Dr Scott Bulfin - Researcher Profile

Biography

I'm a lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Monash University where I study young people's use of digital media and the implications this has for English and literacy learning across a range of contexts like school and home (I have a range of other interests - see below). I teach in the Faculty's secondary teacher education program, and its honours and masters programs. I'm also currently the Faculty's Honours Course Leader. I supervise honours, masters and PhD projects and would be happy to speak to potential research students.

Before coming to Monash I was a secondary school English teacher. In addition to my work at Monash, I'm a National Council member and Research Officer for the Australian Association for the Teaching of English (AATE). I have four young children (three sons and a daughter) and live in idyllic Bayswater amongst the factories at the foot of the Dandenongs in Melbourne.

Research & Supervision Interests

Language and literacy in and out of school; digital media and education; computer-mediated communication; digital literacies; adolescent literacy; critical and sociological approaches to technology; popular culture and curriculum; English teaching theory, practice, and curriculum change; professional identity, learning and change for English teachers; sociocultural theories of language and education; sociology of childhood and youth; narrative; ethnography; discourse analysis

Keywords

English teaching; literacy; digital media; secondary schools; youth

Qualifications

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 2009

Publications

Books

Bulfin, S., McGraw, K. (eds), 2011, Technologies, Texts and Practices. Special Issue of English in Australia., Australian Association for the Teaching of English Inc., Australia.

Bellis, N., Bulfin, S.A. (eds), 2005, How we came to be here, now, The Victorian Association for the Teaching of English, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Book Chapters

Bulfin, S., 2011, My story, our stories, in English for the Australian Curriculum, eds Brenton Doecke and Graham Parr, Cambridge University Press, UK, pp. 2-43.

Snyder, I.A., Bulfin, S.A., 2008, Using new media in the secondary English classroom, in Handbook of Research on New Literacies, eds Julie Coiro, Michele Knobel, Colin Lankshear, Donald J. Leu, Lawrence Erlbaum, New York USA, pp. 805-837.

Snyder, I.A., Bulfin, S.A., 2007, Digital literacy: what it means for arts education, in International Handbook of Research in Arts Education, eds Liora Bresler, Springer, Dordrecht The Netherlands, pp. 1297-1310.

Bulfin, S.A., 2006, Curriculum and conversation in a English classroom: what's it to you, huh?, in Only Connect, eds Brenton Doecke, Mark Howie and Wayne Sawyer, Wakefield Press, Kent Town SA Australia, pp. 135-142.

Bulfin, S., 2005, Conversation + collaboration + writing = professional learning, in Writing = Learning, eds Brenton Doecke and Graham Parr, Wakefield Press, Kent Town SA, pp. 40-58.

Journal Articles

Bulfin, S.A., Koutsogiannis, D., 2012, New literacies as multiply placed practices: expanding perspectives on young people's literacies across home and school, Language and Education [E], vol 26, issue 4, Routledge, London UK, pp. 331-346.

Bulfin, S., McGraw, K., 2011, Technologies, texts and practices, English in Australia [P], vol 46, issue 3, Australian Association for the Teaching of English Inc., Australia, pp. 2-3.

North, S.M., Snyder, I.A., Bulfin, S.A., 2008, Digital tastes: Social class and young people's technology use, Information, Communication and Society, vol 11, issue 7, Routledge, UK, pp. 895-911.

Bulfin, S.A., 2007, Learning (to learn) against the grain?, English in Australia, vol 42, issue 2, AATE, Australia, pp. 65-67.

Bulfin, S.A., North, S.M., 2007, Negotiating digital literacy practices across school and home: case studies of young people in Australia, Language and Education, vol 21, issue 3, Multilingual Matters Ltd, Clevedon UK, pp. 247-263.

Bulfin, S.A., 2007, Reimagining digital youth, Teacher, vol 1, issue 181 - June 2007, Australian Council for Educational Research, Camberwell Vic Australia, pp. 56-57.

Bulfin, S.A., 2007, VATE, English in Australia, vol 42, issue 2, School of Education University of Queensland, Brisbane QLD Australia, pp. 5-6.

Bulfin, S.A., 2005, Are you going to blog that? Adventures in the blogosphere, Idiom: Journal of the Victorian Association for the Teaching of English, vol 41, issue 3, The Victorian Association for the Teaching of English, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 35-43.

Bulfin, S., Mathews, K., 2003, Reframing beginning English teachers as knowledge producers: Learning to teach and transgress, English Teaching: practice and critique, vol 2, issue 3, University of Waikato, http://www.soe.waikato.ac.nz/english/ETPC/Current.html, pp. 47-58.

Conference Proceedings

Johnson, N., Bulfin, S., 2011, Secondary teachers' use of new media in an age of accountability, Global Learn Asia Pacific 2011 Proceedings, 28 March 2011 to 1 April 2011, Association for Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), USA, pp. 1-5.

Bulfin, S.A., 2009, Cyber-savy students and industrial-era schools? Disassembling and recasting the new home-school mismatch hypothesis, AATE/ALEA Conference 2009, 4-6 July 2009, AATE/ALEA, Australia, pp. 1-20.

Other

Snyder, I.A., Wise, L.Z., North, S.M., Bulfin, S.A., 2008, Being Digital in School, Home and Community, Faculty of Education, Monash University, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 1-55.

Bulfin, S.A., 2007, Screenagers and the NET-GEN, Case study of 3 students and the benefits of digital technology in the classroom in 'Around the Globe', Summer 2007, Monash Institute for the Study of Global Movements, Clayton Vic Australia.

Teaching Commitment

EDF3007 Mediating the world of learning

EDF4819 English education

EDF4857/8 English education in the secondary years A and B

EDF6009 Special topic in research (honours group)

EDF6115 Communication practices and the use of new media

Activities

Memberships of editorial boards

From: 01/01/2013
The Australian Association for the Teaching of English (AATE)
English In Australia

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Supervisors:

Joseph, C (Main), Bulfin, S (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Digital media as a tool of creative expression.

Supervisors:

Bulfin, S (Joint-co), Harris, A (Joint).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Effective use of technology in the English classroom..

Supervisors:

Bulfin, S (Main), Parr, G (Associate).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Engaging students.

Supervisors:

Bulfin, S (Joint), Rennie, J (Joint-co).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Interaction in blended online environments: An Indonesian case study..

Supervisors:

Auld, G (Joint-co), Bulfin, S (Joint).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Professional learning for Israeli literacy teachers: A narrative inquiry.

Supervisors:

Parr, G (Main), Bulfin, S (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Rebooting The System - Digitally Reimagining The Australian Classroom.

Supervisors:

Faulkner, J (Main), Bulfin, S (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Teaching, Learning and Assessing Creativity in the English Classroom.

Supervisors:

Parr, G (Main), Bulfin, S (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

This teaching life: Primary literacy teachers working in a standardised educational context.

Supervisors:

Bulfin, S (Main).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Values in the cyber age.

Supervisors:

Johnson, N (Main), Bulfin, S (Associate).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Web 2.0 applications and changing pedagogical practices.

Supervisors:

Bulfin, S (Main).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

What role does recreational reading play in a young person's broader education and development? What.

Supervisors:

Bulfin, S (Main).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Why creativity is the vital ingredient that's missing in the 'education revolution'?.

Supervisors:

Bulfin, S (Main).

Completed Supervision

Student:

Le, T.

Program of Study:

Engaging with the 'global'-'local' debate in English language teaching: professional identity and teaching practice. (PHD) 2012.

Supervisors:

Phan, L (Main), Bulfin, S (Associate).

Student:

Taylor, C.

Program of Study:

The mobile literacy practices of adolescents: an ethnographic study. (PHD) 2011.

Supervisors:

Bulfin, S (Joint), Kenway, J (Joint-Co).