Rate My Professor Eisuke Saito

Eisuke Saito is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Education Culture & Society within the Faculty of Education at Monash University, a position he has held since January 2016. Originally from Japan, he brings extensive international experience, having served as a consultant on educational development in Asian countries such as Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Vietnam from 2001 to 2008, and as a faculty member at the National Institute of Education, Singapore from 2008 to 2015. During his time in Singapore, he was an Assistant Professor in the Curriculum, Teaching & Learning Academic Group at Nanyang Technological University. Saito's career encompasses both practical consultancy and academic research in primary and secondary schools, teacher education, adult basic literacy, and special needs education across Asia. He conceptualizes schools as policy-making units, with a particular emphasis on reform processes through initiatives like lesson study for learning community (LSLC), which he has promoted in Indonesia since 2004 and Vietnam since 2006.

Saito's research specializations include school reform, teacher professional development and learning, collaborative learning, teacher identity, and social justice issues in education. He leads projects such as investigating education networks in Australia, the United Kingdom, and Asia (2024), supporting master’s students to publish in medicine and education (2024-2025), and teacher capacity building through LSLC in Indonesia (2017-2018). His scholarly contributions comprise 112 outputs, including recent publications like “I am rooted, but I flow”: a photovoice investigation into the (re)construction of professional identity among immigrant early childhood educators in Australia (2026, International Journal of Educational Research); A boundary-crossing journey: from a Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) student to a CALD teacher, then becoming a CALD researcher—An autoethnography of an Australian immigrant teacher (2025, The Australian Educational Researcher); and Conceptualizing student wellbeing in secondary education: a qualitative systematic literature review (2025, International Journal of Adolescence and Youth). Saito has received the Monash Warwick Alliance Activation Award (2023) and Recognition for exceptional contribution to the Faculty (2019). He serves on the editorial boards of Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education (since 2021) and Journal of Further and Higher Education (2021-2025), and delivers conference presentations, such as at the Australian Teacher Education Association Conference (2025).