Danielle H Heinrichs
Biographic Data
| ID | 3099715 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Danielle H Heinrichs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Danielle H |
| FAMILY NAME | Heinrichs |
| SIGNATURE | HEINRICHS D H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Griffith University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6730-686X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Health dimensions
This article outlines an interdisciplinary research agenda in the nexus of climate change, extreme weather, human im/mobility and public health. We identify four research themes. First, climate im/mobility and health narratives, where research is needed on how competing narratives are adopted by citizens and how these influence their attitudes towards climate im/mobile groups, while also giving a stronger voice for these groups to tell their own …
Liminal language managers and advocates
Australia is one of the most heat-vulnerable and multicultural countries in the world. It is vital that diverse communities receive information about heat in accessible language. Local councils play an important role in facilitating this. It is unknown how local councils cater for their diverse communities to provide multilingual communication, considering scattergun heat policies. This research aims to understand how local governments plan and m…
Designing English Curriculum Courses for Primary Preservice Teachers
In this article, we document our experiences as teacher educators as we designed and implemented two courses that scaffold primary preservice teachers to engage critically with postmodern picture books and to explore a range of pedagogical practices for using postmodern picture books in classrooms with young children. Initially, our preservice teachers told us they did not have many experiences with postmodern picture books. Postmodern picture bo…
The digital-intercultural-transdisciplinary nexus
Transdisciplinary problem-solving using digital technologies can further the internationalisation agenda within higher education through an inquiry-based collaborative online international exchange that is transformative and contributes real-world knowledge. Our study focused on a 12-week fully online programme bringing together undergraduates and postgraduates from a Hong Kong university and two Australian universities to research the well-being…
Response-able, collaborative adaptations of multilingual health messaging
This article explores how citizen adaptors in Australia and Hong Kong (n = 22) work collaboratively with a not-for-profit health organisation (NGO), one another and Generative AI to produce accessible, multilingual public health messages. There is an urgent need for multilingual health communication, given that it is a human right and a social determinant of health, and without it, lives may be put at risk. To address this, a process of translati…
Artificial intelligence and epistemic interoperability
Artificial intelligence (AI) large language models (LLMs) offer transformative potential in education through their multilingual capabilities and broad accessibility to knowledge, enabling seamless access, translation, and application of information across linguistic, socio-cultural, and disciplinary boundaries. This study examines the collaborative use of LLMs by university students in Hong Kong and Australia to translate and adapt medical mater…
Untamed tongues, wild affects, and Spanish as a world(ing) languaging
Decolonial and affective turns in language education have brought to light a number of problematic dichotomies including reason/emotion, personal/professional and positive/negative. Yet challenging such dichotomies in language education research is a complex process requiring discussions of both language/linguistics and (often) imperceptible, potentially unnamed affects. This paper seeks to engage with the challenge of rupturing the coloniality o…
Blurring English language binaries
This article aims to visibilise the opportunities for decolonising standardised language practices for multilingual students learning English as an additional language or dialect (EAL/D) in Australian schools. We suggest that a decolonising approach to language education would value the multilingual, non-standard, and diverse language practices of learners. Using the Australian state of Queensland as a case study, we trace examples of decolonisin…
Mundane matters
In this article, we draw on phenomenon from an experiential learning project that invited university students in Australia and Hong Kong to share their conceptions of wellbeing. Inspired by feminist and new materialist perspectives, our analysis highlights a string of mundane moments of ecological entanglements, nutritionally-nourishing forces and spacetimemattering generated when students shared digital stories about their daily wellbeing practi…
Keep our mob safe
This paper examines how semiotic resources, including text, song, dance and visual imagery, are utilised in a COVID-19 public health outreach campaign to communicate to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW). Content analysis and multimodal critical discourse analysis are employed to study a corpus of multimodal videos with a visible, speaking social actor published between July 2020 and June …
Moving beyond (critical) reflection towards diffraction
Professional and personal obligations have required us to engage in (critical) reflection as world language educators of Spanish, German, English and Indonesia. While we have sought to engage in nuanced and insightful examples of this, we cannot help but feel that our reliance on conventional strategies for (critical) reflection do not move beyond mirroring sameness and a corrective logic. As a result, we have turned towards Donna Haraway’s compo…
“Staying with the trouble” of response-able Spanish bilingualism
This analysis is but one small fragment of a broader project exploring conceptions of response-able Spanish bilingualism in Australian secondary education. An initial thematic analysis revealed patterns and trends in the data but overlooked the nuanced, subtle differences regarding the ways in which Spanish bilingualism might be entangled with a number of troubling discourses and practices. Drawing inspiration from concepts in decolonial, new mat…
Decoloniality, Spanish and Latin American studies in Australian universities
Course descriptions from Spanish and Latin American studies departments in Australian universities operate as both curriculum documents and promotional materials. As a result, these departments face difficulties in promoting the ideals of social justice and equity often associated with language education. This paper analyses these course descriptions for examples of themes that visibilise other ways of knowing/doing/being from a decolonial perspe…
Untamed tongues, wild affects, and Spanish as a world(ing) languaging
Decolonial and affective turns in language education have brought to light a number of problematic dichotomies including reason/emotion, personal/professional and positive/negative. Yet challenging such dichotomies in language education research is a complex process requiring discussions of both language/linguistics and (often) imperceptible, potentially unnamed affects. This paper seeks to engage with the challenge of rupturing the coloniality o…
Mundane matters
In this article, we draw on phenomenon from an experiential learning project that invited university students in Australia and Hong Kong to share their conceptions of wellbeing. Inspired by feminist and new materialist perspectives, our analysis highlights a string of mundane moments of ecological entanglements, nutritionally-nourishing forces and spacetimemattering generated when students shared digital stories about their daily wellbeing practi…
Decoloniality, Spanish and Latin American studies in Australian universities
Course descriptions from Spanish and Latin American studies departments in Australian universities operate as both curriculum documents and promotional materials. As a result, these departments face difficulties in promoting the ideals of social justice and equity often associated with language education. This paper analyses these course descriptions for examples of themes that visibilise other ways of knowing/doing/being from a decolonial perspe…
Decoloniality, Spanish and Latin American studies in Australian universities
Course descriptions from Spanish and Latin American studies departments in Australian universities operate as both curriculum documents and promotional materials. As a result, these departments face difficulties in promoting the ideals of social justice and equity often associated with language education. This paper analyses these course descriptions for examples of themes that visibilise other ways of knowing/doing/being from a decolonial perspe…
“Staying with the trouble” of response-able Spanish bilingualism
This analysis is but one small fragment of a broader project exploring conceptions of response-able Spanish bilingualism in Australian secondary education. An initial thematic analysis revealed patterns and trends in the data but overlooked the nuanced, subtle differences regarding the ways in which Spanish bilingualism might be entangled with a number of troubling discourses and practices. Drawing inspiration from concepts in decolonial, new mat…
Moving beyond (critical) reflection towards diffraction
Professional and personal obligations have required us to engage in (critical) reflection as world language educators of Spanish, German, English and Indonesia. While we have sought to engage in nuanced and insightful examples of this, we cannot help but feel that our reliance on conventional strategies for (critical) reflection do not move beyond mirroring sameness and a corrective logic. As a result, we have turned towards Donna Haraway’s compo…
Blurring English language binaries
This article aims to visibilise the opportunities for decolonising standardised language practices for multilingual students learning English as an additional language or dialect (EAL/D) in Australian schools. We suggest that a decolonising approach to language education would value the multilingual, non-standard, and diverse language practices of learners. Using the Australian state of Queensland as a case study, we trace examples of decolonisin…
Mundane matters
In this article, we draw on phenomenon from an experiential learning project that invited university students in Australia and Hong Kong to share their conceptions of wellbeing. Inspired by feminist and new materialist perspectives, our analysis highlights a string of mundane moments of ecological entanglements, nutritionally-nourishing forces and spacetimemattering generated when students shared digital stories about their daily wellbeing practi…
Keep our mob safe
This paper examines how semiotic resources, including text, song, dance and visual imagery, are utilised in a COVID-19 public health outreach campaign to communicate to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW). Content analysis and multimodal critical discourse analysis are employed to study a corpus of multimodal videos with a visible, speaking social actor published between July 2020 and June …
Untamed tongues, wild affects, and Spanish as a world(ing) languaging
Decolonial and affective turns in language education have brought to light a number of problematic dichotomies including reason/emotion, personal/professional and positive/negative. Yet challenging such dichotomies in language education research is a complex process requiring discussions of both language/linguistics and (often) imperceptible, potentially unnamed affects. This paper seeks to engage with the challenge of rupturing the coloniality o…
Designing English Curriculum Courses for Primary Preservice Teachers
In this article, we document our experiences as teacher educators as we designed and implemented two courses that scaffold primary preservice teachers to engage critically with postmodern picture books and to explore a range of pedagogical practices for using postmodern picture books in classrooms with young children. Initially, our preservice teachers told us they did not have many experiences with postmodern picture books. Postmodern picture bo…
The digital-intercultural-transdisciplinary nexus
Transdisciplinary problem-solving using digital technologies can further the internationalisation agenda within higher education through an inquiry-based collaborative online international exchange that is transformative and contributes real-world knowledge. Our study focused on a 12-week fully online programme bringing together undergraduates and postgraduates from a Hong Kong university and two Australian universities to research the well-being…
Response-able, collaborative adaptations of multilingual health messaging
This article explores how citizen adaptors in Australia and Hong Kong (n = 22) work collaboratively with a not-for-profit health organisation (NGO), one another and Generative AI to produce accessible, multilingual public health messages. There is an urgent need for multilingual health communication, given that it is a human right and a social determinant of health, and without it, lives may be put at risk. To address this, a process of translati…
Artificial intelligence and epistemic interoperability
Artificial intelligence (AI) large language models (LLMs) offer transformative potential in education through their multilingual capabilities and broad accessibility to knowledge, enabling seamless access, translation, and application of information across linguistic, socio-cultural, and disciplinary boundaries. This study examines the collaborative use of LLMs by university students in Hong Kong and Australia to translate and adapt medical mater…
Health dimensions
This article outlines an interdisciplinary research agenda in the nexus of climate change, extreme weather, human im/mobility and public health. We identify four research themes. First, climate im/mobility and health narratives, where research is needed on how competing narratives are adopted by citizens and how these influence their attitudes towards climate im/mobile groups, while also giving a stronger voice for these groups to tell their own …
Liminal language managers and advocates
Australia is one of the most heat-vulnerable and multicultural countries in the world. It is vital that diverse communities receive information about heat in accessible language. Local councils play an important role in facilitating this. It is unknown how local councils cater for their diverse communities to provide multilingual communication, considering scattergun heat policies. This research aims to understand how local governments plan and m…
Sociology (9 works) · Pedagogy (8 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Curriculum (3 works) · Global Education and Multiculturalism (3 works) · Public health (3 works)