Julie Faulkner

Julie Faulkner is a senior lecturer at RMIT University, Melbourne. She writes and teaches on matters of literacy, popular culture, identity and digital reading and writing practices. She has published widely on the role of Information and Communication Technologies in curriculum innovation. Along with Disrupting Pedagogies in the Knowledge Society: Countering Conservative Norms with Creative Approaches with IGI Global, she has jointly edited Learning to Teach: New Time, New Practices (Oxford University Press), currently in its second edition.

Publications

“A Genuine Moment of Liberation for Me:”: Digital Introductions as Powerful Learning
“A Genuine Moment of Liberation for Me:”: Digital Introductions as Powerful Learning
Julie Faulkner. © 2014. 13 pages.
This chapter argues that participation in a digital self-presentation has the potential to challenge inscribed approaches to learning and teaching. It draws from a study of...
Disrupting Pedagogies in the Knowledge Society: Countering Conservative Norms with Creative Approaches
Disrupting Pedagogies in the Knowledge Society: Countering Conservative Norms with Creative Approaches
Julie Faulkner. © 2012. 366 pages.
Although classrooms are thought of as places where skills are learned and knowledge gained, they are also defined by norms and the need to conform. As a result they often...
“I’m not Always Laughing at the Jokes”: Humor as a Force for Disruption
“I’m not Always Laughing at the Jokes”: Humor as a Force for Disruption
Julie Faulkner, Bronwyn T. Williams. © 2012. 14 pages.
Humor in popular culture plays with our perceptions and sense of dislocation. The inherently ambiguous logic of humor allows for multiple interpretations of social phenomena, and...
Riding Critical and Cultural Boundaries: A Multiliteracies Approach to Reading Television Sitcoms
Riding Critical and Cultural Boundaries: A Multiliteracies Approach to Reading Television Sitcoms
Julie Faulkner, Bronwyn T. Williams. © 2010. 12 pages.
This chapter explores the impact of new technologies on young peoples’ literacy practices, with a particular focus on humour as text. Acknowledging ways in which rapidly-changing...
Finding Our Way While Leading the Way
Finding Our Way While Leading the Way
Gloria Latham, Julie Faulkner. © 2010. 11 pages.
ABSTRACTThis chapter will follow two teacher educators at RMIT University in Melbourne in their quest to lead and enable others to lead as they capture and critically reflect...
Building the Virtual into Teacher Education
Building the Virtual into Teacher Education
Gloria Latham, Julie Faulkner. © 2008. 12 pages.
This chapter describes how two lecturers in teacher education (with the assistance of critical friends) developed a virtual primary school as a digital tool to help preservice...