Dr Kelsey Lowrie ~ Senior Lecturer

Kelsey is a Senior Lecturer in Education whose expertise includes education policy, curriculum studies and interdisciplinary projects in a range of fields including: teacher education, education system integration, citizenship and values education, history teaching, and service learning. Recent and current projects include service learning curriculum and pedagogy design  and holistic education to support student wellbeing. 

Since taking up her position in 2011, Kelsey's teaching and research has focused on student and teacher agency in the school and the community. Various projects have explored culture and identity within secondary education and higher education insitutions. Kelsey also has an interest in the scholarship of teaching and learning and of research education. 

Current Projects:

Project Lead: Strengthening models of Education and Health integration for wellbeing in learning communities in North Queensland

Project Team: She Maps Program Evalution (WISE Grant $65.000.00).

Project Team: Transition experiences of students from primary school to secondary school.

 

 

 

Teaching

• ED2492: Junior Secondary Curriculum 1 (Level 2; CNS & TSV)
• ED2493: Junior Secondary Curriculum 2 (Level 2; CNS & TSV)
• ED2991: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education (Level 2; TSV)
• ED3460: Service Learning (Level 3; TSV)
• ED4460: Service Learning for Sustainable Futures (Level 4; TSV)
• ED5956: Junior Secondary Curriculum I (Level 5; CNS & TSV)
• ED5957: Junior Secondary Curriculum II (Level 5; CNS & TSV)
• ED5966: Senior Curriculum I (Level 5; CNS & TSV)
• ED5967: Senior Curriculum II (Level 5; CNS & TSV)

Interests

Professional

• Pre-service teacher education

Research

• Citizenship and Values Education
• History Teaching
• Education Systems
• Service Learning
• Higher Degree Research Education
• Holistic Models of EducationL for wellbeing and development
• Curriculum studies
• Education Policy

Experience

• 2018 to present - Senior Lecturer, James Cook University
• 2021 to 2022 - Course Coordinator Bachelor of Education (Secondary), James Cook University
• 2018 to 2019 - Course Coordinator - Bachelor of Education (Secondary), James Cook University
• 2017 to 2019 - Course Coordinator - Masters of Teaching and Learning (Secondary), James Cook University
• 2011 to 2017 - Lecturer, James Cook University
• 2013 to 2015 - First Year Coordinator (Education), James Cook University
• 2009 to 2011 - Teacher, Education Queensland
• 2008 to 2009 - Research Fellow, James Cook University
• 2006 to 2009 - PhD Candidate, James Cook University

Research Disciplines

• Curriculum and pedagogy (3901)
• Specialist studies in education (3904)

Socio-Economic Objectives

• education and training (1699)

Awards

• 2019 - Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education Best Paper Award: Balancing classroom ready with community ready: enabling agency to engage with community through critical service learning
• 2019 - National Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning
• 2017 - JCU Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning
• 2013 - TropEco Award: Curriculum - for enhancing education for sustainability in learning, teaching and research (James Cook University)
• 2006 to 2008 - Australian Postgraduate Award (APA) Recipient

Fellowships

• 2013 to 2014 - JCU Teaching and Learning Academy Fellowship

Memberships

• Queensland History Teachers Association
• International Association of Research into Service Learning Education (IARSLE)
• Queensland College of Teachers
• Australian Association of Research in Education

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Journal Articles

• Salter P, Halbert K, Howard E, Bhati A, Wong C, Miles D and Jones P (2021) A continuum for global citizenship: analyzing the complex transformations of service-learning. International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, 22 (2). pp. 199-211
• Halbert K and Salter P (2019) Decentring the 'places' of citizens in national curriculum: the Australian history curriculum. The Curriculum Journal, 30 (1). pp. 8-23
• Salter P and Halbert K (2019) Balancing classroom ready with community ready: enabling agency to engage with community through critical service learning. Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 47 (1). pp. 5-17
• Acton R and Halbert K (2018) Enacting learning citizenship: a sociomaterial analysis of reflectivity and knowledge negotiation in higher education. Reflective Practice, 19 (5). pp. 707-720
• Salter P and Halbert K (2017) Constructing the [parochial] global citizen. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 15 (5). pp. 694-705
• Biancotti S and Halbert K (2015) Changing times: problematising social science curriculum implementation. Etropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 14 (1). pp. 13-20
• Halbert K and Chigeza P (2015) Navigating discourses of cultural literacy in teacher education. Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 40 (11). pp. 155-168
• Halbert K (2015) Students' perceptions of a quality advisory relationship. Quality in Higher Education, 21 (1). pp. 26-37
• Chigeza P and Halbert K (2014) Navigating e-learning and blended learning for pre-service teachers: redesigning for engagement, access and efficiency. Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 39 (11). pp. 133-146
• Petray T and Halbert K (2013) Teaching engagement: reflections on sociological praxis. Journal of Sociology, 49 (4). pp. 441-455

Book Chapters

• Hill A, Salter P and Halbert K (2018) The critical global citizen. In: The Globalisation of Higher Education: developing internationalised education in research and practice. Palgrave Macmillan, Sydney, NSW, Australia, pp. 103-116
• Salter P, Halbert K, Howard E, Singh M, Miles D, Jones P, Bhati A, Wong C and Han J (2018) Local connections, global perspectives. In: The Globalisation of Higher Education: developing internationalised education in research and practice. Palgrave Macmillan, Sydney, NSW, Australia, pp. 61-78

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ResearchOnline@JCU stores 26+ research outputs authored by Dr Kelsey Lowrie from 2007 onwards.

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These Higher Degree Research projects are either current or by students who have completed their studies within the past 5 years at JCU. Linked titles show theses available within ResearchOnline@JCU.

Current

• Opposition is True Friendship: Difficult Conversations, History, and Future Flourishing (PhD , Primary Advisor)

Completed

• Implementation of national History and Geography curriculum initiatives by a regional Queensland secondary social science department: actants, agency, and curriculum change (2018, PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Innovative learning spaces in higher education: perception, pedagogic practice and place (2018, PhD , Primary Advisor)
• Creating place-based learning experiences as a curriculum enactment approach: a case study of selected business studies teachers' practices in Papua New Guinea (2020, PhD , Primary Advisor)

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• Petray, T. (2014) Using the Internet for Civic Engagement. James Cook University