Dr Ron Tooth

Adjunct Associate Professor

School of Education

r.tooth@uq.edu.au

Researcher biography

Dr Ron Tooth is the founding Principal of the Pullenvale Environmental Education Centre and an applied educational researcher and leader in environmental education. Ron has worked with a creative team of 'teacher artists' at the Pullenvale Environmental Education Centre for many years to pioneer and refine the Storythread Pedagogy. Ron has an extended history of professional engagement with teachers and students through the Pullenvale Environmental Education Centre, as well as through his scholarly inquiry into the forms of narrative and place-based pedagogy that emerged from this prolonged professional engagement. He is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Education at the University of Queensland and is currently working on a joint Australian Research Council Project with the university that is focusing on Place based Pedagogy and Learning Beyond the Classroom.

Publications

Book Chapters (7)

Journal Articles (2)

Thesis (1)

Book Chapters

Tooth, Ron (2018). Pedagogy as story in landscape. Diverse pedagogies of place: educating students in and for local and global environments. (pp. 45-69) edited by Peter Renshaw and Ron Tooth. Abingdon, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom: Taylor and Francis. doi: 10.4324/9781315695389

Tooth, Ron and Renshaw, Peter (2018). Place-responsive design for school settings. Diverse pedagogies of place: educating students in and for local and global environments. (pp. 172-189) edited by Peter Renshaw and Ron Tooth. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315695389-9

Tooth, Ron and Renshaw, Peter (2018). Pedagogy as advocacy in and for place. Diverse pedagogies of place: educating students in and for local and global environments. (pp. 22-44) edited by Peter Renshaw and Ron Tooth. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315695389-2

Renshaw, Peter and Tooth, Ron (2018). Diverse place-responsive pedagogies: historical, professional and theoretical threads. Diverse pedagogies of place: educating students in and for local and global environments. (pp. 1-21) edited by Peter Renshaw and Ron Tooth. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315695389-1

Renshaw, Peter and Tooth, Ron (2016). Perezhivanie mediated through narrative place-responsive pedagogy. Open spaces for interactions and learning diversities. (pp. 13-23) edited by Alessio Surian. Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense Publishers. doi: 10.1007/978-94-6300-340-7_2

Tooth, Ron and Renshaw, Peter (2012). Storythread pedagogy for environmental education. Changing schools: Alternative ways to make a world of difference. (pp. 113-127) edited by Terry Wrigley, Pat Thomson and Bob Lingard. London, England, U.K.: Routedge. doi: 10.4324/9780203818206-15

Tooth, Ron (2010). Using a new body/mind place-based narrative pedagogy to teach values education in the age of sustainability. International Research Handbook on Values Education and Student Wellbeing. (pp. 937-945) edited by Terence Lovat, Ron Toomey and Neville Clement. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer Netherlands. doi: 10.1007/978-90-481-8675-4

Journal Articles

Renshaw, Peter, Jackson, Kirsty, Mortlock, Harriet and Tooth, Ron (2023). Enchantment and digital technologies: cultivating children’s enchantment with the more-than-human through video-walks in local places. The Journal of Environmental Education, 54 (1), 20-32. doi: 10.1080/00958964.2022.2152408

Tooth, Ron and Renshaw, Peter (2009). Reflections on pedagogy and place: A journey into learning for sustainability through environmental narrative and deep attentive reflection. Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 25, 95-104. doi: 10.1017/s0814062600000434

Thesis

Tooth, Ronald Clifford (2007). Growing a sense of place: Storythread and the transformation of a school. PhD Thesis, School of Education, University of Queensland.