Richard Gunstone

Richard Francis Gunstone is an Australian academic and researcher. He is the Emeritus Professor of Science and Technology Education at Monash University. He has authored or co-authored 8 books along with various monographs and chapters and has published over a hundred research papers. He has coedited 6 books providing reports of contemporary research in a particular area of science education. His principle research areas include teaching, curriculum, assessment, teacher development (preservice and inservice teacher education), science, physics and engineering.

Gunstone is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and a Life Member of the Science Teachers' Association of Victoria. In 2014 he was presented with the Distinguished Contributions to Science Education through Research Award of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching in USA. He developed and edited the first encyclopedia of science education research and development which was published in 2015. This encyclopedia is a reference work with contributions from 353 different authors from 36 different countries. Provided by Wikipedia