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John Loughran was a high school science teacher for ten years before moving into science teacher education at Monash University. His research and teaching interests are based on the development of teachers’ knowledge and the way that this is influenced and developed through teacher preparation, beginning teaching and professional development. Inevitably then his research has spanned both science education itself and the related fields of professional knowledge and reflective practice. John was the Director of Teacher Education at Monash for 5 years through which his interest in teacher preparation was further developed. Consequently, he has spent considerable time researching learning to teach and has been invited to work with teachers and researchers across Australia and internationally in Hong Kong, Sweden, U.K., U.S.A., Canada, Belgium, and New Zealand.
John’s teaching and research has been recognised through a number of awards, for example, Outstanding Dissertation of the Year Award, Division K (Teaching and Teacher Education) American Educational Research Association (1995); Dorit Monheit Memorial Prize, Faculty of Education, Ph.D. Award (1995); Vice-Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award (1995); Runner-up Australian University Teaching Awards (Education, 1998); and, Post-graduate supervisor special commendation (2000).
John is a member of a number of editorial boards (Research in Science Education; International Journal of Reflective Practice; and, Asia Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching) and is a reviewer for a number of other journals. John is also the Chair of the Self-Study of Teacher Education Practices SIG in the American Educational Research Association and has numerous Research Grants pertaining to Science teacher education and teacher as researcher.