Adjunct Professor
Bruce Burnett
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Teacher Education & Leadership
Biography
My background is originally in primary education, then as an outdoor educator with Outward Bound and I later spent over ten years across various educational school and university settings in Japan. I have taught and researched in the area of sociology of education with a strong focus on teacher education targeting disadvantage, Blended Learning and Work Integrated Learning. My other research interests include the impact of ethnicity and technology on schooling, Australian multicultural policy and Japanese Education.
In 2008, together with Dr. Jo Lampert, I co-developed the Exceptional Teachers for Disadvantaged Schools program (ETDS) which created a pathway for high quality pre-service teachers to be better prepared for teaching roles within low SES schools. The program identifies the highest-achieving pre-service teachers in our Bachelor of Education program (based on their first 2 years at university), and offers them a specialised curriculum and supported practicum experience in a network of partner schools. By working closely with Education Queensland and partner low SES schools, the program channels these exceptional pre-service teachers into those low SES schools where they will have the greatest impact.
In 2013, the ETDS was expanded with the support of the Origin Foundation and Social Ventures Australia. I am currently co-director of the National ETDS (NETDS) program that is sharing and expanding the model with universities across Australia, working together to develop a national resource of highly-qualified teachers committed to and prepared for changing outcomes for disadvantaged children and youth.
Personal details
Positions
- Adjunct Professor
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Teacher Education & Leadership
Keywords
High Poverty Schooling, Teacher education for high poverty settings, Low SES schooling, Teacher staffing and redistribution, Social Justice, Sociology of Education
Research field
Education Systems, Other Education, Specialist Studies in Education
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- PhD (Deakin University)
- MEd (Deakin University)
- BEd (Deakin University)
- Dip Teach (Brisbane College of Adv. Ed.)
Professional memberships and associations
- Editorial Board member of the Journal Electronic Journal of Japanese Studies (2001-2009).
- Advisory Board member of Journal Inter-Cultural Studies (2002-2009).
- Advisory Editor for the international series Eruptions: New Thinking Across the Disciplines, New York: Peter Lang Publishing (1999 -2009).
- Editor and Editorial Board Member of the Journal Perspectives on Educational Leadership (1999-2004), Australian Council for Educational Leaders.
Teaching
Publications
- Lampert, J. & Burnett, B. (2016). Teacher education for high poverty schools [Education, Equity, Economy, Volume 2]. Springer International Publishing. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/89246
- Burnett, B. & Lampert, J. (2016). Teacher education for high-poverty schools in Australia: The National Exceptional Teachers for Disadvantaged Schools Program. In J. Lampert & B. Burnett (Eds.), Teacher education for high poverty schools [Education, Equity, Economy, Volume 2] (pp. 73–94). Springer International Publishing. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/89248
- Burnett, B. & Lampert, J. (2016). Re-thinking teacher quality in high-poverty schools in Australia. In WT. Pink & GW. Noblit (Eds.), Education, equity, economy: Crafting a new intersection [Education, Equity, Economy, Volume 1] (pp. 51–72). Springer. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/91135
- Burnett, B. & McArdle, F. (2011). Multiculturalism, education for sustainable development (ESD) and the shifting discursive landscape of social inclusion. Discourse, 32(1), 43–56. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/46402
- Burnett, B., Lampert, J. & Crilly, K. (2013). 'I can't believe I just said that': Using guided reflections with non-Indigenous pre-service teachers in Australia. International Education Journal, 12(1), 161–179. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/66872
- Birch, D. & Burnett, B. (2009). Bringing academics on board: encouraging institution-wide diffusion of e-learning environments. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 25(1), 117–134. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/28203
- Lampert, J., Burnett, B. & Davie, S. (2012). Preparing high achieving English teachers to work in disadvantaged schools: 'I'll teach Shakespeare when I'm 60'. English in Australia, 47(3), 69–77. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/57292
- Lampert, J., Burnett, B., Martin, R. & McCrea, L. (2014). Lessons from a face-to-face meeting on embedding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives: 'A contract of intimacy'. Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 39(1), 82–88. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/70148
- Dawson, S., Burnett, B. & O'Donohue, M. (2006). Learning Communities: An Untapped Sustainable Competitive Advantage for Higher Education. International Journal of Educational Management, 20(2), 127–139. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/12344
- Burnett, B., (2003). Theorising of the Other Talking Back. Narrative Inquiry, 13(2), 433–457. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/7378
QUT ePrints
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