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Dr Margie Appel serves as a Lecturer and Primary ITE Deputy Program Director at the University of Canberra's Faculty of Education since 2018. She also leads the Affiliated Schools Liaison Team and teaches International and Comparative Education at Hangzhou Normal University in China.
Her research focuses on culturally responsive teaching, intercultural competence development, and Indigenous ways of knowing. Key interests include teacher professionalism, transformative pedagogies, and Health and Physical Education curriculum design. Her doctoral research examined international immersion experiences in teacher training.
Recent publications analyze multicultural classroom preparation through study abroad programs, adaptations of participatory action research during pandemics, and critiques of teacher performativity in Australia. Her work demonstrates strong interdisciplinary connections between teacher education, cultural responsiveness, and global learning contexts.
Award highlights include:
- University of Canberra Teaching Excellence Award (2020) for Health and Physical Education Program Delivery
She actively mentors through collaborations with Indigenous scholars on Country as Teacher projects and leads the $95,130 Culturally Responsive Teaching in the ACT research grant. Her professional service includes ACHPER ACT subcommittee secretary and memberships in ATEA, AARE, and IAIR.
Current research initiatives focus on culturally responsive pedagogy implementation in ACT schools through action research with CSC co-investigators, alongside collaborations exploring Indigenous knowledge integration in Health and Wellbeing curricula.
