Rate My Professor Marc Pruyn

Pruyn's academic interests center on critical pedagogy, multiculturalism, social and citizenship education, exploring connections between identity, power, diversity, and social justice in educational settings. He has supervised multiple doctoral theses, including those on Iranian women as English teachers and language identity (2021), teachers' understandings of critical thinking (2022), dialogue and gender in schools (2025), and factors contributing to early career teacher belonging (2026). Key publications include the co-edited book 'Creative Selves / Creative Cultures: Critical Autoethnography, Performance, and Pedagogy' (Springer, 2017), 'Stickability, transformability and transmittability: alternative, pull-out programs within schools – what the literature says about effective practice and provision for disenfranchised young people' (2016), 'The Enactment of the Colombian National Bilingual Program: Equal Access to Language Capital?' (2023), 'A Scoping Review of the Factors Contributing to a Sense of Belonging in Early Career Teachers' (2025), and 'Investigating Verbal Learners' Perspectives on Silence in English as a Foreign Language Classrooms in Myanmar' (2024). Pruyn led professional development workshops for Chilean school administrators on educational leadership in 2012 and 2013 and participated in the Global Doing Democracy Research Project. In 2024, he received an 'ARC Discovery Quality Submission' Letter of Recognition from the Dean of the Faculty of Education at Monash University. Subsequently, he became Associate Professor and Discipline Lead in Teacher Education at the University of the Sunshine Coast.