Personal details
- Name
- Associate Professor Karen Dooley
- Position(s)
- Associate Professor
Faculty of Education,
School of Teacher Education and Leadership - Discipline *
- Curriculum and Pedagogy, Specialist Studies in Education, Education Systems
- Phone
- +61 7 3138 3430
- k.dooley@qut.edu.au
- Location
- View location details (QUT staff and student access only)
- Qualifications
-
PhD (Griffith University), Graduate Certificate in Arts (Chinese) (University of New England), Graduate Certificate in Applied Linguistics (Griffith University), BEdStud(Hons) (University of Queensland), DipT (Brisbane College of Adv. Ed.)
- Professional memberships
and associations - National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
- American Educational Research Association (AERA)
- Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE)
- Australian Literacy Educators’ Association (ALEA)
- International Reading Association (IRA)
- Primary English Teaching Association (PETA)
- Queensland Association of Teachers of English as a Second Language (QATESOL)
- Keywords
-
English as a second language, primary literacy education, refugee education
Biography
Karen is the HDR Coordinator in the Faculty of Education and is an English Curriculum lecturer.
Teaching Karen teaches research methods and has taught undergraduate units in the primary literacy strand in the School of Curriculum and a second language literacy unit in the Master of Education program. She supervises in the areas of second language and literacy education.
Research Karen’s interests include second language learning, English teaching and learning, literacy, classroom talk, multiliteracies, pedagogy, and linguistic, cultural and racial identities in education. Karen is interested in sociological perspectives on language and literacy education, and her research is informed by the theoretical frameworks of Pierre Bourdieu and Basil Bernstein.
Karen has held three Australian Research Council (ARC) grants. She is currently working on a Discovery grant looking at private literacy tutoring. Previous externally-funded research includes (1) an ARC Linkage project investigating digital and print literacies in a linguistically and culturally diverse school in an area with high levels of poverty (2009-13); and an ARC Linkage project (2006-08) study of pedagogy for new arrival African refugee students of English as a Second Language in Australian middle schools. Karen has also held an Ian Potter grant for a study of the incorporation of iPads into kindergarten curriculum (20133).
Teaching
Karen teaches research methods in the EdD (Doctor of Education). She is course coordinator for the EdD and the PhD. Karen has taught and coordinated undergraduate and graduate literacy units, and has taught research methods at undergraduate and masters level. Karen has been the Academic Coordinator for several lecturer training programs funded by the China Scholarship Council. Karen is the QUT coordinator for the Beijing Normal University — Queensland University of Technology — University of Calgary Doctoral Program.
Experience
Karen initially taught for Education Queensland. During that time she worked as a preschool teacher and teacher-in-charge, a Year 1/2 teacher, and a preschool/primary distance education teacher. She also taught for a year as a guest teacher of English in a secondary school in Shanghai , PRC. Karen has worked as a volunteer tutor in a community homework club for refugee students
Consultancy
Karen undertakes consultancy work in the areas of literacy and English as an Additional Language. She is particularly interested in working with teachers to explore new developments in the field and to translate theory into classroom practice.
Publications
- Dezuanni ML, Dooley KT, Gattenhof SJ, Knight LM, (2015) iPads in the early years: Developing literacy and creativity [Routledge Research in Early Childhood Education series], Routledge
- Mu M, Dooley KT, (2015) Coming into an inheritance: family support and Chinese Heritage Language learning, International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism p501-515
- Luke A, Dooley K, (2011) Critical Literacy and Second Language Learning, Handbook of Research in Second Language Teaching and Learning p856-868
- Luke A, Dooley KT, Woods AF, (2011) Comprehension and content: Planning literacy in low socioeconomic and culturally diverse schools, Australian Educational Researcher p149-166
- Dooley KT, Thangaperumal P, (2011) Pedagogy and participation: Literacy education for low-literate refugee students of African origin in a western school system, Language and Education p385-397
- Dooley KT, (2009) Intercultural conversation : Building understanding together, Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy p497-506
- Dooley KT, (2009) Re-thinking pedagogy for middle school students with little, no or severely interrupted schooling, English Teaching: Practice and Critique p5-22
- Dooley KT, (2004) Pedagogy in Diverse Secondary School Classes: Legacies for Higher Education, Higher Education: the international journal of higher education and educational planning p231-252
- Singh P, Dooley KT, (2001) Accounting for Educational Equality: The Cultural Politics of Samoan Paraprofessionals Representations of Pedagogy in State-Designated Disadvantaged Schools and Communities in Australia, Journal of Curriculum Studies p335-362
- Singh P, Dooley KT, Freebody P, (2001) Literacy Pedagogies that may "Make a Difference", Asia Pacific Journal of Teacher Education p49-71
For more publications by this staff member, visit QUT ePrints, the University's research repository.
Awards
Awards and recognition
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2014
- Details
- 2013 QUT Higher Education Research Best Publication Award in the Best Overall category: Doherty, C.; Dooley, K. & Woods, A. (2013). Teaching sociology within teacher education: Revisiting, realigning and re-embedding. Journal of Sociology, 49, (4), 515-30.
Research projects
Grants and projects (Category 1: Australian Competitive Grants only)
- Title
- Private Literacy Tutoring: A Sociology of Shadow Education
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DP160100848
- Start year
- 2016
- Keywords
- Title
- Digital Learning and Print Literacy: A Design Experiment for the Reform of Low Socio-economic, Culturally Diverse Schools.
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- LP0990289
- Start year
- 2009
- Keywords
- Literacy; Digital Literacies; Pedagogy; Media Arts; Primary Education;
- Title
- Improving engagement in learning and transition to mainstream schooling for newly-arrived Sudanese youth in the middle years of schooling
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- LP0561597
- Start year
- 2005
- Keywords
- English as a Second Language Sudanese Multicultural Social Capital Secondary Education Middle Schooling
Supervision
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- Towards a Potential Model to Enhance Language Learner Autonomy in the Vietnamese Higher Education Context (2015)
- Heritage Language for Chinese Australians: Negotiating 'Chineseness' and Capitalising on Resources in the Lived World (2013)
- The role of motivation and motivational strategies in Saudi students' communicative competence in English (2013)
- Coming to Belong: A Narrative Analysis of International Students' Experiences in an Australian University (2012)
- Factors affecting the motivation of TEFL Academics in Higher Education in China (2012)
- Home Literacy Education of Taiwanese Australian Families: A Sociological Analysis (2010)
- The Enactment of the New Basics Project in a Special School (2009)
- The Place of Writing in First Grade Kuwaiti English Education: A Sociological Case Study (2008)
- The Dynamics of Learning Partnerships (2006)