Adjunct Professor
Jo Lampert
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Teacher Education & Leadership
Biography
Jo Lampert has a national and international reputation in the fields of social justice, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education, teacher education for high poverty schools. She also has a background in cultural studies.Widely published, Lampert is co-editor of the multinational book, Teacher Education for High Poverty Schools (Springer Press, 2015), Her co-authored book Introductory Indigenous Studies in Education: Reflection and the Importance of Knowing (Pearson, 2012) is widely used across the country. Lampert also continues some research in the field of literary studies. Her book, Children's Fiction About 9/11: National, Ethnic and Heroic Identities was published by Routledge in 2010.
She is an invited member of the World Education Research Council's (WERA) International Research Network, ' Overcoming Inequalities in Schools and Learning Communities: Innovative and Audacious Education for a New Century'. Jo has recently been a researcher on numerous significant funded projects: Lead Researcher on the Australian Council of Deans of Education/MATSITI (More Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Teachers) Initiative, and Lead Researcher on the Focus School Next Steps Initiative Case Studies.
Jo is Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford Research Encyclopaedia of Teacher Education. She is an elected Faculty of Education representative on University Academic Board.
Selected Achievements
- 2016 Australian Financial Review (AFR) Higher Education Award for Community Engagement
- 2015 Australian Award for University Teaching (AAUT): Award for Programs that Enhance Learning for National Exceptional Teachers for Disadvantaged Schools Program
- 2014 Business Higher Education Round Table (B/HERT) award for collaboration with The Origin Foundation for Outstanding Philanthropic Support of Higher Education
- 2013: AITSL Award for leadership in teacher education
- 2012: Vice-Chancellor's Performance Award
- 2011/12: Vice-Chancellors Award for Excellence (Exceptional Teachers for Disadvantaged Schools)
- 2006 - 2010: Chair of the Faculty of Education Equity Committee
- 2010: Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellent for sustained work in equity
- 2010: ALTC Citation Award for Learning and Teaching (Social Justice)
- 2009: QUT Outstanding Thesis Award
Personal details
Positions
- Adjunct Professor
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Teacher Education & Leadership
Keywords
Initial Teacher Education, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education, poverty, social disadvantage, social justice, quality teaching, global perspectives on teaching, literary studies
Research field
Curriculum and Pedagogy, Education Systems, Literary Studies
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- PhD (Queensland University of Technology)
- Master of Education (University of Toronto)
Professional memberships and associations
- Australian Educational Research Association (AARE)
- American Educational Research Association (AERA)
- World Educational Research Association (WERA)
- Higher Educational Research Network (HERN)
She has been on reference groups for
- Youth Action Network of Queensland (YANQ)
Teaching
In 2008, together with Dr. Bruce Burnett, Jo co-developed the award winning National Exceptional Teachers for Disadvantaged Schools program (NETDS) which creates a pathway for high quality pre-service teachers to be better prepared for teaching roles within low SES schools. By working closely with Education Queensland and partner low SES schools, the program channels these exceptional pre-service teachers into those low SES schools where they will have the greatest impact. In 2013, NETDS was expanded with the support of the Origin Foundation and Social Ventures Australia and in 2015 the Vincent Fairfax Foundation and Eureka Benevolent Foundation contributed to further expansion. NETDS is led by QUT, and now offered at 7 universities across Australia.
Jo has taught across Sociology Units and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies at QUT since 2002. Her teaching leadership in embedding Indigenous perspectives is demonstrated in her teaching, research and service engagement.
In 2016 she received a Senior Higher Education Academy Fellowship (SHEA).
Experience
Publications
- Lampert, J. & Burnett, B. (2016). Teacher education for high poverty schools [Education, Equity, Economy, Volume 2]. Springer International Publishing. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/89246
- Burnett, B. & Lampert, J. (2016). Re-thinking teacher quality in high-poverty schools in Australia. In WT. Pink & GW. Noblit (Eds.), Education, equity, economy: Crafting a new intersection [Education, Equity, Economy, Volume 1] (pp. 51–72). Springer. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/91135
- Lebhers, S., Lampert, J. & Burnett, B. (2016). 'More like the kids than the other teachers': One working-class pre-service teacher's experiences in a middle-class profession. Teaching and Teacher Education, 58, 35–42. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/95517
- Lampert, J., (2014). Self in the city: Young adult fiction about New York City after 9/11. In P. Whyte & K. O'Sullivan (Eds.), Children's literature and New York City [Children's Literature and Culture series] (pp. 243–264). Routledge. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/67414
- Lampert, J., Burnett, B., Martin, R. & McCrea, L. (2014). Lessons from a face-to-face meeting on embedding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives: 'A contract of intimacy'. Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 39(1), 82–88. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/70148
- Burnett, B., Lampert, J. & Crilly, K. (2013). 'I can't believe I just said that': Using guided reflections with non-Indigenous pre-service teachers in Australia. International Education Journal, 12(1), 161–179. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/66872
- Lampert, J., Burnett, B., Patton, W., Lee Hong, A. & Anderson, J. (2013). Improving retention and graduation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students in initial Teacher Education programs. Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues, 16(4), 27–41. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/82340
- Davies, B., Gonick, M., Gottschall, K. & Lampert, J. (2013). Ruptures in the heterosexual matrix through teenage flows and multiplicities. Girlhood Studies, 6(1), 46–62. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/61108
- Phillips, D. & Lampert, J. (2012). Introductory Indigenous studies in education [2nd edition]: reflection and the importance of knowing. Pearson Education Australia. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/50835
- Lampert, J., Burnett, B. & Davie, S. (2012). Preparing high achieving English teachers to work in disadvantaged schools: 'I'll teach Shakespeare when I'm 60'. English in Australia, 47(3), 69–77. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/57292
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Jo, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Awards
- Type
- Editor of a Prestigious Work of Reference
- Reference year
- 2016
- Details
- Senior Editor on Editorial Board, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education (OREE)
- Type
- Editor of a Prestigious Work of Reference
- Reference year
- 2016
- Details
- Editor-in-Chief of print complement Global Perpsectives on Teacher Education), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education (OREE)
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2016
- Details
- Business Higher Education Round Table Award
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2013
- Details
- National Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL) Award for Contribution to Teacher Education
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2015
- Details
- Shortlisted for Australian Financial Review Higher Education Award
- Type
- Advisor/Consultant for Community
- Reference year
- 2016
- Details
- Member of Reference Group Youth Action Network of Queensland
- Type
- Appointment to State/National/International Reference Group or Government Committees
- Reference year
- 2015
- Details
- Reference group for OLT Fellowship Program: The Role of Aboriginal Knowledges in Higher Education in the 21st Century
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2016
- Details
- Faculty of Education Research Excellence Award
Selected research projects
- Title
- Exceptional Teachers for Disadvantaged Schools: A Longitudinal Study of Graduates at Work in Low Socio-Economic Status Schools
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- LP140100613
- Start year
- 2015
- Keywords
- Quality Teaching; Low Ses Schooling; Teachers Work
Projects listed above are funded by Australian Competitive Grants. Projects funded from other sources are not listed due to confidentiality agreements.
Supervision
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- Action for change? Embedding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Perspectives in Early Childhood Education Curricula (2013)
- Behavioural beliefs concerning gender and high-risk sexual behaviours in the context of HIV/AIDS in PNG: Views from within teacher education (2012)
- Re/presenting Readings of the Indigenous Literary Terrain (2012)
Completed supervisions (Masters by Research)
- Girls' Career Aspirations: The Impact of Parents' Economic and Educational Status on Educational and Career Pathways (2015)
- Which Values?: Matching Schwartz's Ten Values Constructs with the Nine Values for Australian Schooling (2015)
- All the WorldWide Web's a Stage: Teenage Girls' Self-Presentation and Identities Formation through Status Updates (2014)
- Children and Information Communication Technologies in the Media: a study using Moral Panic Theory (2014)
- Perceptions of acculturation and social identity construction among three Taiwanese/Chinese migrants in Australia (2009)