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Professor Ilana Snyder

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Job title:Associate Dean Research
Qualifications:BA (Melbourne), DipEd (LaTrobe), MEd (Houston), PhD (Monash)
Phone:+61 3 990 52773
Location:Clayton, building 6, room 409
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Biography

Ilana Snyder was a high school English teacher before she took up an academic position at Monash University. Her research has focused on the changes to social and cultural practices when digital technologies are used in school and out-of-school settings. A particular interest has been the connections between literacy, technology and disadvantage. Major funded studies include a project which examined the connections between the use of new technologies, teaching and learning, and organisational change in Australian higher education and another which explored the digital literacy practices of young people in all the dimensions of their lives, at school, at home and in the community. Her recent projects include a collaboration with colleagues in Marketing that focuses on children's critical engagement with commercial activities when they use online social media and another which is investigating the use of mobile phones to deliver literacy outcomes to Indigenous children in remote communities. The Literacy Wars (2008) examines the volatile public debates around literacy education. The book offers an explanation of the often bitter disagreements, arguing that the challenge is to find a balance between preserving the legacy of the past and preparing children for the literacy demands of the future. Most recently, her research has looked at the education of marginalised peoples and communities in southern world societies in Closing the Gap in Education (2010) and the complexities of international education in globalising times in A Home Away From Home? (2011). Both collections of essays were co-edited with John Nieuwenhuysen. Ilana is a member of a number of editorial boards and a reviewer for several national and international funding bodies.

Research interests

  • Media debates about literacy; Literacy, technology and social inclusion; Language and literacy education; Literacy and technology studies; Critical literacy and the use of new technologies; Pedagogical practices and new technologies; Hypertext; Hypertext and contemporary literary theories.

Fields of Research (FOR)

  • Higher Education
  • Secondary Education
  • English and Literacy Curriculum and Pedagogy (excl. LOTE, ESL and TESOL)
  • Humanities and Social Sciences Curriculum and Pedagogy (excl. Economics, Business and Management)
  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education
  • Educational Technology and Computing
  • Education Policy

Selected publications

Books

  • Snyder, I. & Nieuwenhuysen, J. (eds) (2010) Closing the gap in education?: Improving outcomes in southern world societies. Melbourne: Monash University Publishing.
  • Snyder, I. (2008) The literacy wars: Why teaching children to read and write is a battleground in Australia. Sydney: Allen & Unwin.
  • Snyder, I. (ed) (2002) Silicon literacies: Communication, innovation and education in the electronic age. London: Routledge. Spanish edition published by Ediciones Aljibe, Malaga in 2004. Electronic rights bought by eBooks.com: the digital bookstore in 2003.
  • Lankshear, C. & Snyder, I. with Green, B. (2000) Teachers and technoliteracy: Managing literacy, learning and new technology in schools. Sydney: Allen & Unwin. Translated into Japanese, Kaibundo, Japan, in 2002, and distributed in India in 2006 by Viva Books.
  • Snyder, I. (1997) (ed) Page to screen: Taking literacy into the electronic era. Sydney: Allen & Unwin and London: Routledge. Electronic rights bought by eBooks.com: the digital bookstore in 2001.
  • Snyder, I. (1996) Hypertext: The electronic labyrinth. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press and New York University Press.

Chapters

  • Snyder, I. & Beale, D. (in-press) 'We all have models in our mind': The importance of models in literacy research. In B. Green & C. Beavis (eds), Literacy in 3D? Thinking Holistically about Literacy Education. Melbourne: ACER Press.
  • Snyder, I. & Beale, D. (in-press) The rise and rise of English: The politics of bilingual education in Australias remote Indigenous schools. In C. Leung & B. Street (eds), English a changing medium for education. London: Multilingual Matters.
  • Snyder, I. (2009). Shuffling towards the future: The enduring dominance of book culture in literacy education. In M. Baynham and M. Prinsloo (Eds). The Future of Literacy Studies.. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Snyder, I. (2007) New media and cultural form: Narrative versus database. In A. Adams & S. Brindley (eds), Teaching English with ICT. London: Open University Press & McGraw Hill.
  • Snyder, I. (2007) Research approaches to technology, language and literacy. In K. King & N. Hornberger (eds) Encyclopedia of Language and Education (pp. 299-308). New York: Springer.
  • Snyder, I. (2007) Critical literacy, learning and technology studies: Challenges and opportunities for higher education. In R. Andrews & C. Haythornthwaite (eds) The Handbook of e-Learning (pp. 394-415). London: Sage.

Refereed Journal Articles

Book Reviews

  • Snyder, I. (2009) Review of J. Hartley's The uses of digital literacy. Brisbane: UQP. Australian Book Review May p. 57.
  • Snyder, I. (2007) Donnelly at large. Review of K. Donnelly's Dumbing Down. Melbourne: Hardie Grant Books. Australian Book Review May p. 17.

See Ilana Snyder in the Monash Research Directory

Supervision

Hypertext: reading and writing practices

Historical literacy and hypertext

Plagiarism and cultural difference in TESOL education

Teaching and learning literacy with technology

Multimedia and learning

Investigating online conferencing in a networked ESL classroom

Strategy training for at-risk ESL learners

New technologies, new pedagogies

Research group membership within the Faculty

I am a member of the following research group(s) within the Faculty of Education:

Teaching commitments

Editorial

  • Journal of Writing Research
  • Language and Education: An International Journal
  • E-Learning

Professional associations

AERA

AARE

AATE

VATE

Community service

e-press Advisory Committee, Monash University

Academic Board, Monash University