Transforming Pedagogies Through Engagement with Learners, Teachers and Communities

Dr. Dat Bao has worked with Leeds Metropolitan University in the UK, Cornell University in the US, the National University of Singapore, the Assumption University of Thailand, and over the past thirteen years has lectured in Monash University. His expertise includes creative pedagogy, curriculum design, intercultural communication, materials development, classroom silence, literacy development, and visual pedagogy in language education. He is the author of Understanding Silence and Reticence: Nonverbal participation in Second Language Acquisition (2014), Poetry for Education. Classroom Ideas that Inspire Creativity (2017), Creativity and Innovations in ELT Material Development: Looking beyond the Current Design (2018). Dr. Thanh Pham has been working in higher education for more than 10 years. Her main research areas are graduate employability, intercultural education, and education internationalisation. She has been conducting substantial research on internationalisation of higher education curricula and enhancing interactions of students from various backgrounds and contexts. Thanh is heavily researching graduate employability with a focus on unpacking how graduates develop strategies to navigate barriers in the labour markets. She has conducted research in various countries and developed comparative models showing resources/capitals that graduates should be aware of and develop so that they could thrive in both host and home labour markets. Her research has been published on a range of reputational journals and book publishers. Thanh has also successfully transferred her research into teaching by developing new teaching courses about education to work transitions at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.