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Teaching commitmentBiographyI'm a lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Monash University where I study young people's use of new media and the implications this has for English and literacy learning across a range of contexts. My PhD study is related to a larger Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project, called Being Digital in School, Home and Community. The chief investigator is Ilana Snyder (who is also my doctoral supervisor). I'm also a secondary school English teacher and have taught in government schools in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne. I'm an active member of the council of the Victorian Association for the Teaching of English (VATE) and I'm a National Council member of the Australian Association for the Teaching of English (AATE). I blog (well, very occasionally) at thisteachinglife. I have four young children, a son and daughter (and recently twin boys), and live in Bayswater amongst the factories at the foot of the Dandenongs in Melbourne.
Research InterestsLanguage and literacy in and out of schools; digital media and education; critical and social approaches to technology; popular culture and curriculum; English teaching theory, practice, and curriculum change; professional identity, learning and change for English teachers; sociocultural theories of language and education; narrative.
Professional Associations
- Victorian Association for the Teaching of English (VATE) - Curriculum Committee and Advocacy Group
- Australian Association for the Teaching of English (AATE) - AATE Delegate and National Council member
- Australian Literacy Educators Association (ALEA)
- Victorian Institute of Teaching (VIT)
- National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
- American Educational Research Association (AERA)
Community Service
- Member of the English Advisory Group, National Curriculum Authority
EditorialCurrent Reviews Editor, English In Australia
Guest editor, IDIOM: Journal of the Victorian Association for the Teaching of English, Vol 41, No 3
PublicationsBulfin, S. and McGraw, K. (in preparation) Making narrative and identity in computer games and other frivolous time wasters. In W. Sawyer, E. Gold and M. Howie (eds) Reviewing English. Sydney: Phonenix Education.
Bulfin, S. and Durrant, C. (in preparation) Naughty pictures for naughty boys and girls? Comics, manga and other reading 'habits'. In J. Manuel and S. Brindley (eds) Teenagers and reading. AATE/Wakefield.
Bulfin, S. (2009) Literacies, new technologies and young people: Negotiating the interface in secondary school. Unpublished PhD thesis, Faculty of Education, Monash University.
Bulfin, S. (2009) Cyber-savy students and industrial-era schools? Disassembling and recasting the new home-school mismatch hypothesis. Paper presented at the AATE/ALEA Conference, 9-12 July, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
Snyder, I., Wise, L., North, S. & Bulfin, S. (2008) Being digital in school, home and community: Final report. Melbourne: Monash University.
North, S., Snyder, I. & Bulfin, S. (2008) Digital tastes: Social class and young people's technology use. Information, Communication & Society 11 (7): 895-911.
Bulfin, S. (2008) Renegotiating digital literacies in and around the curriculum. Paper presented at the AATE/ALEA Conference, 6-9 July, Adelaide Convention Centre, Adelaide, Australia.
Bulfin, S. (2008) Making do in secondary school: Hidden literacies in the underlife of adolescents. Paper presented at the Monash Educational Research Community (MERC) Conference, 4 July, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
Snyder, I. & Bulfin, S. (2008) Using new media in the Secondary English Classroom. In D. Leu, J. Corio, M. Knobel & C. Lankshear (eds) Handbook of Research on New Literacies. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Bulfin, S. (2007) Learning (to learn) against the grain? English in Australia 42 (2): 65-68.
Bulfin, S. & Taylor, C. (2007) Cyberkids or slackers? Young people, technology use and literacy learning. Paper presented at the Conference of the Australian Association for the Teaching of English (AATE), Canberra, ACT, Australia, July 2007.
Bulfin, S. & North, S. (2007) Negotiating digital literacy practices across school and home: Case studies of young people in Australia. Language and Education 21 (3): 247-63.
Bulfin, S. (2007) Imagining 'digital youth' differently. Teacher: The National Education Magazine, June, 56-7.
Bulfin, S (2007) Screenagers and the net gen. Around the Globe 3 (3): 34.
Snyder, I. & Bulfin, S. (2007) Digital literacy: What it means for Arts education. In Liora Bresler (ed) International Handbook of Research in Arts Education (pp. 1297-1310). Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer.
Snyder, I. & Bulfin, S. (2006) Digital literacy: What it means for English Education. Paper presented at the conference 'Why English? The Aims and Values of the School Subject', University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, October 2006.
Bulfin, S. & North, S. (2006) The literate spaces in/between: Reframing the school-home binary. Paper presented at the Conference of the Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association (ASFLA), Armidale, NSW, Australia, Sept 2006.
Bulfin, S. (2006) Moving beyond binaries? Digital literacies across home, school and community. Paper presented at the Conference of the Australian Association for the Teaching of English (AATE), Darwin, NT, Australia, July 2006.
Bulfin, S. (2006) Digital literacy practices across home, school and community: Beyond powerful and essentialising binaries. Paper presented at the Conference of the Monash Education Research Community (MERC), Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, May 2006.
Bulfin, S. (2006) Being digital in home, school and community: Digital cultures and young people in Australia. Paper presented at the Monash International Conference in Prato, Italy, April 2006
Bulfin, S. (2006) Curriculum and conversation in an English classroom: What's it to you huh?. In B. Doecke, M. Howie & W. Sawyer (eds) 'Only connect ... ': English teaching, schooling and community (pp. 135-42). Kent Town, SA: AATE/Wakefield Press
Leech, R., Bulfin, S. & McLeay, J. (2006) Online communities: Welcome to the edublogosphere. Teacher: The National Education Magazine, March, 10-14.
Bulfin, S. & Bellis, N. (2005) Editorial: How we came to be here, now, IDIOM: Journal of the Victorian Association for the Teaching of English, 41 (3): 4-7.
Bulfin, S., Bellis, N & McLeay, J. (2005) Are you going to blog that? Adventures in the blogosphere, IDIOM: Journal of the Victorian Association for the Teaching of English 41 (3): 35-43.
Bulfin, S. (2005) Conversation+collaboration+writing = Professional learning. In B. Doecke & G. Parr (eds) Writing=learning. Norwood, SA: AATE/Wakefield Press.
Bulfin, S. (2004) A conversation with myself? Key questions you won't find on your yearly performance review, IDIOM: Journal of the Victorian Association for the Teaching of English, 40 (3).
Bulfin, S. & Mathews, K. (2003) The Beginning Teacher, Iteach: Newsletter of the Victorian Institute of Teaching, No. 3, November.
Bulfin, S. & Mathews, K. (2003) Reframing beginning English teachers as knowledge producers: learning to teach and transgress, English Teaching: Practice and Critique 2 (3): 47-58. http://www.tmc.waikato.ac.nz/english/ETPC/article/pdf/2003v2n3art4.pdf article link
Bulfin, S. (2003) Learning to learn against the grain: Beginning English teaching and professional learning. Unpublished Honours Thesis, Faculty of Education, Monash University, Melbourne.
Bulfin, S. & Mathews, K. (2002) Storytime in the classroom: lessons from museums, Canberra: National Museum of Australia. article link
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