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Dr Scott Webster

Job title: Senior Lecturer
Qualifications:  Dip.T. (Queensland) B.Ed. (Central Queensland) B.A. (Ambassador USA) M.Sc. (Oxford) PhD (Griffith)
 
Campus: Clayton, Building 6, Room 350
Phone: +61 3 990 50727
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Research Interests

Education Theory

Curriculum Theory and Pedagogy

Reflective Practice

Pre-Service Teaching

Ethics, Values, Spirituality, Meaning of Life

In-Service Teaching

Critical Thinking

Philosophy in Education

Beliefs, attitudes, learning theory

Philosophy of Education

Dewey, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche & Heidegger

Publications

Webster, R. S. (under review). Educating for Meaningful Lives: Through Existential Spirituality. Sense Publishers.

Webster, R. S. (under review). The right to inquire into the religious. International Handbook on Inter-Religious Education.

Webster, R. S. (In Press). Does the Australian National Framework for values education stifle an education for world peace? Educational Philosophy and Theory.

Webster, R. S. (In Press). Why educators should bring an end to pedagogy. The Australian Journal of Teacher Education.

Webster, R. S. (In Press). The educative value of Dewey's religious attitude for spirituality. International Journal of Children's Spirituality.

Webster, R. S. (In Press). Pursuing world peace by promoting 'violence' in education. Educational Philosophy and Theory.

Webster, R. S. (2008). Is knowledge mis-educative? Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia Conference, Brisbane.

Webster, R. S. (2008). How a Deweyan science education further enables ethics education. Science and Education, 17(8-9), 903-919.

Webster, R. S. (2008). Being philosophical regarding the evidence of 'what works' ATEA Conference, Sunshine Coast, Qld.

Webster, R. S. (2007). Centring the subject in order to educate. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 39(5), 519-530.

Webster, R. S. (2006). Educative Teaching. AARE conference, Adelaide.

Webster, R. S. (2005). Personal Identity: moving beyond essence. International Journal of Children's Spirituality, 10(1), 5-16.

Webster, R. S. (2004). Changing pre-service teachers' purposes of education through existential crises. Australian Journal of Education, 48(1), 82-94.

Webster, R. S. (2004). An existential framework of spirituality. International Journal of Children's Spirituality, 9(1), 7-19.

Webster, R. S. (2004). Personal Identity: moving beyond essence. Paper presented at the 5th International Conference In Children's Spirituality, Lincoln, UK.

Webster, R. S. (2004). Is 'education' becoming irrelevant in our research? The Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 29(1), 22-30.