Faculty of Arts and Education

School of Education


   Dr. Kim Senior

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Position Senior Lecturer
Email kim.senior@deakin.edu.au
Area School of Education
Phone N/A
Campus Burwood
Teaching responsibilities Education Research Methodology
HDR Research Supervision
Research interests Pedagogy
Curriculum Theorising
Qualitative Research Methodology: Arts-based, Feminist, Visual
Current research projects (2011-2014) ARC Linkage A/Prof Mary Dixon, Dr Kim A Senior, Dr Nicole C Green,
A/Prof Anthony I Taylor, Dr.Paul Reitano
Moments in time: investigating a national history curriculum in early childhood
settings and primary classrooms

(2010-2011)‘Innovative Learning Environments Research Study’ DEECD Prof Jill
Blackmore, Assoc Prof Mary Dixon, Dr. Kim Senior, Dr. Anne Cloonan, Dr. Deb
Bateman, Dr. Jill Loughlin
Service to the University,
discipline or community  
Associate Editor - The Australian Educational Researcher
Editorial Board - Journal of Asian Critical Education
Awards Faculty of Education Teaching Excellence Award
University of Melbourne, 2006
Melbourne Research Scholarship
University of Melbourne, 2005-2008
William and Kate Herschell Scholarship
University of Melbourne, 2003
Ministry of Education (Japan) Scholarship
Japan Foundation, Tokyo, 1993
Curriculum Development Grant
Integrated LOTE and SOSE program
ACT Dept of Education, Canberra, 1992
Ministry of Education (Japan) Scholarship
Okayama University, Okayama, 1983-1984
Student Exchange Scholarship
Australia-Japan Society, Minamata, 1982

Qualifications PhD, University of Melbourne
Master of Education (by research), University of Melbourne
PGrad Dip Professional Studies in Education, University of Melbourne
Cert IV in Workplace Assessment and Training, William Angliess Institute of TAFE
Grad Dip Legal Studies, University of Canberra
Grad Dip Education (LOTE and Social Sciences), University of Canberra
Bachelor Modern Languages (Japanese and Political Science), University of
Canberra



Memberships POPCAANZ (Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand)
AARE
BERA
AERA
Conferences Publications and Presentations

Senior K. & Solomon, Y. (forthcoming, 2013) “Orbiting Data: inciting centrifugal questions about embodied
pedagogy in science” in special issue Provocations: (Re)visioning data in qualitative research for Cultural
Studies <= > Critical Methodologies

Araki-Metcalfe, N. & Senior, K. (forthcoming, 2013) “Gathering and Analysing Data” in The Praxis of English
Language Teaching and Learning Beyond the Binaries: Researching Critically in ELF Classrooms.

Vicars, M. & Senior, K., (2013) ‘Making a visible difference: overcoming barriers
using arts-based learning’ in Educational Action Research

Senior, K. and Dixon, M. (2012) ‘History 2012 – whose story?’ as part of a symposium Australian History
Curriculum: Provocations, resistance and possibilities, Australian Association of Research in Education
conference, Sydney

Senior, K. & Moss, J. (2012) “Using the visual to research school culture: the double bind and graphic
narratives” keynote address at the joint Visual Research Conference (University of Melbourne and Deakin
University) sponsored by CREFI Deakin University, 4th and 5th October

Dixon, M., & Senior, K. (2011) 'Appearing pedagogy: from embodied learning and
teaching to embodied pedagogy'in Pedagogy, Culture and Society

Senior, K. (2011) 'Incorrigible and undisciplined lines in visual social research:
ways of ‘writing’ and ‘drawing’ at the interstices’ in Access, Vol 30(1)

Vicars, M. & Senior, K. (2010) ‘Queering the Quotidian: Yaoi, Narrative Pleasures
and Reader Response’ in Pagliassotti, D., Levi, A. & McHarry,M.(Eds), Boys' Love
Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Crosscultural Fandom of the Genre,
Jefferson: McFarland and Co.

Senior, K (2010) ‘Stuck places’ to rhizomatic possibility: shodoo as a methodology
for disruptive representational practice’, Drawing in/Drawing out Conference
proceedings, RMIT University and the University of ArtsLondon, Melbourne, April
7th-9th.

Senior, K. & Dixon, M., (2009) ‘Reading with the ancients: embodied learning and
teaching to an embodied pedagogy?’ Access, Vol 28, No. 2 21-30

Dixon, M., & Senior, K. (2009) Traversing theory and transgressing academic
discourses: arts-based research in teacher education, International Journal of
Education and the Arts Vol 10 no 24

Senior, K (2009) '"I would rather write a thesis than a letter..." from description to
inscription in feminist pedagogical inquiry’ in Enquire-Nottingham University
online journal, Issue 3

Vicars, M. and K. Senior (2008) ‘Respositioning popular culture in educational
domains: towards a rhizomatic pedagogy’ at the first International Conference of
Popular Culture and Education in Asia, Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong
Kong, 11th – 13th December.

Dixon, M and K Senior (2007) ‘Who Owns Pedagogy: (Re)locating Pedagogy and
Pedagogical Content Knowledge’ as part of ‘Pedagogy, Teachers and Content
Knowledge: Intertwining Knowledge and Practice, National Institute of Education,
Centre for Research in Pedagogy and Practice, Singapore, 28th – 30th May.



Research link View Deakin associated research data
Publications

Forthcoming (not yet audited for Deakin's Publication Collection):

Vicars, M. and K. Senior (2010) “Queering the Quotidian: Yaoi, Narrative Pleasures and Reader Response”. In: Levi, A., McHarry, M and Pagliasotti, D (Editors), Boys’ Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre, Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co.




Senior, K (2010) ‘Stuck places’ to rhizomatic possibility: shodoo as a methodology for disruptive representational practice’ Drawing in/Drawing out Conference, RMIT University and the University of London, Melbourne, April 7th-9th.

Senior, K and M. Vicars (2010) ‘Queering the quotidian’. The First Annual Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand (PopCAANZ) Conference, June 30th - July 2nd Sydney, Australia.

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