Overseas trained teachers: Enablers and constraints to professional practice and social integration into the Australian education system.
Principal Supervisor: Dr Andrew Langat
Co-Supervisor: Professor Christine Edwards-Groves
My research project is about overseas trained teachers, their experiences, and how they negotiate the transition of their professional practice into the Australian education context. The project uses the theories of Practice Architectures, Ecologies of Practices, and the concept of travelling practices as the lens to examine practices that constitute professional practices and the conditions that enable and constrain the practices.
Before I began my PhD studies, I had enrolled and completed the Graduate Certificate in Secondary Education (Business Studies) program and the Master of Education (Research) degree at CSU. After completing the programs, I developed an interest in pursuing further studies at CSU. The choice of research interest for the PhD project arose from the challenges I encountered in my lived experience as an overseas trained teacher resuming my professional career in a country I had migrated to.
Member of the Professional Practice, Learning and Education Research Group – a CSU Faculty of Arts and Education research group.
Member of the Pedagogy, Education and Praxis Australia – an international network.
Matimba, G. (2016). International teacher migration: Double -edged experiences of African teachers in the diaspora and the implications for the source country. Paper presented at the African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific (AFSAAP). Proceedings of the 38th AFSAAP Conference: 21st Century Tensions and Transformation in Africa, Deakin University, 28th – 30th October 2015 (Published February 2016)
Matimba, G. (2015). Overseas trained teachers: A comparative survey of literature about their experiences in Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Paper presented at the Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) Conference, 29 November – 3 December 2015, University of Notre Dame, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.