Dr Julie Faulkner

Position	Senior Lecturer
School / Work Unit	Education
Contact Details	+(61 3) 9925 7827 julie.faulkner@rmit.edu.au
Location	Building: 220 Level: 4 Room: 11 Bundoora West Campus
Portfolio	Design & Social Context

Qualifications BA (Hons) (Monash). MEd Studies (Monash) PhD (Monash) Teaching/Work responsibilities Senior Lecturer in Literacy

Research Interests

Popular culture, multiliteracies and young peoples’ out-of-school literacies, professional issues in preservice and beginner teachers’ lives.

Research Projects, Consultancy and Student Project

Member, DEST project RMIT team, ‘Investigating Improving

Literacy and Numeracy Outcomes of Distance education students in the Early Years of Schooling’

2006- Chief Investigator, VIT project ‘Mapping the landscape: A study of beginning teachers’

Publications

Books

Latham, G., Blaise, M., Dole, S., Faulkner, J., Lang, J., and Malone, K. (2006) Learning to teach: New times, new practices Melbourne: Oxford University Press

Book Chapters

Williams, B. & Faulkner, J. (2006) ‘Television without borders: Popular culture and writing pedagogy across cultures’ in D. Payne & D. Desser (eds) Teaching Writing in a Globalized World: Remapping Composition Studies (in print)

Faulkner, J. (2002) ‘It gives you an image of yourself that you can reflect upon’: Literacy, identity and new media Chapter in I. Snyder and C. Beavis (eds) Doing Literacy Online: Teaching, Learning and Playing in an Electronic World. New Jersey: Hampton Press pps 207-225

Latham, G. & Faulkner, J. (2006) ‘Building the Virtual into Teacher Education’ in E. Mackay (ed.)Human-computer interactions in learning PA: Ideas Inc (in press)

Journal Articles

Faulkner, J. (2003) ‘Like you have a bubble inside of you that just wants to pop’: Popular culture, pleasure and the English classroom. English Teaching: Practice and Critique 2(2) pps 47-56

Faulkner, J. (2003) ‘Popular culture, literacy and the English classroom’ Interpretations 36(1) 9-14

Conferences Papers/Publications

Full written paper – refereed and published

Faulkner, J. (2005) ‘It’s Not Just Fun and Games, Teaching You Know’: Engagement, Learning and Classroom Practice’ Paper published in Conference proceedings LERN June 27-30, 2004 Havana, Cuba

Latham, G., Blaise, M., Malone, K. Dole, S., Faulkner, J., & Lang, J. (July, 2004). New learning in teacher education programs. Published conference proceedings Australian Teacher Education Association Conference. Bathurst, NSW, Australia.

Latham, G., Faulkner, J., Dole, S., Blaise, M., Malone, K., & Lang, J. (November, 2004).The Virtual Classroom as a Pedagogical Space in Pre-service Teacher Education . Paper presented and published in conference proceedings Australian Association for Research in Education Conference, Melbourne, Australia.

Blaise, M., Dole, S., Latham, G., Malone, K., Faulkner, J., Lang, J. (November, 2004). Rethinking reflective journals in teacher education. Paper presented and published in conference proceedings Australian Association for Research in Education Conference, Melbourne, Australia.

unpublished Conference Presentations

Faulkner, J. (2002) ‘Popular Culture and Text Response or: how I learned to put Shakespeare on hold and learned to love Arnold Schwarzenegger’ in Idiom Vol xxxi, (2) Journal of the Victorian Association of the Teaching of English (VATE) 81-88

2004 - Student Centred Teaching Award, RMIT University

2004 - student Centred Teaching Award, Design and Social Context Portfolio, RMIT University

2005 - ‘Excellence in Mass Media’ Award, RMIT University