Dr Joel Windle - Researcher Profile

Joel Windle

Address

Faculty of Education
Building 6, Clayton

Contact Details

Tel: +61 3 9905 2809

Email: joel.windle@monash.edu


Biography

Joel Windle taught in French and Australian schools, and lectured in sociology and education in both countries before commencing his position at Monash University. His research is in the field of comparative sociology of education, and analyses the implications of cultural diversity for pedagogical and social relations across institutional settings. He currently holds an Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship (Australian Research Council) and is working on the following projects:

A social geography of school choice: Educational decision-making and markets in the new age of accountability

ARC Discovery Grant 2010 - 2012: $240,546

Project Summary:

The functioning of school choice is a major government and public concern because of increasing reliance upon individual use of information as a mechanism for driving system-wide innovation, excellence and equity. This project will strengthen the empirical and conceptual basis for developing future policies strengthening the relationship between families and schooling. It will provide particular assistance to education systems striving to provide greater equity and inclusion. Knowledge of how school choice works will thereby produce benefits for the future wellbeing of individuals, and for the capacity of schooling to contribute to national social cohesion and economic prosperity.

Designing a model of pedagogy for low literacy refugee-background students: Connecting language, literacy and content-based learning (with Dr Jenny Miller)

ARC Linkage Grant 2010 - 2012: $131,054 with industry partner: Department of Education and Early Childhood Development

Project Summary: Policy makers and schools are urgently seeking models of literacy pedagogy which maximise student engagement and positive outcomes for low literacy refugee background (LLRB) students. This project will establish a model of literacy pedagogy that is adapted to the needs of these learners and will result in higher attainment and increased retention rates. The model will facilitate students' successful transition to the secondary school curriculum and their social integration and economic participation in Australian society. The project findings will provide a solid base for planning future provision which will benefit curriculum writers, teacher educators, policy makers, funding bodies, and teachers.

Research interests

  • Social inequalities in education
  • Cultural and ethnic dynamics of educational engagement
  • Language pedagogy
  • Comparative sociology and mixed-methods approaches

Research & Supervision Interests

    • Social inequalities in education
    • Cultural and ethnic dynamics of educational engagement
    • Language pedagogy
    • Comparative sociology and mixed-methods approaches

     

     

Keywords

sociology of education, school choice, educational inequalities, education for refugees

Qualifications

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY - EDUCATION
Institution: Cotutelle/Universite de Bourgogne - France / Melbourne University
Year awarded: 2008
GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN EDUCATION
Institution: University of Melbourne
Year awarded: 2003
BACHELOR OF ARTS WITH HONOURS
Institution: University of Melbourne
Year awarded: 2002

Publications

Book Chapters

Windle, J., 2011, What knowledge for understanding? Addressing ignorance of Islam in Australian schools, in Religious Tolerance, Education and the Curriculum, eds Elizabeth Burns Coleman and Kevin White, Sense Publishers, Rotterdam Netherlands, pp. 67-83.

Windle, J.A., 2009, Influences on the written expression of bilingual students: teacher beliefs and cultural dissonance, in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Classrooms. New Dilemmas for Teachers, eds Jennifer Miller, Alex Kostogriz and Margaret Gearon, Multilingual Matters, UK, pp. 92-109.

Ata, A.W., Windle, J.A., 2009, The Role of Australian Schools in Educating Students About Islam and Muslims: A National Survey, in Us and Them. Muslim-Christian Relations and Cultural Harmony in Australia, eds Abe W. Ata, Australian Academic Press, Bowen Hills Queensland Australia, pp. 81-97.

Windle, J.A., 2009, Two strategies of 'marginal integration'. The management of educational disadvantage in Australia and France, in Youth Identity and Migration. Culture, Values and Social Connectedness., eds Fethi Mansouri, Common Ground Publishing, Australia, pp. 133-150.

Journal Articles

Miller, J.M., Keary, A., Windle, J.A., 2013, Assessing the reading and writing of EAL/D students: Issues and implications, T E S O L in Context: Journal of A C T A [P], vol S3, issue Special Edition, Australian Council of TESOL Associations (ACTA), Liechhardt New South Wales Australia, pp. 1-15.

Windle, J.A., Miller, J.M., 2012, Approaches to teaching low literacy refugee-background students, Australian Journal of Language and Literacy [P], vol 35, issue 3, Australian Literacy Educators' Association, Norwood South Australia Australia, pp. 317-333.

Rowe, E., Windle, J., 2012, The Australian middle class and education: a small-scale study of the school choice experience as framed by 'My School' within inner city families, Critical Studies in Education [E], vol 53, issue 2, Routledge, Australia, pp. 137-151.

Windle, J.A., Papasotiriou, M., 2012, The social experience of physically disabled Australian university students, Disability and Society [E], vol 27, issue 7, Routledge, Abingdon Oxon United Kingdom, pp. 1-935.

Windle, J., 2011, From academia to media: Staging the public career of critical literacy, The Australian Educational Researcher [E], vol 38, issue 3, Springer, Netherlands, pp. 311-327.

Windle, J.A., 2010, "Soft" and "Hard" landings: The experience of school under contrasting institutional arrangements in Australia and France, International Journal on Multicultural Societies [E], vol 11, issue 2, UNESCO, France, pp. 174-194.

Windle, J.A., 2010, 'Anyone can make it, but there can only be one winner': Modeling neoliberal learning and work on reality television, Critical Studies in Education [E], vol 51, issue 3, Routledge, UK, pp. 251-263.

Hickey-Moody, A., Savage, G.C., Windle, J.A., 2010, Pedagogy writ large: public, popular and cultural pedagogies in motion, Critical Studies in Education [E], vol 51, issue 3, Routledge, UK, pp. 227-236.

Miller, J., Windle, J., 2010, Second language literacy: Putting high needs ESL learners in the frame, English in Australia [P], vol 45, issue 3, Australian Association for the Teaching of English Inc., Norwood SA Australia, pp. 31-40.

Windle, J.A., 2009, Strike while the iron's hot: Using the internet and current events for political engagement, Radical Teacher: a socialist and feminist journal on the theory and practice of teaching [P], vol 85, University of Illinois Press, Champaign, IL, USA, pp. 49-59.

Windle, J.A., 2009, The limits of school choice: Some implications for accountability of selective practices and positional competition in Australian education, Critical Studies in Education [P], vol 50, issue 3, Routledge, Australia / UK, pp. 231-246.

Windle, J.A., 2008, Book review of Race, ethnicity and education in globalised times, by Ruth Arber, TESOL in Context, vol 18, issue 1, Australian Council of TESOL Associations, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 29-30.

Windle, J.A., 2008, In remembrance of things past? Strategies of public pedagogy for urban "renovation", Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies, vol 30, issue 5, Taylor & Francis, USA, pp. 377-398.

Windle, J.A., 2008, The management and legitimisation of educational inequalities in Australia: Some implications for school experience, International Studies in Sociology of Education, vol 18, issue 3-4, Routledge, United Kingdom, pp. 157-171.

Windle, J.A., 2008, The racialisation of African youth in Australia, Social Identities, vol 14, issue 5, Taylor & Francis, USA, pp. 553-566.

Ata, A.W., Windle, J.A., 2007, The role of Australian schools in educating students about Islam and Muslims, Australian Quarterly, vol 79, issue 6, Australian Institute of Policy and Science, Balmain NSW Australia, pp. 19-27.

Windle, J.A., 2006, Book Review of J.N. Jorgensen (Ed) Bilingualism and social change: Turkish speakers in North Western Europe, Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, Monash University EPress, Melbourne, pp. 1-4.

Crowhurst, M., Marshall, D., McMahon, B., Windle, J.A., 2005, Breaking through? Obstacles and opportunities for GLBTIQ educators, Traffic, vol 6, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, pp. 141-159.

Windle, J.A., 2005, Sex and the state: Government responses to gay marriage in France, Traffic, vol 6, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, pp. 69-84.

Windle, J.A., 2004, Schooling, symbolism and social power: the hijab in republican France, The Australian Educational Researcher, vol 31, issue 1, AARE, Coldstream Vic Australia, pp. 95-112.

Windle, J.A., 2004, The ethnic (dis)advantage debate revisited: Turkish background students in Australia, Journal of Intercultural Studies, Carfax Publishing, United Kingdom, pp. 271-286.

Conference Proceedings

Windle, J., 2011, Creating citizens: contexts and strategies for teaching English as a foreign language, I Sefeli, Departmento de Letras Estrangeiras, Sao Cristovao, pp. 178-188.

Stratton, G., Windle, J.A., 2011, School choice and citizenship, 2011 TASA Conference, 29 November - 1 December 2011, The Australian Sociological Conference, Australia, pp. 1-14.

Windle, J.A., 2008, Mediatised public crisis and the racialisation of African youth in Australia, 31st AFSAAP Conference, 26-28 November 2008, The African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 1-21.

Windle, J.A., 2005, Pamela, or virtue reworded: an application of Bourdieu's categories of social power to the early novel, Contexts, Contacts & Constraints, 31 October 2003 to 1 November 2003, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, pp. 173-184.

Other

Lubienski, C., Windle, J., 2011, Don't play the market when it comes to children's education, The Conversation, The Conversation, E.

Windle, J., 2011, We're creating a segregated school system, The Age, Fairfax Media, Melbourne.

Miller, J.M., Windle, J.A., 2009, Final Report to The Felton Bequest Committee, Final report on Developing Literacy Pedagogy for Refugee Youth with Disrupted Schooling project funded by The Felton Bequest, The Felton Bequest, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Miller, J.M., Windle, J.A., 2008, Report provided to the Dept of Education and Early Childhood Dev't - 'ESL Transitions Initiatives', Monash University, Clayton, pp. 1-81.

Shah, C., Long, M.G., Windle, J.A., 2007, Recognition of Skills and Qualifications: Labour Mobility and Trade in Services, Centre for the Economics of Education and Training, Monash University, Melbourne, pp. 1-24.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Collective action in neoliberal Australia: A multi-sited case study of social movements for public education..
Supervisors:
Rasmussen, M (Joint), Windle, J (Joint-co).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Exploring the experiences of the sole parents in postgraduate education..
Supervisors:
Rasmussen, M (Joint-co), Windle, J (Joint).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Muslim women teachers in Melbourne and indentity construction in a climate of islamaphobia.
Supervisors:
Windle, J (Main), Joseph, C (Associate).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Needs and situation analysis in English language teaching on the example of some Universities in Mongolia.
Supervisors:
Snyder, I (Main), Windle, J (Associate).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Staff and parents negotiating early childhood education and care.
Supervisors:
Lindsay, J (Joint), Windle, J (Joint-co).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
The location of conservative Protestant families and teachers within the American 'culture wars' and 'school wars': an ethnographic case study.
Supervisors:
Rasmussen, M (Joint), Windle, J (Joint-co).

Completed Supervision

Student:
Yazdanpanah, K.
Program of Study:
Teacher knowledge, identity, and practice: mixed methods study of ESL teaching. (PHD) 2011.
Supervisors:
Brown, J (Main), Windle, J (Associate).