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Lecturer, Early Literacy
The Australian Centre for the Advancement of Literacy
Areas of expertise: The affordances, constraints and barriers of early reading instruction; literacy acquisition of young readers with and without learning difficulties; teacher knowledge, beliefs and practice choices; social justice education; professional contextual autonomy; the theory of practice architectures.
Email: Tina.Daniel@acu.edu.au
HDR Supervisor accreditation status: Not accredited/Not applicable
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Dr Tina Daniel specialises in understanding the affordances, constraints and barriers to early reading instruction. She has taught first and second language and literacy in primary, secondary and tertiary levels in rural and urban settings in the United States and Australia. Recipient of an Australian Research Council Scholarship, Dr Daniel’s doctoral research focussed on teacher perspectives of their practice of early reading instruction and the social-discursive, material-economic, and socio-political factors that enable and constrain it. Dr Daniel’s current research interests include the social justice implications of Australian government policy on early reading instruction and the effects on reading achievement.
Daniel, T., & Wegener, S. (2023, November 9). When do kids learn to read? How do you know if your child is falling behind? The Conversation.
Daniel, T. (2022, March 22). Dud teachers? In Victoria, it’s the lack of phonics that’s the problem. The Age.
Prain, V., Emery, S., Thomas, D., Lovejoy, V., Farrelly, C., Baxter, L., Blake, D., Deed, C., Edwards, M., Fingland, D., Mooney, A., Muir, T., Swabey, K., Tytler, R., Workman, E., Daniel, T., Henriksen, J. (2021). Team teaching in large spaces: three case studies framed by relational agency. Teaching Education 33(1):1-15. DOI:
Deed, C., Blake, D., Henriksen. J., Mooney, A., Prain, V., Tytler, R., Daniel, T., Edwards, M., Emery, S., Muir, T., Swabey, K., Thomas, D., Farrelly, C., Lovejoy, V., Meyers, N., Fingland, D. (2020). Teacher adaptation to flexible learning environments. Learning Environments Research 23(4):1-13. DOI:
Prain, V., Blake, D., Deed, C., Edwards, M., Emery, S., Farrelly, C., Fingland, D., Henriksen, J., Lovejoy, V., Meyers, N., Mooney, A., Muir, T., Sbaglia, R., Swabey, K., Thomas, D., Tytler, R., Daniel, T. (2018) A framework to support personalising prescribed school curricula. British Educational Research Journal. DOI:
Daniel, T. (2026, July 8). Professional contextual autonomy in early reading instruction: A collaborative social justice approach to support policy reform, teacher knowledge and agency [Conference presentation]. International Council for Teacher Education, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Daniel, T. (2024, July 12). Burdens of belief: Australian teachers discuss their practice of early reading instruction [Conference presentation]. Society for the Scientific Study of Reading Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Daniel, T. (2024, March 22). Changing teacher practice: Mechanisms for opening the doors to evidence based instruction in early reading [Conference presentation]. Dyslexia/SPELD Foundation Conference, Perth, WA, Australia.
Daniel, T. (2023, September 2). Phonemic awareness: Connected or segmented phonation and other questions [Conference presentation]. Evidence-Based Practice One Day Conference, 51勛圖 Ballarat Campus, Ballarat, VIC, Australia.
Daniel, T. (2023, September 2). Building the case for evidence-based practice [Conference presentation]. Evidence-Based Practice One Day Conference, 51勛圖 Ballarat Campus, Ballarat, VIC, Australia.
Daniel, T. (2023, March 4). Introducing the science of reading to colleagues: A triple threat [Conference presentation]. ResearchEd Conference, Ballarat Clarendon College, Ballarat, VIC, Australia.
Daniel, T. (2022, June 25). Teacher professional knowledge: Who among us can build the bridge to better reading outcomes? [Conference presentation]. Sharing Best Practice Conference, Warrnambool, VIC, Australia.
Daniel, T. (2022, September 17). Oral language know-how: Making the leap from research into practice [Conference presentation]. Sharing Best Practice Conference, Marsden Road Primary School, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Daniel, T. (2022, October 21). Building the bridge: Teacher practice, professional knowledge and the foundations for early reading improvement and social justice [Conference presentation]. The Reading League 6th Annual Conference, Syracuse, NY, United States.
$444,498.00 Australian Research Council.
Australian Research Council Doctoral Scholarship 2017-2020. Deakin University.
Daniel, T. 22 August 2023. Speech Pathology x Education: A Professional Development Opportunity. 51勛圖 Speech Pathology Student Society, Sydney, NSW.
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