Professor Susan Groundwater- Smith is one of Australia's greatest academic practitioners who has remained close to practitioners in schools. She has over 50 years of teaching and academic experience in both mainstream and special education.

She's the author of many scholarly books and peer reviewed journal articles. Plus, she has published resources, commentary, and numerous reports. Susan has a particular literary obsession, and in her writing about schools, teachers, and young people, she possesses conceptual and philosophical arguments, but always strongly grounded in the world of practice itself.

Show Notes

Groundwater -Smith, S. (Ed). (2025). Hope, Wisdom and Courage: Teaching and learning practices in today’s schools and beyond. Berlin: Peter Lang.  

Groundwater-Smith, S. (2023). Why Listen? Student Voice Work Defended: Students as ‘Expert Witnesses’ to Their Experiences in Schools and Other Sites of Learning. In K. E. Reimer, M. Kaukko, S. Windsor, K. Mahon & S. Kemmis (Eds.), Living well in a world worth living in for all (Volume 1: Current practices of social justice, sustainability, and wellbeing). Singapore: Springer.  

Groundwater-Smith, S. & Mockler, N. (2022). Researching education. In A. Welch et al (Eds.) Education, change and Society. Fifth Edition, Oxford University Press, pp. 392 – 427. 

Groundwater-Smith, S. (2022). "Conversations and the reflexive turn in social practice". In Ewing, R., Waugh, F. & Smith, D. L. (Eds.), Reflective practice in education and social work: Interdisciplinary explorations, London: Routledge. 

Groundwater-Smith, S. (2016). Why student voice matters: The reinvention of power in a participative democracy, Education Canada, 56(4). 

Hosts: Associate Professor Don Carter and Associate Professor Jane Hunter, members of the Life-wide Learning and Education Research Group in the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences at the University of Technology Sydney. 

Credits

Hosts: Associate Professor Don Carter and Associate Professor Jane Hunter, members of the Life-wide Learning and Education Research Group in the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences at the University of Technology Sydney. 

Producer: William Verity from Verity Media.

Made on Gadigal Country of the Eora Nation, with respect to Elders past, present and emerging.