Van Bergen, Penny

Overview

I am a Professor of Educational Psychology and current Head of School in the University of Wollongong's School of Education. I have strong leadership experience in the higher education sector, including as Associate Dean of Learning and Teaching, Director of the Centre for Children's Learning in a Social World, chair of a university-level Academic Appeals Committee, and Director of Research. I am also a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and have been awarded nine teaching awards between 2011 and 2018 (including from the Office of Learning and Teaching, Macquarie University, Unijobs, and the Australian Psychological Society). Underpinning my teaching is a strong commitment to creating undergraduate research opportunities for education students.

Research Areas

Research Overview

I have two key lines of research. In my first line of research I explore on how children and adolescents develop memory and emotion skills in educational and family contexts. My current research focuses on how family, teachers, and aged care residents reminisce with young people, and how cultural learning pathways support children's memory and perspective-taking.

In my second line of research I consider the importance of student-teacher relationships in childhood, adolescence, and higher education. I particularly interested in mapping the relationship factors that best facilitate learning and development.

If you are interested in conducting masters or PhD research in these areas, please reach out to me at pennyvb@uow.edu.au.

Available as Research Supervisor

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2023	Mnemicity: A Cognitive Gadget? Published In Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science
2022	Does It Matter If Students (Dis)like School? Associations Between School Liking, Teacher and School Connectedness, and Exclusionary Discipline Published In Frontiers in Psychology
2022	Here��s looking at you: eye gaze and collaborative recall Published In Psychological Research
2022	Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Psychosocial Adjustment Resources and Achievement: A Multilevel Latent Profile Analysis of Students and Schools Published In Journal of Educational Psychology
2022	Positive, complicated, distant, and negative: How different teacher-student relationship profiles relate to students�� science motivation Published In Journal of Adolescence
2022	Teaching Elaborative Reminiscing to Support Autobiographical Memory and Relationships in Residential and Community Aged Care Services Published In Brain Sciences
2022	What Drives Quality Physical Education? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Learning and Development Effects From Physical Education-Based Interventions Published In Frontiers in Psychology
2022	When and why do early childhood educators reminisce with children about their past experiences? Published In International Journal of Early Years Education
2022	��I miss seeing the kids!��: Australian teachers�� changing roles, preferences, and positive and negative experiences of remote teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic Published In Australian Educational Researcher
2021	Educators��, children��s and mothers�� use of temporal language in reminiscing and future talk conversations Published In Early Years
2021	Emotion and gesture effects on narrative recall in young children and adults Published In Applied Cognitive Psychology
2021	Pedagogical constraints of physical literacy based on cognitive load theory Published In Prospects
2020	Characteristics of educators�� talk about decontextualised events Published In Australasian Journal of Early Childhood
2020	Digital support seeking in adolescent girls: A qualitative study of affordances and limitations Published In Cyberpsychology
2020	Do older children with disruptive behaviour exhibit positive illusory bias and should oral language competence be considered in research? Published In Educational Review
2020	Enhancing pre-service teachers�� research engagement using flexible and scaffolded online resources Published In Australian Educational Researcher
2020	Memories of Positive and Negative Student��Teacher Relationships in Students With and Without Disruptive Behavior Published In School Psychology Review
2020	Prevalence, Predictors And Sources Of Information Regarding Neuromyths In An Australian Cohort Of Preservice Teachers Published In AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF TEACHER EDUCATION
2020	The Plight of the Male Teacher: An Interdisciplinary and Multileveled Theoretical Framework for Researching a Shortage of Male Teachers Published In Journal of Men's Studies
2020	Third-graders�� predictive reasoning strategies Published In Educational Studies in Mathematics
2020	Use of Mental State Language during Educator-Child and Mother-Child Conversations about the Past and Future Published In Early Education and Development
2020	��There Were Spooks in the Park��: Children's Reminiscing with Parents and Siblings Following a Staged Halloween Event Published In Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition
2019	Attributions and emotional competence: why some teachers experience close relationships with disruptive students (and others don��t) Published In Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice
2019	Comparing radical, social and psychological constructivism in Australian higher education: a psycho-philosophical perspective Published In Australian Educational Researcher
2019	Reminiscing and future talk conversations between young children, their early childhood educators and mothers Published In Early Childhood Research Quarterly
2019	Sociocultural memory development research drives new directions in gadgetry science Published In The Behavioral and brain sciences
2019	Successful and Unsuccessful Collaborative Processes in Strangers and Couples Performing Prospective Memory Tasks Published In Discourse Processes
2018	Coaching mothers of typical and conduct problem children in elaborative parent-child reminiscing: Influences of a randomized controlled trial on reminiscing behaviour and everyday talk preferences Published In Behaviour Research and Therapy
2018	Collaboration and prospective memory: comparing nominal and collaborative group performance in strangers and couples Published In Memory
2018	Pointing the way forward: Gesture and adults' recall of route direction information Published In Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied
2017	Adding color to conflict: Disruptive students�� drawings of themselves with their teachers Published In Elementary School Journal
2017	Are male teachers headed for extinction? The 50-year decline of male teachers in Australia Published In Economics of Education Review
2017	Elementary teachers' emotional and relational expressions when speaking about disruptive and well behaved students Published In Teaching and Teacher Education
2016	Caught between a rock and a hard place: disruptive boys�� views on mainstream and special schools in New South Wales, Australia Published In Critical Studies in Education
2016	Understanding student engagement with research: a study of pre-service teachers�� research perceptions, research experience, and motivation Published In Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education
2015	Enhancing learning in a virtual world using highly elaborative reminiscing as a reflective tool Published In Learning and Instruction
2015	Not all semantics: Similarities and differences in reminiscing function and content between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians Published In Memory
2015	The good, the bad, and the neutral: The influence of emotional valence on young children's recall Published In Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition
2015	The psychology of containment: (mis) representing emotional and behavioural difficulties in Australian schools Published In Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties
2015	Who, when, why and to what end? Students at risk of negative student-teacher relationships and their outcomes Published In Educational Research Review
2015	��To educate you to be smart��: disaffected students and the purpose of school in the (not so clever) ��lucky country�� Published In Journal of Education Policy
2012	The minority report: Disproportionate representation in Australia's largest education system Published In Exceptional Children
2010	Detaining the usual suspects: Charting the use of segregated settings in New South Wales government schools, Australia Published In Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood
2010	Emotion-oriented reminiscing and children's recall of a novel event Published In Cognition and Emotion
2010	The association between parent-child reminiscing and children's emotion knowledge Published In New Zealand Journal of Psychology
2009	The effects of mother training in emotion-rich, elaborative reminiscing on children's shared recall and emotion knowledge Published In Journal of Cognition and Development
2006	Mother-child reminiscing about everyday experiences: Implications for psychological interventions in the preschool years Published In Clinical Psychology Review

Book

Year	Title
2018	Collaborative Remembering Publisher : Oxford University Press
2018	Collaborative remembering: Theories, research, and applications Publisher

Chapter

Year	Title
2020	Nurturing close student��teacher relationships Published In Inclusive Education for the 21st Century Publisher : Taylor & Francis
2019	Caught between a rock and a hard place: disruptive boys' views on mainstream and special schools in New South Wales, Australia Published In Alternative Educational Programmes, Schools and Social Justice Publisher : Taylor & Francis
2018	Collaborative remembering: Background and approaches Published In Collaborative Remembering: Theories, Research, and Applications Publisher : Oxford University Press
2018	Concluding remarks: Common themes and future directions Published In Collaborative Remembering: Theories, Research, and Applications Publisher : Oxford University Press
2018	The role of social media in developing young people��s health literacy Published In Young People, Social Media and Health Publisher : Taylor & Francis
2018	Young Children's Reasoning Through Data Exploration Published In FORGING CONNECTIONS IN EARLY MATHEMATICS TEACHING AND LEARNING Publisher : SPRINGER-VERLAG SINGAPORE PTE LTD
2014	Recasting Lecture Material Using Podcasts: An Educational Psychology Case Study Published In Curriculum Models for the 21st Century Publisher : Springer Nature
2010	Cognitive and socio-emotional development as a function of everyday verbal interactions during the preschool years Published In Child Development and Child Poverty Publisher

Conference Paper

Year	Title
2013	A highly elaborative reminiscing virtual agent to enhance student memory of virtual world events Published In 12th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems 2013, AAMAS 2013
2012	Opportunities To Implement GIS In Teaching And Learning Geography: A Survey Among Smart Schools In Sabah, Malaysia Published In INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY (ICEEPSY 2012)

Available as Research Supervisor

Potential Supervision Topics

Student teacher relationships
Memory development
Reminiscing in family and educational contexts
Emotion and empathy development

Orcid Id

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9542-812X (confirmed)

Research Areas

Research Overview

I have two key lines of research. In my first line of research I explore on how children and adolescents develop memory and emotion skills in educational and family contexts. My current research focuses on how family, teachers, and aged care residents reminisce with young people, and how cultural learning pathways support children's memory and perspective-taking.

In my second line of research I consider the importance of student-teacher relationships in childhood, adolescence, and higher education. I particularly interested in mapping the relationship factors that best facilitate learning and development.

If you are interested in conducting masters or PhD research in these areas, please reach out to me at pennyvb@uow.edu.au.

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2023	Mnemicity: A Cognitive Gadget? Published In Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science
2022	Does It Matter If Students (Dis)like School? Associations Between School Liking, Teacher and School Connectedness, and Exclusionary Discipline Published In Frontiers in Psychology
2022	Here��s looking at you: eye gaze and collaborative recall Published In Psychological Research
2022	Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Psychosocial Adjustment Resources and Achievement: A Multilevel Latent Profile Analysis of Students and Schools Published In Journal of Educational Psychology
2022	Positive, complicated, distant, and negative: How different teacher-student relationship profiles relate to students�� science motivation Published In Journal of Adolescence
2022	Teaching Elaborative Reminiscing to Support Autobiographical Memory and Relationships in Residential and Community Aged Care Services Published In Brain Sciences
2022	What Drives Quality Physical Education? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Learning and Development Effects From Physical Education-Based Interventions Published In Frontiers in Psychology
2022	When and why do early childhood educators reminisce with children about their past experiences? Published In International Journal of Early Years Education
2022	��I miss seeing the kids!��: Australian teachers�� changing roles, preferences, and positive and negative experiences of remote teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic Published In Australian Educational Researcher
2021	Educators��, children��s and mothers�� use of temporal language in reminiscing and future talk conversations Published In Early Years
2021	Emotion and gesture effects on narrative recall in young children and adults Published In Applied Cognitive Psychology
2021	Pedagogical constraints of physical literacy based on cognitive load theory Published In Prospects
2020	Characteristics of educators�� talk about decontextualised events Published In Australasian Journal of Early Childhood
2020	Digital support seeking in adolescent girls: A qualitative study of affordances and limitations Published In Cyberpsychology
2020	Do older children with disruptive behaviour exhibit positive illusory bias and should oral language competence be considered in research? Published In Educational Review
2020	Enhancing pre-service teachers�� research engagement using flexible and scaffolded online resources Published In Australian Educational Researcher
2020	Memories of Positive and Negative Student��Teacher Relationships in Students With and Without Disruptive Behavior Published In School Psychology Review
2020	Prevalence, Predictors And Sources Of Information Regarding Neuromyths In An Australian Cohort Of Preservice Teachers Published In AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF TEACHER EDUCATION
2020	The Plight of the Male Teacher: An Interdisciplinary and Multileveled Theoretical Framework for Researching a Shortage of Male Teachers Published In Journal of Men's Studies
2020	Third-graders�� predictive reasoning strategies Published In Educational Studies in Mathematics
2020	Use of Mental State Language during Educator-Child and Mother-Child Conversations about the Past and Future Published In Early Education and Development
2020	��There Were Spooks in the Park��: Children's Reminiscing with Parents and Siblings Following a Staged Halloween Event Published In Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition
2019	Attributions and emotional competence: why some teachers experience close relationships with disruptive students (and others don��t) Published In Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice
2019	Comparing radical, social and psychological constructivism in Australian higher education: a psycho-philosophical perspective Published In Australian Educational Researcher
2019	Reminiscing and future talk conversations between young children, their early childhood educators and mothers Published In Early Childhood Research Quarterly
2019	Sociocultural memory development research drives new directions in gadgetry science Published In The Behavioral and brain sciences
2019	Successful and Unsuccessful Collaborative Processes in Strangers and Couples Performing Prospective Memory Tasks Published In Discourse Processes
2018	Coaching mothers of typical and conduct problem children in elaborative parent-child reminiscing: Influences of a randomized controlled trial on reminiscing behaviour and everyday talk preferences Published In Behaviour Research and Therapy
2018	Collaboration and prospective memory: comparing nominal and collaborative group performance in strangers and couples Published In Memory
2018	Pointing the way forward: Gesture and adults' recall of route direction information Published In Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied
2017	Adding color to conflict: Disruptive students�� drawings of themselves with their teachers Published In Elementary School Journal
2017	Are male teachers headed for extinction? The 50-year decline of male teachers in Australia Published In Economics of Education Review
2017	Elementary teachers' emotional and relational expressions when speaking about disruptive and well behaved students Published In Teaching and Teacher Education
2016	Caught between a rock and a hard place: disruptive boys�� views on mainstream and special schools in New South Wales, Australia Published In Critical Studies in Education
2016	Understanding student engagement with research: a study of pre-service teachers�� research perceptions, research experience, and motivation Published In Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education
2015	Enhancing learning in a virtual world using highly elaborative reminiscing as a reflective tool Published In Learning and Instruction
2015	Not all semantics: Similarities and differences in reminiscing function and content between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians Published In Memory
2015	The good, the bad, and the neutral: The influence of emotional valence on young children's recall Published In Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition
2015	The psychology of containment: (mis) representing emotional and behavioural difficulties in Australian schools Published In Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties
2015	Who, when, why and to what end? Students at risk of negative student-teacher relationships and their outcomes Published In Educational Research Review
2015	��To educate you to be smart��: disaffected students and the purpose of school in the (not so clever) ��lucky country�� Published In Journal of Education Policy
2012	The minority report: Disproportionate representation in Australia's largest education system Published In Exceptional Children
2010	Detaining the usual suspects: Charting the use of segregated settings in New South Wales government schools, Australia Published In Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood
2010	Emotion-oriented reminiscing and children's recall of a novel event Published In Cognition and Emotion
2010	The association between parent-child reminiscing and children's emotion knowledge Published In New Zealand Journal of Psychology
2009	The effects of mother training in emotion-rich, elaborative reminiscing on children's shared recall and emotion knowledge Published In Journal of Cognition and Development
2006	Mother-child reminiscing about everyday experiences: Implications for psychological interventions in the preschool years Published In Clinical Psychology Review

Book

Year	Title
2018	Collaborative Remembering Publisher : Oxford University Press
2018	Collaborative remembering: Theories, research, and applications Publisher

Chapter

Year	Title
2020	Nurturing close student��teacher relationships Published In Inclusive Education for the 21st Century Publisher : Taylor & Francis
2019	Caught between a rock and a hard place: disruptive boys' views on mainstream and special schools in New South Wales, Australia Published In Alternative Educational Programmes, Schools and Social Justice Publisher : Taylor & Francis
2018	Collaborative remembering: Background and approaches Published In Collaborative Remembering: Theories, Research, and Applications Publisher : Oxford University Press
2018	Concluding remarks: Common themes and future directions Published In Collaborative Remembering: Theories, Research, and Applications Publisher : Oxford University Press
2018	The role of social media in developing young people��s health literacy Published In Young People, Social Media and Health Publisher : Taylor & Francis
2018	Young Children's Reasoning Through Data Exploration Published In FORGING CONNECTIONS IN EARLY MATHEMATICS TEACHING AND LEARNING Publisher : SPRINGER-VERLAG SINGAPORE PTE LTD
2014	Recasting Lecture Material Using Podcasts: An Educational Psychology Case Study Published In Curriculum Models for the 21st Century Publisher : Springer Nature
2010	Cognitive and socio-emotional development as a function of everyday verbal interactions during the preschool years Published In Child Development and Child Poverty Publisher

Conference Paper

Year	Title
2013	A highly elaborative reminiscing virtual agent to enhance student memory of virtual world events Published In 12th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems 2013, AAMAS 2013
2012	Opportunities To Implement GIS In Teaching And Learning Geography: A Survey Among Smart Schools In Sabah, Malaysia Published In INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY (ICEEPSY 2012)

Potential Supervision Topics

Student teacher relationships
Memory development
Reminiscing in family and educational contexts
Emotion and empathy development

Orcid Id

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9542-812X (confirmed)

Van Bergen, Penny Prof

Head of School

Overview

Overview

Research Areas

Research Overview

Available as Research Supervisor

Publications

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Book

Chapter

Conference Paper

Supervision

Available as Research Supervisor

Potential Supervision Topics

Identity

Orcid Id

Overview

Research Areas

Research Overview

Publications

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Book

Chapter

Conference Paper

Supervision

Potential Supervision Topics

Identity

Orcid Id

Visualisations

Research Areas