Dr Julie Faulkner - Researcher Profile

Julie Faulkner

Address

Monash University
Wellington Road, Clayton

Biography

 Julie Faulkner is a senior lecturer at Monash University, Melbourne. She writes and teaches on matters of literacy, popular culture, identity and digital reading and writing practices. Her publications include the role of Information and Communication Technologies in curriculum innovation, the development and use of a virtual school in preservice teacher education and the efficacies of pedagogies of discomfort. She has edited Disrupting Pedagogies in the Knowledge Society: Countering Conservative Norms with Creative Approaches (IGI Global), and has jointly edited Learning to Teach: New Time, New Practices (Oxford University Press), currently in second edition. Julie has supervised a number of Masters and PhD students to completion, across areas of curriculum design, intercultural communication pedagogies, transition from school to university, critical reading practices and computer games as learning environments.

Research & Supervision Interests

    • Language and literacies
    • New media learning environments
    • Popular culture and links between out-of-school and in-school learning practices
    • Disruptive pedagogies
    • Social contexts of schooling
    • Curriculum and pedagogical design
    • Teacher identity and representation

Qualifications

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
Institution: Monash University
Year awarded: 2002
MASTER OF EDUCATIONAL STUDIES
Institution: Monash University
Year awarded: 1995