ORCID Profile
0000-0003-3511-1125
Current Organisation
Deakin University - Melbourne Burwood Campus
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Research Topics
In Research Link Australia (RLA), "Research Topics" refer to ANZSRC FOR and SEO codes. These topics are either sourced from ANZSRC FOR and SEO codes listed in researchers' related grants or generated by a large language model (LLM) based on their publications.
Top 5 Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Curriculum and Pedagogy | Communication Technology and Digital Media Studies | English and Literacy Curriculum and Pedagogy (excl. LOTE, ESL and TESOL) | Education Assessment and Evaluation | Creative Arts, Media and Communication Curriculum and Pedagogy | Curriculum and Pedagogy Theory and Development | Educational Technology And Media | Curriculum Studies: English Education
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Learner and Learning Achievement | Pedagogy | Curriculum not elsewhere classified | Learner Development | Teacher and Instructor Development | Assessment and Evaluation of Curriculum | Primary education | Secondary education |
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Publications
Process drama and digital games as text and action in virtual worlds: Developing new literacies in school
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-2012
Digital games in the museum: perspectives and priorities in videogame design
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-03-2021
Rethinking Difference in the iWorld: Possibilities, Challenges and ‘Unexpected Consequences’ of Digital Tools in Literacy Education
Publisher: University of Alberta Libraries
Date: 09-06-2015
DOI: 10.20360/G2HC7K
Abstract: Within contemporary literacy classrooms, mobile touchscreen devices are occupying a more prominent place. For children who have disabilities or learning differences, such devices can offer increased participation and access and may also provide social capital to users. We share ex les of how iPads and iPods were successfully used in classrooms by children who might be categorized as experiencing various challenges, as well as autobiographical ex les we have experienced as parents of children with disabilities. Through these illustrations, we examine the possibilities of ‘new tools’ as well as challenges encountered in changing existing literacy practices.
Editorial – The anchor points of our humanity amidst shifting sands
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-07-2020
The new digital divide: Digital technology policies and provision in Canada and Australia
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 2017
R epositioning D rama to C entre S tage: D rama , E nglish , T ext and L iteracy
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2003
Teachers’ everyday work-for-change: implementing curriculum policy in ‘disadvantaged’ schools
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-08-2023
Literacy in the digital age: Learning from computer games
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2009
Teacher Agency and the Digital Technologies Curriculum in Disadvantaged Australian Schools
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 09-01-2023
Indexing drama research: NJ 1997-2018
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-07-2019
Expert writers on how to achieve narrative immersion in digital games
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 16-07-2022
'Redstone is like electricity': Children's performative representations in and around Minecraft
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 03-2015
Abstract: This article investigates 8- and 9-year-old girls’ use of the popular game Minecraft at home and school, particularly the ways in which they performatively ‘bring themselves into being’ through talk and digital production in the social spaces of the classroom and within the game’s multiplayer online world. We explore how the girls undertake practices of curatorship to display their Minecraft knowledge through discussion of the game, both ‘in world’ and in face-to-face interactions, and as they assemble resources within and around the game to design, build and display their creations and share stories about their gameplay.
The National Disability Insurance Scheme and access to education: progressive or coercive policy discourse?
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-07-2017
Assessment of Literacy Pedagogy using Gratitude
Publisher: Edith Cowan University
Date: 06-2020
“Daddy, Look At the Video I Made on My iPad!”: Reconceptualizing “Readiness” in the Digital Age
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Date: 2015
Analysing digital educational games with the Games as Action, Games as Text framework
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2022
Supervisory scratchings: Critical autoethnography complicating “process” in doctoral supervision
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 20-04-2017
A critical review of the effectiveness of narrative-driven digital educational games
Publisher: IGI Global
Date: 10-2018
Abstract: Digital games are currently viewed, by many within the field of education, as a way to engage and motivate students, and to assist them in acquiring content knowledge and skills. Despite the growing interest in using digital games, including serious games, this is the first critical review of the literature on the effectiveness of digital narrative-driven educational games. Of 2550 articles initially screened, 130 were synthesised in the final review. The results suggest that such games can be more much more effective than traditional instruction for promoting attitude change, engagement, motivation, and skill acquisition slightly more effective in promoting enjoyment and knowledge acquisition and equal in fostering behaviour change. As such, they may be viewed as effective and versatile tools for teaching and learning.
Liminality, longing, love: the reflections of in-between times and liminal personae
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2021
Proteus, the Giant at the Door: Drama and Theater in the Curriculum
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Shifting Practices and Frames: Literacy, Learning and Computer Games
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2016
Reimagining Literacy: Being Literate in the Pandemic Era
Publisher: University of Alberta Libraries
Date: 09-06-2021
Old, new, review
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2020
A voice for community during unsettling times
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-07-2021
A challenge, a Threat and a Promise: Drama as Professional Development for Teacher Educators
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-2002
Urgency through education: Futures learning through children’s literature
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 29-05-2023
DOI: 10.1017/AEE.2023.9
Abstract: The purpose of this communication is to explore possibilities for children’s literature to enable futures learning. It introduces the ways in which two different frameworks might be used to analyse children’s literature. The first framework draws upon the Earth Charter Principles (ECP) (Auld et al., 2021). The second framework brings together the pillars of sustainability with the principles of Education for Sustainability (EfS) in a framework for ecological sustainability of children’s literature (White et al., 2020). The communication starts by introducing a text – a recent ex le of ‘awarded’ and therefore high-quality children’s literature. We then outline the two frameworks and explore the possibilities of applying these frames for analysing this text. We conclude that the sustainability frameworks are useful tools and resources for analysing children’s literature to determine the quality of the text and how the experience of reading the text may impact children, their learning and their environmental consciousness and practices.
Capturing the Ephemeral: Reflection -in -Action as Research
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2006
Necessary but not Sufficient: Literacy Pedagogies for Changing Times
Publisher: University of Alberta Libraries
Date: 09-06-2021
Abstract: This paper argues the case for expansive and inclusive models of literacy pedagogy that can be applied to curriculua more generally. Literacy pedagogy in Australia has benefitted from using Freebody and Luke's (1990) Four Roles of the Reader Model. We analyse the Paul Kelly song video, Sleep, Australia, Sleep, using this model. Underpinning this model is the concept that each role is necessary but not sufficient. We discuss the benefits fo pluralism in language and literacy pedagogy in an age of standards-based reforms and shifting repertoires of literacy practices in pedagogies that speak back to the Anthropocene.
International Perspectives on Teaching English in a Globalised World
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 10-2013
Putting professional learning practice first in innovative learning environments
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 25-09-2021
Teachers' Beliefs about the Possibilities and Limitations of Digital Games in Classrooms
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 2014
DOI: 10.2304/ELEA.2014.11.6.569
Abstract: Teachers' beliefs about what it is (or is not) possible to achieve with digital games in educational contexts will inevitably influence the decisions that they make about how, when, and for what specific purposes they will bring these games into their classrooms. They play a crucial role in both shaping and responding to the complex contextual factors which influence how games are understood and experienced in educational settings. Throughout this article the authors draw upon data collected for a large-scale, mixed-methods research project focusing on literacy, learning and teaching with digital games in Australian classrooms, to focus explicitly on the attitudes, understandings and expectations held about digital games by erse teachers at the beginning of the project. They seek to identify the beliefs about games that motivated teachers' participation in a digital games research project while focusing, as well, on concerns that teachers express about risks or limitations of such a project. The authors' aim is to develop a detailed picture of the mindsets that teachers bring to games-based learning environments, and the relevance of these mindsets to broader debates about the relationship between games, learning and school.
School leadership and intercultural understanding: school foyers as situated spaces for doing diversity
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 17-05-2017
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Related Funding Activities
Literacy In The Digital World Of The Twenty-first Century: Learning From Computer Games
Start Date: 2007
End Date: 2009
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded Activity(Intercultural Understanding In Primary And Secondary Schools)
Start Date: 2012
End Date: 2015
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityA Comparative Investigation Of Pedagogical Possibilities Of Digital Tools For Family And School Early Literacy Education
Start Date: 2013
End Date: 2015
Funder: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
View Funded ActivityReimagining Literacy Education: Being Literate In The Twenty-first Century
Start Date: 2016
End Date: 2019
Funder: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
View Funded ActivityLiteracy Learning In Playful Spaces: Using Multimodal Strategies To Develop Narrative With Young Learners
Start Date: 2011
End Date: 2013
Funder: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
View Funded Activity(Serious Play: Using Digital Games In School To Promote Literacy And Learning In The Twenty First Century)
Start Date: 2011
End Date: 2014
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityLinkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0775072
Start Date: 04-2007
End Date: 06-2010
Amount: $150,999.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityLinkage Projects - Grant ID: LP110200309
Start Date: 06-2012
End Date: 05-2015
Amount: $222,057.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityLinkage Projects - Grant ID: LP120200319
Start Date: 12-2012
End Date: 06-2016
Amount: $405,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded Activity