Mr Matthew Wilson-Wheeler

Matt Wilson-Wheeler is a convenor of the primary teacher education program at the Ourimbah campus of the University of Newcastle and has been involved in Intitial Teacher Education in New Zealand and Australia for the last ten years. He is interested in exploring the production of academic subjectivities and how they are traversed by psychologising discourses and furthermore, how this knowledge might be used to inform practice and policy. In addition he is interested in the implementation and use of information and communication technologies in 21^st classrooms.

Current Work: Currently, Matt is writing up his doctoral thesis examining the discursive constitution of academic ‘underachievement’. Specifically, his thesis aims to hegemonic understandings of academic ‘underachievement’by considering the complexity of the discourses that constitute primary school students academic subjectivities.