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Prof Julian Sefton-Green

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Position

Professor

Faculty

Faculty of Arts and Education

Department

School of Education

Campus

International Appointments

Biography

I am interested in all things digital from a critical perspective. I have worked and researched at many levels of the education system and on many projects around the world. I have studied: classroom interactions, school life, curricuulum change, creative media practices, youth community centres and out-of-school digital cultures over the last 30 years. I am particularly interested in forms of learning outside of the school, both in non-formal learning institutions and in everyday social activities; and how these might play a part in wider political projects of educational reform. I want to explore how everyday uses of the digital intersect with social inequality  in order to enable learning in young people’s cultural, creative, civic and political lives.

I joined Deakin in 2017 as Professor of New Media Education having previously held posts in the Department of Media and Communication at the London School of Economics and in the Faculty of Education Research at the University of Oslo. I have worked as an independent scholar in Education and in the Cultural and Creative Industries; as a Media Studies teacher in an inner city comprehensive in London and in higher education teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses, leading; teacher training degrees in media education. I was also the Head of Media Arts and Education at WAC Performing Arts and Media College - a centre for informal training and education - where I directed a range of digital media activities for young people and co-ordinated training for media artists and teachers.

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Career highlights

  • I have led significant research projects in the fields of creativity and creative learning, advising and a developing research strategy for an English national body (Creative Partnerships), commissioning research and leading on the production of handbooks, co-editing literature reviews and other academic resources for a constituency of educators.
  • I have led research projects exploring learning in the home and out of school, focusing on the role of digital technology in such expanded social contexts and exploring changing pedagogies. Projects have been longitudinal and ethnographic with an emphasis on ethnic minority youth.
  • I have written and theorised about the nature of informal and non -formal learning by young people across social contexts, especially working with socially excluded young people in community-based settings, mapping a new and emerging field.
  • I am one of the early leaders in the field of classroom-based research in media education developing curriculum, theorising a new field within a new literacies paradigm and supporting the development of teacher education and classroom practice at national and international level.
  • I have led projects and written about the interface between initiatives developing employability for ethnic minority and socially marginalised youth and the labour force in the cultural and creative industries.

Research interests

  • The political economy and pedagogy of out-of-school learning
  • Critical digital literacies
  • Young People’s entry into work in the creative industries
  • Multiliteracies and school reform
  • Comparative educational research
  • Digital Youth Identities
  • Social inequality and diversity

Affiliations

Visiting Professor, The Playful Learning Centre, University of Helsinki, Finland

Visiting Professor, Dept Media and Communications, LSE, London.

Research for Educational Impact (REDI)

Chief Investigator and Connected Child Co-Lead, Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child

Knowledge areas

  • Digital culture/digital technologies
  • Informal learning
  • Creative learning
  • Media education
  • New literacies
  • Media production
  • Researching the cultures of youth and childhood
  • Learning/learner identities

Professional activities

Projects

My current projects include:

My past projects include:

  • Researching the creative biographies of young people as they enter work in the creative industries as part of  'The Connected Learning Research Network'.
  • Studying the political economcy of the  Non-Formal learning sector in London, Toronto and Vancouver as it as developed over the last 30 years as part of a Canadian Research Council project, called YouthSites.
  • Monilukutaitoa Opitaan Ilolla, MOI (in English; Let’s learn multiliteracy with joy) is a research and development project funded by the Finnish National Ministry of Education.

Publications

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2023

YouthSites: HISTORIES OF CREATIVITY, CARE, AND LEARNING IN THE CITY

H Frey, J Sefton-Green, S Poyntz

(2023), Oxford, Eng., A1

book
2022

Learning to live well with data: concepts and challenges

Julian Sefton-Green, Luci Pangrazio

(2022), pp. 1-16, Learning to Live with Datafication Educational Case Studies and Initiatives from Across the World, London, Eng., B1

book chapter

Conclusion: learning to to live better with data

Julian Sefton-Green, Luci Pangrazio

(2022), pp. 201-208, Learning to live with Datafication: Educational Case Studies and Initiatives from Around the World, London, Eng., B1

book chapter

Is there a 'theory of learning' for cultural studies and is it (still) relevant in an era of surveillance capitalism?

J Sefton-Green

(2022), pp. 1-13, Continuum, London, England, C1

journal article

Learning to live with datafication

L Pangrazio, L Pangrazio, J Sefton-Green, J Sefton-Green, R Eynon, R Eynon, C Cobo, C Cobo, P Rivera Vargas, P Rivera Vargas, N Selwyn, N Selwyn, B Cumbo, B Cumbo, J Raffaghelle, J Raffaghelle, E Aguilera, E Aguilera, R de Roock, R de Roock, N Kerssens, N Kerssens, M De Haan, M De Haan, J Grosman, J Grosman, J Jacques, J Jacques, A Collard, A Collard, H Jeong, H Jeong, Y Oh, Y Oh, A Kim, A Kim, L Xiaoming, L Xiaoming, S Livingstone, S Livingstone

(2022), London, Eng., A7

edited book
2021

Educating for Democracy in the Digital Age

Julian Sefton-Green

(2021), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education, Oxford, Eng., B1

book chapter

Is the re-contextualization of digital writing inevitable, escapable or desirable?

J Sefton-Green

(2021), Vol. 60, pp. 116-125, Theory into Practice, C1

journal article

Digital rights, digital citizenship and digital literacy: what's the difference?

L Pangrazio, J Sefton-Green

(2021), Vol. 10, pp. 15-27, Journal of new approaches in educational research, Alicante, Spain, C1

journal article

Towards platform pedagogies: why thinking about digital platforms as pedagogic devices might be useful

J Sefton-Green

(2021), Discourse, C1

journal article

The death of the educative subject? The limits of criticality under datafication

J Sefton-Green, L Pangrazio

(2021), Educational Philosophy and Theory, C1

journal article

Embodied technology use:: Unaccompanied refugee youth and the migrant platformed body

Anamaria Neag, Julian Sefton-Green

(2021), Vol. 71, pp. 09-30, MedieKultur, Alborg, Denmark, C1

journal article
2020

Engaging youth in industry-led filmmaking projects the limits of social and cultural capital in career making

Julian Sefton-Green

(2020), pp. 84-100, Young people's transitions into creative work : navigating challenges and opportunities, New York, N.Y., B1

book chapter

Young People's Journeys Into Creative Work: Challenges and Transitions Into the Workforce

Julian Sefton-Green, S Watkins, Ben Kirshner

(2020), pp. 1-26, Young people's transitions into creative work : navigating challenges and opportunities, London, Eng., B1

book chapter

Learning Creative Identities in Filmmaking: The Dubious Pleasures of Precarity

Julian Sefton-Green

(2020), pp. 64-83, Young people's transitions into creative work : navigating challenges and opportunities, New York, N.Y., B1

book chapter

Play and learning in the digital age

Julian Sefton-Green

(2020), pp. 81-96, Education in the Digital Age: Happy and healthy children, Paris, France, B1

book chapter

Teacher learning and the everyday digital

N Wood, C Beavis, A Cloonan, K Hutchison, L Pangrazio, J Sefton-Green

(2020), Vol. 47, pp. 183-197, Australian Educational Researcher, C1

journal article

The social utility of 'data literacy'

L Pangrazio, J Sefton-Green

(2020), Vol. 45, pp. 208-220, Learning, media and technology, Abingdon, Eng., C1

journal article

The Connected Learning Research Network: Reflections on a Decade of Engaged Scholarship

Mizuko Ito, Richard Arum, Dalton Conely, Kris Gutiérrez, Ben Kirschner, Sonia Livingstone, Vera Michalchik, Kylie Peppler, William Penuel, Nicole Pinkard, Jean Rhodes, Katie Salen Tekinbaş, Juliet Schor, Julian Sefton-Green, Craig Watkins

(2020), [Online], A6

research report/technical paper
2019

Introduction: learning beyond the school -international perspectives on the schooled society

Julian Sefton-Green

(2019), pp. 1-15, Learning beyond the school: international perspectives on the schooled society, Abingdon, Eng., B1

book chapter

Multiliteracies and early years innovation: Perspectives from finland and beyond

K Kumpulainen, K Kumpulainen, J Sefton-Green, J Sefton-Green

(2019), pp. 1-20, Multiliteracies and Early Years Innovation: Perspectives from Finland and Beyond, London, Eng., B1

book chapter

The non-formal arts learning sector, youth provision, and paradox in the learning city

S Poyntz, R Coles, H Fitzsimmons-Frey, A Bains, J Sefton-Green, M Hoechsmann

(2019), Vol. 45, pp. 258-278, Oxford Review of Education, C1

journal article

Young People's Transitions into Creative Work Navigating Challenges and Opportunities

Julian Sefton-Green, S Watkins, Ben Kirshner

(2019), London, Eng., A7

edited book

Multiliteracies and early years innovation perspectives from Finland and beyond

K Kumpulainen, J Sefton-Green

(2019), A7

edited book
2018

Introduction: learning beyond the school international perspectives on the schooled society

J Sefton-Green

(2018), pp. 1-15, Learning beyond the school : international perspectives on the schooled society, Abingdon, Eng., B1

book chapter

Learning keywords- a cultural studies approach to schooling and pedagogy

J Sefton-Green, James Ladwig

(2018), pp. 16-27, Learning beyond the school : international perspectives on the schooled society, Abingdon, Eng., B1

book chapter

Outing the "out" in out-of-school: a comparative international perspective

J Sefton-Green

(2018), pp. 193-208, Learning beyond the school : international perspectives on the schooled society, Abingdon, Eng., B1

book chapter

Beyond the totally pedagogicized society: final reflections

J Sefton-Green

(2018), pp. 227-232, Learning beyond the school : international perspectives on the schooled society, Abingdon, Eng., B1

book chapter

Framing an agenda for educational change in Armenia 2018: strategy, international contexts and ways forward

J Sefton-Green, S Lewis, J Holloway

(2018), [Burwood, Vic.], A6

research report/technical paper

Learning Beyond the School

Julian Sefton-Green

(2018), A7

edited book
2017

Digital ethics, political economy and the curriculum: this changes everything

J Sefton-Green, A Luke,, P Graham, D Kellner, J Ladwig

(2017), pp. 287-287, Handbook of writing, literacies, and education in digital cultures, New York, N.Y., B1

book chapter

Cultural studies

J Sefton-Green

(2017), pp. 181-184, SAGE encyclopedia of out-of-school learning, London, Eng., B1

book chapter

Wac arts

J Sefton-Green

(2017), pp. 823-826, SAGE encyclopedia of out-of-school learning, London, Eng., B1

book chapter

Class in "the class": conservative, competitive and (dis)connected

J Sefton-Green, S Livingstone

(2017), pp. 176-187, Media and class: TV, film, and digital culture, New York, N.Y., B1

book chapter

Representing learning lives: what does it mean to map learning journeys?

J Sefton-Green

(2017), Vol. 84, pp. 111-118, International journal of educational research, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, C1-1

journal article

Researching 'learning lives' - a new agenda for learning, media and technology

J Sefton-Green, O Erstad

(2017), Vol. 42, pp. 246-250, Learning, media and technology, London, Eng., C1-1

journal article
2016

The class. Living and learning in the digital age

S Livingstone, J Sefton-Green

(2016), New York, N.Y., A1-1

book

Learning identities, education and community. Young lives in the cosmopolitan city

O Erstad, Ø Gilje, J Sefton-Green, H Arnseth

(2016), Cambridge, Eng., A1-1

book

Can studying learning across contexts change educational research or will it lead to the pedagocization of everyday life?

J Sefton-Green

(2016), Vol. 9, pp. 243-251, Learning across contexts in the knowledge society, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, B1-1

book chapter

Establishing a research agenda for digital literacy practices of young children: a white paper for COST action IS1410

J Sefton-Green, J Marsh, O Erstad, R Flewitt

(2016), Brussels, Belgium, A6-1

research report/technical paper
2015

Negotiating the pedagogicisation of everyday life; the art of learning

J Sefton-Green

(2015), pp. 45-59, Cultural pedagogies and human conduct, Abingdon, Eng., B1-1

book chapter

Cultural studies went to school and where did It end up?

J Sefton-Green

(2015), pp. 46-60, Learning and Literacy Over Time. Longitudinal Perspectives, Abingdon, Eng., B1-1

book chapter

Introduction. Making sense of longitudinal perspectives on literacy learning-a revisiting approach

J Sefton-Green

(2015), pp. 1-15, Learning and literacy over time: longitudinal perspectives, Abingdon, Eng., B1-1

book chapter

Learning and literacy over time: longitudinal perspectives

J Sefton-Green, J Rowsell

(2015), New York, N.Y., A7-1

edited book
2014

'From 'othering' to incorporation: the dilemmas of crossing informal and formal learning boundaries

J Sefton-Green

(2014), Vol. 1, pp. 175-189, Everyday youth literacies: critical perspectives for new times, Singapore, B1-1

book chapter

Introduction: innovative methods for researching connected learning

J Sefton-Green

(2014), Vol. 4, pp. 1-5, International journal of learning and media, Cambridge, Mass., C1-1

journal article

What is connected learning and how to research it?

K Kumpulainen, J Sefton-Green

(2014), Vol. 4, pp. 7-18, International journal of learning and media, Cambridge, Mass., C1-1

journal article

Mapping learner progression into digital creativity

J Sefton-Green, L Brown

(2014), Oxford, Eng., A6-1

research report/technical paper
2013

Learning at not-school. A review of study, theory, and advocacy for education in non-formal settings

J Sefton-Green

(2013), Cambridge, Mass., A1-1

book

Connected learning: an agenda for research and design

M Ito, K Gutiérrez, S Livingstone, B Penuel, J Rhodes, K Salen, J Schor, J Sefton-Green, S Watkins

(2013), Irvine, Calif., A1-1

book

Changing narratives of change: (un)intended consequences of educational technology reform in Argentina

I Dussel, P Ferrante, J Sefton-Green

(2013), pp. 127-145, The politics of education and technology: conflicts, controversies, and connections, New York, N.Y., B1-1

book chapter

Digital disconnect? The 'digital learner' and the school

O Erstad, J Sefton-Green

(2013), pp. 87-104, Identity, community, and learning lives in the digital age, New York, N.Y., B1-1

book chapter

Identity, community, and learning lives in the digital age

J Sefton-Green, O Erstad

(2013), pp. 1-19, Identity, community, and learning lives in the digital age, New York, N.Y., B1-1

book chapter

Mapping digital makers: a review exploring everyday creativity, learning lives and the digital

J Sefton-Green

(2013), Oxford, Eng., A6-1

research report/technical paper
2012

Identity, Community, and Learning Lives in the Digital Age

O Erstad, J Sefton-Green

(2012), Canbridge, Eng., A7-1

edited book
2011

Introduction

J Sefton-Green, P Thomson, K Jones, L Bresler

(2011), pp. 1-8, The Routledge international handbook of creative learning, Abingdon, Eng., B1-1

book chapter

Theories and histories: creative learning and its contexts

J Sefton-Green, L Bresler

(2011), pp. 9-14, The Routledge international handbook of creative learning, Abingdon, Eng., B1-1

book chapter

Creativity, the arts and schools

J Sefton-Green, P Thomson

(2011), pp. 116-117, The Routledge international handbook of creative learning, Abingdon, Eng., B1-1

book chapter

Creative digital cultures: informal learning beyond the school

J Sefton-Green

(2011), pp. 240-248, The Routledge international handbook of creative learning, Abingdon, Eng., B1-1

book chapter

Judgement, authority and legitimacy. Evaluating creative learning

J Sefton-Green

(2011), pp. 307-315, The Routledge international handbook of creative learning, Abingdon, Eng., B1-1

book chapter

Introduction

P Thomson, J Sefton-Green

(2011), pp. 1-14, Researching creative learning: methods and issues, Abingdon, Eng., B1-1

book chapter

Creative digital cultures Informal learning beyond the school

J Sefton-Green

(2011), pp. 244-252, The Routledge International Handbook of Creative Learning, B1

book chapter

Cultural studies and education: reflecting on differences, impacts, effects and change

J Sefton-Green

(2011), Vol. 25, pp. 55-70, Cultural studies, Abingdon, Eng., C1-1

journal article

The Routledge international handbook of creative learning

J Sefton-Green, P Thomson, L Bresler, K Jones

(2011), Abingdon, Eng., A7-1

edited book
2010

Researching Creative Learning: Methods and Issues

P Thomson, J Sefton-Green

(2010), London, Eng., A7-1

edited book
2009

Reviewing approaches and perspectives on "digital literacy"

J Sefton-Green, H Nixon, O Erstad

(2009), Vol. 4, pp. 107-125, Pedagogies: an international journal, Abingdon, Eng., C1-1

journal article

Exploring 'learning lives': Community, identity, literacy and meaning

O Erstad, Ø Gilje, J Sefton-Green, K Vasbø

(2009), Vol. 43, pp. 100-106, Literacy, C1-1

journal article
2006

Introduction

J Clemens, R Grigg

(2006), pp. 1-7, Jacques Lacan and the other side of psychoanalysis : reflections on Seminar XVII, Durham, N.C., B1-1

book chapter

Youth, technology, and media cultures

J Sefton-Green

(2006), Vol. 30, pp. 279-306, Review of research in education, Thousand Oaks, Calif., C1-1

journal article
2005

Introduction

D Kingsbury

(2005), pp. 1-8, Violence in between conflict and security in archipelagic Southeast Asia, Clayton, Vic. and Singapore, B1

book chapter

Introduction

B He, W Kymlicka

(2005), pp. 1-21, Multiculturalism in Asia, Oxford, England, B1

book chapter

Introduction

D Lowe

(2005), pp. 1-12, Australia and the Colombo plan, 1949-1957, Barton, A.C.T., B1-1

book chapter

Changing the Rules? Computer Games, Theory, Learning, and Play

Julian Sefton-Green

(2005), Vol. 26, pp. 411-419, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, London, Eng., C1-1

journal article
2004

Structure, Agency, and Pedagogy in Children's Media Culture

D Buckingham, J Sefton-Green

(2004), pp. 12-33, Pikachu's Global Adventure, Durham, N.C., B1-1

book chapter

Initiation Rites: A Small Boy in a Poké-World

J Sefton-Green

(2004), pp. 141-164, Pikachu's Global Adventure, Durham, N.C., B1-1

book chapter
2003

Gotta catch 'em all: Structure, agency and pedagogy in children's media culture

D Buckingham, J Sefton-Green

(2003), Vol. 25, pp. 379-399, Media, culture and society, London, Eng., C1-1

journal article
2002

Introduction

A Carter, G Stokes

(2002), pp. 1-19, Democratic theory today: challenges for the 21st century, Malden, MA, B1

book chapter
1999

Book review : From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: gender and computer games

J Sefton-Green

(1999), Vol. 5, pp. 114-120, Convergence: the international journal of research into new media technologies, London, Eng., C1-1

journal article

The difference is digital? Digital technology and student media production

D Buckingham, I Harvey, J Sefton-Green

(1999), Vol. 5, pp. 10-20, Convergence, London, Eng., C1-1

journal article

Young people, creativity and new technologies

David Puttnam, J Sefton-Green, V Reiss, V Lachs, R Sinker, A Loveless, J Booth, I Ordidge, S Williams, A Jones, R Hall, D Newbury, C Abbott, H Cunningham, M Rivett

(1999), London, Eng., A7-1

edited book
1995

Neither 'reading' nor 'writing': the history of practical work in media education

J Sefton-Green

(1995), Vol. 2, pp. 77-96, Changing English, Abingdon, Eng., C1-1

journal article
1993

Making sense of the media: from reading to culture

D Buckingham, J Sefton Green

(1993), Vol. 27, pp. 1-10, English in education, Hoboken, N.J., C1-1

journal article
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Creative Media Cultures: Making and Learning Beyond the School

Julian Sefton-Green, Elisabeth Soep

(), pp. 835-856, International Handbook of Research in Arts Education, B1-1

book chapter

Judgement, authority and legitimacy

Julian Sefton-Green

(), The Routledge International Handbook of Creative Learning, B1-1

book chapter

Funded Projects at Deakin

Australian Competitive Grants

ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child

Prof Susan Danby, Prof Lelia Green, A/Prof Lisa Kervin, Prof Julian Sefton-Green, Prof Leon Straker, Prof Karen Thorpe, Prof Peta Wyeth, Dr Luci Pangrazio, Prof Louise Paatsch

ARC CRE - Centres of Excellence

  • 2023: $420,137
  • 2022: $516,958
  • 2021: $503,195

Industry and Other Funding

National education change agenda in Armenia.

Prof Julian Sefton-Green

TUMO Centre for Creative Technologies

  • 2018: $16,879

Tracing the Effects of Community Arts Programs (TEECAP)

Dr Vera Michalchik, Prof Julian Sefton-Green, Dr Daniela DiGiacomo, Dr Pariece Nelligan, Dr Sam Mejias

Wallace Foundation Grant

  • 2023: $207,991
  • 2022: $253,661
  • 2021: $74,763

Other Funding Sources

ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child

Prof Susan Danby, Prof Lelia Green, A/Prof Lisa Kervin, Prof Julian Sefton-Green, Prof Leon Straker, Prof Karen Thorpe, Prof Peta Wyeth, Dr Luci Pangrazio, Prof Louise Paatsch

Queensland University of Technology

  • 2023: $98,133
  • 2022: $135,601
  • 2021: $82,438

Supervisions

Principal Supervisor
2023

Chris Adriaan Zomer

Thesis entitled: Laugh, Focus, and Perform! A Critical Inquiry of Gamified Engagement

Doctor of Philosophy (Education), School of Education