacy for Karawatha.. Redress, 30 (1), 28-33.

"I got up and did something about it": Bernice's story of advocacy for Karawatha.

2021

Journal Article

Feeling for the Anthropocene: placestories of living justice

Renshaw, Peter D. (2021). Feeling for the Anthropocene: placestories of living justice. The Australian Educational Researcher, 48 (1), 1-21. doi: 10.1007/s13384-021-00433-z

Feeling for the Anthropocene: placestories of living justice

2021

Journal Article

Children’s digitally mediated perezhivanie/enchantment in backyard excursions to “nature”

Renshaw, Peter, Jackson, Kirsty, Mortlock, Harriet and Tooth, Ron (2021). Children’s digitally mediated perezhivanie/enchantment in backyard excursions to “nature”. Qwerty, 16 (2), 109-123. doi: 10.30557/QW000046

Children’s digitally mediated perezhivanie/enchantment in backyard excursions to “nature”

2020

Journal Article

Transforming Pedagogies in Australian Schools amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Activity Theoretic Reflection

Ng, Clarence and Renshaw, Peter (2020). Transforming Pedagogies in Australian Schools amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Activity Theoretic Reflection. Best Evidence of Chinese Education, 5 (2), 635-648. doi: 10.15354/bece.20.or023

Transforming Pedagogies in Australian Schools amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Activity Theoretic Reflection

2020

Journal Article

Exploring the emotions of international students about their feedback experiences

Olave-Encina, Karen, Moni, Karen and Renshaw, Peter (2020). Exploring the emotions of international students about their feedback experiences. Higher Education Research and Development, 40 (4), 1-15. doi: 10.1080/07294360.2020.1786020

Exploring the emotions of international students about their feedback experiences

2020

Journal Article

Using chronotope to research the space-time relations of learning and education: dimensions of the unit of analysis

Ritella, Giuseppe, Rajala, Antti and Renshaw, Peter (2020). Using chronotope to research the space-time relations of learning and education: dimensions of the unit of analysis. Learning, Culture and Social Interaction, 31 100381, 100381. doi: 10.1016/j.lcsi.2020.100381

Using chronotope to research the space-time relations of learning and education: dimensions of the unit of analysis

2020

Journal Article

Crossing the ‘bridges’ and navigating the ‘learning gaps’: Chinese students learning across two systems in a transnational higher education programme

Dai, Kun, Matthews, Kelly E. and Renshaw, Peter (2020). Crossing the ‘bridges’ and navigating the ‘learning gaps’: Chinese students learning across two systems in a transnational higher education programme. Higher Education Research and Development, 39 (6), 1-15. doi: 10.1080/07294360.2020.1713731

Crossing the ‘bridges’ and navigating the ‘learning gaps’: Chinese students learning across two systems in a transnational higher education programme

2020

Book Chapter

Who’s talking? (and what does it mean for ‘us’?): provocations for beyond humanist dialogic pedagogies

Davies, Kim and Renshaw, Peter (2020). Who’s talking? (and what does it mean for ‘us’?): provocations for beyond humanist dialogic pedagogies. The Routledge international handbook of research on dialogic education. (pp. 38-49) edited by Neil Mercer, Rupert Wegerif and Louis Major. London, United Kingdom: Taylor and Francis. doi: 10.4324/9780429441677-5

Who’s talking? (and what does it mean for ‘us’?): provocations for beyond humanist dialogic pedagogies

2019

Journal Article

An Indigenous Australian student's perezhivanie in reading and the evolvement of reader identities over three years

Ng, Clarence and Renshaw, Peter (2019). An Indigenous Australian student's perezhivanie in reading and the evolvement of reader identities over three years. Learning, Culture and Social Interaction, 22 100310, 100310. doi: 10.1016/j.lcsi.2019.04.006

An Indigenous Australian student's perezhivanie in reading and the evolvement of reader identities over three years

2019

Journal Article

Making ‘us’ visible: using membership categorisation analysis to explore young people's accomplishment of collective identity‐in‐interaction in relation to digital technology

McLay, Katherine Frances and Renshaw, Peter David (2019). Making ‘us’ visible: using membership categorisation analysis to explore young people's accomplishment of collective identity‐in‐interaction in relation to digital technology. British Educational Research Journal, 46 (1) berj.3565, 44-57. doi: 10.1002/berj.3565

Making ‘us’ visible: using membership categorisation analysis to explore young people's accomplishment of collective identity‐in‐interaction in relation to digital technology

2019

Journal Article

Common European framework of reference for languages (CEFR): insights into global policy borrowing in Malaysian higher education

Ahmad Afip, Liyana, Hamid, M. Obaidul and Renshaw, Peter (2019). Common European framework of reference for languages (CEFR): insights into global policy borrowing in Malaysian higher education. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 17 (3), 1-16. doi: 10.1080/14767724.2019.1578195

Common European framework of reference for languages (CEFR): insights into global policy borrowing in Malaysian higher education

2019

Journal Article

The consequences of ADHD diagnosis: integrating scaffolding and perezhivanie to redesign pedagogy for ADHD-diagnosed children

Renshaw, Peter D. (2019). The consequences of ADHD diagnosis: integrating scaffolding and perezhivanie to redesign pedagogy for ADHD-diagnosed children. Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties, 24 (3), 301-305. doi: 10.1080/13632752.2019.1630994

The consequences of ADHD diagnosis: integrating scaffolding and perezhivanie to redesign pedagogy for ADHD-diagnosed children

2018

Book Chapter

Place-responsive design for school settings

Tooth, Ron and Renshaw, Peter (2018). Place-responsive design for school settings. Diverse pedagogies of place: educating students in and for local and global environments. (pp. 172-189) edited by Peter Renshaw and Ron Tooth. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315695389-9

Place-responsive design for school settings

Current funding

  • 2019 - 2024
    Digital mediation of children's interactions with the more than human world
    ARC Discovery Projects
    Open grant
  • 2018 - 2024
    Raising the literacy bar for economically disadvantaged students (ARC Discovery Project administered by the Australian Catholic University)
    Australian Catholic University
    Open grant

Past funding

  • 2013
    Teachers using classroom data well: Identifying key features of effective practices
    Queensland College of Teachers
    Open grant
  • 2011 - 2013
    Green robots, sustainable cities and inquiring minds: Young children engineer robots to create cities of the future
    UQ Collaboration and Industry Engagement Fund
    Open grant
  • 2011 - 2015
    Pursuing equity in high poverty rural schools: improving learning through rich accountabilities
    ARC Linkage Projects
    Open grant
  • 2011
    An investigation of best practice in evidence-based assessment within preservices teacher education programs and other professions
    Queensland College of Teachers
    Open grant
  • 2010 - 2012
    Transformative Educational Practice in Indigenous Australian Studies: Primary and Secondary Contexts
    UQ FirstLink Scheme
    Open grant
  • 2010 - 2013
    Storythread Pedagogy: transforming teachers' and students' knowledge and values regarding environmental sustainability
    ARC Linkage Projects
    Open grant
  • 2010 - 2012
    Engaging students: issues of difference, distribution and recognition in schools
    ARC Discovery Projects
    Open grant
  • 2009 - 2012
    Queensland Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Framework (QCAR) Phase 2 Evaluation
    Education Queensland
    Open grant
  • 2007 - 2008
    Researching Collective Argumentation in Mathematics and Science Classrooms (Administered by Griffith Uni)
    Griffith University
    Open grant
  • 2007 - 2008
    Researching teachers' funds of knowledge and teaching repertoires in relation to student diversity.
    ARC Discovery Projects
    Open grant
  • 2006 - 2008
    Longitudinal Study of Teaching and Learning in Queensland State Schools (Initial Phase): Observation of Classroom Practice and its Relationship to Student Outcome at Baseline
    Department of Education and the Arts
    Open grant
  • 2001
    Indigenous Education Research Project - Accountability: Inclusive Assessment, Monitoring and Reporting on Education Outcomes
    Department Education - Queensland
    Open grant
  • 2001 - 2002
    Cross-cultural collaboration between parents and professionals in special education.
    ARC Australian Research Council (Large grants)
    Open grant
  • 1998 - 2001
    The contribution of technology to enhancing the quality of collaborative action and individual reflection in the learning of senior mathematics
    ARC Australian Research Council (Large grants)
    Open grant
  • 1995 - 1997
    The adaptation of students from South East Asia to undergraduate university study in Australia: Contexts of collaborative learning
    ARC Australian Research Council (Large grants)
    Open grant
  • 1995 - 1996
    The contribution of collaborative action and individual reflection to the teaching and learning of senior secondary mathematics
    ARC Australian Research Council (Large grants)
    Open grant

Availability

Emeritus Professor Peter Renshaw is:
Available for supervision

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Supervision history

Current supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Perezhivanie and literacy learning arising from childrens' interactions with the more than human world

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Kate McLay

Completed supervision

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