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
- Chief Investigator, Program Co-leader Engagement and Learning, QUT Centre for Inclusive Education
James has taught across science curriculum and pedagogy; foundations of science; integrated STEM; emotions in teaching and learning; and teacher leadership and entrepreneurial thinking. James is Chief Investigator and Co-leader of the Engagement and Learning Program in the Centre for Inclusive Education. His research interests focus on enacted pedagogy and the emotive-cognitive interplay in student engagement and learning, via micro-sociology, phenomenology, and ethnomethodology. His research frames classroom learning practices as situated, bodily performances through which students experience individual and collective emotions and emotional energy. 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. 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)
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:
Teaching Awards
- 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
My experience in education research focuses on qualitative methodologies involving micro-sociology, ethnomethodology, phenomenology, discourse analysis, and social psychology/facial action coding. Research topic areas of interest include science pedagogy, technology in teaching and learning, alternative reality gaming, socio-scientific issues, science inquiry, STEM investigations and pedagogy, and applications of entrepreneurial thinking as a pedagogical strategy in school contexts. I have a particular interest in researching these topics across Australian-East Asian educational contexts.
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Publications
- 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 p101
- Zhou D, Gomez R, Wright N, Rittenbruch M, Davis J, (2020) A design-led conceptual framework for developing school integrated STEM programs: The Australian context, International Journal of Technology and Design Education, () p
- Davis J, Bellocchi A, (2020) Intensity of emotional energy in situated cultural practices of science education, Cultural Studies of Science Education, 15 (2) p
- 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) p
- Davis J, Chandra V, Bellocchi A, (2019) Integrated STEM in initial teacher education: Tackling diverse epistemologies. In P Sengupta, MC Shanahan & B Kim, Critical, Transdisciplinary and Embodied Approaches in STEM Education, Springer p23
- Davis J, Bellocchi A, (2019) Undramatic emotions in learning: A sociological model. In RPatulny&ABellocchi&R EOlson&SKhorana&JMcKenzie&MPeterie, Emotions in late modernity, Routledge p114
- Davis J, (2019) Preservice teacher learning experiences of entrepreneurial thinking in a STEM investigation, Entrepreneurship Education, 2 (1-2) p1
- 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) p769
- Davis J, Bellocchi A, (2018) Objectivity, subjectivity, and emotion in school science inquiry, Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 55 (10) p1419
- Davis J, (2017) Emotions, social beings, and ethnomethods: understanding analogical reasoning in everyday science classrooms. In CQuigley&ABellocchi&KOtrel-Cass, Exploring emotions, aesthetics and wellbeing in science education research (Cultural Studies of Science Education, Volume 13), Springer p121
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: 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 - Emotional experiences of grade IX students in a Physics class in Bhutan
Professional Doctorate, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Alberto Bellocchi - A study of teaching methods in Entrepreneurship-Enterprise Education for rural secondary students
Professional Doctorate, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Vinesh Chandra, Dr Chris Blundell - 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, Professor Martin Obschonka