Cert Teaching, B Arts, Grad Dip Psychology, M Arts, PhD
Lecturer, School of Education and Professional Studies
Research expertise
Brendan researches, theorises and teaches about what happens when children and adults come to search out the major beam in the organisational structure of their communicational worlds. This work has direct application in literacy and its development, in classroom and workplace communication and in personal and social well-being.Current research project
- ARC Linkage - Bartlett, B. J. (2007-2010). Reconnecting Disaffected Youth through Successful Transition to Work.
- ARC Discovery DP110104289 (Clarence Ng, Claire Wyatt-Smith, Brendan Bartlett). Improving disadvantaged students' reading outcomes through overcoming reading avoidance and building reading engagement. (2011-2014).
- Early literacy and Boys literacy education.
Current teaching areas
- English Education 2
- Foundations of Literacy and Numeracy
- English Education 1
- Educational Psychology
- Program Coordination - BA (International)
- Program Coordination - BA in Education
Publications
Books
- Snowman, J., Biehhler, R., Dobozy, E., Scevak, J., Bryer, F. & Bartlett, B. J. (2008). Psychology Applied to Teaching. 1st Australian edition. John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd.
- Piggot-Irvine, E. & Bartlett, B. J. (Eds.) (2008). Evaluating Action Research. New Zealand Research Council: Auckland. NZ.
- Meyer, B. J. F., Young, C. J. & Bartlett, B. J. (1989). Memory Improved: Reading and Memory Enhancement across the Lifespan. Hillsdale. NJ: Lawrence Earlbaum Associates.
- Bartlett, B. J., Barton, B. & Turner, A. (1989). Knowing What and Knowing How: Book 1 (Lower School). Melbourne: Nelson Educational.
- Bartlett, B. J., Barton, B. & Turner, A. (1988). Knowing What and Knowing How: Book 2 (Middle School). Melbourne: Nelson Educational.
- Bartlett, B. J., Barton, B. & Turner, A. (1987). Knowing What and Knowing How: Book 3 (Upper School). Melbourne: Nelson Educational.
Book chapters
- Bartlett, B. J. & Elliott, S, N. (2008). The Contributions of Educational Psychology to School Psychology. In T. B. Gutkin & C. R. Reynolds (Eds.), The Handbook of School Psychology (6thed.). Lawrence Erlbaum and Associates: Mahwah, New Jersey.
- Bartlett, B. J. (2008). I've Been Workin on the Railroad: Action Research in Changing Workplace Climate. In E. Piggot-Irvine, & B. J. Bartlett, (Eds.). Evaluating Action Research. New Zealand Research Council: Auckland. NZ.
- Bartlett, B. J. & Piggot-Irvine, E. (2008). What Is Evaluating Action Research? In E. Piggot-Irvine, & B. J. Bartlett, (Eds.). Evaluating Action Research. New Zealand Research Council: Auckland. NZ.
- Bridges, S. & Bartlett, B. J. (in press). Moving teachers, public texts and institualizing power. In W. Housley & R. Fitzgerald. (Eds.). Media, Policy and Interaction. New York: Ashgate.
- Zuber-Skerritt, O., Fletcher, M., Bartlett, B. J. & Piggot-Irvine, E. (2008). Data Collection Methods for Evaluation. In Piggot-Irvine, E. & Bartlett, B. J. (Eds.). Evaluating Action Research. New Zealand Research Council: Auckland. NZ.
- Bridges, S. & Bartlett, B. J. (2007). Prospect or promise Internationalisation in Australia. In C. Gitsaki. (Ed). Language and Languages: Global and Local Tensions. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press.
- Fletcher, M. A., Bartlett, B.J., Bryer, F. & Bowie, C. (2000). Teaching as Goal and Guide: The Evaluation of Innovative Assessment Integration by First-Year Teacher Education Students on Two Campuses and the Role of Technology in Its Integration. In R. Phillips (Ed.). Learning-Centered Evaluation of Computer Facilitated Learning Projects in Higher Education. Perth: Teaching and Learning Centre, Murdock University, pp 99-112.
- Meyer, B. J. F., Young, C. J. & Bartlett, B. J. (1993). Reading comprehension and the use of text structure across the adult lifespan. In S. R. Yussen & M. C. Smith (Eds.), Reading across the lifespan. New Jersey: Springer-Verlag.
- Bartlett, B. J. (1991). The Asia-Pacific Position. In L. LeMarge (Ed.). The University and Literacy, Unesco: Paris, 1991, pp.4-19.
- Bartlett, B. J. (1985). Organisational structure: The key to improved comprehension and memory. In Unsworth, L. (Ed.). Reading: An Australian Perspective, Melbourne: Nelson, 1985, pp. 83-102.
- Bartlett, B. J. (1985). Using authoring programs to construct software. In J. Anderson (Ed.). Computers in the Language Classroom, Melbourne: Australian Reading Association, pp. 72-76.
- Bartlett, B. J. (1985). Text organisation: A base for strategic reading. In Christie, F., Maclean, R., Matthews, R., and Smith, R. (Eds.). ECT412 Reading Curriculum Reader, Geelong, Victoria: Deakin University, pp. 204-212.
Journal articles
- Bridges, S. & Bartlett, B. J. (2008). Yesterday’s wandering scholars and today’s global academics. Journal of the World Universities Forum, 1 (6), 91-98.
- Liyanage, I. & Bartlett, B. J. (2008). Contextually-responsive transfer: Perceptions of NNES on an ESL/EFL teacher training programme. Journal of Teaching and Teacher Education, 24(7), 1827-1836.
- Wegner, A. & Bartlett, B. J. (2008). Text structure instruction and metacognition: Supporting early childhood student teachers in their academic work. The International Journal of Learning, 15(2), 255-266.
- Tourky, A. & Bartlett, B. J. (2006) Ageing and disability: A person-centered perspective. International Journal of the Humanities, 2 (2), 1290-1295.
- Bartlett, B.J., Power, D. & Blatch, P. (2004) Education in a Recovering Nation: Renewing Special Education in Kosovo. Journal of Exceptional Children, 70(4). 285-295.
- Meyer, B. J. F., Middlemiss, W., Theodorou, E., Brezinski, K. L., McDougall, J. & Bartlett, B. J. (2002). Effects of Structure Strategy Instruction Delivered to Fifth-Grade Children via the Internet with and without the Aid of Older Adult Tutors. Journal of Educational Psychology, 94, 486-519.