Rate My Professor Jennifer Gore

Professor Gore's research focuses on quality and equity in education, including teacher socialisation, power relations in teaching, pedagogical reform, teacher education reform, and teacher development. She has secured more than $23 million in external research funding since 1992 and contributed to numerous large grants. Widely published with over 10,400 citations, her key works include books such as 'The Struggle for Pedagogies: Critical and Feminist Discourses as Regimes of Truth' (1993), 'Prepared to Teach: An Investigation into the Preparation of Teachers to Teach Literacy and Numeracy' (2005), and 'Community Matters' (2023), as well as influential articles like 'Towards better teaching: productive pedagogy as a framework for teacher education' (2004, Teaching and Teacher Education) and 'Effects of professional development on the quality of teaching: Results from a randomised controlled trial of Quality Teaching Rounds' (2017, Teaching and Teacher Education). Her research has impacted school systems through consultancies in NSW and the ACT. Awards include Member of the Order of Australia (2024), ACEL Educational Leadership Award (2023), Excellence Award for Outstanding Engagement for Research Impact (2022), Dr Paul Brock Memorial Medal (2018), and ACDE Award for Outstanding Service to Education (2017). She is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (2023), Royal Society of NSW (2021), and American Educational Research Association (2020), and has served as Associate Editor for Teaching and Teacher Education (2003-2010).