Karen Dooley
Biographic Data
| ID | 346573 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen Dooley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen |
| FAMILY NAME | Dooley |
| SIGNATURE | DOOLEY K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queensland University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5826-3415 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Translanguaging in content-based school assessments
Recent scholarship proposes translanguaging for developing more complete, valid and socially just content-based school assessment. This scoping review examines the nascent evidence base, identifying what is known about possibilities, benefits and challenges of translanguaging in content-area assessments. Following established scoping review methodology, 33 peer-reviewed sources were included. Analyses mapped existing knowledge, gaps, and an agend…
Parent engagement in the achievement society
Parent engagement is promoted in educational policy and literature as being an effective mechanism for raising student achievement. Schools collect and report on vast amounts of student data for the purposes of school improvement and parents are increasingly privy to this data. Yet, surpringly little is known about the implications for parents when data is entwined with parent engagement. This institutional ethnographic inquiry explored the every…
Private literacy tutoring
Government-sponsored private literacy tutoring has ramifications for equality, equity and justice in educational settings and beyond. These are explored here through analysis of literacy curriculum-making globally and nationally. A political economy approach is taken: first, to the policy space in which the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) oversees global education goals; and then, to the 2025–2034 bilater…
Contesting the framing of digital risk
Children’s social lives are mediated increasingly by digital tools, thereby making new modes of home-school-world relationships possible. In this context, children’s digital out-of-school social practices continue to be associated with risk. Children are construed as an “at risk” and vulnerable population by adults who frame children’s everyday digital social life with ambivalence. This framing is used to justify imposition of constraints in the …
Recontextualising and Recontesting Bourdieu in Chinese Education
Bourdieu and Sino-Foreign Higher Education
Supplying private tuition
This article reports a study of the supply of private supplementary tuition in literacy for primary school students. The data set consisted of websites and advertisements of 46 suppliers active in an area of suburban Australia with a substantial population of migrants from East Asia. To conceptualise the supply of private tuition as edu-business, the study articulated sociological understandings of pedagogy with principles of economic sociology. …
Bourdieu and Chinese Education
Why do graduates from prestigious universities choose to teach in disadvantaged schools? Lessons from an alternative teacher preparation program in China
Responsibilising parents
This article considers moral agendas projected onto parents that mobilise them to supplement school literacy education with private tutoring. The theoretical frame draws on the concepts of responsibilisation as emerging market-embedded morality, ‘nudge’ social policies, edu-business and hidden privatisation in education. This framing is applied to two empirical moments: firstly, debates around the Australian government’s ‘Tutorial Voucher Initiat…
Cultural and academic adjustment of refugee youth
Coming into an inheritance
The critical role that family plays in Chinese Heritage Language learning (CHLL) has gained increasing attention from psychological, political and sociological scholarships. Guided by Bourdieu's notion of ‘habitus’, our mixed methods sociological study firstly addresses the need for quantitative evidence on the relationship between family support and Chinese Heritage Language (CHL) proficiency through a survey of 230 young Chinese Australians; an…
Teaching sociology within teacher education
This article uses theoretical resources from the sociology of education to consider the teaching of sociology in teacher education programs in Australia. Once a disciplinary 'pillar' of teacher education, sociology's contribution has become less explicit while more integrated, with consequences for disciplinary identity. Here we explore how sociology is taught in teacher education curricula on two fronts. First we outline how sociology is embedde…
Comprehension as Social and Intellectual Practice
This article reframes the concept of comprehension as a social and intellectual practice. It reviews current approaches to reading instruction for linguistically and culturally diverse, indigenous and low socioeconomic students (SES), noting an emphasis on comprehension as autonomous skills. The four resources model (Freebody & Luke, 1990) is used to make the case for integrating comprehension instruction with an emphasis on student cultural and …
Intercultural Conversation
In today's diverse classrooms, students must learn to manage intercultural conversations productively not only to talk with their peers but also to engage with their ideas and experiences. As schools in English‐speaking countries become increasing diverse, there are new and increasing opportunities for students to engage in intercultural conversations. Although such conversations have the potential to enrich the learning experience of all in the …
Social justice and curriculum renewal for Samoan students
This paper examines the construction of 'socially just' curriculum renewal initiatives for Samoan students in a low socio-economic secondary school. Basil Bernstein's concept of recontextualization is used to investigate the implementation of Queensland's Social Justice Strategy at the school level. Interview data provided by the school's first two 'social justice coordinators' is analysed, focussing on the categorizations of students and discour…
Cultural Compromise? The fate of the eighth Mayer Key Competency
[Extract] In recent decades, major re-structuring of work practices has occurred and continual, sometimes urgent, change has become an established feature of working life in Australia and in other industrialised economies (Kalantzis & Cope, 1994). Workers arc now expected to be multi-skilled, creative, adaptable, capable of autonomous decision making, and responsive to technological, organisational and market contingencies. Identification with ne…
Shaping Australian policy on cultural understandings
This paper examines Australian national policy documents that have brought together developments in competency-based education and inclusive curriculum in the formulation of a Key Competency concerned with cultural understandings. Particular attention is given to the definitions of culture and workplace culture, the choice of contexts for the display of cultural understandings as a competency, and the proposed evaluative frameworks. The paper als…
Responsibilising parents
This article considers moral agendas projected onto parents that mobilise them to supplement school literacy education with private tutoring. The theoretical frame draws on the concepts of responsibilisation as emerging market-embedded morality, ‘nudge’ social policies, edu-business and hidden privatisation in education. This framing is applied to two empirical moments: firstly, debates around the Australian government’s ‘Tutorial Voucher Initiat…
Comprehension as Social and Intellectual Practice
This article reframes the concept of comprehension as a social and intellectual practice. It reviews current approaches to reading instruction for linguistically and culturally diverse, indigenous and low socioeconomic students (SES), noting an emphasis on comprehension as autonomous skills. The four resources model (Freebody & Luke, 1990) is used to make the case for integrating comprehension instruction with an emphasis on student cultural and …
Why do graduates from prestigious universities choose to teach in disadvantaged schools? Lessons from an alternative teacher preparation program in China
Supplying private tuition
This article reports a study of the supply of private supplementary tuition in literacy for primary school students. The data set consisted of websites and advertisements of 46 suppliers active in an area of suburban Australia with a substantial population of migrants from East Asia. To conceptualise the supply of private tuition as edu-business, the study articulated sociological understandings of pedagogy with principles of economic sociology. …
Cultural and academic adjustment of refugee youth
Teaching sociology within teacher education
This article uses theoretical resources from the sociology of education to consider the teaching of sociology in teacher education programs in Australia. Once a disciplinary 'pillar' of teacher education, sociology's contribution has become less explicit while more integrated, with consequences for disciplinary identity. Here we explore how sociology is taught in teacher education curricula on two fronts. First we outline how sociology is embedde…
Cultural Compromise? The fate of the eighth Mayer Key Competency
[Extract] In recent decades, major re-structuring of work practices has occurred and continual, sometimes urgent, change has become an established feature of working life in Australia and in other industrialised economies (Kalantzis & Cope, 1994). Workers arc now expected to be multi-skilled, creative, adaptable, capable of autonomous decision making, and responsive to technological, organisational and market contingencies. Identification with ne…
Shaping Australian policy on cultural understandings
This paper examines Australian national policy documents that have brought together developments in competency-based education and inclusive curriculum in the formulation of a Key Competency concerned with cultural understandings. Particular attention is given to the definitions of culture and workplace culture, the choice of contexts for the display of cultural understandings as a competency, and the proposed evaluative frameworks. The paper als…
Shaping Australian policy on cultural understandings
This paper examines Australian national policy documents that have brought together developments in competency-based education and inclusive curriculum in the formulation of a Key Competency concerned with cultural understandings. Particular attention is given to the definitions of culture and workplace culture, the choice of contexts for the display of cultural understandings as a competency, and the proposed evaluative frameworks. The paper als…
Cultural Compromise? The fate of the eighth Mayer Key Competency
[Extract] In recent decades, major re-structuring of work practices has occurred and continual, sometimes urgent, change has become an established feature of working life in Australia and in other industrialised economies (Kalantzis & Cope, 1994). Workers arc now expected to be multi-skilled, creative, adaptable, capable of autonomous decision making, and responsive to technological, organisational and market contingencies. Identification with ne…
Social justice and curriculum renewal for Samoan students
This paper examines the construction of 'socially just' curriculum renewal initiatives for Samoan students in a low socio-economic secondary school. Basil Bernstein's concept of recontextualization is used to investigate the implementation of Queensland's Social Justice Strategy at the school level. Interview data provided by the school's first two 'social justice coordinators' is analysed, focussing on the categorizations of students and discour…
Intercultural Conversation
In today's diverse classrooms, students must learn to manage intercultural conversations productively not only to talk with their peers but also to engage with their ideas and experiences. As schools in English‐speaking countries become increasing diverse, there are new and increasing opportunities for students to engage in intercultural conversations. Although such conversations have the potential to enrich the learning experience of all in the …
Comprehension as Social and Intellectual Practice
This article reframes the concept of comprehension as a social and intellectual practice. It reviews current approaches to reading instruction for linguistically and culturally diverse, indigenous and low socioeconomic students (SES), noting an emphasis on comprehension as autonomous skills. The four resources model (Freebody & Luke, 1990) is used to make the case for integrating comprehension instruction with an emphasis on student cultural and …
Teaching sociology within teacher education
This article uses theoretical resources from the sociology of education to consider the teaching of sociology in teacher education programs in Australia. Once a disciplinary 'pillar' of teacher education, sociology's contribution has become less explicit while more integrated, with consequences for disciplinary identity. Here we explore how sociology is taught in teacher education curricula on two fronts. First we outline how sociology is embedde…
Coming into an inheritance
The critical role that family plays in Chinese Heritage Language learning (CHLL) has gained increasing attention from psychological, political and sociological scholarships. Guided by Bourdieu's notion of ‘habitus’, our mixed methods sociological study firstly addresses the need for quantitative evidence on the relationship between family support and Chinese Heritage Language (CHL) proficiency through a survey of 230 young Chinese Australians; an…
Cultural and academic adjustment of refugee youth
Bourdieu and Chinese Education
Why do graduates from prestigious universities choose to teach in disadvantaged schools? Lessons from an alternative teacher preparation program in China
Responsibilising parents
This article considers moral agendas projected onto parents that mobilise them to supplement school literacy education with private tutoring. The theoretical frame draws on the concepts of responsibilisation as emerging market-embedded morality, ‘nudge’ social policies, edu-business and hidden privatisation in education. This framing is applied to two empirical moments: firstly, debates around the Australian government’s ‘Tutorial Voucher Initiat…
Supplying private tuition
This article reports a study of the supply of private supplementary tuition in literacy for primary school students. The data set consisted of websites and advertisements of 46 suppliers active in an area of suburban Australia with a substantial population of migrants from East Asia. To conceptualise the supply of private tuition as edu-business, the study articulated sociological understandings of pedagogy with principles of economic sociology. …
Recontextualising and Recontesting Bourdieu in Chinese Education
Bourdieu and Sino-Foreign Higher Education
Private literacy tutoring
Government-sponsored private literacy tutoring has ramifications for equality, equity and justice in educational settings and beyond. These are explored here through analysis of literacy curriculum-making globally and nationally. A political economy approach is taken: first, to the policy space in which the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) oversees global education goals; and then, to the 2025–2034 bilater…
Contesting the framing of digital risk
Children’s social lives are mediated increasingly by digital tools, thereby making new modes of home-school-world relationships possible. In this context, children’s digital out-of-school social practices continue to be associated with risk. Children are construed as an “at risk” and vulnerable population by adults who frame children’s everyday digital social life with ambivalence. This framing is used to justify imposition of constraints in the …
Translanguaging in content-based school assessments
Recent scholarship proposes translanguaging for developing more complete, valid and socially just content-based school assessment. This scoping review examines the nascent evidence base, identifying what is known about possibilities, benefits and challenges of translanguaging in content-area assessments. Following established scoping review methodology, 33 peer-reviewed sources were included. Analyses mapped existing knowledge, gaps, and an agend…
Parent engagement in the achievement society
Parent engagement is promoted in educational policy and literature as being an effective mechanism for raising student achievement. Schools collect and report on vast amounts of student data for the purposes of school improvement and parents are increasingly privy to this data. Yet, surpringly little is known about the implications for parents when data is entwined with parent engagement. This institutional ethnographic inquiry explored the every…
Sociology (13 works) · Pedagogy (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Global Education and Multiculturalism (6 works) · Global Educational Policies and Reforms (6 works) · Literacy (6 works) · Social science (5 works) · Curriculum (4 works) · Global Educational Reforms and Inequalities (4 works)