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Robyn M Gillies

Professor of Education at The University of Queensland

The University of Queensland

About me

Robyn Gillies is a Professor of Education at The University of Queensland. Her research focuses on the social and cognitive aspects of learning through social interaction. She has spent over twenty years researching how students can be encouraged to engage in class and learn. Her research spans both primary and secondary schools and has focused on inquiry learning in science and mathematics, teacher and peer-mediated learning, student-centred learning, including cooperative learning pedagogical practices, and classroom discourses and processes related to learning outcomes.