Joel Windle

Teaching Strengths

TESOL
Applied Linguistics
Sociology of Education
Literacy Studies
Equity

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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2025 Magoi, H., Gemoh, C., Chapman, D., Hypolite, E., Angok, S., Baak, M., & Windle, J. (2025). Building Community Amidst the Institutional Whiteness of Graduate Study: Black Joy and Maroon Moves in an Academic Marronage. Australian Journal Of Social Issues, online, 1-11.
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2025 Windle, J., Maughan, L., & Smith, L. (2025). Citizenship education for democracy: Implications for Australian educators and school leaders. The Australian Educational Leader, 47(3), 30-35.
2025 Windle, J. (2025). Struggles for justice in education through the lens of educational citizenship. Australian Educational Researcher, online(4), 1-16.
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2024 Rudolph, S., Mayes, E., Molla, T., Chiew, S., Windle, J., & Rizvi, F. (2024). What's the use of educational research? Six stories reflecting on research use with communities. Australian Educational Researcher, 51(5), 2277-2300.
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2024 Windle, J. A., & Fensham, P. J. (2024). Connecting rights and inequality in education: openings for change. Australian Educational Researcher, 51(1), 89-101.
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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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2024 Rabello, C. R. L., de Sousa, S. M., Windle, J. A., & Mor, W. M. (2024). Multilearning, literacies, AI and issues of digital society: interview with professor Walkyria Monte Mor (usp). Cadernos De Letras Da Uff, 35(69), 19-42.
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2024 Windle, J., Comber, B., Baak, M., Calle Diaz, L., Chapman, D., Jorge, M., . . . Trigos Carrillo, L. (2024). Exploring global literacies: playful provocations for connecting, resisting, and inspiring social action. Cadernos De Letras Da Uff, 35(69), 161-187.
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2023 Windle, J., & Possas, L. A. (2023). Translanguaging and educational inequality in the global south: stance-taking amongst Brazilian teachers of english. Applied Linguistics, 44(2), 312-327.
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2023 Windle, J. (2023). Rescaling the new sociology of education. Curriculum Perspectives, 43(2), 199-202.
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2023 Windle, J., Heugh, K., French, M., Armitage, J., & Chang, L. C. (2023). Reciprocal multilingual awareness for linguistic citizenship. Language Awareness, 32(4), 582-599.
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2023 de Oliveira Maia, J., Windle, J. A., & Dos Santos Jorge, M. L. (2023). Transperiferias: uma proposta para pesquisas socialmente engajadas. Revista Brasileira de Linguistica Aplicada, 23(3, article no. e44084), 1-5.
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2023 Windle, J., & Jorge, M. (2023). Repensando direitos e desigualdades nos Estudos da Linguagem. Gragoatá, 28(60), 1-6.
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2023 Windle, J., & de Araujo Rosa, J. (2023). Navigating critical language education at the crossroads of neonationalism and neoliberalism: the role of border talk. TESOL Quarterly, 57(3), 752-774.
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2023 Windle, J., Heugh, K., French, M., Armitage, J., & dos Santos, G. N. (2023). Southern multilingual moves in education: agency, citizenship, and reciprocity. Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 20(3), 279-297.
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2023 Windle, J., & Moita Lopes, L. P. (2023). Rescaling the global borderlands: transperipheral projections from 'the heart of the Amazon'. Language in Society, 52(1), 129-149.
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2022 Windle, J. A., & Fonseca Afonso, É. (2022). Building anti-racist education through spaces of border thinking. Critical Studies in Education, 63(5), 606-621.
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2022 Windle, J. (2022). School segregation in Rio de Janeiro: geographical, racial and historical dimensions of a centre-periphery dynamic. Comparative Education, 58(1), 91-105.
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2022 Maire, Q., & Windle, J. (2022). The contribution of the International Baccalaureate Diploma to educational inequalities: reinventing historical logics of curriculum stratification in a comprehensive system. Educational Review, 74(1), 76-92.
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2021 Dos Santos, G. N., & Windle, J. (2021). The nexus of race and class in ELT: from interaction orders to orders of being. Applied Linguistics, 42(3), 473-491.
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2021 Nascimento, G., & Windle, J. (2021). The unmarked whiteness of Brazilian linguistics: from black-as-theme to black-as-life. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 31(2), 283-286.
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2021 Spratt, R., Anuar, A., Windle, J., & McCormick, A. (2021). Special issue editorial: The Festival of OCIES 2020. International Education Journal, 20(2), 1-4.
2020 Windle, J. (2020). Recontextualising race, politics and inequality in transnational knowledge circulation: biographical resignifications. Research in Comparative and International Education, 15(3), 291-304.
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2020 Windle, J., Souza, A. L. S., Nascimento e Silva, D. D., Zaidan, J. M., Maia, J. D. O., Muniz, K., & Lorenso, S. (2020). Towards a transperipheral paradigm: an agenda for socially engaged research. Trabalhos em Linguistica Aplicada, 59(2), 1577-1589.
2019 Windle, J., & Batista, S. (2019). The global circulation of literacy policy: phonics, inequality and neo- conservative political movements. Revista Brasileira de Linguistica Aplicada, 19(2), 385-406.
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2019 Windle, J., & Miller, J. (2019). Scaffolding second language literacy: a model for students with interrupted schooling. European Journal of Applied Linguistics and TEFL, 8(1), 39-59.
2019 Windle, J. (2019). Neoliberalism, imperialism and conservatism: tangled logics of educational inequality in the global South. Discourse, 40(2), 191-202.
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2019 Windle, J., & Maire, Q. (2019). Beyond the global city: a comparative analysis of cosmopolitanism in middle-class educational strategies in Australia and Brazil. Discourse, 40(5), 717-733.
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2019 Turner, M., & Windle, J. (2019). Exploring the positioning of teacher expertise in TESOL-related curriculum standards. TESOL Quarterly, 53(4), 939-959.
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2019 Windle, J., & O'Brien, S. (2019). Language, education and transnationalism: an introduction. Trabalhos em Linguística Aplicada, 58(1), 1-10.
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2019 Windle, J., & Ferreira, B. B. P. (2019). Plurilingual social networks and the creation of hybrid cultural spaces. Trabalhos em Linguística Aplicada, 58(1), 139-157.
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2018 Windle, J. (2018). A formação do professor de línguas em uma perspectiva de educação intercultural cidadã. Trabalhos em Linguística Aplicada, 57(2), 975-992.
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2018 Windle, J. A., & Muniz, K. (2018). Constructions of race in Brazil: resistance and resignification in teacher education. International Studies in Sociology of Education, 27(2-3), 307-323.
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2017 Windle, J. (2017). Hidden features in global knowledge production: (re)positioning theory and practice in academic writing. Revista Brasileira de Linguistica Aplicada, 17(2), 355-378.
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2017 Al deen, T. J., & Windle, J. (2017). 'I feel sometimes I am a bad mother': the affective dimension of immigrant mothers' involvement in their children's schooling. Journal of Sociology, 53(1), 110-126.
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2017 Windle, J. (2017). The public positioning of refugees in the quasi-education market: linking mediascapes and social geographies of schooling. International Journal of Inclusive Education, 21(11), 1128-1141.
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2017 Windle, J. A. (2017). Social identity and language ideology: challenging hegemonic visions of English in Brazil. Gragoata, 22(42), 370-392.
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2015 Al deen, T. J., & Windle, J. (2015). The involvement of migrant mothers in their children's education: cultural capital and transnational class processes. International Studies in Sociology of Education, 25(4), 278-295.
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2014 Windle, J. A. (2014). Digital literacy, cosmopolitanism and the subaltern. Polifonia, 21(29), 198-214.
2014 Windle, J., & Nogueira, M. A. (2014). The role of internationalisation in the schooling of Brazilian elites: distinctions between two class fractions. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 36(1), 174-192.
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2014 Windle, J. (2014). The rise of school choice in education funding reform: an analysis of two policy moments. Educational Policy, 28(2), 306-324.
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2014 Miller, J., Windle, J. A., & Yazdanpanah, L. K. (2014). Planning lessons for refugee-background students: challenges and strategies. International Journal of Pedagogies and Learning, 9(1), 38-48.
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2013 Windle, J., & Stratton, G. (2013). Equity for sale: ethical consumption in a school-choice regime. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 34(2), 202-213.
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2013 Windle, J. A. (2013). Transnational zones of contact and critical literacy: educational uses of the immigration museum. Interdisciplinar: Revista de Estudos em Lingua e Literatura, 19(1), 53-70.
2012 Papasotiriou, M., & Windle, J. (2012). The social experience of physically disabled Australian university students. Disability & Society, 27(7), 935-947.
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2012 Windle, J., & Miller, J. (2012). Approaches to teaching low literacy refugee-background students. Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 35(3), 317-333.
2012 Rowe, E. E., & Windle, J. (2012). The Australian middle class and education: a small-scale study of the school choice experience as framed by 'My School' within inner city families. Critical Studies in Education, 53(2), 137-151.
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2011 Windle, J. (2011). From academia to media: staging the public career of critical literacy. Australian Educational Researcher, 38(3), 311-327.
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2010 Miller, J., & Windle, J. (2010). Second language literacy: putting high needs ESL learners in the frame. English in Australia, 45(3), 31-40.
2010 Windle, J. (2010). 'Anyone can make it, but there can only be one winner': modelling neoliberal learning and work on reality television. Critical Studies in Education, 51(3), 251-263.
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2010 Hickey Moody, A., Savage, G. C., & Windle, J. (2010). Pedagogy writ large: public, popular and cultural pedagogies in motion. Critical Studies in Education, 51(3), 227-236.
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2009 Windle, J. (2009). The limits of school choice: some implications for accountability of selective practices and positional competition in Australian education. Critical Studies in Education, 50(3), 231-246.
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2009 Windle, J. (2009). 'Soft' and 'hard' landings: the experience of school under contrasting institutional arrangements in Australia and France. International Journal on Multicultural Societies, 11(2), 174-194.
2008 Windle, J. (2008). The racialisation of African youth in Australia. Social Identities, 14(5), 553-566.
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2008 Windle, J. (2008). The management and legitimisation of educational inequalities in Australia: some implications for school experience. International Studies in Sociology of Education, 18(3-4), 157-171.
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2008 Windle, J. (2008). In remembrance of things past? Strategies of public pedagogy for urban "renovation". Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, 30(5), 377-398.
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Year Citation
2025 Windle, J., & Fonseca, E. (2025). Building anti-racist education through Spaces of border thinking. In R. Lund, J. Blackmore, & J. Rowlands (Eds.), Source details - Title: Epistemic Injustice: Governing Research Practice Within Academic Knowledge Production (pp. 72-87). UK: Routledge.
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2025 French, M., Windle, J., & Bleby, D. (2025). Bringing reciprocal multilingual awareness to Australian language(s) education. In M. Turner, & W. Green (Eds.), Source details - Title: Multilingualism as Opportunity: An Integrated Perspective on English and Languages Education in Australia (pp. 167-180). UK: Routledge.
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2024 Windle, J. (2024). Framing language in contact zones: a commentary on Vietnamese as an expression of globalisation(s). In L. -H. Phan, & D. Windle (Eds.), Source details - Title: Vietnamese Language, Education and Change In and Outside Vietnam. Global Vietnam: Across Time, Space and Community. (pp. 295-299). Singapore: Springer.
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2024 Windle, J., & Sellar, S. (2024). Boundary work as an interpretative framework for understanding time poverty: contestations over legitimacy and identity in teachers' work. In G. Thompson, & A. Hogan (Eds.), Source details - Title: Teaching and Time Poverty: Understanding Workload and Work Intensification in Schools (pp. 146-159). UK: Routledge.
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2024 Windle, J. (2024). School segregatioin in Rio de Janeiro: geographical, racial and historical dimensions of a centre-periphery dynamic. In L. B. Perry, E. Rowe, & C. Lubienski (Eds.), Source details - Title: Comparative Perspectives on School Segregation (pp. 91-105). US: Taylor and Francis.
2024 Windle, J. (2024). Foreword - Language Identity, Learning, and Teaching in Costa Rica. In L. Barrantes-Elizondo, & C. Olivares-Garita (Eds.), Source details - Title: Language Identity, Learning, and Teaching in Costa Rica. New York: Routledge.
2024 Windle, J., & Nascimento, G. (2024). From symbolic domination to the coloniality of power: contributions to the study of educational inequalities. In G. Stahl (Ed.), Source details - Title: The Bloomsbury Handbook of Bourdieu and Educational Research (pp. 74-85). UK: Bloomsbury Academic.
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2024 Windle, J., & Nascimento, G. (2024). From linguistic resistance to re-existence : Pretuguês as an anti-racist perspective on language. In F. Ndhlovu, & S. J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni (Eds.), Source details - Title: Language and decolonisation : an interdisciplinary approach (pp. 257-270). UK: Taylor and Francis.
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2023 Costa, I., Windle, J., Sanchez Mendes, L., Savedra, M., Seilva Esteves, P., & Dela Silva, S. (2023). Apresentação. In J. Windle, & M. Guimaraes-Savedra (Eds.), Source details - Title: História, política e contato linguístico (pp. 7-9). Brazil: Fluminense Federal University.
2023 Windle, J., Pereira, T., & Lorenso, S. (2023). Linguagem, identidade e diversidade. In J. Windle, & M. Guimaraes-Savedra (Eds.), Source details - Title: História, política e contato linguístico (pp. 52-85). Brazil: Fluminense Federal University.
2023 Windle, J., & Savedra, M. (2023). Introdução. In J. Windle, & M. Guimaraes-Savedra (Eds.), Source details - Title: História, política e contato linguístico (pp. 10-13). Brazil: Fluminense Federal University.
2023 Windle, J. (2023). 'Middle-class' educational strategies and right-wing politics in Australia: from conflict to consensus?. In A. Grimson, M. Gudzardi, & S. Merenson (Eds.), Source details - Title: Middle Class Identities and Social Crisis: Cultural and Political Perspectives on the Global Rebellion (pp. 212-225). UK: Routledge.
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2022 Windle, J. (2022). Transperipheral paradigm. In C. Landulfo, & D. Matos (Eds.), Source details - Title: Suleando conceitos em linguagens: decolonialidades e epistemologias outras (pp. 291-298). Brazil: Pontes Editores.
2022 Nascimento, G., & Windle, J. (2022). A (des)racialização de pesquisadores como estratégia de luta: rumo a uma linguística aplicada antirracista. In G. C. Melo, & D. M. Jesus (Eds.), Source details - Title: Linguística aplicada, raça e interseccionalidade na contemporaneidade / Applied linguistics, race and intersectionality today (Vol. 1, pp. 231-256). Portugal: Mórula editorial.
2022 Windle, J. (2022). The education system and social class: a shifting relationship. In B. Gobby, & R. Walker (Eds.), Source details - Title: Powers of Curriculum (2 ed., pp. 184-209). UK: Oxford University Press.
2021 Windle, J. (2021). Identidade e subjetividade no ensino de língua inglesa. In E. Mattos (Ed.), Source details - Title: Percursos Acadêmicos e Debates Interinstitucionais (pp. 553-555). Brazil: Tribo da Ilha Editora.
2020 Windle, J. (2020). Human rights as a performative context for transnationalism: working with difference in Brazilian teacher education. In O. Z. Barnawi, & A. Ahmed (Eds.), Source details - Title: TESOL Teacher Education in a Transnational World: Turning Challenges into Innovative Prospects (pp. 225-237). UK: Routledge.
2020 Windle, J., & Morgan, B. (2020). Remix nationalism and critical language education. In K. McIntosh (Ed.), Source details - Title: Applied Linguistics and Language Teaching in the Neo-Nationalist Era (pp. 267-294). Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.
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2020 Windle, J., & Muniz, K. (2020). Navigating soft and hard boundaries: race and educational inequality at the Borderlands. In J. A. Windle, D. Jesus, & L. Bartlett (Eds.), Source details - Title: The Dynamics of Language and Inequality in Education: Social and Symbolic Boundaries in the Global South (pp. 24-43). UK: Multilingual Matters.
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2019 Windle, J. A., & Nogueira, M. D. O. E. (2019). "Eu não dei conta de continuar": itinerários escolares de jovens de camadas populares da Região dos Inconfidentes. In R. Coutrim, M. Nogueira, & M. A. Torres (Eds.), Source details - Title: Entre diferentes mundos: jovens, sociabilidade e educação (pp. 81-100). Brazil: Fino Traco.
2018 Windle, J. (2018). The education system and SES: mapping disadvantage. In B. Gobby, & R. Walker (Eds.), Source details - Title: Powers of Curriculum: Sociological Perspectives on Education (pp. 169-194). Australia: Oxford University Press.
2018 Al Deen, T. J., & Windle, J. (2018). Challenges in conceptualising educational inequalities in the context of migration: working with western and Islamic conceptions of motherhood. In R. Chowdhury, & L. K. Yazdanpanah (Eds.), Source details - Title: Identity, Equity and Social Justice in Asia Pacific Education (pp. 10-26). Australia: Monash University Publishing.
2017 Windle, J. A. (2017). The burdens of marketized schooling in Australia: cherry picking, poaching, and gaming the curriculum. In N. Ndimande, B. S. BS, & C. Lubienski (Eds.), Source details - Title: Privatization and the Education of Marginalized Children: Policies, Impacts and Global Lessons (pp. 161-174). UK: Routledge.
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2016 Windle, J. (2016). Poverty, illiteracy and shame on the Brazilian screen: lessons from Dona Irene. In M. Readman (Ed.), Source details - Title: Teaching and Learning on Screen: Mediated Pedagogies (pp. 219-235). UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
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2015 Windle, J. (2015). The education of refugee-background students in Australian schools. In M. Crock (Ed.), Source details - Title: Creating New Futures: Settling Children and Youth from Refugee Backgrounds (pp. 213-225). Australia: Federation Press.
2013 Windle, J., & Miller, J. (2013). Marginal integration: the reception of refugee-background students in Australian schools. In L. Bartlett, & A. Ghaffar-Kucher (Eds.), Source details - Title: Refugees Immigrants and Education in the Global South: Lives in Motion (pp. 196-210). US: Routledge.
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2011 Windle, J. (2011). What knowledge for understanding? Addressing ignorance of Islam in Australian schools. In E. Coleman, & K. White (Eds.), Source details - Title: Religious Tolerance, Education and the Curriculum (pp. 67-83). The Netherlands: SensePublishers.
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2009 Ata, A. W., & Windle, J. (2009). The role of Australian schools in educating students about Islam and Muslims: a national survey. In A. Ata (Ed.), Source details - Title: Us and Them: Muslim - Christian Relations and Cultural Harmony in Australia (pp. 81-97). Australia: Australian Academic Press.
2009 Windle, J. (2009). Influences on the written expression of bilingual students: teacher beliefs and cultural dissonance. In J. Miller, A. Kostogriz, & M. Gearon (Eds.), Source details - Title: Culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms: new dilemmas for teachers (pp. 92-109). UK: Multilingual Matters.

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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

  • Rapid Response Evidence Review – Civics and Citizenship, Department for Education, 14/04/2025 - 14/07/2025

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