Dr Kathleen Quinlivan
Positions
Senior Lecturer
Qualifications
Doctor of Philosophy, (Ph.D), UC
Master of Education, (M.Ed), UC
Diploma in Teaching, (Dip. Tchg), CCE
Room
Wheki 219
Contact Details
Phone: + 64 3 364 2987 ext 4829
Internal Phone: 4829
kathleen.quinlivan@canterbury.ac.nz
Background
Dr Quinlivan is interested in understanding the conditions of possibility which enable learning as transformation across a range of formal and informal educational sites.
Dr Quinlivan has published widely in the area of sexuality genders and schooling. She is the lead editor of a book published in 2009 by Sense Publishers entitled Educational Enactments in a Globalised World: Intercultural Conversations. Dr Quinlivan is a co-editor of a forthcoming Routledge publication Interrogating Pleasure.
Dr Quinlivan is currently working on three research projects. She is a co-investigator on an Australian Research Council funded project: Sexuality Education in Australia and New Zealand; Responding to Cultural and Religious Difference. Dr Quinlivan is also the principal investigator of a New Zealand Aids Foundation funded project: Diversity Groups as Sites of Learning in New Zealand Secondary Schools.
Courses
EDEM611 Contemporary Issues in Curriculum and Diversity
TEDU310 The Politics of Knowledge: Curriculum, Research and Learner Diversity
EDUC315 Diverse Learners and Inclusive Education
Research Student Supervisions
Masters Students (current)
Rebecca Hindin-Miller |
The negotiation of cross cultural boundaries by students and their teachers at Karanga-Mai Young Parents College. (Co-supervisor) |
Evan Matthews |
Making Space: Supporting transgender and gender diverse young people coming out in the changing context of Aotearoa New Zealand (Second supervisor) |
Masters Students (completed)
Safayet Alam |
Notions of Citizenship in the Bangladesh Secondary Curriculum: The interface Between Policy, Practice and Perception. (Primary supervisor) |
Abigail Bloy |
Food For Thought? The Operation of Breakfast Clubs in Low Decile Primary Schools (Second supervisor) |
Annie Bowden |
Lived Experiences Of Primary Aged Maori Students Subjected To A School’s Disciplinary Practices (Second supervisor) |
Catherine Bourke |
The ethical issues of dual relationships in counselling practice (Primary supervisor) |
Niger Sultana |
Indigenous Languages in the Secondary Curriculum in Bangladesh (Primary supervisor) |
Doctoral Students (current)
Graeme Ferguson |
The Production And Contestation Of Masculinities Amongst Primary School Students (Primary supervisor) |
| Safayet Alam | Praxis in Bangladesh Secondary Schools (Primary supervisor) |
Nicola Surtees |
Planned, Multi-parenting Models of Families Headed by Lesbians and Gay Men (Second supervisor) |
| Jennifer Leahy | Women's Participation in Adult and Community Education (Second supervisor) |
| Christoph Teschers | Education and the Art of Living (Second supervisor) |
| Lia de Vocht | A Bakhtinian Analysis of Dialogue in Early Childhood Centres (Primary supervisor) |
Doctoral Students (completed)
| Sophie Goldingay | Separation or Mixing? Issues For Young Female Prisoners in Aotearoa/ New Zealand (Second supervisor) |
Jennifer Hindin-Millar |
A school teenage parent unit as a site of educational transformation (Primary supervisor) |
Research Interests
Please see Kathleen's UC Research Profile for a full list of publications:
- Schooling and Teacher Education as sites of possible transformation
- Engaging with understandings of genders, sexualities, and difference in secondary school contexts and Teacher Education
- Learning within peer cultures in secondary school cultures
- Affect and Learning
- Emotionality and discomfort as sites of learning
- Engaging with the production and contestation of teacher subjectivities
- Post-critical ethnography
