Dr James Davis
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Teacher Education & Leadership
Biography
Dr James Davis is a Senior Lecturer (STEM and Entrepreneurial Education), and Academic Lead Engagement (Domestic) in the School of Teacher Education and Leadership.James has taught across science curriculum and pedagogy; foundations of science; integrated STEM; emotions in teaching and learning; and teacher leadership and entrepreneurial thinking. His research interests focus on enacted pedagogy and the emotive-cognitive interplay in student engagement and learning, using authentic, event-orientated and multi-logical research strategies. James completed his PhD in 2016, entitled A Study of the Emotional Essence of Analogical Reasoning in Secondary School Science. He is a contributing author to the Springer volume Exploring Emotions, Aesthetics and Wellbeing in Science Education Research. He has also contributed several chapters to a Brill volume Eventful Learning: Learner Emotions and a Routledge volume Emotions in Late Modernity. One of his most recent publications Objectivity, Subjectivity and Emotion in School Science Inquiry was published in the Journal of Research in Science Teaching (JRST). In 2019, James was lead author on a paper in Cultural Studies of Science Education (CSSE) that described an intensity model of emotional energy. In late 2019 he initiated and led a study of emotional energy in a Shanghai primary school STEM program as a collaborative project with Shanghai Normal University. James leads an emergent research program with a focus on entrepreneurial STEM education. He serves as an Associate Editor for Research in Science Education (RISE).
Personal details
Positions
- Senior Lecturer
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Teacher Education & Leadership
Keywords
STEM Pedagogy, Science Inquiry, Socio-scientific Issues, Entrepreneurship Education, Emotions and Cognition in Learning, Relationships and Wellness in Teaching and Learning, Microsociology, Ethnomethodology, Qualitative Research, Entrepreneurial Thinking
Discipline
Curriculum and Pedagogy, Specialist Studies in Education
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- PhD (Queensland University of Technology)
- Graduate Diploma Education (Queensland University of Technology)
- BNurs (Hons) (Queensland University of Technology)
- BCom (University of New South Wales)
Professional memberships and associations
Queensland College of Teachers; Senior Fellow, Higher Education Academy; Australasian Science Education Research Association; National Association for Research in Science Teaching; Graduate Member, Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Teaching
James is currently unit coordinator for:
- EUB154 - Foundations of Science
- EUB010 - Real World STEM Education
- EUB452 - STEM Investigation Project
- EUB009 - Teachers as Leaders and Entrepreneurial Thinkers
- EUN110 - Teachers as Leaders and Entrepreneurial Thinkers,
- Professional Development: A Future Learn MOOC: Teaching Entrepreneurial Thinking
- Professional Development: Innovative Thinking for Teachers and School Leaders
Teaching Awards
- 2019 - Faculty of Education Evidence Based Practice Award
- 2018 - Faculty of Education Real World Teaching Award
Experience
- Australian-ASEAN Council grant delivering research training to academics in Cambodia: Research Design through a Social Inclusion Lens, in collaboration with Tetra Tech & DFAT. 2021-2022.
- Associate Editor to Research in Science Education, published by Springer in collaboration with the Australasian Science Education Research Association (ASERA).
- Faculty of Education, Entrepreneurship Leader, embedding entrepreneurial mindset into preservice teacher education, establishing research opportunities, and engaging with Queensland’s startup community. 2017-2020.
- Leadership of entrepreneurship and innovation professional development programs for teachers, including a MOOC https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/teaching-entrepreneurial-thinking
- Non-Executive Director for Kairos Community College, an Independent Special Assistance School supporting young people's learning in Deception Bay and Caloundra.
- Mentor and lead to an international Doctoral Forum between QUT, Beijing Normal University and University of Calgary.
Selected publications
- Davis J, (2022) Creating Values: the Entrepreneurial-Science Education Nexus, Research in Science Education.
- Lyu Q, Chiang F, Davis J, (2022) Primary and Middle School Teacher Experiences of Integrated STEM Education in China: Challenges and Opportunities, International Journal of Engineering Education, 38 (2), pp. 491-504.
- Davis J, Bellocchi A, (2020) Gamification of SSI's as a science pedagogy: Toward a critical rationality in teaching science. In M Evagorou, JA Nielsen & J Dillon, Science Teacher Education for Responsible Citizenship: Towards a Pedagogy for Relevance through Socioscientific Issues, Springer, pp. 101-116.
- Zhou D, Gomez R, Wright N, Rittenbruch M, Davis J, (2022) A design-led conceptual framework for developing school integrated STEM programs: The Australian context, International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 32 (1), pp. 383-411.
- Davis J, Bellocchi A, (2020) Intensity of emotional energy in situated cultural practices of science education, Cultural Studies of Science Education, 15 (2).
- Davis J, Du J, Tang J, Qiao L, Liu Y, Chiang F, (2020) Uniformity, diversity, harmony, and emotional energy in a Chinese STEM classroom, International Journal of STEM Education, 7 (1).
- Davis J, (2019) Preservice teacher learning experiences of entrepreneurial thinking in a STEM investigation, Entrepreneurship Education, 2 (1-2), pp. 1-17.
- Bellocchi A, Davis J, Olson R, Appanna S, (2019) Understanding social bonds during science inquiry using V-Note software, Cultural Studies of Science Education, 14 (3), pp. 769-796.
- Davis J, Bellocchi A, (2018) Objectivity, subjectivity, and emotion in school science inquiry, Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 55 (10), pp. 1419-1447.
- Davis J, (2017) Emotions, social beings, and ethnomethods: understanding analogical reasoning in everyday science classrooms. In C Quigley, A Bellocchi & K Otrel-Cass, Exploring emotions, aesthetics and wellbeing in science education research (Cultural Studies of Science Education, Volume 13), Springer, pp. 121-140.
QUT ePrints
For more publications by James, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Supervision
Current supervisions
- Understanding student emotion to enhance science inquiry teaching practices
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Alberto Bellocchi - Entrepreneurial Learning in Business Incubators & Accelerators
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Adjunct Professor Martin Obschonka, Dr Colin Jones - nvestigating social bonding dynamics across three levels of social reality in a Brazilian science classroom
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Alberto Bellocchi - UNDERSTANDING STUDENTS'S SOCIAL BONDS AND METACOGNITION AS CONTEMPORANEOUS PHENOMENA IN MIDDLE SCHOOL SCIENCE
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Alberto Bellocchi - A Study of Bhutanese 10th Grade Physics Students' Emotions and Social Bonds During Transformative Pedagogy
Professional Doctorate, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Alberto Bellocchi - Secondary school leadership in disrupting times: the role of entrepreneurship in leading contemporary learning organisations
Professional Doctorate, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Chris Blundell, Professor Hitendra Pillay - Exploring the conception of Nature of Science among Pre-Service Science Teachers in Bhutan
Professional Doctorate, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Alberto Bellocchi - From creative thinking to enterprising creativity: Experiences of Australian entrepreneurial education teachers
MPhil, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Hitendra Pillay, Adjunct Professor Martin Obschonka