Bio
Dr Gideon Boadu is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at RMIT University. Dr Boadu has worked in various higher education institutions in Ghana and Australia, accruing valuable experience in undergraduate and postgraduate programs over more than a decade. Dr Boadu has held previous leadership roles as Program Director for postgraduate ITE programs, Head of Department for Initial Teacher Education, and Acting Head of School of Education. At the broadest level, Dr Boadu’s research focuses on history curricula, public histories, practical approaches history teaching and learning, and the ways in which publics make, engage with, and interpret histories. In the last decade, he has investigated teacher disciplinary and pedagogical reasoning and classroom practice, technology-enhanced history teaching including the use of virtual reality, public interpretations of history, family histories, and (pre-service) teacher education policy and practice. Dr Boadu’s current research focuses on young people’s making of histories using photographs and archives, regenerative histories (and futures), representations of historical and democratic consciousness in history curricula, the role of artificial intelligence in education and history, and preservice teacher professional preparation. Dr Boadu also Co-convenes the Critical Forest Collaboratory.