Lecturer in History/Humanities

Australian College of Educators
Classical Association of Victoria
Australasian Society for Classical Studies
History Teachers' Association of Victoria (Company Secretary)

BA (Hons) MA (Melb.) DipEd (ACU) MEdSt (Monash)

460-573 Learning Area History 1
460-574 Learning Area History 2

Whitehouse, J. A. (2009). Historical Inquiry: Herodotus, Thucydides and the Classroom. Agora, 44(4), 4-8.
Zajda, J., & Whitehouse, J. A. (2009). Teaching history. In L. Saha & A. G. Dworkin (Eds.), International handbook of research on teachers and teaching: Vol. 21. Springer international handbooks of education (pp. 953-965). New York: Springer.
Whitehouse, J. A. (2008). Talking humanities: Questions and co-operative learning. The Social Educator, 26(1), 32-36.
Whitehouse, J. A. (2008). Teaching the historians. Agora, 43(2), 4-8.
Whitehouse, J. A. (2007). Historians of disillusionment. Iris, 20, 13-19.
Whitehouse, J. A. (2005). Critical thinking in the humanities. Educational Practice and Theory, 27(1), 83-93.

After completing an honours degree in history and English at the University of Melbourne, John pursued teaching as a career. Over the course of his time in schools he taught a range of subjects in the humanities. He also taught medieval history at Monash University as a teaching fellow. Later, he became head of the English Faculty at Star of the Sea College, Brighton. He has worked extensively with subject associations, school networks and the VCAA. John is a member of the HTAV board of directors. In addition to this, he chairs the Classics in Schools Project (Classical Association of Victoria). John holds masters degrees in education and history. He is completing a PhD on historical imagination.

In 2004, John took up his present role in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education. The recipient of a Teaching Excellence Award, he lectures future teachers of history in the Master of Teaching program. John is committed to the development of strong partnerships between the University of Melbourne and schools. His research interests include history education, curriculum studies and historiography. Recent projects include co-operative learning and discipline-based pedagogy. John is Editor-in-Chief of Agora: Sungraphô and holds a seat on the editorial board of Learning and Teaching.