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Dr Robyn Henderson

Name :	Dr Robyn Henderson
Position :	Associate Professor (Literacy) and Program Coordinator (Doctoral Programs)
Section :	Faculty of Education Education
Office :	G304
Location :	Toowoomba Campus
Phone :	+61 7 4631 2692
Extension :	2692
E-mail :
Qualifications :	DipEd, BA Qld GDipReading, GDipEd BrisbaneCAE MEd QUT MEd(Hons), PhD JCU

Professional Affiliations

Member of the CBRN (Capacity Building Research Network) Faculty Research Centre, USQ
Member of the Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE)
Member of the American Educational Research Association
Registered teacher, Queensland College of Teachers
Member of the Australian Literacy Educators' Association (ALEA)
Member of the International Reading Association (IRA)
Member of the Primary English Teaching Association (PETAA)

Research Interests

Literacies, literacy learning and literacy pedagogy - early childhood, primary and middle years
Itinerancy/mobility
Multiliteracies
Digital literacies, computer games and digital culture
Academic literacy
Diversity, social justice, disadvantage
Critical Discourse Analysis

Recent Research Outcomes

Three most recent :

Henderson, R. (Ed.). (2012). Teaching literacies in the middle years: Pedagogies and diversity. Melbourne, Vic.: Oxford University Press.

Henderson, R., & Woods, A. (2012). (Re)focusing the lens to make diversity and difference visible: Teaching for quality and equity. In R. Henderson (Ed.), Teaching literacies in the middle years: Pedagogies and diversity. Melbourne, Vic.: Oxford University Press.

Henderson, R., & Danaher, P. A. (2011). Moving with the times: Pedagogies for mobile students. In C. Day (Ed.), International handbook: Teacher and school development. New York: Routledge.

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Most notable :

Henderson, R., & Noble, K. (2011). Burying the binaries: Getting discourses to converge in a program for first year university students. In W. Midgley, M. A. Tyler, P. A. Danaher, & Mander, A. (Eds.), Beyond binaries in education research. New York: Routledge.

Henderson, R. (2010). Learning from computer games: Literacy learning in a virtual world. In D. L. Pullen, M. Baguley & C. Gitsaki (Eds.), Technoliteracy, discourse, and social practice: Frameworks and applications in the digital age. Hershey, PA: IGI Global.

Henderson, R. (2009). Itinerant farm workers' children in Australia: Learning from the experiences of one family. In P. A. Danaher, M. Kenny & J. Remy Leder (Eds.), Traveller, nomadic and migrant education (pp. 46-58). New York: Routledge.

Henderson, R. (2008). Mobilising multiliteracies: Pedagogy for mobile students. In Healy, A. (Ed.). Multiliteracies and diversity in education: New pedagogies for expanding landscapes (pp.168-200). South Melbourne: Oxford University Press.

Henderson, R. (2008). A boy behaving badly: Investigating teachers' assumptions about gender, behaviour, mobility and literacy learning. Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 31 (1), 74-87.

Henderson, R., & Honan, E. (2008). Digital literacies in two low socioeconomic classrooms: Snapshots of practice. English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 7(2), 85-98.

Henderson, R., & Hirst, E. (2007). Reframing academic literacy: Re-examining a short-course for "disadvantaged" tertiary students. English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 6(2), pp.25-38.

Currently Teaching Courses/Programs

EDU 8703 Critical multiliteracies
EDS 4250 Literacies across the curriculum

Teaching Experience

Tertiary : 11 years
Other : 25 years

Administrative Responsibilities

Doctoral Programs Coordinator