Jenni Carter

Dr Jenni Carter

Lecturer

School of Education

College of Education, Behavioural and Social Sciences

I am currently a researcher in the following projects,2013-2015, AusAID, ‘Developing a community approach to support pre-schoolers’ vernacular and English language and literacy development in Fijian communities without access to early childhood services’. Category 1 Funding of AUD $721,731: Professor Pauline Harris, Dr Elspeth McInnes, Dr Jenni Carter, Ally Diamond, Dr Cindy Brock and Dr Anne Glover.,DRPF UniSA EASS Disciplinary Literacies With Dr Cindy Brock and Dr Lyn Kerkham,Innovative pedagogies through assessment in teacher education with Dr Cindy Brock (unfunded.),My research interests are Literacy and English Curriculum, Education Policy, and Philosophy and Politics of Education.

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2024 Maher, K., Rigney, L. I., King, M., Garrett, R., Windle, J., Memon, N., . . . Hattam, R. (2024). Curriculum, democracy and pedagogies for justice: a collective futures dialogue. Curriculum Perspectives, 44(2), 105-119.
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2023 Colton, J., Serafini, F., Lovett, T., Forrest, S., Gale, J., Gehling, K., . . . Carter, J. (2023). Readers matter: seven transactions with the visual, linguistic and material elements in a picture book. Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 46(3), 219-231.
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2023 Colton, J., & Carter, J. (2023). Editorial to the Special Issue: Stories that matter: the matter of stories. Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 46(3), 213-217.
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2022 Carter, J. (2022). Stories that matter: engaging students for a complex world through the English curriculum. Curriculum Perspectives, 42(2), 195-198.
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2022 Biesta, G., Heugh, K., Cervinkova, H., Rasinski, L., Osborne, S., Forde, D., . . . Tesar, M. (2022). Philosophy of education in a new key: publicness, social justice, and education; a South-North conversation. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 54(8), 1216-1233.
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2020 Harris, P., Brock, C. H., McInnes, E., Diamond, A., Neill, B., Carter, J., & Giannakis, E. (2020). Co-constructing culturally sustaining practices for fostering young children's literacy in Fiji. Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 34(1), 127-152.
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2020 Stehlik, T., Carter, J., Price, D., & Comber, B. (2020). Hanging out in the city of tomorrow: a participatory approach to researching the importance of music and the arts in the lifeworlds of young people. Pastoral Care in Education, 38(3), 273-289.
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2019 Comber, B., & Carter, J. (2019). Earning or Learning, or Not: Reconnecting Young Adults With Learning Through Multiliteracies Pedagogy. Journal of adolescent and adult literacy, 63(3), 333-336.
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2013 Harris, P., Chinnappan, M., Castleton, G., Carter, J., de Courcy, M., & Barnett, J. (2013). Impact and consequence of Australia's National Assessment Program - Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) - using research evidence to inform improvement. TESOL in context, 23(1-2), 30-52.

Year Citation
2023 Price, D., MacGill, B., & Carter, J. (2023). Preface - Arts-based Practices with Young People at the Edge. In J. Carter, D. Price, & B. MacGill (Eds.), Source details - Title: Arts-based Practices with Young People at the Edge (pp. v-viii). Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.
2023 MacGill, B., Carter, J., & Price, D. (2023). Young people: navigating the edge of society through the arts: creating in the border zones. In D. Price, B. MacGill, & J. Carter (Eds.), Source details - Title: Arts-based Practices with Young People at the Edge (pp. 3-15). Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.
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2022 Wrench, A., Carter, J., & Paige, K. (2022). Education for democracy: culturally responsive practices and curriculum in teacher education. In S. Riddle, A. Heffernan, & D. Bright (Eds.), Source details - Title: New Perspectives on Education for Democracy: Creative Responses to Local and Global Challenges (pp. 124-137). UK: Routledge.
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2018 MacGill, B., Carter, J., & Price, D. (2018). Youthworx South Australia: re-engaging youth in learning and employment through the creative art of film-making. In M. Best, T. Corcoran, & R. Slee (Eds.), Source details - Title: Who’s In? Who’s Out? What to do about inclusive education (pp. 129-144). Netherlands: Brill.
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2017 Carter, J. (2017). Mobilising literacy policy through resources. In S. Nichols, & C. Snowden (Eds.), Source details - Title: Languages and literacies as mobile and placed resources (pp. 124-137). UK: Routledge.
2015 Brock, C. H., Carter, J., & Boyd, F. B. (2015). "Deadly ways to learn": language variation, ideology and learning literacies. In F. B. Boyd, & C. H. Brock (Eds.), Source details - Title: Social diversity within multiliteracies (pp. 30-41). US: Taylor and Francis.
2013 Carter, J., & Davis, C. (2013). Multimodality and complex texts in educational settings. In P. Hudson (Ed.), Source details - Title: Learning to teach in the primary school (pp. 90-107). Melbourne, Australia: Cambridge.

  • Network Inquiry: Trialling Evaluation Tools and Protocols for Producing Evidence of Impact with a focus on literacy, Catholic Education South Australia, 17/12/2019 - 28/02/2022

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