Griffith University

Research Fellow, Griffith Institute for Educational Research
Contact details for Dr Amanda Keddie

Research expertise

• Addressing issues of gender in schools
• Social justice, inclusivity and transformative pedagogy
• Gender and constructions of culture, ethnicity and religion
• Feminist theory and ethnographic enquiry
• Globalisation, international politics and issues of equity
  

Publications

Books

• Churchill, R., Ferguson, P., Godinho, S., Johnson, N., Keddie, A., Letts, W., Mackay, J., McGill, M., Moss, J., Nagel, M., Nicholson, P, & Vick, M. (2010). Teaching: Making a Difference, Milton, John Wiley & Sons Australia.
  
• Keddie, A. & Mills, M. (2007). Teaching boys: classroom practices that work, Crows Nest, Allen & Unwin.

Journal articles

• Mills, M. & Keddie, A. (in press). Gender justice and education: resentment, neo-liberalism and security, Educational Review.
• Keddie, A., Mills, M. & Pendergast, D (in press). Performing schooling as ‘number one’: fabrication, resistance and de-socialisation, Oxford Review of Education.
• Keddie, A. (in press). ‘Much more than a basic education’: Supporting self-determination and cultural integrity in a non-mainstream school for Indigenous girls, International Journal of Inclusive Education.
• Keddie, A. (in press). Framing discourses of possibility and constraint in the empowerment of Muslim girls: issues of religion, race, ethnicity and culture, Race, Ethnicity and Education.
• Mills, M. & Keddie, A. (in press, 2010). Cultural reductionism and the media: polarising discourses around schools, violence and masculinity in an age of terror, Oxford Review of Education.
• Keddie, A. (2010). Neoliberalism and new configurations of global space: possibilities and problematics for gender justice, Journal of Gender Studies, 19(2), 139-151.
• Keddie, A. (2010, i-First). Supporting minority women and girls: Key frames of reference and understandings for educators, British Educational Research Journal (i-First version).
• Keddie, A. (2010 i-First). Feminist struggles to mobilise progressive spaces within the ‘boy-turn’ in gender equity and schooling reform, Gender & Education (i-First version).
• Mills, M., Goos, M., Keddie, A. et al. (2009). Productive Pedagogies: A redefined methodology for analysing quality teacher practice, Australian Educational Researcher, 36(3).
• Keddie, A. (2009). Giving Muslim girls ‘a voice’: the possibilities and limits to challenging patriarchal interpretations of Islam in one English community, Pedagogy, Culture & Society, 17(3), 265-278.
• Keddie, A. & Mills, M. (2009). Disrupting masculinised spaces: teachers working for gender justice, Research Papers in Education, 24(1), 29-43.
  
• Keddie, A. (2009). ‘Some of those girls can be real drama queens’: issues of gender, sexual harassment and schooling, Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 9(1), 1-16.
  
• Keddie, A. (2008). Gender justice and the citizenship curriculum: a consideration of post September 11 national imperatives and issues of ‘Britishness’, International Journal of Educational Reform, 17(1), 3-18.
  
• Keddie, A. (2008). Conceptual shifts and empirical insights: towards an education for global gender justice, Discourse: studies in the cultural politics of education, 29(4), 541-553.
• Keddie, A. (2008). Teacher stories of collusion and transformation: a feminist pedagogical framework for cultural gender justice, Journal of Education Policy, 23(4), 343-357.
• Keddie, A. (2008). Playing the game: critical literacy, gender justice and issues of masculinity. Gender and Education, 20(6), 571-583.
• Keddie, A. (2008). Engaging the ‘maximal’ intentions of the Citizenship Curriculum: one teacher’s story, Cambridge Journal of Education. 38(2), 171-185.
• Keddie, A., Mills, C. & Mills, M. (2008). Struggles to subvert the gendered field: Issues of masculinity, rurality and class, Pedagogy, Culture & Society. 16(3), 193-205.
• Keddie, A. & Mills, M. (2007). Teaching for gender justice: Quality pedagogies, gender knowledges and critically reflective practice. Australian Journal of Education. 51(2), 205-219.
• Mills, M. & Keddie, A. (2007). Boys, Productive Pedagogies and Social Justice, International Journal of Inclusive Education. 11(3), pp. 335-354.
• Keddie, A. (2007). Games of subversion and sabotage: issues of power, masculinity, class, rurality and schooling. British Journal of Sociology of Education. 28(2), pp. 181-194.
• Keddie, A. (2007). Issues of power, masculinity and gender justice: Sally’s story of teaching boys. Discourse: studies in the cultural politics of education. 28(1), pp. 21-35.
• Nayler, J. & Keddie, A. (2007). Pedagogies of social justice: enabling the spaces. International Journal of Inclusive Education. 11(2), pp. 199-214.
• Keddie, A. & Nayler, J. (2006). Pedagogy as discursive practice: enabling spaces for social justice. Curriculum Perspectives. 26(3), pp. 1-10.
• Keddie, A. (2006). Gender and schooling: Frameworks for transformative social justice. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. 27(3), pp. 399-415.
• Keddie, A. (2006). Fighting, frustration, anger and tears: Matthew’s story of hegemonic masculinity, Oxford Review of Education. 32(4), pp. 521-534.
• Keddie, A. (2006). Negotiating and enabling spaces for gender justice. Issues in Educational Research. 16(1), pp.21-37.
• Keddie, A. (2006). Pedagogies and critical reflection: key understandings for transformative gender justice. Gender and Education. 18(1), pp. 99-114.
• Keddie, A. (2005). A framework for gender justice: evaluating the transformative capacities of three key Australian schooling initiatives. Australian Educational Researcher. 32(3), pp. 83-102.
• Keddie, A. (2005). The social and emotional struggles of being a 12 year-old boy: Matthew’s story of masculinity, Curriculum Perspectives. 25(3), pp. 15-25.
• Keddie, A. (2005). On Fighting and Football: Gender Justice and Identity Construction. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. 18(4), pp.425-444.
• Keddie, A. (2005). A framework for best practice in boys’ education: key requisite knowledges and Productive Pedagogies. Pedagogy, Culture and Society. 13(1), pp.59-74.
• Keddie, A. (2004). Working with boys’ peer cultures: Productive Pedagogies… Productive Boys. Curriculum Perspectives. 24 (1), pp.20-29.
• Keddie, A. & Churchill, R. (2004). Power, control and authority: issues at the centre of boys’ relationships with their teachers. Queensland Journal of Teacher Education. 19(1), pp. 13-27.
• Keddie, A. (2004). Research with young children: the use of an affinity group method to explore the dynamics, relevances, complexities and subtleties of peer culture. British Journal of Sociology of Education. 25(1), pp. 35-52.
• Hickey, C. & Keddie, A. (2004). Peer groups, power and pedagogy: The limits to an educational paradigm of separation. Australian Educational Researcher. 31(1), pp. 57-79.
• Keddie, A. (2003). Little boys: Tomorrow’s macho lads. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. 24(3), pp. 289-306.
• Keddie, A. (2003). Boys’ investments in football culture: challenging gendered and homophobic understandings. Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies. 7(1&2), pp. 72-89.
• Keddie, A. (2003). On leadership and fitting in: Dominant understandings of masculinities within an early primary peer group. Australian Educational Researcher. 30(1) pp.83-100.

Book chapters

• Keddie, A. & Churchill, R. (2010). Pedagogies of social support: teacher-student relationships and issues of masculinity, In D. Pendergast and N. Bahr. Teaching Middle Years (2nd edition). Allen & Unwin.
• Keddie, A. (2009). Achievement, engagement and wellbeing: major issues, In J. Nayler, Evaluating for engagement: enhancing learning in the middle years, ACSA (pp. 5-12).
• Keddie, A. & Mills, M. (2009). Globalisation, gender justice and education: contemporary issues and debates. In W. Ayers, T. Quinn  & D. Stovall (Eds) Handbook of Social Justice in Education, Lawrence Erlbaum.
• Keddie, A. & Churchill, R. (2005). Teacher-student Relationships: Issues of Power, Authority and Agency. In D. Pendergast and N. Bahr. Teaching Middle Years. Allen & Unwin.
• Keddie, A. (2002). Understanding Masculinities. In J. Austin (Ed). Culture & Identity. Australia: Pearson Education (pp. 64-78).

Reports

• Keddie, A. (2009). Awe-some women: Leading Social Change, Project Evaluation presented to the Association of Women Educators.
  
• Keddie, A. (2008). An analysis of gender equity and schooling policy in Australia: beyond affirmative binary politics, Australian Education Union, Southbank, Victoria: AEU.
• Mills, M., Goos, M., Keddie, A., et al. (2008). The Longitudinal Study of Teaching and Learning, Brisbane, Education Queensland.
• Goos, M., Mills, M., Gilbert, R., Gowlett, C., Wright. T., Renshaw, P., Pendergast, D., Nichols, K., McGregor, G., Khan, A., Keddie, A., & Honan, E.  (2008) Queensland Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting (QCAR) Framework Evaluation Project (Phase 1), Department of Education, Training and the Arts, Brisbane.

Conference papers

• Keddie, A. (2009). Supporting minority women and girls: key understandings for Western feminist educators. Paper presented at the annual AARE Conference, Canberra, Australia.
• Keddie, A. (2009). An analysis of gender equity and schooling policy in Australia: beyond affirmative binary politics, Commissioned paper presented to the AEU Federal Women’s Conference, Melbourne (October, 2009).
• Keddie, A. (2009). Australian feminist educators working ‘within and against’ the ‘boy-turn’ in gender equity and schooling agendas: possibilities and constraints, Paper presented at the biannual Gender and Education Conference, Institute of Education, London, England. 
  
• Keddie, A. (2008). Issues of feminism, Islam, race, ethnicity and culture: stories from the UK. Paper presented at the annual AARE Conference, Queensland University of Technology, Queensland, Australia.
• Gilbert, R., Keddie, A. & Mills, M. (2008). Teachers’ views of assessment and accountability, Paper for the Annual Conference of the British Educational Research Association, Edinburgh.
• Keddie, A. & Mills, M. (2007). Gender justice and education. Paper presented at the AERA Annual Meeting and Exhibition, Chicago.
• Mills, M. & Keddie, A. (2006). Gender justice and education: resentment, neo-liberalism and security. Paper presented at the annual AARE Conference, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia.
• Keddie, A. & Mills, M. (2005). Teachers on teaching boys: Gender knowledges, pedagogies and critically reflective practice. Paper presented at the annual AARE Conference, University of Western Sydney, Parramatta, Australia.
• Mills, M. & Keddie, A. (2005). Boys, Productive Pedagogies and Social Justice. Paper presented at the annual AARE Conference, University of Western Sydney, Parramatta, Australia.
• Keddie, A. (2004). Gender justice pathways for the future.  Paper presented at the Association of Women Educator’s Conference, Melbourne, Australia.
• Keddie, A. (2004). Productive Pedagogies: key understandings for enabling gender justice.  Paper presented at the Association of Women Educator’s Conference, Melbourne, Australia.
• Keddie, A. (2003). Relationship issues at the centre of boys’ experiences of schooling: conditions for facilitating ‘best practice’.  Paper presented at The First International Conference on Pedagogies and Learning, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba.