Teaching Strengths
APrf Joel Windle
Enterprise Fellow
School of Education
College of Education, Behavioural and Social Sciences
Joel Windle's research and teaching focuses on cultural and linguistic diversity, and in particular how community-based literacies can make curricula more inclusive. Joel is currently leading an international study on innovative teaching practices involving partners from Brazilian and North American Universities, as well as community-based organisations and school educational authorities.
His research has received support from the Australian Research Council, Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, and the State Research Foundation of Rio de Janeiro. Publications include Making Sense of School Choice (awarded the Raewyn Connell Prize for Best First Book in Australian Sociology and the Stephen Crook Prize for Best Book in Australian Sociology) and The Dynamics of Language and Inequality in Education. Details of publications can be found here: https://unisa-au.academia.edu/JoelWindle.
Joel is a qualified secondary teacher of English as a Second Language and French, having taught in Australian and French schools before working in higher education, including ten years in Latin American universities and school-based teacher education projects.
2019-2021 Windle (CI), Pereira, Madeiros, Lagares, Teixeira, Luchesi, Bagno, Daher, Savedra. Multilingualism, linguistic rights and social inequality (Internationalization Project, CAPES, Brazil)
2019-2023 Windle (CI), Transnational contacts in the periphery: building new forms of citizen participation (CNPq, Brazil) (partnership with University of Texas, Middlebury College, University of Missouri, Federal University of Bahia, Federal University of Santa Caterina, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Federal University of Espírito Santo)
2019-2022 Windle (CI), Transnational contacts, new literacies and citizenship (FAPERJ, Brazil) (in partnership with Rio on Watch and the Cultural Occupation Movement of the Complexo do Viradouro favela)
2018-2020 Windle (CI), Silva, Silva Souza, Muniz, Zaidan, Maia, Transnationalism in the periphery: meaning-making within global flows (CNPq, Brazil)
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Promoting wellbeing through school-based anti-racism initiatives, The Trustee for The Montebello Foundation, 01/07/2024 - 31/12/2025
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Culturally responsive interventions to justice-involved African-Australians: research evaluation, SA Dept of Human Services, 02/12/2024 - 31/08/2025
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Rapid Response Evidence Review – Civics and Citizenship, Department for Education, 14/04/2025 - 14/07/2025
Courses I teach
- EDUC 5033 Research Methods and Issues in Education (2025)
- EDUC 5033 Research Methods and Issues in Education (2024)
| Date | Role | Research Topic | Program | Degree Type | Student Load | Student Name |
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| 2023 | Co-Supervisor | Investigating the recognition and valuing of Aboriginal students' cultures, knowledges, and linguistic repertoires in school programs | - | Doctorate | Part Time | Mrs Sarada Surampudi |
| 2023 | Co-Supervisor | 110880 - Enhancing belonging for African diaspora youth in Australian schools | - | Doctorate | Full Time | Mr Edmund Hypolite |
| 2023 | Co-Supervisor | (Re)thinking Cultural Safety and Belonging for Afro-diasporans inAustralian Schools | - | Doctorate | Part Time | Mr Casianus Gemoh |
| 2023 | Co-Supervisor | A critique of language and literacy policy, planning and implementation in Australian remote education. | - | Doctorate | Part Time | Louise Wiles |
| 2023 | Co-Supervisor | Understanding early school leaving among Afro diaspora youth | - | Doctorate | Full Time | Ms Hellen Magoi |
| 2023 | Principal Supervisor | How do Brazilian families seek to cultivate Brazilian Portuguese through the new generation in Australia? | - | Master | Part Time | Andrea Hughes |
| 2023 | Principal Supervisor | 110000A - Southern Multilingualisms, Knowledges, and Decolonising Education | - | Doctorate | Full Time | Ms Silvia Quattrini |
| 2023 | Principal Supervisor | Building and Sustaining LGBTIQA+ Inclusion in South Australian Secondary Catholic Education | - | Doctorate | Part Time | Mrs Ebony Braidwood |
| 2022 | Principal Supervisor | Towards critical global literacies: building social participation and citizenship in a superdiverse world | - | Doctorate | Full Time | Mrs Lyn Sherise Rowberry |