Susan Whatman
Biographic Data
| ID | 117555 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan Whatman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan |
| FAMILY NAME | Whatman |
| SIGNATURE | WHATMAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Griffith University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5793-0952 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Inclusive approaches to overcome multiple disadvantages in secondary education
Leisure Satisfaction and Identity Formation in University Golf Elective
This study examined how participation in a university golf elective shaped students’ leisure satisfaction and how these experiences were associated with learning and identity development in higher education sport programs. Using a mixed-methods design, survey data were collected from 469 students across 10 Chinese universities, followed by 20 semi-structured interviews with students and course coordinators. Quantitative findings showed that golf …
Development and validation of standards for evaluating the quality of qualitative research on Olympics breakdance
Since the announcement in 2018 of breakdancing’s inclusion in the 2024 Olympic program in Paris, France, by the International Olympic Committee, there has been a significant increase in qualitative research related to breakdancing. Although standards exist for evaluating qualitative research quality, these standards are not always suitable for breakdancing research. This raises questions about how to evaluate the quality of qualitative research i…
Digital technology use in physical education teacher education
This scoping review examines the current research on digital technology use in physical education teacher education (PETE). It examines how PETE academics and students perceive and utilize digital technology as both pedagogy and tools, while also identifying gaps in existing knowledge to guide future research and practice. Following the PRISMA-ScR checklist, studies were included based on the following criteria: empirical articles published in En…
(Re)positioning Indigenous games in HPE
In 2011, the Australian national curriculum called for the inclusion of Indigenous histories, cultures and perspectives/knowledges, prompting Health and Physical Education (HPE) teachers in schools and academics within higher education have experimented with and reported upon different purposes and ways of teaching Indigenous Games.However, Australian schools remain sites of epistemic injustice, where the privileging of Western knowledges margina…
Southern influences upon and development of the pedagogic device
Although the pedagogic device is viewed as a crucial element within the sociology of education, little research explores its historical development. This paper explores some iterations of the pedagogic device over the last 40 years, focusing on its origins in South America. By exploring Bernstein's ideas of the pedagogic device and pedagogic rights alongside Freire's understanding of activism, this paper demonstrates a dual purpose for the pedago…
Pedagogical Approaches of a Targeted Social and Emotional Skilling Program to Re-Engage Young Adolescents in Schooling
This paper forms part of a larger study that examined the effectiveness of a targeted social and emotional program to re-engage early adolescents who were already showing signs of disengaging from schooling. Using qualitative methodology, data for this paper come from an in-depth interview with the teacher/facilitator of the program presented as six individual vignette case studies. Each vignette highlights the individual challenges and outcomes …
First Peoples' perspectives on successful engagement at university
In this article, we present a case study of the nature of First Peoples’ engagement with the GUMURRII Student Success Unit at Griffith University, Queensland, Australia. Higher education plays a critical role in improving socioeconomic outcomes in First Peoples communities. Recent reports indicate First Peoples are still under-represented at university, with lower participation and higher attrition rates than non-Indigenous students. Previous stu…
Teacher activism
While much has been written about student movements against the neoliberal privatisation of education in Chile, less attention has been given to teacher activism around similar educational matters. In this article, we contribute to the field of teacher activism as a social movement to resist the global education reforms of neoliberal education policies/practices. Data for the study were generated through yarning, photo-yarning and testimonios, me…
Race’, youth sport, physical activity and health
‘Race’, youth sport, physical activity and health: Global Perspectives is part of the Routledge book series on Critical Perspectives on Equality and Social Justice in Sport and Leisure. This book fulfils its ambition to interrogate ‘race’ and reveal processes of systemic racialization in physical activity and youth sport contexts and educational sites for health and physical education. The Editors, Symeon Dagkas, Laura Azzarito and Kevin Hylton, …
Postcolonial, decolonial research dilemmas
We come to this article as non-Indigenous teacher educators working as qualitative researchers in postcolonial/decolonial (Mignolo, 2000) times. We explore matters related to schooling in remote Australian Indigenous communities. In this article, we respond to Delamont's invitation for qualitative researchers to revisit (Delamont and Hamilton, 1984) and think reflexively (Delamont, 2009) about our field work research methods. In doing so, attenti…
Indigenous knowledges as a way to disrupt norms in physical education teacher education
The maintenance and reproduction of prevailing hegemonic norms have been well explored in physical education teacher education (PETE). A related problem has been the exclusion of Indigenous knowledges around health and physical education (HPE) in students’ experiences of HPE and PETE. The danger is that certain ways of being and becoming a PE teacher, other than the sporty, fit, healthy (and white) teacher, are excluded, positioning other preserv…
Building social and emotional efficacy to (re)engage young adolescents
Research confirms that when students disengage from learning, there is a greatly increased risk of them dropping out of school and not completing secondary education (Year 12). In an Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) report on Equity in Education [OECD. 2012. “Investing in Equity in Education Pays off”, in Equity and Quality in Education: Supporting Disadvantaged Students and Schools. Paris, France: OECD. doi:10.1787/9…
Re-engaging ‘youth at risk’ of disengaging from schooling through rugby league club partnership
The youth learning re-engagement program known as the Titans Learning Centre (or TLC) is an approved alternative schooling program, developed in partnership with state education and a local National Rugby League (NRL) club, the ‘Titans’. Students typically in Grade Three or Four complete a 10 week program, interacting with professional A grade NRL players on a weekly basis during classroom learning time and lunch time ‘handball’ sessions. The pro…
Pre-service teachers’ pedagogical relationships and experiences of embedding Indigenous Australian knowledge in teaching practicum
This paper argues from the standpoint that embedding Indigenous knowledge and perspectives in Australian curricula occurs within a space of tension, ‘the cultural interface’, in negotiation and contestation with other dominant knowledge systems. In this interface, Indigenous knowledge is in a state of constancy and flux, invisible and simultaneously pronounced depending on the teaching and learning contexts. More often than not, Indigenous knowle…
Introduction
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Pre-service teachers’ pedagogical relationships and experiences of embedding Indigenous Australian knowledge in teaching practicum
This paper argues from the standpoint that embedding Indigenous knowledge and perspectives in Australian curricula occurs within a space of tension, ‘the cultural interface’, in negotiation and contestation with other dominant knowledge systems. In this interface, Indigenous knowledge is in a state of constancy and flux, invisible and simultaneously pronounced depending on the teaching and learning contexts. More often than not, Indigenous knowle…
Introduction
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the 'Save PDF' action button
Postcolonial, decolonial research dilemmas
We come to this article as non-Indigenous teacher educators working as qualitative researchers in postcolonial/decolonial (Mignolo, 2000) times. We explore matters related to schooling in remote Australian Indigenous communities. In this article, we respond to Delamont's invitation for qualitative researchers to revisit (Delamont and Hamilton, 1984) and think reflexively (Delamont, 2009) about our field work research methods. In doing so, attenti…
(Re)positioning Indigenous games in HPE
In 2011, the Australian national curriculum called for the inclusion of Indigenous histories, cultures and perspectives/knowledges, prompting Health and Physical Education (HPE) teachers in schools and academics within higher education have experimented with and reported upon different purposes and ways of teaching Indigenous Games.However, Australian schools remain sites of epistemic injustice, where the privileging of Western knowledges margina…
Teacher activism
While much has been written about student movements against the neoliberal privatisation of education in Chile, less attention has been given to teacher activism around similar educational matters. In this article, we contribute to the field of teacher activism as a social movement to resist the global education reforms of neoliberal education policies/practices. Data for the study were generated through yarning, photo-yarning and testimonios, me…
Building social and emotional efficacy to (re)engage young adolescents
Research confirms that when students disengage from learning, there is a greatly increased risk of them dropping out of school and not completing secondary education (Year 12). In an Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) report on Equity in Education [OECD. 2012. “Investing in Equity in Education Pays off”, in Equity and Quality in Education: Supporting Disadvantaged Students and Schools. Paris, France: OECD. doi:10.1787/9…
Southern influences upon and development of the pedagogic device
Although the pedagogic device is viewed as a crucial element within the sociology of education, little research explores its historical development. This paper explores some iterations of the pedagogic device over the last 40 years, focusing on its origins in South America. By exploring Bernstein's ideas of the pedagogic device and pedagogic rights alongside Freire's understanding of activism, this paper demonstrates a dual purpose for the pedago…
Race’, youth sport, physical activity and health
‘Race’, youth sport, physical activity and health: Global Perspectives is part of the Routledge book series on Critical Perspectives on Equality and Social Justice in Sport and Leisure. This book fulfils its ambition to interrogate ‘race’ and reveal processes of systemic racialization in physical activity and youth sport contexts and educational sites for health and physical education. The Editors, Symeon Dagkas, Laura Azzarito and Kevin Hylton, …
Re-engaging ‘youth at risk’ of disengaging from schooling through rugby league club partnership
The youth learning re-engagement program known as the Titans Learning Centre (or TLC) is an approved alternative schooling program, developed in partnership with state education and a local National Rugby League (NRL) club, the ‘Titans’. Students typically in Grade Three or Four complete a 10 week program, interacting with professional A grade NRL players on a weekly basis during classroom learning time and lunch time ‘handball’ sessions. The pro…
Introduction
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the 'Save PDF' action button
Pre-service teachers’ pedagogical relationships and experiences of embedding Indigenous Australian knowledge in teaching practicum
This paper argues from the standpoint that embedding Indigenous knowledge and perspectives in Australian curricula occurs within a space of tension, ‘the cultural interface’, in negotiation and contestation with other dominant knowledge systems. In this interface, Indigenous knowledge is in a state of constancy and flux, invisible and simultaneously pronounced depending on the teaching and learning contexts. More often than not, Indigenous knowle…
Building social and emotional efficacy to (re)engage young adolescents
Research confirms that when students disengage from learning, there is a greatly increased risk of them dropping out of school and not completing secondary education (Year 12). In an Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) report on Equity in Education [OECD. 2012. “Investing in Equity in Education Pays off”, in Equity and Quality in Education: Supporting Disadvantaged Students and Schools. Paris, France: OECD. doi:10.1787/9…
Re-engaging ‘youth at risk’ of disengaging from schooling through rugby league club partnership
The youth learning re-engagement program known as the Titans Learning Centre (or TLC) is an approved alternative schooling program, developed in partnership with state education and a local National Rugby League (NRL) club, the ‘Titans’. Students typically in Grade Three or Four complete a 10 week program, interacting with professional A grade NRL players on a weekly basis during classroom learning time and lunch time ‘handball’ sessions. The pro…
Indigenous knowledges as a way to disrupt norms in physical education teacher education
The maintenance and reproduction of prevailing hegemonic norms have been well explored in physical education teacher education (PETE). A related problem has been the exclusion of Indigenous knowledges around health and physical education (HPE) in students’ experiences of HPE and PETE. The danger is that certain ways of being and becoming a PE teacher, other than the sporty, fit, healthy (and white) teacher, are excluded, positioning other preserv…
Postcolonial, decolonial research dilemmas
We come to this article as non-Indigenous teacher educators working as qualitative researchers in postcolonial/decolonial (Mignolo, 2000) times. We explore matters related to schooling in remote Australian Indigenous communities. In this article, we respond to Delamont's invitation for qualitative researchers to revisit (Delamont and Hamilton, 1984) and think reflexively (Delamont, 2009) about our field work research methods. In doing so, attenti…
Race’, youth sport, physical activity and health
‘Race’, youth sport, physical activity and health: Global Perspectives is part of the Routledge book series on Critical Perspectives on Equality and Social Justice in Sport and Leisure. This book fulfils its ambition to interrogate ‘race’ and reveal processes of systemic racialization in physical activity and youth sport contexts and educational sites for health and physical education. The Editors, Symeon Dagkas, Laura Azzarito and Kevin Hylton, …
Pedagogical Approaches of a Targeted Social and Emotional Skilling Program to Re-Engage Young Adolescents in Schooling
This paper forms part of a larger study that examined the effectiveness of a targeted social and emotional program to re-engage early adolescents who were already showing signs of disengaging from schooling. Using qualitative methodology, data for this paper come from an in-depth interview with the teacher/facilitator of the program presented as six individual vignette case studies. Each vignette highlights the individual challenges and outcomes …
First Peoples' perspectives on successful engagement at university
In this article, we present a case study of the nature of First Peoples’ engagement with the GUMURRII Student Success Unit at Griffith University, Queensland, Australia. Higher education plays a critical role in improving socioeconomic outcomes in First Peoples communities. Recent reports indicate First Peoples are still under-represented at university, with lower participation and higher attrition rates than non-Indigenous students. Previous stu…
Teacher activism
While much has been written about student movements against the neoliberal privatisation of education in Chile, less attention has been given to teacher activism around similar educational matters. In this article, we contribute to the field of teacher activism as a social movement to resist the global education reforms of neoliberal education policies/practices. Data for the study were generated through yarning, photo-yarning and testimonios, me…
Development and validation of standards for evaluating the quality of qualitative research on Olympics breakdance
Since the announcement in 2018 of breakdancing’s inclusion in the 2024 Olympic program in Paris, France, by the International Olympic Committee, there has been a significant increase in qualitative research related to breakdancing. Although standards exist for evaluating qualitative research quality, these standards are not always suitable for breakdancing research. This raises questions about how to evaluate the quality of qualitative research i…
Digital technology use in physical education teacher education
This scoping review examines the current research on digital technology use in physical education teacher education (PETE). It examines how PETE academics and students perceive and utilize digital technology as both pedagogy and tools, while also identifying gaps in existing knowledge to guide future research and practice. Following the PRISMA-ScR checklist, studies were included based on the following criteria: empirical articles published in En…
(Re)positioning Indigenous games in HPE
In 2011, the Australian national curriculum called for the inclusion of Indigenous histories, cultures and perspectives/knowledges, prompting Health and Physical Education (HPE) teachers in schools and academics within higher education have experimented with and reported upon different purposes and ways of teaching Indigenous Games.However, Australian schools remain sites of epistemic injustice, where the privileging of Western knowledges margina…
Southern influences upon and development of the pedagogic device
Although the pedagogic device is viewed as a crucial element within the sociology of education, little research explores its historical development. This paper explores some iterations of the pedagogic device over the last 40 years, focusing on its origins in South America. By exploring Bernstein's ideas of the pedagogic device and pedagogic rights alongside Freire's understanding of activism, this paper demonstrates a dual purpose for the pedago…
Inclusive approaches to overcome multiple disadvantages in secondary education
Leisure Satisfaction and Identity Formation in University Golf Elective
This study examined how participation in a university golf elective shaped students’ leisure satisfaction and how these experiences were associated with learning and identity development in higher education sport programs. Using a mixed-methods design, survey data were collected from 469 students across 10 Chinese universities, followed by 20 semi-structured interviews with students and course coordinators. Quantitative findings showed that golf …
Pedagogy (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Political science (8 works) · Indigenous (7 works) · Social science (7 works) · Physical Education and Pedagogy (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy (5 works) · Mathematics education (4 works) · Medicine (4 works)