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Dr Jonnell Uptin
DipTeach., GradDip TESOL (UTS), M.Ed. (UoW), PhD. (UoW).
Phone
86274741
Address
A35 - Education Building
The University of Sydney
Resume
Dr Jonnell Uptin's research and teaching concentrates on refugee youth and teaching students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Of particular interest is the role that intercultural understanding can play in assisting educators and schools. Jonnell's current research involves examining the narratives of young Thai adults who have lived childhoods in orphanages.
- FASS "Excellence in Teaching" Award 2020
- Winner of Springer Publication’s ‘Best Paper Award’ 2013 for The Australian Educational Researcher - Uptin, J. Wright, J. and Harwood, V. (2013) ‘It felt like I was a black dot on white paper’: Examining young former refugees’ experience of entering Australian high schools. Australian Educational Researcher (2013) 40:125–137.DOI 10.1007/s13384-012-0082-8
Project title | Research student |
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What works best in practice: Using classroom-based assessment to assess young learners (K-2) of Chinese | Erjia GUAN |
Mind the gap: assessing and learning Chinese between primary and secondary school | Yanan REN |
Improving Support for Educators Promoting Inclusivity in Community Language Schools in NSW | Jane Zhang ZHANG |
Publications
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Book Chapters
- Uptin, J. (2022). Trying harder than everyone else; examining how younger former refugees reconstruct new identities and navigate belonging. In Ruth Fielding (Eds.), Multilingualism, identity, and interculturality in education, (pp. 181-196). Ebook: Springer.
- Bell, A., Barahona, S., Beg, G., Coulson, S., Eymont, R., Hartman, J., Hubble, T., Leung, N., McDonnell, M., Ni, J., Sakhaee, E., Uptin, J., et al (2020). Students and Academics Working in Partnership to Embed Cultural Competence as a Graduate Quality. In Jack Frawley, Gabrielle Russell, & Juanita Sherwood (Eds.), Cultural Competence and the Higher Education Sector, (pp. 233-254). Singapore: Springer Nature. [More Information]
- Uptin, J. (2015). Negotiating a place in Australian schools: Lessons learned from voices of students. In Jennifer Hammond, Jennifer Miller (Eds.), Classrooms of possibility: Supporting at-risk EAL students, (pp. 31-45). Sydney: Primary English Teachers Association Australia (PETAA).
Journals
- Uptin, J., Hartung, C. (2022). Living in a crowd: Young people's counter-narratives of care in a Thai orphanage. Children's Geographies, Online first. [More Information]
- Uptin, J. (2021). 'If I peel off my Black skin maybe then I integrate'. Examining how African-Australian youth find living in a 'post multicultural' Australia. Social Identities, 27(1), 75-91. [More Information]
- Uptin, J. (2020). Changing Australian Education. How policy is taking us backwards and what can be done about it [book review]. Journal of Educational Administration and History. [More Information]
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2022
- Uptin, J., Hartung, C. (2022). Living in a crowd: Young people's counter-narratives of care in a Thai orphanage. Children's Geographies, Online first. [More Information]
- Uptin, J. (2022). Trying harder than everyone else; examining how younger former refugees reconstruct new identities and navigate belonging. In Ruth Fielding (Eds.), Multilingualism, identity, and interculturality in education, (pp. 181-196). Ebook: Springer.
2021
- Uptin, J. (2021). 'If I peel off my Black skin maybe then I integrate'. Examining how African-Australian youth find living in a 'post multicultural' Australia. Social Identities, 27(1), 75-91. [More Information]
2020
- Uptin, J. (2020). Changing Australian Education. How policy is taking us backwards and what can be done about it [book review]. Journal of Educational Administration and History. [More Information]
- Bell, A., Barahona, S., Beg, G., Coulson, S., Eymont, R., Hartman, J., Hubble, T., Leung, N., McDonnell, M., Ni, J., Sakhaee, E., Uptin, J., et al (2020). Students and Academics Working in Partnership to Embed Cultural Competence as a Graduate Quality. In Jack Frawley, Gabrielle Russell, & Juanita Sherwood (Eds.), Cultural Competence and the Higher Education Sector, (pp. 233-254). Singapore: Springer Nature. [More Information]
2017
- Hartung, C., Barnes, N., Welch, R., O'Flynn, G., Uptin, J., McMahon, S. (2017). Beyond the academic precariat: a collective biography of poetic subjectivities in the neoliberal university. Sport, Education and Society, 22(1), 40-57. [More Information]
2016
- Uptin, J., Wright, J., Harwood, V. (2016). Finding education: Stories of how young former refugees constituted strategic identities in order to access school. Race Ethnicity and Education, 19(3), 598-617. [More Information]
2015
- Uptin, J. (2015). Negotiating a place in Australian schools: Lessons learned from voices of students. In Jennifer Hammond, Jennifer Miller (Eds.), Classrooms of possibility: Supporting at-risk EAL students, (pp. 31-45). Sydney: Primary English Teachers Association Australia (PETAA).
2013
- Uptin, J., Wright, J., Harwood, V. (2013). 'It felt like i was a black dot on white paper': examining young former refugees' experience of entering Australian high schools. Australian Educational Researcher, 40(1), 125-137. [More Information]
- Harwood, V., O' Shea, S., Uptin, J., Humphry, N., Kervin, L. (2013). Precarious education and the university: Navigating the silenced borders of participation. International Journal on School Disaffection, 10(2), 23-44.
Selected Grants
2021
- Embodied Learning in Early Mathematics and Science (ELEMS), Way J, Ginns P, Preston C, Niland A, Uptin J, Department of Education (NSW)/Strategic Research Fund