Dr Katarina Tuinamuana
Faculty of Education and Arts, School of Education
Areas of expertise: Education policy; teacher education; curriculum; sociology of education; critical autoethnography; writing as inquiry; higher education
HDR Supervisor accreditation status: Full
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-7722-1771
Phone:+61 02 970 14460
Email: Katarina.Tuinamuana@acu.edu.au
Location: ACU Strathfield Campus
Dr Katarina Tuinamuana's expertise is in the sociological and cultural dimensions of education and teacher education, including discourses of global policy production processes and local cultures of practice, global movements of ‘progressive’ and standardised curriculum approaches to teaching & learning, participatory action research, and writing as critical inquiry. Her recent writing and research focuses on decolonising time in academia, higher education pedagogies at the cultural interface, Indigenous pedagogies, and early career teachers transition to the profession.
Visit Website https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Katarina_Tuinamuana
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Curated list
- Tuinamuana, K. & Tomkins, S. (Under review). Embedding Indigenous perspectives through the Cultural Interface in Higher Education: A Systematic Review. Higher Education Research & Development.
- Tuinamuana, K. & Yoo, J. (2021). Feminist performances of time as an ‘ethics of care’: shiFting time in the in-between spaces of academic work, In Alison L Black and Rachael Dwyer (Eds.), Towards a Kinder Academy: Collaborating, Listening and Understanding for Change. Australia: Palgrave Macmillan International.
- Tuinamuana, K. & Yoo, J. (2021). Wayfinding and decolonising time with Talanoa in higher education, In Fetaui Iosefo, Stacy Holman Jones & Anne Harris (Eds.), Wayfinding and Critical Autoethnography. Auckland: Routledge.
- Tuinamuana, K., & Yoo, J., (2020). Reading Autoethnography: The Impact of Writing Through the Body. The Qualitative Report, 25(4), 999-1008. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/tqr/vol25/iss4/8
- Tuinamuana, K., Bentley-Williams, R., & Yoo, J. (2019). Making ‘visible’ the ‘invisible’ work of academic writing in an audit culture. D. Bottrell, & C. Manathunga (Eds.) Resisting Neoliberalism in Higher Education. Melbourne: Palgrave, Palgrave Critical University Studies series.
- Tuinamuana, K. (2016). The work of the teacher-educator in Australia: Reconstructing the “superhero” performer/academic in an audit culture. Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 44(4), 333–347.
- Nuttall, J., Brennan, M., Zipin, L., Tuinamuana, K., & Cameron, L. (2013). Lost in production: The erasure of the teacher educator in Australian university job advertisements. Journal of Education for Teaching, 39(3), 329–343.
International Journal review panel
- Asia Pacific Journal of Teacher Education: The Australian Educational Researcher
