Dr Rebecca Spooner-Lane
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Early Childhood & Inclusive Education
Biography
Dr Rebecca Spooner-Lane is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Early Childhood and Inclusive Education at QUT. As an educator and Psychologist, Rebecca uses her research expertise in quantitative data analysis to explore evidence based research to support and assess the impact of personal and professional development initiatives for teachers at different stages of their career. Rebecca has a keen interest in induction and mentoring, leadership, and teacher’s mental health and well-being. Rebecca has supervised doctoral and master’s students in the areas of teacher self-efficacy, inclusive education, mindfulness, professional identity, intercultural competence, and values education. Rebecca is the book review editor for the Journal of Psychologists and Counsellors in Schools.
Personal details
Positions
- Academic Lead (QTPA)
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Early Childhood & Inclusive Education - Senior Lecturer
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Early Childhood & Inclusive Education
Keywords
Initial Teacher Education, Mentoring and Professional Development & Learning, Profesional Well-being and Self-efficacy, Teaching using a Philosophical Inquiry Aproach
Discipline
Specialist Studies in Education, Education Systems
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- PhD (Queensland University of Technology)
Professional memberships and associations
Teaching
- Unit Coordination
- LCB331/LCN636 Introduction to Educational Counselling
- EDB005 Teaching Learning Studies 5: Professional Work of Teachers (Stepping Out Conference)
- Tutor
- LCB002 Teaching and Learning Studies 2: Development and Learning
- EDN611 Conducting and Evaluating Educational Research
Experience
- Education Trainer for Mentoring Beginning Teachers, DETE
- Coordinator of QUT's Stepping Out Conference
Publications
- Willis J, Churchward P, Beutel D, Spooner-Lane R, Crosswell L, Curtis E, (2019) Mentors for beginning teachers as middle leaders: the messy work of recontextualising, School Leadership and Management, 39 (3-4) p334
- Ngo T, Spooner-Lane R, Mergler A, (2017) A comparison of motivation to learn English between English major and non-English major students in a Vietnamese university, Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 11 (2) p188
- Spooner-Lane R, (2017) Mentoring beginning teachers in primary schools: Research review, Professional Development in Education, 43 (2) p253
- Beutel D, Crosswell L, Willis J, Spooner-Lane R, Curtis E, Churchward P, (2017) Preparing teachers to mentor beginning teachers: an Australian case study, International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching in Education, 6 (3) p164
- Lunn J, Curtis E, Davey Chesters S, Cobb-Moore C, Spooner-Lane R, Whiteford C, Tait G, (2014) Pre-service teachers' epistemic perspectives about philosophy in the classroom: it is not a bunch of 'hippie stuff', Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 20 (2) p170
- Carrington S, Bland D, Spooner-Lane R, White E, (2013) Identifying engaging features of schooling: assessing the psychometric soundness of student-generated research, International Journal of Inclusive Education, 17 (7) p714
- Hudson P, Spooner-Lane R, Murray M, (2013) Making mentoring explicit: articulating pedagogical knowledge practices, School Leadership and Management, 33 (3) p284
- Spooner-Lane R, Tangen D, Campbell M, (2009) The complexities of supporting Asian international pre-service teachers as they undertake practicum, Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 37 (1) p79
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Rebecca, explore their research on ePrints (our digital repository).
Awards
- Type
- Other
- Reference year
- 2015
- Details
- Faculty of Education Quantitative Research Fellow
- Type
- Editorial Role for an Academic Journal
- Reference year
- 2014
- Details
- Book Review Editor for the Journal of Psychologists and Counsellors in Schools
- Type
- Other
- Reference year
- 2014
- Details
- QUT Faculty of Education Teaching and Learning Award: Teaching Excellence (Full Time Academic) Award
- Type
- Editorial Role for an Academic Journal
- Reference year
- 2013
- Details
- Article Editor for SAGE Open
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2011
- Details
- Vice-Chancellor's Award Excellence 2011
- Type
- Funding Award
- Reference year
- 2011
- Details
- Teaching and Learning Initiative Funding $10,000
Incorporating Philosophy into Pre-Service Education: Evaluating Philosophy in Pre-service Education Programs to Inform Existing and Future Programs and Practices in the Faculty of Education at QUT.
Supervision
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- An Investigation Into Students' Motivation to Learn English in Higher Education in Vietnam (2015)
- A contextual analysis of secondary home economic teachers' agency in a time of mandatory curriculum change (2014)
- The Experiences of Teachers Teaching Children with Down Syndrome in the Early Years of Schooling (2014)
- Inclusion, Schools and Anti-Discrimination Law: Parents' Experiences and Inclusion (2013)
- The Heart of Quality Teaching: A Values-based Pedagogy for Pre-service Teacher Education (2012)
- Co-constructing self-efficacy narratives: A study of four mature age university students (2011)