Associate Professor Brenton Doecke (Faculty of Education, Monash)

Job title:	Associate Professor
Qualifications:	B.A.(Flin), M.A.,DipEd (LaT), PhD (Deakin)

Location:	Clayton, building 6, room 136
Phone:	+61 3 990 52894

Email:	Brenton.Doecke@Education.monash.edu.au
Fax:	+61 3 990 52779

Research Interests

English Education; Professional Identity and Change; Professional Standards; The role of narrative in educational research and professional learning; school-based research; the significance of post-structuralist literary theories for secondary English teaching; the history of subject English; Australian literary studies and Australian nationalism; Australian literature and the secondary English curriculum; canonicity and text selection in secondary school; writing in secondary school; language and learning P-12; the politics of language and literature; English and globalisation; English and cultural diversity.

Professional Associations

Community Service

Supervision

Gender steoreotyping and the reading of popular fiction by girls in years 7, 8 & 9

Editorial

.... the first thing I would say is that we must begin from where the children are: in other words there can no alternative in the initial stages to total acceptance of the language children bring with them. We cannot afford to make a fresh start. James Britton

When people talk about the school curriculum they often mean what teachers plan in advance for their pupils to learn. But a curriculum made only of teachers intentions would be an insubstantial thing from which nobody would learn much. To become meaningful a curriculum has to be enacted by pupils as well as teachers, all of whom have their private lives outside school. By enact I mean come together in a meaningful communication talk, write, read books, collaborate, become angry with one another, learn what to say and do, and how to interpret what others say and do. A curriculum as soon as it becomes more than intentions is embodied in the communicative life of an institution, the talk and gestures by which pupils and teachers exchange meanings even when they quarrel or cannot agree. In this sense curriculum is a form of communication. Douglas Barnes.

...we should recognize that education is ordinary: that it is, before everything else, the process of giving to the ordinary members of society its full common meanings, and the skills that will enable them to amend these meanings, in the light of their personal and common experience. Raymond Williams.

Publications

Books DOECKE, B., HOWIE, M. & SAWYER, W. (Eds) (2006) Only connect: English teaching, schooling and community. Kent Town: Wakefield Press/AATE. DOECKE, B. and PARR, G. (eds) (2005) Writing=Learning. Adelaide: Wakefield Press/AATE. (Since republished, 2008)

DOECKE, B., PARR, G., HOWIE, M. & MONI, K. (eds) (2008) English in Australia 43, 3, page numbers (special issue focusing on the development of a national English curriculum). DOECKE, B. & KOOY, M. (2008) L-1 Educational Studies in Language and Literature (University of Amsterdam), special issue Learning to Teach and Teaching for Learning: Exploring Professional Learning in L-1 Education. DOECKE, B. & DELANDSHERE, G. (2007) English Teaching: Practice and Critique (University of Waikato), Volume 6, No.3, special issue, What Counts as Research in English/Literacy Education?

MCCLENAGHAN, D. & DOECKE, B. (in-press) Multiliteracies in the English Curriculum. In Cole, D. & Pullan, D. (eds) Multiliteracies and change in contemporary literacies, Routledge DOECKE, B. and MCCLENAGHAN, D. (in press) The Content of Students Writing. In Beard, R., Myhill, D., Nystrand, M. and Riley, J. SAGE Handbook on Writing Development NUTTALL, J., DOECKE, B., BERRY, A., ILLESCA, B. & MITCHELL, J. (2007) Fieldwork supervision: A space for professional learning. In A. CLEMENS, A. BERRY, & A. KOSTOGRIZ (Eds.). Changing perspectives on professional learning: Professionalism, identities and practice, Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense Publishers. (NUTTALL and DOECKE are the chief authors) DOECKE, B. (2006). Teacher quality: Beyond the rhetoric. In Only connect: English teaching, schooling and community (pp. 195-208). Kent Town: Wakefield Press/AATE. DOECKE, B., HOWIE, M. & SAWYER, W. (2006). The present moment. In Only connect: English teaching, schooling and community (pp. 1-3). Kent Town: Wakefield Press/AATE. DOECKE, B., HOWIE, M. & SAWYER, W. (2006). Starting points. In Only connect: English teaching, schooling and community (pp. 4-26). Kent Town: Wakefield Press/AATE. DOECKE, B. & Parr, G. (2005). Writing: A common project. In B. DOECKE & G. Parr (Eds.) Writing=Learning (pp. 1-18). Kent Town: Wakefield Press/AATE. DOECKE, B. & MCCLENAGHAN, D. (2005). Engaging in valued activities: Popular culture in the English classroom. In B.DOECKE & G. Parr (Eds.) Writing=Learning (pp. 247-262). Kent Town: Wakefield Press/AATE. DOECKE, B. & MCCLENAGHAN, D. (2005) Popular culture: A resource for writing in secondary English classrooms. In G. Rijlaarsdam, H. Can Den Bergh & M. Couzins (Eds.) Effective teaching and learning of writing (pp.121-130). Kluwer: University Press Books. DOECKE, B. and MCCLENAGHAN.D. (2004) Reconceptualising Experience: Growth Pedagogy and Youth Culture. In SAWYER, W. and Gold, E. (eds), Reviewing English in the 21st Century, Melbourne: Phoenix Education, 51-59 (revised version of essay originally published in 1998) DOECKE, B. and MCCLENAGHAN.D. (2004 ) Process Writing: Confessions. In SAWYER, W. and Gold, E. (eds), Reviewing English in the 21st Century, Melbourne: Phoenix Education, pp.129-135 (revised version of essay originally published in 1998)

DOECKE, B, VAN DE VEN, P., Gill, P. & Illesca, B. (2009 in-press)The Literature Classroom: Spaces for Dialogue, in L1-Educational Studies in Language and Literature BELLIS, N., PARR, G. & DOECKE, B. (2009 in-press) The making of literature: A continuing conversation. Changing English: Studies in culture and education 16, 2 DOECKE, B. & Parr, G. (2009) Crude Thinking or Reclaiming our story-telling rights: Harold Rosens essays on narrative. Changing English: Studies in culture and education 16, 1 (invited contribution) DOECKE, B. & PARR, G. (2008) Imagining a national English curriculum: Connecting with and speaking back to standards-based reforms. Editorial essay framing special issue on national English curriculum, English in Australia 43, 3 KOSTOGRIZ, A. & DOECKE, B. (2008) English and its others: Towards an ethics of transculturation. Changing English: Studies in culture and education 15, 3, pp. 259-274. DOECKE, B. & KOSTOGRIZ, A. (2008) Becoming a Professional (and other dissident acts, L1-Educational Studies in Language and Literature, Vol.8, No.4, pp.63-88. ILLESCA, B. & DOECKE, B. (2008) Hunger Artists: Literacy, Testing & Accountability. English in Australia, Vol.43, No.2, pp.13-26. DOECKE, B., GREEN, B., KOSTOGRIZ, A., REID, J-A., SAWYER, W., (2007) Knowing Practice in English Teaching? Research Challenges in Representing the Professional Practice of English Teachers, English Teaching: Practice and Critique , December, online journal, University of Waikato: http://education.waikato.ac.nz/research/journal/ KOSTOGRIZ, A. & DOECKE, B. (2007) Encounters with strangers: Towards a dialogical ethics of English language education, Critical Inquiry in Language Studies. DOECKE, B. (2007) Beyond Externalizing and Finalizing Definitions: The English Profession Takes a Lead: Standards for Teachers of English Language and Literacy in Australia (STELLA), including Postscript, English in Australia, December, 42, 3, pp.31-42. A reprint of DOECKE, B. (2006) Beyond Externalizing and Finalizing Definitions: The English Profession Takes a Lead: Standards for Teachers of English Language and Literacy in Australia (STELLA), English in Education, (see below), with a substantial postscript, for a special issue of English in Australia focusing on STELLA.(Invited contribution) DOECKE, B., HOWIE, M, SAWYER, W (2007) Keywords, English in Australia (this article is based on article in English Teaching: Practice and Critique see below), 42, 1, pp.30-45. DOECKE, B., HOWIE, M., SAWYER, W. (2006) Keywords in the Australian Context, English Teaching, Practice and Critique (this article was originally delivered as keynote address at annual conference of ETANSW and recast for an international audience) online journal, University of Waikato, http://education.waikato.ac.nz/research/journal/ DOECKE, B. (2006). Beyond externalizing and finalizing definitions: The English profession takes a lead: Standards for teachers of English language and literacy in Australia (STELLA). English in Education, 40(1), pp. 35-49. Special issue featuring papers delivered at A Project for English, an invitational forum held at the London Institute of Education. DOECKE, B. (2005). Professional standards: Maintaining a critical stance. English in Australia, 144(Summer), pp. 26-33. DOECKE, B. & KOSTOGRIZ, A. (2005). Teacher education and critical inquiry: The use of activity theory in exploring alternative understandings of language and literacy. The Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 30(1), pp. 15-26. DOECKE, B., KOSTOGRIZ, A. & CHARLES, C. (2004). Heteroglossia: A space for developing critical language awareness? English Teaching: Practice and English, 3(3), pp.29-42. DOECKE, B. (2004). Educating the educator. English in Australia, 141(Spring), pp.9-18. DOECKE, B. (2004). Accomplished story telling: The status of teachers narratives as professional knowledge (the STELLA Project). Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 10(3), pp.291-315. DOECKE, B. (2004). Professional identity and educational reform: Confronting my habitual practices as a teacher educator. Teaching and Teacher Education, 20, pp.203-215. DOECKE, B., LOCKE, T. & PETROSKY, A. (2004). Explaining ourselves (to ourselves): Professional identity and educational reform. English in Australia, 12(139), pp.103-112.

Conference papers NUTTALL, J. & DOECKE, B. (2008) Participation structures in beginning teaching: Negotiating landscapes of collective memory. Paper presented to the Annual Conference of the Australian Association for Research in Education. Brisbane, Australia, 29 November 4 December DOECKE, B. , BELLIS, N., MCCLENAGHAN D. & PARR, G. (2008) The Making of Literature in Australian English Classrooms. Paper given at Literature Conversations, conference held at University of Raboud, Nijmegen and The University of Amsterdam, October 27-28. (Invited contribution) DOECKE, B, BELLIS, N. and PARR,G. (2008) The Making of Literature in Australian English Classrooms. The Toronto Reading Council and the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at OISE/University of Toronto, April 4-5th, 2008, OISE, Toronto DOECKE, B. and KOSTOGRIZ, A. (2007) Becoming a Professional (and other dissident acts): Language and Literacy Education in an Age of Neo-Liberal Reform, paper presented at the Sixth Conference of the International Association for the Improvement of Mother Tongue Education (IAIMTE), University of Exeter, 27-29 March DOECKE, B. and VAN DE VEN, P-H (2007) Conversation on Conversations: SIG Research on Literature Education, workshop presented at the Sixth Conference of the International Association for the Improvement of Mother Tongue Education (IAIMTE), University of Exeter, 27-29 March DOECKE, B. (2006) Reinventing Community, Paper presented at a Key Note Panel, Annual Conference of the English Teachers Association of New South Wales (ETANSW), December (Invited contribution) DOECKE, B. and KOSTOGRIZ, A. (2006) Heteroglossia: A Space for Developing Critical Language Awareness. SIG Writing 10th international conference of the EARLI special interest group on writing. September 20-22 University of Antwerp, Belgium. DOECKE, B. (2005) Beyond Externalizing and Finalizing Definitions: The English Profession Takes a Lead: Standards for Teachers of English Language and Literacy in Australia (STELLA, a Project for English, an invitational forum at the London Institute of Education, June 20-21. (Invited contribution) DOECKE, B. and VAN DE VEN, P-H. (2005) Comparative Research on the Teaching of Literature, workshop presented at the 5th International Conference of the International Association for the Improvement of Mother Tongue Education (IAIMTE), Albi, France July DOECKE, B. (2005) The STELLA Project: A framework for professional renewal, workshop at Sharing Experience: ways Forward with Standards, an invitational national conference of the teaching profession, 21-22 August, NIQTSL DOECKE, B. (2004) Insider and Outsider Perspectives on Professional Standards, Australian Association for the Teaching of English, invitational forum on professional standards, AATE National Conference, Sydney, 4-7 July. (Invited contribution) BISHOP, A., CLARKE, B., DOECKE, B. and PRINCE, N. (2004) Developing portfolio assessment in English and Mathematics: Contrasting perspectives on the implementation if professional teaching standards. AARE, December. DOECKE, B. and KOSTOGRIZ, A. (2004) Heteroglossic Spaces: Interrogating academic literacies in teacher education. ATEA, Bathurst, July