BA/BEd, BEd (Honours), PhD, CELTA Daniel is an experienced educator and researcher with expertise in literacy theory and pedagogy, curriculum theory, and academic development. He is particularly interested in understanding how language and knowledge structures influence access to education. Daniel’s teaching experience involves literacy support for primary, secondary, and tertiary students, particularly students from low-SES backgrounds, students from non-English speaking backgrounds, Indigenous students, and students with disabilities. His work has been recognised with an Executive Dean’s Teaching Excellence Award (2023) and Vice-Chancellor’s Teaching Excellence Award (2024). Daniel’s research draws on theoretical frameworks from Linguistics and Sociology to investigate Education from a variety of perspectives, including data from teachers and principals, student writing, examiner reports, subreddit discussions, and media releases from politicians. Daniel’s doctoral research investigated senior secondary English, using on data from curriculum documents, student writing, student interviews, and classroom observations. Drawing on Systemic Functional Linguistics and Legitimation Code Theory, he examined how the subject's language and knowledge structures positioned an ideal student (which impacted how students not from this ideal engaged with curriculum and assessment). After completing his PhD, Daniel continued to research Education from a variety of perspectives, including the influence of Large Language Models on literacy development, political influences on the Australian Curriculum, approaches to writing pedagogy at university, and definitions of literacy. Research interests Current projects Professional membership Professional service
Teaching and Research Staff
Dr Daniel W. J. Anson
Lecturer in Education – Language and Literacy
Port Macquarie
Building 802, Room 2154 (Desk 6)