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Dr Karen Peel

Dr Karen Peel
Name Karen Peel
Position Senior Lecturer (Curriculum and Pedagogy)
Section School of Education
Office G417
Location Toowoomba Campus
Phone +61 7 4631 5439
Extension 5439
Email
Qualifications DipT BrisbaneCAE , BEd BrisbaneCAE , MEd USQ , PhD USQ
Homepage https://research.usq.edu.au/researcher/80qqx/dr-karen-peel
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Dr Karen Peel is a Senior Lecturer of Initial Teacher Education in the School of Education at the University of Southern Queensland. She is an experienced classroom teacher having taught in Australian schools across decades of educational transformations. Her research interests include the implementation of practices for effective teaching and self-regulated learning, classrooms cultures that support positive behaviour and contemporary issues in education that impact outcomes for students and educators


  • Curriculum and Pedagogy Theory and Development ( 130202 )
  • Education not elsewhere classified ( 139999 )
  • Other Education not elsewhere classified ( 399999 )
  • Curriculum And Pedagogy Theory And Development ( 390102 )
  • Curriculum And Pedagogy ( 390100 )
  • Other Education ( 399900 )

Classroom behaviour management
Curriculum and pedagogy
Distance education schooling
Remote education tutors
Self-regulated learning/Self-regulation
Teacher resilience and motivation


Member of:
SPERA (Society for the Provision of Education in Rural Australia)
EAPRIL European Association for Practitioner Research on Improving Learning
Interested in:
ATEA Australian Teacher Education Association
AARE Australian Association for Research in Education
QHTA Queensland History Teacher' Association
Adolescent Success


Member of QCT Queensland College of Teachers


EDC2100 Supportive Learning Environments: Cultivating Effective Classrooms
ESC2111 Positive Behaviour
EDX2190 Humanities and Social Sciences: Evoking Curiosity
EPS2009 Integrating the Humanities and Social Sciences Across the Curriculum


14 Years


30 Years