Jennifer Alford
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 6025962 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jennifer Alford |
| PRENOMES | Jennifer |
| SOBRENOME | Alford |
| ASSINATURA | ALFORD J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Queensland University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9238-0933 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 11 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2014 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Teaching difficult Indigenous topics through textual analysis
In this paper, we replicate and reflect on the experience of using dialogue to engage with difficult Indigenous topics in a secondary English classroom. Although we are a group of three experienced teachers from diverse familial and professional backgrounds, we take on the role of secondary school English students enacting a metalogue on a difficult Indigenous topic. Specifically, we focus on the pamphlet circulated by the Australian Government t…
Interpretations of inclusive education in Australian policy
Resisting research evidence-base deficits
This paper considers the research evidence-base informing teaching practice and policy in subject English in schools. We explore the Australian Journal of English Education, the flagship research publication from the Australian Association of Teachers of English, at a time when an evidence-base is in high demand. Our aim is to understand the research outputs that are valued by the authors, editors, reviewers and readers of this association journa…
Exploring critical media literacy with culturally and linguistically diverse youth in Australia
This paper reports on an instrumental case study exploring what migrant and refugee-background youth in Australia make of the critical media literacy they learn in school, and what critical media practices they use out of school. It addresses the perennial question of the relationship between school literacy learning and everyday literate lives, paying deliberate attention to the experiences of youth whose diversity is underrepresented in researc…
Empowerment or Holding the Child Responsible? An Australian Recovery-Oriented Mental Health Policy Analysis
Recovery, as a concept is internationally recognised as a means to empower children to manage their own mental health. Recovery-oriented mental health policy production and service delivery in many Western countries, however, occurs in a discursive field influenced by biomedical and neo-liberal discourses. This article uses Critical Discourse Analysis to investigate an Australian policy—'A National Framework for Recovery-Oriented Mental Health Se…
Making talk work
Despite clear claims that higher education institutions prepare graduates for a world that is increasingly globalised, diverse and interconnected, how best to develop intercultural competence in places of learning is less clear. Drawing focus to a purpose-built intercultural programme, this paper explores the development of intercultural competence within a group of culturally diverse students at a regional Australian university. Eight students p…
Envisioning Indigenous Models for Social and Ecological Change in the Anthropocene
Indigenous societies provide alternatives to hegemonic social institutions that global capitalism spread around the world, contributing to human caused environmental degradation called the Anthropocene, coterminous with the development of the modern world-system. In this work we describe Indigenous communities using ten social spheres, that balance human needs through ecological mindfulness, including spirituality, and then we model how these soc…
Forging inclusive practice in ethnically-segregated school systems
This paper offers a perspective on bilingual education (BE) as inclusive education. Ethnolinguistically-separated schools and classrooms in Sri Lanka resulted from an enduring, mother tongue instruction policy which abetted a deeply ethnically-divided nation. More recently, Sri Lanka has experimented with a BE programme in pursuit of enriching the perceived value of the local mother tongues as well as building students’ knowledge of English as a …
Teachers’ Reinterpretations of Critical Literacy Policy
Recent conservative reviews of Australia’s national English curriculum argue for a return to less critical approaches to English language education and a stronger emphasis on traditional, functional approaches to provide adequate English learning experiences for school-age students. This neoliberal shift poses a threat to adolescent learners from varied cultural and linguistic backgrounds because it demands second language learning without critic…
Developing intercultural learning in Australian pre-service teachers through participating in a short term mobility program in Malaysia
Multiliteracies Pedagogy
In addressing literacy in high school education, it is important to foreground the particular issues faced by growing numbers of English Language Learners (ELLs). In our increasingly culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms, this is a matter for all literacy teachers, as well as ELL specialists. In Australia, teachers of ELLs are experimenting with Multiliteracies pedagogy which provides rich opportunities to explore language learning exp…
Developing intercultural learning in Australian pre-service teachers through participating in a short term mobility program in Malaysia
Envisioning Indigenous Models for Social and Ecological Change in the Anthropocene
Indigenous societies provide alternatives to hegemonic social institutions that global capitalism spread around the world, contributing to human caused environmental degradation called the Anthropocene, coterminous with the development of the modern world-system. In this work we describe Indigenous communities using ten social spheres, that balance human needs through ecological mindfulness, including spirituality, and then we model how these soc…
Empowerment or Holding the Child Responsible? An Australian Recovery-Oriented Mental Health Policy Analysis
Recovery, as a concept is internationally recognised as a means to empower children to manage their own mental health. Recovery-oriented mental health policy production and service delivery in many Western countries, however, occurs in a discursive field influenced by biomedical and neo-liberal discourses. This article uses Critical Discourse Analysis to investigate an Australian policy—'A National Framework for Recovery-Oriented Mental Health Se…
Making talk work
Despite clear claims that higher education institutions prepare graduates for a world that is increasingly globalised, diverse and interconnected, how best to develop intercultural competence in places of learning is less clear. Drawing focus to a purpose-built intercultural programme, this paper explores the development of intercultural competence within a group of culturally diverse students at a regional Australian university. Eight students p…
Multiliteracies Pedagogy
In addressing literacy in high school education, it is important to foreground the particular issues faced by growing numbers of English Language Learners (ELLs). In our increasingly culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms, this is a matter for all literacy teachers, as well as ELL specialists. In Australia, teachers of ELLs are experimenting with Multiliteracies pedagogy which provides rich opportunities to explore language learning exp…
Teachers’ Reinterpretations of Critical Literacy Policy
Recent conservative reviews of Australia’s national English curriculum argue for a return to less critical approaches to English language education and a stronger emphasis on traditional, functional approaches to provide adequate English learning experiences for school-age students. This neoliberal shift poses a threat to adolescent learners from varied cultural and linguistic backgrounds because it demands second language learning without critic…
Developing intercultural learning in Australian pre-service teachers through participating in a short term mobility program in Malaysia
Forging inclusive practice in ethnically-segregated school systems
This paper offers a perspective on bilingual education (BE) as inclusive education. Ethnolinguistically-separated schools and classrooms in Sri Lanka resulted from an enduring, mother tongue instruction policy which abetted a deeply ethnically-divided nation. More recently, Sri Lanka has experimented with a BE programme in pursuit of enriching the perceived value of the local mother tongues as well as building students’ knowledge of English as a …
Envisioning Indigenous Models for Social and Ecological Change in the Anthropocene
Indigenous societies provide alternatives to hegemonic social institutions that global capitalism spread around the world, contributing to human caused environmental degradation called the Anthropocene, coterminous with the development of the modern world-system. In this work we describe Indigenous communities using ten social spheres, that balance human needs through ecological mindfulness, including spirituality, and then we model how these soc…
Making talk work
Despite clear claims that higher education institutions prepare graduates for a world that is increasingly globalised, diverse and interconnected, how best to develop intercultural competence in places of learning is less clear. Drawing focus to a purpose-built intercultural programme, this paper explores the development of intercultural competence within a group of culturally diverse students at a regional Australian university. Eight students p…
Exploring critical media literacy with culturally and linguistically diverse youth in Australia
This paper reports on an instrumental case study exploring what migrant and refugee-background youth in Australia make of the critical media literacy they learn in school, and what critical media practices they use out of school. It addresses the perennial question of the relationship between school literacy learning and everyday literate lives, paying deliberate attention to the experiences of youth whose diversity is underrepresented in researc…
Empowerment or Holding the Child Responsible? An Australian Recovery-Oriented Mental Health Policy Analysis
Recovery, as a concept is internationally recognised as a means to empower children to manage their own mental health. Recovery-oriented mental health policy production and service delivery in many Western countries, however, occurs in a discursive field influenced by biomedical and neo-liberal discourses. This article uses Critical Discourse Analysis to investigate an Australian policy—'A National Framework for Recovery-Oriented Mental Health Se…
Resisting research evidence-base deficits
This paper considers the research evidence-base informing teaching practice and policy in subject English in schools. We explore the Australian Journal of English Education, the flagship research publication from the Australian Association of Teachers of English, at a time when an evidence-base is in high demand. Our aim is to understand the research outputs that are valued by the authors, editors, reviewers and readers of this association journa…
Interpretations of inclusive education in Australian policy
Teaching difficult Indigenous topics through textual analysis
In this paper, we replicate and reflect on the experience of using dialogue to engage with difficult Indigenous topics in a secondary English classroom. Although we are a group of three experienced teachers from diverse familial and professional backgrounds, we take on the role of secondary school English students enacting a metalogue on a difficult Indigenous topic. Specifically, we focus on the pamphlet circulated by the Australian Government t…
Psychology (8 obras) · Sociology (8 obras) · Pedagogy (7 obras) · Global Education and Multiculturalism (6 obras) · Political science (5 obras) · Focus group (4 obras) · Mathematics education (4 obras) · Literacy (3 obras) · Literacy, Media, and Education (3 obras) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (3 obras)