Tanya Wiggins

Position: Scholarly Teaching Fellow
Study Area: Institute of Education
Location: Mt Helen Campus, Room 316A
Phone: 03 5327 9751
Email: t.wiggins@federation.edu.au

Qualifications

Masters of Education – Federation University Australia – 2021

Diploma of Education – Latrobe University – 1999

Bachelor of Applied Science (Human Movement) – RMIT - 1995

Teaching

Course(s)

• Bachelor of Education

Unit(s)

• Literacy and Numeracy (EDBED1011)
• Learning and Teaching (EDBED1016)
• Child and Adolescent Development and Characteristics (EDBED1017)
• Health and Physical Education (EDBED1018)
• Diversity and Inclusion (EDBED2010)
• Education for Sustainability (EDBED3118)
• Responding to Challenge - Trauma Informed Practice (EDBED4010)
• Primary Humanities (EDBED4011)

Biography

Tanya has more than 20 years of educational experience, in primary school settings in metropolitan and regional Victoria as a classroom teacher and in educational leadership.  She has a particular interest in developing programs for students that enable place-based connections to the local community as a key learning approach.

Research Interests

• Sustainability education
• Place based education
• Community as a resource for deep learning
• Humanities Education
• Mindfulness as wellbeing practice in schools

Associations

• Geography Teachers Association Victoria (GTAV)
• History Teachers Association Victoria (HTAV)