Education

Dr Peta Heywood has 30 years of teaching experience including teacher education and professional development. Her ongoing interest is in the area of teaching and learning and how this can be made more effective for both students and teachers. As a lifelong learner herself, the challenge to engage individuals in their own continuous learning experience in a world of rapid change is of particular concern. She completed her doctorate, an investigation into transformative learning and adolescents titled Breaking the mind-forg’d manacles: a study of adolescent transformational learning.

Englishsteps 1-6, 1999-2000, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne. Peta Heywood (principle author) and Rob Heywood. This is a primary series consisting of six books:

• Englishworks 1, 1995, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne. Heywood P. (principle author), Carozzi B., McCann T.
• Englishworks Collection 1, 1995, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne. Heywood P. (principle author), Carozzi B., McCann T.
• Englishworks Teacher’s Book 1, 1995, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne. Heywood P. (principle author), Carozzi B., McCann T.
• Mindworks, Heywood P (principal author), McClenaghan D, Trotter S, Cambridge University Press, 1990. Year 8 English activities book.
• Passwords, Heywood P. (principal author) and Trotter S., Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovitch, 1990. (Year seven English).
• Thoughtworks, P. Heywood et al, Cambridge University Press, 1988. Year Seven English activities book.

Chapters in Books:

Winning Teachers, chapter in Perspectives on Small Group Learning, M. Brubacher et al, 1990, Rubicon Publishing Inc., Canada Books/Monographs

Learning joyfully: an emotional and transformative experience, Mind, body and society: emerging understandings of knowing and learning, Gunn, S, Begg, A. (eds), 2001, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne

Bleeding on the page: passion and process in writing research, Being, seeking, telling: expressive approaches to qualitative adult education research, Willis, P., Smith, R., Collins, E. (Eds), 2000, Post Pressed, Flaxton Qld.

Unrefereed Journal Articles:

Developing lifelong learners, Learning Matters, V1, no1., Catholic Education Office, 1997

From mixed ability to mixed learning styles, in Ethos, Journal of the Victorian Association of Social Studies Teachers, 1994.

Libraries are for life, Idiom No 1, 1992, journal of the Victorian Association for the Teaching of English.

We’re all in this together, in Ethos, 1989.

The Remedial Womb, Idiom No. 2, 1984, reprinted in ‘Fine Print 7-1, 1985.