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Teaching commitmentBiographyFida Sanjakdar has taught in the primary, secondary and tertiary education sectors. Her PhD research was a qualitative study which used critical action research to critique ideology and bring about curriculum reform to sexual health education for Australian Muslim youth. She has published widely in the areas of curriculum theory, critical pedagogy, sexual health education, cultural and religious studies.
Research InterestsCurriculum theory, design and development
Critical and creative pedagogy
Critical action research and ethnography
Sexual health education
Sexual identity and schooling
Culture and religious education
Professional Associations
- International Association for Intercultural Education
- American Educational Research Association
- Australian Curriculum Studies Association Australia
- Australian Association for Research in Education
SupervisionCURRENT AREAS OF SUPERVISION - Current thesis topics (working titles)
Afhan women's educational experiences under the Taliban regime- M.Ed: Ms Jamella Azadzoi
Muslim women and identity construction in a climate of Islamaphobia- PhD (co-supervisor): Ms Tagreed Jamal
Religious identity of Indonesian-Australian Muslim youth- PhD (co-supervisor): Mr Zulfikar Teiku
PublicationsBooks
Sanjakdar, F. (2010 forthcoming). Living West, Facing East: The (de)construction of Muslim youths sexual identities, New York, Peter Lang.
Sanjakdar, F. (Ed) (2009). Digital Portfolios: Opening Boundaries of Inquiry Landscapes in Pre-Service Teacher Education. Australia, Pearson Education.
Book Chapters
Sanjakdar, F. & Cacciattolo, M. (2009). Reconceptualising inquiry learning in pre-service teacher education: Learning from Imagining in Sanjakdar, F. (Ed) Digital Portfolios: Reconceptualising Inquiry Landscapes in Pre-Service Teacher Education, Australia, Pearson Education.
Sanjakdar, F & Cara, C. (2009). Storylines of student and teacher reflections on the digital portfolio. In Sanjakdar, F. (Ed) Digital Portfolios: Reconceptualising Inquiry Landscapes in Pre-Service Teacher Education, Australia, Pearson Education.
Sanjakdar, F. & McKenna, T. (2009). The I in digital portfolios: Inquiry, Identity, Inclusivity In Sanjakdar, F. (Ed) Digital Portfolios: Reconceptualising Inquiry Landscapes in Pre-Service Teacher Education, Australia, Pearson Education.
Senior, K. & Sanjakdar, F. (2005). Narratives of struggle: Dialogues and conversations on the professional teaching portfolio. In T. Hay & J. Moss (Eds). Portfolios, Performance and Authenticity, Pearson Publications, Melbourne.
Sanjakdar, F. (2004). Developing an appropriate sexual health education curriculum framework for Muslim students. In B. van Driel (Ed) Combating Islamaphobia in Educational Practice, Trentham Books, Netherlands.
Dixon, M. & Sanjakdar, F. (2004). Holding the Gaze: Teachers noticing and naming students. In Moss, J. (et al), Initiations and Inspirations: Pathways to successful teaching, Curriculum Cooperation, Melbourne, Victoria.
Refereed Journal Articles
Sanjakdar, F. (2009) Teacher Talk: The problems, perspectives and possibilities of developing a comprehensive sexual health education curriculum for Australian Muslim students, Sex Education, 9(3), August (in press)
Sanjakdar, F. (2009) Participatory Action Research: Creating spaces for beginning conversations in sexual health for young Australian Muslims, Educational Action Research, 17(2) June (in press)
Sanjakdar, F., Thomas, P., & Cacciattolo, M. (2008) Reconceptualising Pre-service Teacher Education at Victoria University: Putting the Byte into Inquiry Learning. The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, Vol 3 (3), pp. 125-133.
Sanjakdar, F. (2008) Revelation vs. Tradition: Beginning Curriculum Conversations in Sexual Health for Australian Muslim Youth. The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, Vol 3 (4), pp. 163-173.
Sanjakdar, F. (2004). Challenging English Teaching: Exploring To Kill a Mockingbird as a means of developing moral education through English Metaphor, Secondary English Teachers Association (ETA), pp. 66-70
Sanjakdar, F. (2002). The Health Issues of Australian Muslim Youth: What every teacher must know Education Links, no. 64, pp. 27-30.
Refereed Conference papers
Sanjakdar, F. (2005) Teachers struggle for an Islamically appropriate sexual health education curriculum at their school, AARE conference, Sydney.
Sanjakdar, F. (2004) The critical role of schools and teachers in developing a sexual health education curriculum for Muslim students AARE conference, Melbourne.
Sanjakdar, F. (2005). Controversy in our classrooms: problems, perspectives, possibilities, AARE conference, Sydney November.
Sanjakdar, F. (2001). Educating Muslim Children: A study of the Hidden and Core curriculum of an Islamic school AARE conference, Fremantle, Western Australia.
Comissioned Report
Dixon, M., Moss, J., Ferguson, P., Senior, K., Ure, C., Sanjakdar, F., Anderson, M., Cobbold, C. (2006), Investigating contemporary pedagogical Content Knowledge in Thinking, ICT and Science in Victoria: Intertwining Knowledge and Practice, Melbourne, Department of Education & Training
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