Doctor Megan Watkins
SENIOR LECTURER,
Early Childhood Education (SoE)
Personal
Qualifications
- MAppLing Macquarie University
- BA Macquarie University
- DipEd Macquarie University
- PhD University of Western Sydney,Nepean
UWS Organisational Unit (School / Division)
- Early Childhood Education (SoE)
Contact
| Email: | M.Watkins@uws.edu.au |
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| Extension: | 6208 9600 |
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| Location: | 1.1.189 BankstownEM.G.05E Parramatta |
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Biography
Dr Megan Watkins is Senior Lecturer in the School of Education and a core member of the Centre for Cultural Research (CCR). Her research interests lie in the cultural analysis of education and the formation of human subjectivities. In particular, her work engages with issues of pedagogy, embodiment, discipline and affect and the interrelation of these to human agency. These interests mesh with her exploration of the impact of cultural diversity on education and the ways in which different cultural practices can engender divergent habits and dispositions to learning. Megan also has extensive experience as a literacy educator, conducting pioneering work in the field of genre-based approaches to teaching writing and post-progressivist pedagogies. She is a recipient of two Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkages grants: Rethinking Multiculturalism/ Reassessing Multicultural Education and Discipline and Diversity: Cultural Practices and Dispositions of Learning. She has worked in a consultancy capacity for the New South Wales Department of Education and Training and the Australian Curriculum Corporation. Megan is the Higher Degree Research (HDR) Coordinator at the CCR, responsible for HDR training for the PhD and Doctor of Cultural Research (DCR) programs.
This information has been contributed by Doctor Watkins.
Publications
Books
- Watkins, M. (2011), 'Discipline and Learn: Bodies, Pedagogy and Writing', : Sense Publishers 9789460916977.
- Watkins, M. and Knapp, P. (2005), 'Genre, Text and Grammar: Technologies for teaching and assessing writing', : UNSW Press 0868406473.
Chapters in Books
- Watkins, M. (2010), 'Discipline Diversity and Agency: Pedagogic Practice and Dispositions to Learning', Re-Theorising Discipline in Education: Problems Politics and Possibilities, Peter Lang 9781433109669.
- Watkins, M. (2010), 'Desiring Recognition, Accumulating Affect', The Affect Theory Reader, Duke University Press 9780822347583.
- Watkins, M. and Noble, G. (2010), 'The productivity of stillness: composure and the scholarly habitus', Stillness in a Mobile World, Routledge 9780415572620.
- Watkins, M. (2009), 'Deleuze, Habit and the Literate Body', Multiple Literacies Theory: A Deleuzian Perspective, Sense Publishers 9789087909093.
Journal Articles
- Watkins, M. (2011), 'Teachers' tears and the affective geography of the classroom', Emotion, Space and Society, 7.
- Watkins, M. (2011), 'Complexity Reduction, Regularities and Rules: Grappling with Cultural Diversity in Schooling.', Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 16.
- Watkins, M. and Noble, G. (2011), 'Losing touch: Pedagogies of incorporation and the ability to write', Social Semiotics, 14.
- Noble, G. and Watkins, M. (2009), 'On the Arts of Stillness: Towards a Pedagogy of Composure', Media / Culture, .
- Watkins, M. (2008), 'Teaching bodies/learning desire: rethinking the role of desire in the pedagogic process', Pedagogy, Culture & Society, a journal of educational discussion and debate, 12.
- Watkins, M. (2007), 'Book Review: Critical Theory and Critical Pedagogy Today: Toward a New Critical Language in Education by Illan Gur Ze'ev (ed.) Haifa: University of Haifa Press, 2005', Theory Culture and Society, 7.
- Watkins, M. (2007), 'Disparate bodies: the role of the teacher in contemporary pedagogic practice', British Journal of Sociology of Education, 15.
- Watkins, M. (2007), 'Thwarting desire : discursive constraint and pedagogic practice', International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 18.
- Watkins, M. (2006), 'Pedagogic Affect/Effect: Embodying a Desire to Learn', Pedagogies: An International Journal, 14.
- Watkins, M. (2005), 'No Body, Never Mind : Interest, Affect and Classroom Practice', M - C Journal, .
- Watkins, M. (2005), 'Discipline, Consciousness and the Formation of a Scholarly Habitus', Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 13.
- Watkins, M. (2005), 'The Erasure of Habit: Tracing the pedagogic body', Discourse: studies in the cultural politics of education, 15.
- Watkins, M. and Noble, G. (2003), 'So, how did Bourdieu Learn to Play Tennis? Habitus, Consciousness and Habituation', Cultural Studies, 19.
Conference Papers
- Watkins, M. (2004), 'Losaing the Habit: A Genealogy of the Literate Body', UWS Education Research Conference (re) visioning education 2003, UWS, Parramatta Campus.
Research
Current Projects
| Title: | Rethinking Multiculturalism/Reassessing Multicultural Education |
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| Years: | 2011-03-21 - 2015-03-20 |
| ID: | P00017819 |
| UWS Researchers: | Megan Watkins, Gregory Noble and Kevin Dunn |
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Previous Projects
| Title: | Questions of Desire and Subjectivities of Teaching |
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| Years: | 2004-01-20 - 2005-06-30 |
| ID: | P0010270 |
| UWS Researchers: | Megan Watkins |
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| Title: | Discipline and Diversity: Cultural Practices and Dispositions of Learning |
| Years: | 2005-11-30 - 2008-06-30 |
| ID: | P0014558 |
| UWS Researchers: | Gregory Noble and Megan Watkins |
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| Title: | Reassessing Multicultural Education Pilot Project |
| Years: | 2008-06-12 - 2011-12-31 |
| ID: | P00016217 |
| UWS Researchers: | Megan Watkins and Gregory Noble |
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