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Personal profile
Biography
Dr Janet Dutton has extensive experience in leadership and teaching roles in initial teacher education, as a leader of teacher professional development, and as Head Teacher in government and independent schools.
She has worked developing assessment and curriculum at national and state level organisations and was the Chief Examiner, English for the NSW Higher School Certificate, 2011-2016.
Janet has been awarded over $1.5 million in grants for research and education.
She is Co-Chief Investigator and MQ Lead on the Australian Research Council (ARC) grant 'Shifting the Culture of Out-of-field Professional Education for Teachers' (DP240101175).
Since 2021, Janet has led the 'Mid-Career Transition to Teaching' project (MQ School of Education and NSW Department of Education) developing an executive mentoring focused work integrated learning program for STEM career changers entering the Master of Teaching degree. The project has been awarded the 2023 Faculty of Arts Educational Leadership prize and the 2024 Vice-Chancellor's Educational Leadership Prize.
Areas of speciality include:
- Secondary English curriculum and HSC English
- Creative literacy pedagogy
- Teacher motivation and retention
- Out of field teaching (OOFT)
- Teacher identity, voice and reflective practice
Janet’s teaching and research promotes the ways creative pedagogy can enrich student learning and current projects include:
- Investigating English teacher motivation, job satisfaction and resilience
- The impact of high stakes testing on English teacher practice
- The use of identity texts for enhancing literacy and engagement in students from EAL/D and low SES backgrounds
- Out of field teaching (OOFT)
- Developing strategies to enhance pre-service teacher reflexive practice.
Research supervision
HDR students with interests in one of the research projects/topics below are invited to inquire about supervision:
- teaching subject English in secondary schools
- the experiences of mid-career changers transitioning to teaching or
- teacher education students' experiences of paid work in schools prior to graduation.
Community engagement
Janet has strong connections with schools where she delivers professional learning, sustains long term relationships, works with teachers to implement practitioner inquiry projects, and delivers keynote presentations to schools and professional organisations. Many of the projects are in low SES, EAL/D settings working to foster high quality, creative pedagogy.
Education/Academic qualification
Philosophy, Doctor of Philosophy, English teachers in the making: Portraits of pre-service teachers' journeys to teaching, University of Sydney
Award Date: 7 Dec 2017
Education, Graduate Diploma in Education, University of Sydney
Arts, Master of Arts: Literature, University of Sydney
Education, Diploma in Education, University of Sydney
Arts, Bachelor of Arts, University of Sydney
External positions
Co-convenor Australian Englih Teacher Educator Network, Australian English Teacher Educator Network
Feb 2023 → …
Chief Investigator, SCOPE-T: Shifting the Culture of Out-of-field Professional Education for Teachers
Dec 2022 → …
Co-convenor Language & Literacy Special Interest Group, Australian Association of Research in Education (AARE)
Dec 2018 → Dec 2023
Chief Examiner English, Higher School Certificate, New South Wales Education Standards Authority
2012 → 2016
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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BYOD in the History Classroom
Chilton, D., Wilson, K. & Dutton, J.
1/04/24 → 31/03/27
Project: Research
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DP24 (Deakin led): Shifting the Culture of Out-of-field Professional Education for Teachers
Hobbs, L., Goos, M., Oates, G., Dutton, J., Delaney, S., Caldis, S., Cirkony, C. & Ross, E.
13/02/24 → 12/02/27
Project: Research
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Accelerate MTeach Program: Supporting STEM mid-career transition into the teaching profession
Dutton, J., Ryan, M., Hay, I., Hadley, F., De Nobile, J., Caldis, S., Wilson, K., Cavanagh, M., Chu, H. E. & Bower, M.
1/12/21 → 30/06/25
Project: Research
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Usyd led: Best Practice Guidelines for RPL in ITE Programs
Cotton, W., Craddock, S., Little, C., Peralta, L., Tognolini, J., Letts, W., Winslade, M., Wilson, K., Andrews, R., Dutton, J., Bourke, T., Mills, R., White, M., Gregory, S., Adlington, R., Ledger, S., Ersozlu, Z., Prieto-Rodriguez, E. & Cook, P.
5/09/23 → 31/12/23
Project: Research
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Measuring the quality of hub school and university partnerships: a pilot study - Burke Ward Public School
Andrews, R., Powell, S., Hay, I., Wilson, K., Dutton, J. & De Nobile, J.
15/06/23 → 31/12/24
Project: Research
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Using the translanguaging space to facilitate poetic representation of language and identity
Dutton, J. & Rushton, K., 1 Jan 2021, In: Language Teaching Research. 25, 1, p. 105-133 29 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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'Tell me your story': developing creative classrooms
Rushton, K. & Dutton, J., Oct 2020, In: Practical literacy: The early and primary years. 25, 3, p. 14-18 5 p., 146212498.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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'The dream and aspirations of teaching': English teachers' perspectives on sustaining the motivation to teach
Manuel, J., Dutton, J. & Carter, D., 2019, In: English in Australia. 54, 2, p. 5-23 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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How do secondary school English teachers score NAPLAN? A snapshot of English teachers' views
Carter, D., Manuel, J. & Dutton, J., Oct 2018, In: Australian Journal of Language and Literacy. 41, 3, p. 144-154 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A case study of students' and teachers' attitudes towards BYOD and its use within their history classrooms
Chilton, D., Wilson, K. & Dutton, J., Mar 2025, In: Education and Information Technologies. 30, 4, p. 4795-4824 30 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile13 Downloads (Pure)
Prizes
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2024 Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence in Education - Educational Leadership Prize
Dutton, Janet (Recipient), Wilson, Kim (Recipient), Garofano, Rose (Recipient), Holmes, Mikah (Recipient) & Bower, Matt (Recipient), 25 Dec 2024
Prize: Teaching award
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Educational Leader
Dutton, Janet (Recipient), Wilson, Kim (Recipient), Holmes, Mikah (Recipient), Garofano, Rose (Recipient), Bower, Matt (Recipient) & Hay, Iain (Recipient), 2023
Prize: Teaching award
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Writing grant applications: Success with DECRA, ARC, and other grant opportunities
Janet Dutton (Speaker)
24 Jul 2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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We know TES are participating in paid in-school work prior to graduation, but what does it look like?
Janet Dutton (Speaker), Kim Wilson (Speaker), Mikah Holmes (Speaker) & Rose Garofano (Speaker)
10 Jul 2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentation
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Prediction and questioning for effective reading comprehension
Janet Dutton (Invited speaker) & Kim Wilson (Speaker)
31 Jan 2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Best Practice Guidelines for RPL in ITE programs
Kim Wilson (Speaker), Janet Dutton (Speaker) & Wayne Cotton (Speaker)
20 Oct 2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Using systems theory to explore out of field teaching
Linda Hobbs (Speaker), Merrilyn Goos (Speaker), Emily Ross (Speaker), Susan Caldis (Speaker), Janet Dutton (Speaker), Greg Oates (Speaker), Seamus Delaney (Speaker) & Constance Cirkony (Speaker)
21 Aug 2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentation
Press/Media
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NAPLAN change a postive step for individual schools
4/07/24
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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Teacher shortage: how to attract our best and brightest to the profession
31/01/24
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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Teacher influencers: The Instagram side hustle helping educators pay the bills
2/04/23
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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Spotlight on practice: lesson planning for online classes
28/01/21
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment