Dr Peta Salter, B.A.(Hons.), B.Ed., G.C.Ed.(Asian Studies), Ph.D., began her educational career as a secondary History and English teacher before commencing sessional employment with James Cook University, leading to doctoral studies and her current appointment in Education.

Peta’s teaching has focused on work-integrated learning approaches to enriching pre-service teachers’ efficacy and understandings of the contexts and communities in which they teach to support and develop ‘classroom-readiness’.  Peta’s research examines the epistemological and ontological assumptions in intercultural policy in Australian education and their impacts on curriculum and pedagogy enacted by ‘classroom-ready’ teachers. Recent projects include supporting cultural sustainability and embedding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledges in teacher education, and service learning curriculum and pedagogy design with a focus on critical global citizenship and student agency. 

Most recently, Peta’s teaching and research was recognised in 2017 by way of a JCU Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning through innovation, leadership and scholarship that has influenced and enhanced learning and teaching and the student experience. Her current role is Director of RATEP (JCU): a community based Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander teacher education program offered in partnership with the Queensland Department of Education and Training, TAFE Queensland North (TQN), James Cook University (JCU) and the Torres Strait Islanders' Regional Education Council (TSIRECC). 

Recently completed projects:

2015-2017 Co-leader. 

Office for Learning and Teaching Strategic Priority Commissioned Project  - Educating diverse learners for local/global citizenship: Curriculum and pedagogical frameworks that bring global perspectives from the periphery to the core  (partnership with Western Sydney University)

2015-2016 Project leader

Action for Sustainability grant JCU - Supporting preservice teachers’ engagement with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Knowledges to promote cultural sustainability (collaboration with Shalom Christian College)

2014- 2015 Project leader

Cairns Institute grant - Cultural Sustainability and Embedding Indigenous Knowledges in Teacher Education  (James Cook University)

Teaching

• ED2491: Planning for Engaging Learning (Level 2; ONL & TSV)
• ED3297: Reflective Teaching Cycles and Positive Learning Environments (Secondary) (Level 3; TSV)
• ED5959: Teaching for Learning in Secondary Contexts (Level 5; CNS & TSV)
• ED5987: Service Learning (Secondary) (Level 5; TSV)

Interests

Research

• Currently, I am working on a number of projects in educational policy analysis and initial teacher education. This includes critical approaches to the development and enactment of education policy pertaining to intercultural policy and curriculum, particularly the cross curriculum priorities in the Australian curriculum, and expanding notions of professional experience and ‘classroom readiness’ beyond classroom walls to enrich pre-service teachers’ efficacy and understandings of the contexts and communities in which they teach.

Experience

• 2022 to present - Bachelor of Education (Secondary) Course Coordinator, James Cook University
• 2019 to present - Senior Lecturer in Education, James Cook University
• 2017 to present - RATEP Academic Coordinator, Community-based Indigenous Teacher Education, James Cook University
• 2014 to 2018 - Lecturer in Education, James Cook University
• 2016 - Course Coordinator Graduate Certificate in Education (Secondary), James Cook University

Research Disciplines

• Curriculum and pedagogy (3901)
• Specialist studies in education (3904)

Socio-Economic Objectives

• Teaching and curriculum (1603)

Awards

• 2021 - JCU Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning. Curriculum renewal to strengthen evidence-informed practice of preservice teachers from novice to graduate standard of practice.
• 2019 - Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education Best Paper Award: Balancing classroom ready with community ready: enabling agency to engage with community through critical service learning
• 2018 - Australian Award for University Teaching Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning. Enabling teachers as change agents through service learning: Maximising professional capacities, community outcomes and local global citizenship.
• 2018 - The Australian Educational Researcher Best Paper Award: The re-creation and resolution of the 'problem' of Indigenous education in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cross-curriculum priority. (coauthor)
• 2017 - JCU Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning. Enabling teachers as change agents through service learning: Maximising professional capacities, community outcomes and local global citizenship.
• 2017 - New Colombo Plan Mobility Grant ($49 500), Education for Sustainable futures: JCU Education Service Learning Placement in Cambodia
• 2015 - Research Performance Award: Commendation for External Research Income (College of Arts, Social Sciences and Education, JCU)
• 2013 - Phd. James Cook University
• 2011 - Australian Postgraduate Award (APA) Recipient
• 2011 - Sessional Teaching Award for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning (JCU)

Memberships

• Golden Key International Honour Society
• Australian Curriculum Studies Association
• Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia
• Queensland College of Teachers
• Queensland History Teachers' Association
• Australian Association of Research in Education
• Australian Teacher Education Association

These are the most recent publications associated with this author. To see a detailed profile of all publications stored at JCU, visit ResearchOnline@JCU. Hover over Altmetrics badges to see social impact.

Journal Articles

• Salter P, Halbert K, Howard E, Bhati A, Wong C, Miles D and Jones P (2021) A continuum for global citizenship: analyzing the complex transformations of service-learning. International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, 22 (2). pp. 199-211
• Halbert K and Salter P (2019) Decentring the 'places' of citizens in national curriculum: the Australian history curriculum. The Curriculum Journal, 30 (1). pp. 8-23
• Salter P and Halbert K (2019) Balancing classroom ready with community ready: enabling agency to engage with community through critical service learning. Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 47 (1). pp. 5-17
• Maxwell J, Lowe K and Salter P (2018) The re-creation and resolution of the 'problem' of Indigenous education in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cross-curriculum priority. Australian Educational Researcher, 45 (2). pp. 161-177
• Acton R, Salter P, Lenoy M and Stevenson R (2017) Conversations on cultural sustainability: stimuli for embedding Indigenous knowledges and ways of being into curriculum. Higher Education Research & Development, 36 (7). pp. 1311-1325
• Salter P and Halbert K (2017) Constructing the [parochial] global citizen. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 15 (5). pp. 694-705
• Salter P and Maxwell J (2017) Navigating the 'inter' in intercultural education . Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 39 (1). pp. 15-30
• Salter P and Maxwell J (2016) The inherent vulnerability of the Australian Curriculum's cross-curriculum priorities. Critical Studies in Education, 57 (3).

Book Chapters

• Doyle T, Evans N and Salter P (2021) Opportunities and tensions in the experiences of collaborative professionalism during the enactment of the GTPA. In: Teaching Performance Assessment as a Cultural Disruptor in Initial Teacher Education: Standards, Evidence and Collaboration. Teacher Education, Learning Innovation and Accountability. Springer, Singapore, pp. 81-94
• Hill A, Salter P and Halbert K (2018) The critical global citizen. In: The Globalisation of Higher Education: developing internationalised education in research and practice. Palgrave Macmillan, Sydney, NSW, Australia, pp. 103-116
• Salter P (2018) Spaces for variations in the Asia Literacy 'Policy Gap'. In: Asia Literacy in a Global World: an Australian perspective. Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: issues, concerns and prospects, 45. Springer, Singapore, pp. 87-100
• Salter P, Halbert K, Howard E, Singh M, Miles D, Jones P, Bhati A, Wong C and Han J (2018) Local connections, global perspectives. In: The Globalisation of Higher Education: developing internationalised education in research and practice. Palgrave Macmillan, Sydney, NSW, Australia, pp. 61-78

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ResearchOnline@JCU stores 27+ research outputs authored by Dr Peta Salter from 2009 onwards.

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These Higher Degree Research projects are either current or by students who have completed their studies within the past 5 years at JCU. Linked titles show theses available within ResearchOnline@JCU.

Current

• Improving Chinese Language Teachers' Approaches to Teaching Chinese Writing Proficiency Skills via Distance Education - Preparing a Smoother Transition from Junior to Senior Years (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Opposition is True Friendship: Difficult Conversations, History, and Future Flourishing (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Building Teacher Capacity in the Torres Straits (Masters , Secondary Advisor)
• Pre-service teachers? perceptions of embedding traditional Indigenous games within Health and Physical Education teaching practices. (PhD , Primary Advisor)
• Leading for Social Justice in Conservative times (PhD , Secondary Advisor)

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