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Dr Jennifer Rennie

Job title: Senior Lecturer
Qualifications:  BEd (Hons), PhD
 
Campus: Gippsland, Building 2S, Room 1.28
Phone: +61 3 990 26717
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Research Interests

Research issues related to education include, reading pedagogy and assessment, aspects of literacy including literacy as a social practice, integrating literacy teaching across the curriculum and multiliteracies, history of the teaching of reading, formal and informal learning policy and practice.

Publications

Edited collection

Rennie, J (ed) 2006, Proceedings of the AATE/ALEA National Conference, Voices, Visions, Vibes: Hearing the Voices, Feeling the Vibes, Capturing the Visions, Darwin, CDU Press

Books

Rennie J, Sinclair K & Szarkowicz D. 2004. Pathways to Expertise, Darwin, CDU Press

Book chapters

Rennie, J. 2004. Teaching Reading: Oral reading practices as a pedagogical tool in the primary school, In Wray, David (ed) 2004. Reading: processes and teaching. Volume 2, pp.424-429, London and New York, Routledge Falmer.

Refereed journals

Rennie, (2006), wRiting Remotely Different, Literacy Learning in the Middle Years, ALEA, Volume 14, No 2, pp. 53-59.

Rennie, J (In Press), Meeting Kids at the School Gate: The literacy and numeracy practices of a remote Indigenous Community, Australian Educational Researcher

Rennie, J & Falk, I (2005). Community Literate and Numerate Practices: Making the Connections to School, International Journal of Learning, Vol. 12, Issue 4, pp. 219-228

Rennie, J & Patterson, A (2005). The 'out of school' reading habits of high school students in regional Australia, International Journal of Learning, Vol. 12, Issue 3, pp.283-290

Rennie, J, 2004. Oral reading: Constructing School Readers, Learning Communities. The International Journal of Learning in Social Contexts, No1, pp.35-44.

Rennie, J. 2000. Teaching Reading: Oral reading practices as a pedagogical tool in the primary school, The Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 23(3), pp.197-211.

Refereed conference proceedings

Rennie, J & Harper, H, 2006, KAL that counts: An investigative study into preservice teachers' knowledge about language, Paper presented at the 2006 Australian Teacher Education National Conference, Making Teaching Public: Reforms in Teacher Education, Fremantle, Western Australia

Rennie, J (2006), Literally remote: Identity, Knowledge and Learning, Paper presented at the Future Directions in Literacy Conference, Sydney 2006

Rennie J & Harper H, 2005. 'I learned grammar through copying off the board: A study into pre-service teachers 'knowledge about language' Paper presented at the 33rd ATEA Annual Conference, Teacher Education: Local and Global, Gold Coast, QLD.

Rennie J, 2005. Listening to Children Read: What do we learn about reading? Paper presented at the AATE/ALEA Annual Conference, Pleasure Passion Provocation, Gold Coast, QLD.

Rennie, J & Szarkowicz, D. 2004. Careers in education: Developing inside and outside the classroom. Paper presented at the 32nd ATEA Annual Conference, Making spaces: Regenerating the profession, Bathurst, NSW.

Rennie, J. 2003. Ethical Considerations: Tensions between research proposals and their implementation. Paper presented at the Continuity and Change: Transitions in Education, UWS, Sydney.

Reports

Rennie, Wallace, Falk & Wignell, 2004. Discontinuities in Literacy and Numeracy Practices between Indigenous community schooling and urban high school, DEST