Rate My Professor Marc Pruyn

Marc Pruyn served as a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Monash University, within the School of Curriculum, Teaching and Inclusive Education from 2010 to 2025. Hailing originally from Los Angeles, he started his professional career as a bilingual primary school teacher. Pruyn holds a PhD in Education (Curriculum and Pedagogy) from UCLA awarded in 1996, an MEd from California State University, and a teaching credential from UCLA. Prior to Monash, he worked as faculty in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at New Mexico State University from 1996 to 2010. At Monash, he contributed to the Interdisciplinary Approaches Research Group and unit coordination, such as for EDF1061 and EDF5614.

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.