Directions
Research, Teaching, and Practice-Based Scholarship
Dr Amir Tatai is an educator, researcher, and practice-based scholar working across wellbeing, education, public pedagogy, reflective practice, and relational engagement.
His work has developed through doctoral research, university teaching, school wellbeing leadership, alternative education, community learning, and creative practice. Across these contexts, Amir explores how individuals, groups, and organisations can cultivate more conscious, ethical, and proportionate ways of responding to complexity.
This work now informs Æionics: a practice ecology for breath, readiness, reflection, imagination, and action.
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Current Directions
Æionics extends Amir’s doctoral research into agential wellbeing, conscious reflæXion, and eco-psycho-social justice. It asks how people and systems can become more capable of pausing, discerning, imagining, and acting in ways that are relationally aware and contextually proportionate.
Current areas of development include:
Human-system readiness
Reflective and imaginative practice
Public pedagogy and community learning
Wellbeing and relational capacity
Engagement design under complexity
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Foundations
Amir completed a PhD in Psychological Education at Victoria University in 2024, focused on lifelong learning for wellbeing. He also holds a Master of Education, Graduate Diploma of Psychology, and Bachelor of Education P–12.
Since 2023, Amir has taught across undergraduate and postgraduate Education programs at Victoria University, including inclusive education, curriculum inquiry, professional practice, student wellbeing, critical pedagogy, positive education, and experiential and applied learning.
His practice background includes school wellbeing coordination, alternative education, youth work, curriculum development, community education, and public scholarship.
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Recent Engagements
Playing with Imagination for Sustainable Futures
Institute for Sustainable Industry and Liveable Cities conference presentation, 2023
An early presentation of the Prismatic Approach, exploring imagination, sustainability education, lifelong learning, archetypal educational roles, and agential wellbeing.
Pragmatically Prisming Public Pedagogies
Public Pedagogies Institute seminar-workshop, April 2025
A seminar-workshop exploring public pedagogy, conscious reflæXion, SKW’d imagination, and eco-psycho-social justice through participatory reflective practice.
Quantum Australia Conference Poster
Adelaide Convention Centre, April 2026
A poster presentation translating Æionics into human-system readiness, relational calibration, interaction design, and applied quantum-system contexts.
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Professional Pathway
Amir’s work has been shaped by educational and community-based roles across:
Victoria University — Sessional Academic, 2023–present
Preshil: The Margaret Lyttle Memorial School — School Wellbeing Coordinator / Teacher, 2018–2022
Hume Valley School — Youth Worker / Student Wellbeing Coordinator, 2015–2018
Youth Projects — Youth Connections Consultant, 2014
Victoria University — Earlier project, curriculum, teaching, and community education roles, 2010–2012
Melbourne Free University — Co-Communications Director, 2010–2011
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Who This Work Is For
Æionics may be useful for people and organisations working at the intersection of complexity, learning, care, culture, systems, and change, including:
Educators, schools, universities, and teacher education programs
Community organisations, councils, libraries, and public pedagogy initiatives
Wellbeing, youth work, coaching, and human development practitioners
Organisations navigating uncertainty, transition, burnout, or ethical complexity
Researchers, public scholars, and interdisciplinary research groups
Creative, cultural, and arts-based practitioners
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Possible Engagements
Amir is available for conversations and collaborations involving talks, workshops, reflective practice design, public pedagogy projects, curriculum and learning design, research translation, human-system readiness, organisational reflection, and interdisciplinary writing or research development.
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Invitation
This work is especially suited to contexts where people are trying to move from reaction toward reflection, from overwhelm toward proportionate action, and from isolated understanding toward more relational ways of learning, imagining, and responding.
For enquiries, collaborations, workshops, or speaking invitations, please get in touch.