School of Education
Faculty of Arts and Education
Dr. Joanne O'Mara |
 |
|
| Position | Senior Lecturer | |
| joanne.omara@deakin.edu.au | ||
| Area | School of Education | |
| Phone | +61 3 924 46783 | |
| Campus | Burwood | |
| Location | N 3.20 | |
| Role and profile |
Chairs subjects in Secondary English Method Courses Research |
|
| Teaching responsibilities | Chairs subjects in Secondary English Method Courses | |
| Research interests |
Literacy and Drama Teaching Teachers as reflective practitioners 21st Century literacies |
|
| Current research projects |
Deakin University LP0775072 A/Prof CA Beavis; Prof CM Bradford; Dr JA O'Mara; Dr C Walsh Literacy in the digital world of the twenty-first century: learning from computer games Department of Education & Training Australian Centre for the Moving Image The Victorian Association for the Teaching of English Collaborating/Partner Organisation(s) Deakin University The creation of a literate and tech-savvy workforce and community is essential to Australia's future prosperity. By helping teachers better understand and teach ICT-enabled forms of text and literacy, drawing on insights from young people's actual engagement with digital culture in their leisure hours, the project will help strengthen young Australians' capacity to critically evaluate and use ICTs for effective learning and communication. This project will help produce the skills, knowledge and orientations necessary to create smart information use, through developing and strengthening young people's uses and understandings of ICT-based forms of text and literacy. Projects that I supervise... Implications of literacy and identity in fiction for adolescents: Margaret Milne Building on Traditional Knowledge: Patricia Paraide |
|
| Qualifications |
PhD, Griffith University, Brisbane Thesis Title: Unravelling the Mystery: A Study of Reflection-in-Action in Process Drama Teaching Master of Education The University of Melbourne Licentiate of Trinity College, (Speech and Drama) Trinity College, London Bachelor of Education, Victoria College, Rusden Campus |
|
| Memberships |
Research and Initiatives Officer for the Australian Association for the Teaching of English Editorial Board: NJ (Drama Australia Journal) Australian Association for the Teaching of English Australian Literacy Educators Association e:lit Drama Australia |
|
| Research link | View Deakin associated research data | |
