Dr Kelsey Lowrie - Research Portfolio

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About

Dr Kelsey Lowrie (Halbert), is a Senior Lecturer in Education whose work focuses on student and teacher agency in the school and community. Kelsey conducted her doctoral research into values education and was awarded her PhD in 2010. In 2011, she took up her current position at JCU, teaching into undergraduate and postgraduate Education courses.

Kelsey has expertise in curriculum studies, poststructural theory, values education, history teaching, citizenship education and service learning. Kelsey's work focuses 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.

Kelsey is passionate about supporting pre-service teachers to be civic professionals who challenge themselves and their students. Community-based and place-based approaches to learning promote understanding of local and global issues and make connections between pre-service teachers, schools, professional organisations and community organisations.

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 Education
History Teaching
Values Education
Service Learning
Higher Degree Research Education
Post-Structural Theory
Curriculum studies

Teaching

Blended learning

Experience

2011 to present - Lecturer, 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

Socio-Economic Objectives

Honours

Awards

2019 - National Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning
2017 - JCU Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning

Fellowships

2013 to 2014 - JCU Teaching and Learning Academy Fellowship

Memberships

Queensland College of Teachers
JCU Centre for Research & Innovation in Sustainability Education
Australian Association of Research in Education
International Association of Research into Service Learning Education (IARSLE)
Queensland History Teachers Association

Publications

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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

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

Supervision

Advisory Accreditation: I can be on your Advisory Panel as a Primary or Secondary Advisor.

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)

Data

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