Dr Naomi Barnes
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Teacher Education & Leadership
Biography
Dr Naomi Barnes is a Senior Lecturer interested in how crisis influences education politics. With a specific focus on moral panics, she has demonstrated how online communication has influenced education politics in Australia, the US and the UK. She has analysed and developed network models to show the effect of moral panics on the Australian curriculum and how it is taught. Naomi is also regularly asked to comment on how Australian teachers should respond to perceived threats to Australian nationalism, identity, and democracy. Naomi lectures future teachers in Modern History, Civics and Citizenship and Writing Studies. She has worked for Education Queensland as a Senior Writer and has worked as a Secondary Humanities and Social Science teacher in the government, Catholic and Independent schooling sectors.Personal details
Positions
- Senior Lecturer in Literacy
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Teacher Education & Leadership
Keywords
social media, education policy, small data, social network analysis, network ethnography, digital literacy, digital text composition, online collaboration
Research field
Sociology, Policy and Administration, Curriculum and Pedagogy
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy (Griffith University)
Teaching
Naomi received the 2019 Faculty Award for inclusive teaching EUB151 Nations and Nationalism in European History EUB451 Britain, America and Australia in the 20th Century EUB001 Grammar in the Classroom: Theories and pedagogies EUB107 Introduction to Curriculum and Pedagogy: English EUN201 Primary English Curriculum 2
Experience
Naomi was a Secondary English, History and Geography Teacher from 1997 to 2010 in Southeast and North Queensland. She has experience in the government, Catholic and Independent sectors. Naomi worked as a Head of Curriculum from 2005-2010 in all sectors and a Year Co-ordinator for three of those years. She also worked for Education Queensland on a curriculum project from 2012-2013. Naomi has a particular expertise in writing composition and political education history.
Publications
- Watson, S. & Barnes, N. (2022). Online educational populism and New Right 2.0 in Australia and England. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 20(2), 208–220. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/208182
- Barnes, N., (2022). Parents, carers, and policy labor: Policy networks and new media. New Media and Society, 24(9), 2107–2126. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/208183
- Barnes, N., (2022). The social life of literacy education: How the 2018 #phonicsdebate is reshaping the field. Australian Educational Researcher, 49(2). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/210011
- Barnes, N., Myers, M. & Knight, E. (2023). School choice to religiously discriminate: religiopolitical activism and secularism in public schooling. Journal of Educational Administration and History, 55(3). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/237923
- Barnes, N., (2020). Trace publics as a qualitative critical network tool: Exploring the dark matter in the #MeToo movement. New Media & Society, 22(7), 1305–1319. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/202733
- Barnes, N. & Bedford, A. (2021). Unlocking Social Theory with Popular Culture: Remixing Theoretical Influencers. Springer. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/213053
- Barnes, N. & English, R. (2022). Everyone has been to school so everyone has an opinion: Why memories of school matter. In K. Heggart & S. Kolber (Eds.), Empowering teachers and democratising schooling: Perspectives from Australia. Springer. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/235577
- Barnes, N., Penn-Edwards, S. & Sim, C. (2015). A dialogic about using Facebook status updates for education research: a PhD student's journey. Educational Research and Evaluation, 21(2), 109–121. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/120906
- Barnes, N., (2017). Blogging as a method of inquiry. Reconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology, 8(1), 17–26. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/120895
- Lampert, J., Burnett, B., Comber, B., Ferguson, A. & Barnes, N. (2018). Quality teaching discourses: a contested terrain. In S. Gannon, R. Hattam & W. Sawyer (Eds.), Resisting educational inequality: Reframing policy and practice in schools serving vulnerable communities (pp. 150–158). Routledge. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/120904
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Naomi, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Supervision
Current supervisions
- Emergency Remote Learning (ERL) in Australian Higher Education: The Experience of International Students From Malay-Speaking Countries
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Kate Thompson - Professional, Public or Private: Policy and Teacher Identity on Social Networking Sites
Professional Doctorate, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Radha Iyer