Tanya Wiggins

Position: Scholarly Teaching Fellow
Study Area: Institute of Education
Location: Mt Helen Campus, Room 316A
Phone: 03 5327 9751
Email: t.wiggins@federation.edu.au

Qualifications

Masters of Education – Federation University Australia – 2021

Diploma of Education – Latrobe University – 1999

Bachelor of Applied Science (Human Movement) – RMIT - 1995

Teaching

Course(s)

  • Bachelor of Education

Unit(s)

  • Literacy and Numeracy (EDBED1011)
  • Learning and Teaching (EDBED1016)
  • Child and Adolescent Development and Characteristics (EDBED1017)
  • Health and Physical Education (EDBED1018)
  • Diversity and Inclusion (EDBED2010)
  • Education for Sustainability (EDBED3118)
  • Responding to Challenge - Trauma Informed Practice (EDBED4010)
  • Primary Humanities (EDBED4011)

Biography

Tanya has more than 20 years of educational experience, in primary school settings in metropolitan and regional Victoria as a classroom teacher and in educational leadership.  She has a particular interest in developing programs for students that enable place-based connections to the local community as a key learning approach.

Research Interests

  • Sustainability education
  • Place based education
  • Community as a resource for deep learning
  • Humanities Education
  • Mindfulness as wellbeing practice in schools

Associations

  • Geography Teachers Association Victoria (GTAV)
  • History Teachers Association Victoria (HTAV)