Professor Ron Toomey

Professor Ron Toomey
Emeritus Professor – University of Victoria
Australia

Professor Toomey has held numerous positions within education – Secondary school teacher; State Education authority curriculum developer; educational administrator within the Victorian HSC examinations’
authority; a university academic in a number of Australian education faculties; and Foundation Head of the College of Education at Victoria University.

When Professor Toomey retired from the position of Foundation Head, he was appointed to Adjunct Professor positions at LaTrobeUniversity, the Australian Catholic University and the University of Newcastle. In these roles, he worked
on several national projects in the areas of values education, a field in which he has worked since the 1970s.

He is currently working with colleagues from James Madison University in Virginia on a five-year long project sponsored by the International Beliefs and Values Institute titled ‘Creating the Globally Sustainable Self’.

 

Books

Values and the Core Curriculum in Secondary Schools, Curriculum Development Centre: Canberra (1981) with D. Chipley.

Values Pedagogy and Student Achievement – Contemporary Research Evidence, Springer Press (2011) with T. Lovat, K. Dally and N. Clement.

Teacher Education and Values Pedagogy, David Barlow Publishing: Terrigal (2010) with T. Lovat, K. Dally and N. Clement.

International Research Handbook on Values Education and Student Wellbeing, Springer Publishing: Dordrect (2010) with T. Lovat, K. Dally and N. Clement.

Values Education Quality Teaching and Service Learning: A Troika for Effective Teaching and Teacher Education, Terrigal: David Barlow Publishing (2009) with T. Lovat, N. Clement, R. Crotty and T. Neilsen.

Values Education and Quality Teaching: The Double Helix Effect (2nd Edition), Dordrect: Springer Press (2009) with T. Lovat.