Rate My Professor Leanne Longfellow

Dr Leanne Longfellow is a Lecturer in the School of Education, College of Education, Behavioural and Social Sciences at Adelaide University. With over 30 years of classroom teaching experience across independent, Catholic, and government sectors in South Australia and New South Wales—the bulk in special education within segregated settings—she has more recently engaged in inclusive education to enable all students, including those with disabilities, to access and participate fully in learning alongside peers of similar age. As a consultant in inclusive education, she has supported schools and teachers in implementing modifications to overcome barriers, ensuring equitable and participatory learning experiences for students with disabilities. Her teaching at Adelaide University encompasses courses such as Professional Experience 1: Introduction to Educators' Practices (EDUC 1081), Inclusive Education (EDUC 3055), Teaching Children with Disabilities (EDUC 4100), Honours Educational Research: Theory, Literature and Policy (EDUC 4224), Professional Experience 4 (Honours): Inquiry into Practice (EDUC 4245), and Reflexive Practice and Professional Experience 2: Inquiry into Practice (EDUC 5294), delivered in 2024 and 2025.

Longfellow holds a Doctor of Education from the University of South Australia, obtained between 2009 and 2018. Her research specializations include inclusive education, special education, educating for diversity and inclusion, home-school partnerships with diverse families, and identity, mental health, and ableism in Australian schools. Key publications are 'Identity, mental health, and ableism in Australian schools: findings from a multi-stakeholder survey' (Dee-Price, B. J., Fairweather, A. K., Arthurson, K., & Longfellow, L., 2024, Disability & Society, online(10), 1-19); 'Home-school partnerships with families who are diverse: rhetoric or reality?' (Longfellow, L. S., 2010, SEAA Biennial Conference Proceedings, pp. 1-10); 'The Impact of "Good Mothering" Ideology on Employment of Mothers of People with Disabilities: An Exploration of the South Australian Context' (2017, conference paper); and 'Critical moves with the Wiggles [Musical group]' (Longfellow, L., 2002, Practically Primary 7(3), 12-14).