Karen Dooley lectures in primary literacy in the School of Cultural and Language Studies, Queensland University of Technology Australia.
She is interested in classroom pedagogy and the preparation of primary school literacy teachers for increasingly diverse classrooms in mainstream schools.
Karen is currently engaged in a study of print and digital literacy in a linguistically and culturally diverse low socioeconomic primary school. Comprehension has been a major focus of this work. In other studies Karen has looked at pedagogic provision for middle-school students who have arrived in Australian as refugees from Africa and pedagogy for Taiwanese and Samoan students in Australian classrooms. Karen draws on a range of theories including the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu and Basil Bernstein and the sociolinguistics of James Gee.
Karen began her career as a preschool-primary teacher in diverse Queensland schools and has taught English as a foreign language in Shanghai, China. |
