Education, Engagement, and Youth Crime

Cassandra Thoars is a researcher and university lecturer in education ethics, psychology, behaviour management, policies and procedures. She is a teacher with experience in youth justice settings, working with disengaged young people. Her research interests are youth offender education and engagement, policies and legislation concerning conduct and absence, children's rights, and youth detention facility design and operation.
Dr David Moltow is Lecturer in Ethics and Professional Practice and Program Director - Postgraduate Teacher Education. As a philosopher, his principal research interests involve the ethical underpinnings of educational policy, curriculum, and teaching practice. Dr Moltow is investigating how the cultivation of the intellectual virtues - as Critical Learning Dispositions - can be realised through curriculum areas such as mathematics, English and the humanities. He is involved in research that examines the ethical relations betweeneducation, engagement, and youth justice, and how jurisprudential thinking can inform policy and practice in relevant settings. ligned with his academic work, Dr Moltow has been retained as a consultant to local, state and federal government agencies to provide advice and educational support in relation to a range of matters concerning critical decision making, policy analysis, ethics and ethical decision making, organisational values, and learning development. He is a member of the Australia and New Zealand Education Law Association, and has been elected Fellow of the Australian Council for Educational Leadership.