Assoc Prof Robyn Henderson

Fields of Research (FoR)

• Specialist Studies in Education ( 130300 )
  

• Education Systems ( 130100 )
  

• English and Literacy Curriculum and Pedagogy (excl. LOTE, ESL and TESOL) ( 130204 )
  

Research interests
Literacies, literacies learning and literacy pedagogy - early childhood, primary, middle and secondary years
Mobility and its relationship to learning, especially literacies learning
Multiliteracies
Academic literacy
Diversity, social justice, disadvantage
Critical Discourse Analysis
Induction and professional learning
Transition into university

Professional memberships
Principal Fellow and Publications Director of the Australian Literacy Educators' Association (ALEA)
A convenor of Network 14 (Communities, Family and Schooling) of the European Educational Research Association (EERA)
Member of the Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE)
Member of the International Literacy Association (ILA)
Member of the Primary English Teaching Association Australia (PETAA)

Industry affiliations
Registered teacher, Queensland College of Teachers
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the journal, Literacy Learning: the Middle Years
Member of the Editorial Review Board for the Australian Journal of Language and Literacy
Member of the Editorial Review Board for the International Journal of Education and Development using ICT

Teaching experience(Tertiary)
18 Years

Teaching experience(Other)
25 Years

Research most recent
Henderson, R. (Ed.). (2018). Teaching literacies: Pedagogies and diversity (2nd ed.). South Melbourne, Vic.: Oxford University Press.

Redmond, P., Heffernan, A., Abawi, L.-A., Brown, A., & Henderson, R. (2018). An online engagement framework for higher education. Online Learning Journal. Available from https://olj.onlinelearningconsortium.org/index.php/olj/article/view/1175

Henderson, R. (2017). Building a sense of community belonging: Making mobile families welcome in a rural Australian school. Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 27(2), 18–30.

Research most notable
Henderson, R. (Ed.). (2018). Teaching literacies: Pedagogies and diversity (2nd ed.). South Melbourne, Vic.: Oxford University Press.

Henderson, R., & Gouwens, J. A. (2017). Migrant mothers becoming active agents in a US Midwestern context: Building strengths by breaking down the outside-inside barrier. Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 27(2), 136–148.

Hickey, A., & Henderson, R. (2017). Testimonio and the Idios Kosmos of the contemporary academic. In S. Riddle, M. Harmes, & P. Danaher (Eds.), Producing pleasure within the contemporary university (pp. 157–169). Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense.

Henderson, R., & Woods, A. (2016). Exploring literate lives: Returning to the field. Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 47(2), 203-212. doi: 10.1111/aeq.12149

Henderson, R. (2015). Two conversations at once: Making sense of classroom observations. English in Australia, 50(3), 45–49.

Henderson, R. (2014). Writers' journeys: Ways of being, knowing and doing. In J. K. Jones (Ed.), Weaving words: Personal and professional transformation through writing (pp. 159-170). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Henderson, R., & Danaher, P. A. (2012). Moving with the times: Pedagogies for mobile students. In C. Day (Ed.), International handbook: Teacher and school development (pp. 360-371). New York: Routledge.

Henderson, R., & Gouwens, J. A. (2013). Mobile farmworker families using cocoon communities to negotiate multiple lifeworlds. In M. Korpela & F. Dervin (Eds.), "Cocoon communities": Togetherness in the 21st century (pp. 105-121). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Henderson, R., & Lennon, S. (2014). A conversation about research as risky business: Making visible the invisible in rural research locations. In S. White & M. Corbett (Eds.), Doing educational research in rural settings: Methodological issues, international perspectives and practical solutions (pp. 119-134). London: Routledge.

Publications in ePrints

Redmond, Petrea and Abawi, Lindy and Brown, Alice and Henderson, Robyn and Heffernan, Amanda (2018) An online engagement framework for higher education. Online Learning Journal, 22 (1). pp. 183-204. ISSN 2472-5730

Henderson, Robyn and Bean, Wendy and Turner, Carmel and Batt, Jantlena (2018) Reading Australia and Magabala Books: high quality literature and teaching units. Practical Literacy: the Early and Primary Years, 23 (2). pp. 4-7. ISSN 2204-3667

Henderson, Robyn and Bean, Wendy and Chaffey, Kay and White, Bev (2018) Teaching units on Magabala Books: useful resources from Reading Australia's website. Literacy Learning: the Middle Years, 26 (2). pp. 50-54. ISSN 1320-5692

Henderson, Robyn (2017) Building a sense of community belonging: making mobile families welcome in a rural Australian school. Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 27 (2). pp. 18-30. ISSN 1036-0026

Henderson, Robyn and Lucio, Joana (2017) Editorial: rural schools as hubs for the socio-educational development of communities. Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 27 (2). pp. 1-5. ISSN 1036-0026

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Approved research supervisor in the area of:

• English and Literacy Curriculum and Pedagogy (excl. LOTE, ESL and TESOL) ( 130204 )