Dr. Monica Green
FedUni Associate
Dr Monica Green is a Senior Lecturer and Teacher Educator in the School of Education at Federation University Australia. Monica joined Federation University in 2014 as part of its merger with Monash University (Gippsland).
Dr Green’s research interests lie in pedagogies and curriculum associated with climate and place/community-based sustainability education. Monica’s research focus includes outdoor learning, curriculum frameworks for teaching and learning sustainability, transitioning communities and the role of regional sustainability change agents.
Monica is the Chair of the UN’s Regional Centre of Expertise in Education for Sustainable Development (RCE Gippsland), who mobilise sustainability education via the Sustainable Development Goals across the Gippsland region. She is a selected participant in the 2020–2022 Homeward Bound STEMM Women in Leadership program. Monica was lead editor in the book, Educational Researchers and the Regional University: Agents of Regional-global Transformation (Green, Plowright and Johnson, 2019).
A longitudinal study on a place-based school-university partnership: Listening to the voices of in-service teachers
A Possible Me? Inspiring Learning Among Regional Young People for the Future World of Work
Cultivating whole-heartedness in the academy during a time of COVID: insights from/within an inter-collegial friendship
Teaching and learning in uncertain times: thinking with multiple crises
Community capacity to envisage a post-mine future: rehabilitation options for Latrobe Valley brown coal mines
Cultivating wholeheartedness in the academy during a time of COVID: Insights from/within an inter-collegial friendship
School ground pedagogies for enriching children’s outdoor learning
Despite teacher interest in wanting to engage students in learning beyond the classroom, many...
Learning to Teach in Place: Transforming Pre-service Teacher Perceptions of Science Teaching through Place Pedagogies
Although teaching science outdoors is well established in global circles, its pedagogical value...
The Affordance of Place in Developing Place-Responsive Science Teaching Pedagogy: Reflections from Pre-Service Teachers
Despite being increasingly popular within broader educational discourse, place-responsive...
Agents of regional-global transformation: Federation university gippsland education (fugue) researchers
The lived particulars of Gippsland, the region, the land, the people and all life, are the heart...
Collective hope and action in a time of transition: Kitchen table conversations with gippsland sustainability change agents
This chapter stems from a broader research initiative involving a collective of eight Australian...
Educational Researchers and the Regional University
This book showcases a compilation of research partnerships produced by the Federation University...
Frog Bogs, Turbines and Biodiversity: Bringing Children’s Sustainability Knowledge to Life Through Handmade Artefacts
Globally, sustainability is a complex and contested term with multiple meanings and...
From Northern China to Hazelwood Wetlands: Navigating Place and Identity Through Science Education
This chapter highlights an emergent self-study or professional inquiry that sits within wider...
Preface: Idylls, smoke plumes and educational research from the south-eastern tip of mainland Australia
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Everyday, Local, Nearby, Healthy Childhoodnature Settings as Sites for Promoting Children’s Health and Well-Being
In this chapter, we highlight the central role that healthy, vibrant, and functioning...
Transforming teacher education science through an Australian university-school partnership
Wilding pedagogy in an unexpected landscape: reflections and possibilities in initial teacher education
This article stems from our participation in the Wild Pedagogies colloquium on Tasmania’s...
Green outdoor environments Settings for promoting children’s health and wellbeing
'If there's no sustainability our future will get wrecked': Exploring children's perspectives of sustainability
Education for Sustainability is an internationally recognised field of learning that is currently...
Children, place and sustainability
Through focusing on children’s sustainability learning this book examines how school education...
Preparing Pre-service Teachers for Professional Engagement Through Place/community Pedagogies and Partnerships
There is an expectation that Australian teachers engage professionally in all aspects of teaching...
Reimagining and Transforming Identity as Rural Researchers and Educators A (con)textual Fugue
This paper presents the educational and research journey of a group of rural academics as a...
Sustainability education: researching practice in primary schools
Many teachers are keen to implement sustainability education in primary schools but are lacking...
The Force of Gardening: Investigating Children's Learning in a Food Garden
School gardens are becoming increasingly recognised as important sites for learning and for...
Reframing primary curriculum through concepts of place
Australian curricula name "sustainability" as a key priority area with implications for preparing...
Transformational design literacies: children as active place-makers
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Transformational design literacies: children as active place-makers
Innovative curriculum frameworks that support children as active researchers and designers in...
Place matters: pedagogies of food, ecology and design
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Mapping Sustainability Initiatives Across a Region: An Innovative Survey Approach
The project of mapping sustainability initiatives across a region is part of a larger program of...
Place and sustainability literacy in schools and teacher education
Place, sustainability and literacy in environmental education: frameworks for teaching and learning
The ‘ecologisation’ of Australian primary schools brings new opportunities for curriculum...
A pedagogy of 'organized chaos': ecological learning in primary schools
In this paper we theorize an “enabling place pedagogy� drawn from the findings of two studies...
Locating myself in the research
Learning in place: Pedagogical pathways for place-making
Food gardens: Cultivating a pedagogy of place
From wilderness to the educational heart: A Tasmanian story of place