Rate My Professor Michelle Ludecke

Dr. Michelle Ludecke is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Curriculum Teaching and Inclusive Education in the Faculty of Education at Monash University. She lectures in Teacher Education and The Arts, renowned for uniting researchers, teacher educators, pre-service teachers, professional staff, and stakeholders to foster transformative experiences. Ludecke's goal centers on amplifying teachers' and teacher educators' awareness of how collegiate practices shape their identities, agency, and influence on learners, colleagues, and the profession. Her research harnesses arts-based methods, especially dance and drama, to probe pivotal teacher education concerns including transitions to teaching, employment conditions' effects, beginning teacher retention, mentoring, professional identity formation and transformation, teacher readiness, professional learning, teachers' work and lives, and embodied teaching practices. Grounded in over 20 years of teaching and engagement experience, her scholarship garners recognition from the Victorian Institute of Teaching, Australian Education Unions, Principals’ Associations, and prominent Australian and international educational researchers. She contributes to initial teacher education programs and holds the role of Associate Editor for Monographs at Drama Australia.

Ludecke earned her PhD from Deakin University in 2013, alongside a Master of Education and a Graduate Diploma in Dance Therapy. Since joining Monash University over a decade ago, she has advanced teacher preparation, notably on inclusive education readiness. Her publications feature 'Components that influence early career teachers’ practices as inclusive educators in general education settings: an international scoping review' (2025, The Australian Educational Researcher), 'Beginning teacher preparation and readiness for the profession as inclusive educators' (2024, Australian Journal of Education), '(Re)envisioning online arts education content delivery in initial teacher preparation through collective A/r/tographic inquiry' (2024, International Journal of Education & the Arts), 'Exploring the use of theatre methods within simulation-based teacher education: a scoping review' (2025, Teachers and Teaching), and 'The voices in my head' (highly cited with 234 Scopus citations). Her Google Scholar profile records 194 citations and an h-index of 7, underscoring her impact in arts-based research, teacher identity, transitions, and education.