Associate Professor Will Letts

Dr Will Letts is the Associate Dean, Academic, in the Faculty of Arts and Education.

Research

January 2000 - Present

• Principal Investigator: Aboriginal teachers' understandings about the nexus between Western and Aboriginal scientific worldviews: Implications for the school science curriculum. 
• Principal Investigator: Being a(t) risk: Examining the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender teachers and administrators.
• Centre for Cultural Research into Risk, Charles Sturt University.

University Committees

• University Learning & Teaching Committee
• Professional Development Providers Network
• Tertiary Teaching Colloquium, Co-convenor

Faculty and School of Teacher Education

• Chair, Faculty Learning and Teaching Committee
• Faculty Board
• Faculty Courses Committee
• Faculty Assessment Working Party
• School of Teacher Education Research & Development Committee
• Graduate Diploma (Secondary) Management Committee
• Early Childhood Courses Committee
• Primary Courses Committee
• School of Teacher Education Ethics delegate

Professional Membership / Activity

• Editor, Education in Rural Australia 2000 [starting with Volume 10]-present
• Editorial Board Member, Journal of Gay & Lesbian Issues in Education
• Editorial Board Member, Journal of Curriculum & Pedagogy
• Member, Aboriginal Education Working Party, NSW Institute of Teachers
• National Tertiary Education Union, Member, Education Policy Committee, 2006-present
• American Educational Research Association
• Curriculum and Pedagogy Association
• Australian Association for Research in Education
• National Association of Research in Science Teaching
• Australian Teacher Education Association

Chapters

• Letts, W. & Meyenn, B. 2007. Sex, gender and sexuality: Windows to identity. In S. Knipe (Ed.) Middle years schooling; Reframing adolescence. Sydney: Pearson.
• Green, B. & Letts, W. 2007. Space, equity and rural education: A trialectical account. In K. Gulson & C. Symes (Eds.). Spatial theories of education: policy and geography matters, London: Routledge.

Refereed Journal Articles

• Dagher, Z., Brickhouse, N., Shipman, H., & Letts, W. 2004. How some college students represent their understanding of scientific theories. International Journal of Science Education, 26(6), 735-755.

Other Publications

• Letts, W. 2006, I can't even think straight: Queer childhood and adolescence, Journal of Gay and Lesbian Issues in Education, 3(2/3), 163-166.
• Letts, W., Novak, M., Gottschall, K., Green, B., & Meyenn, B. 2005. Different Places, Familiar Spaces: Rural and Remote Education as Situated Practice in Report of the consultation on future directions for public education and training: 'One size doesn't fit all', NSW Department of Education & Training, Sydney.
• Letts, W. 2005. Science, the teaching of in J.T. Sears (Ed.) Youth, education & sexualities: An international enclycopedia. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group.
• Letts, W. 2005. Sissy boy in J.T. Sears (Ed.) Youth, education & sexualities: An international enclycopedia. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group.

Invited Presentations

• Cartographies of homophobia, paper presented at 'That's so gay':Addressing homophobia in education settings, Sydney, May 2006.
• Tackling the 'problem' of boys and writing through science: A Quality Teaching Action Learning project at Chester Hill North Primary School, paper presented at the Boys Out West conference, Dubbo, September 2005.

Refereed Presentations

• Interrogating the reflexive subject in/of teacher education, paper presented with Wendy Hastings at the annual conference of the Australian Association for Research in Education, Adelaide, November 2006.
• To be completely honest I knew that it probably wasn't what I wanted to do: Why men leave the primary teaching profession, paper presented with Rob Haigh at the annual conference of the Australian Association for Research in Education, Adelaide, November 2006.
• Thinking differently about indigenous education in New South Wales, paper presented at the Curriculum & Pedagogy conference, Balcones, TX, October 2006.
• Bringing feminist poststructuralism to bear on [mathematics] teacher education, paper presentation in the symposium entitled 'Researching identity in mathematics teacher education' at the annual meeting of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, Canberra, July 2006.
• I don't go around saying I'm out at work, but there's no one who doesn't know: Negotiating identities by enacting strategies to resist homophobic labelling in schools, paper presented at the Curriculum & Pedagogy conference, Oxford, OH, October 2005.
• Re-placing equity: Space and equity in [rural] education, paper presentation with Bill Green, Curriculum & Pedagogy conference, Oxford, OH, October 2005.
• I don't go around saying I'm out at work, but there's no one who doesn't know: Negotiating identities by enacting strategies to resist homophobic labelling in schools, paper presented at the Schooling & Sex/ualities Conference, Melbourne, September 2005.
• Using feminist poststructuralism to re-view Schwab's commonplaces of teaching, mining the resultant problematics, paper presented At the Qualitative Research as Interpretive Practice Conference, Albury, September 2005.
• The Cultural Plunge as Queer Identity Exploration, paper presentation in the symposium entitled 'Teacher Education and the (Im)Possibilities of Schooling, Young People, and Sex/ualities: A Curriculum Approach' at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Montreal, April 2005.
• Using feminist poststructuralism to re-view Schwab's commonplaces, mining the resultant problematics, paper presentation in the symposium 'Poststructuralist possibilities: Using feminist poststructuralist theories for making sense in science education research', annual conference of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching, Dallas, April 2005.