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.
Book: Diverse pedagogies of place : educating students in and for local and global environments
Diverse pedagogies of place : educating students in and for local and global environments. Edited by Peter Renshaw and Ron Tooth London, United Kingdom: Routledge, 2018.
Book Chapter: Diverse place-responsive pedagogies: historical, professional and theoretical threads
Renshaw, Peter and Tooth, Ron (2018). Diverse place-responsive pedagogies: historical, professional and theoretical threads. In Peter Renshaw and Ron Tooth (Ed.), Diverse pedagogies of place: educating students in and for local and global environments (pp. 1-21) Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781315695389
Book Chapter: Pedagogy as advocacy in and for place
Tooth, Ron and Renshaw, Peter (2018). Pedagogy as advocacy in and for place. In Peter Renshaw and Ren Tooth (Ed.), Diverse pedagogies of place: educating students in and for local and global environments (pp. 22-44) Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781315695389
(2010–2013) ARC Linkage Projects
Diverse pedagogies of place : educating students in and for local and global environments
Diverse pedagogies of place : educating students in and for local and global environments. Edited by Peter Renshaw and Ron Tooth London, United Kingdom: Routledge, 2018.
Diverse pedagogies of place: educating students in and for local and global environments
Renshaw, Peter and Tooth, Ron Diverse pedagogies of place: educating students in and for local and global environments. Abingdon, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom: Taylor and Francis, 2017. doi:10.4324/9781315695389
Diverse place-responsive pedagogies: historical, professional and theoretical threads
Renshaw, Peter and Tooth, Ron (2018). Diverse place-responsive pedagogies: historical, professional and theoretical threads. In Peter Renshaw and Ron Tooth (Ed.), Diverse pedagogies of place: educating students in and for local and global environments (pp. 1-21) Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781315695389
Pedagogy as advocacy in and for place
Tooth, Ron and Renshaw, Peter (2018). Pedagogy as advocacy in and for place. In Peter Renshaw and Ren Tooth (Ed.), Diverse pedagogies of place: educating students in and for local and global environments (pp. 22-44) Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781315695389
Place-responsive design for school settings
Tooth, Ron and Renshaw, Peter (2018). Place-responsive design for school settings. In Peter Renshaw and Ron Tooth (Ed.), Diverse pedagogies of place: educating students in and for local and global environments (pp. 172-189) Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781315695389
Pedagogy as story in landscape
Tooth, Ron (2017). Pedagogy as story in landscape. In Diverse pedagogies of place: educating students in and for local and global environments (pp. 45-69) Abingdon, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom: Taylor and Francis. doi:10.4324/9781315695389
Perezhivanie mediated through narrative place-responsive pedagogy
Renshaw, Peter and Tooth, Ron (2016). Perezhivanie mediated through narrative place-responsive pedagogy. In Alessio Surian (Ed.), Open spaces for interactions and learning diversities (pp. 13-23) Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense Publishers. doi:10.1007/978-94-6300-340-7_2
Storythread pedagogy for environmental education
Tooth, Ron and Renshaw, Peter (2012). Storythread pedagogy for environmental education. In Terry Wrigley, Pat Thomson and Bob Lingard (Ed.), Changing schools: Alternative ways to make a world of difference (pp. 113-127) London, England, U.K.: Routedge.
Tooth, Ron (2010). Using a new body/mind place-based narrative pedagogy to teach values education in the age of sustainability. In Terence Lovat, Ron Toomey and Neville Clement (Ed.), International Research Handbook on Values Education and Student Wellbeing (pp. 937-945) Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer Netherlands. doi:10.1007/978-90-481-8675-4
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.
Growing a sense of place: Storythread and the transformation of a school
Tooth, Ronald Clifford (2007). Growing a sense of place: Storythread and the transformation of a school PhD Thesis, School of Education, University of Queensland.
(2010–2013) ARC Linkage Projects