Overview
Background
children's citizenship, children's rights, storytelling, arts-based methodologies
Phillips is an academic in the School of Education, where she teaches early years, arts and literacy education. Louise has more than twenty-five years of experience in early childhood education and eight years of experience researching children’s rights and citizenship. Her interest in children’s rights in education is reflected in her active membership of the European Educational Research Association Network Research on children’s rights in education and her position as one of two international partners on the Swedish Research Council grant Education as a greenhouse for children´s and young people´s human rights. Furthering research in children’s citizenship, Louise is co-principal investigator of Civic Action and Learning with Young Children: Comparing Approaches in New Zealand, Australia and the United States (funded by the US Spencer Foundation), leading the Australian investigation of preschoolers’ civic capabilities. Louise is one of eight Australians to be granted a prestigious Spencer Foundation major grant in the last ten years. Her interest in children’s citizenship has also led her to collaborate with social practice artists to explore opportunities for children’s participation in the public sphere through an innovative relational arts project titled The Walking Neighbourhood hosted by Children. The innovation of this arts-research collaboration has been awarded: The University of Queensland Faculty of Social & Behavioural Sciences Innovation Award (2013); and the international Walk21 Walking Visionaries Jury Prize (2015). Louise holds a national professional role as Convenor of the Qualitative Research Methodologies Special Interest Group for the Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE).
Availability
- Dr Louise Phillips is:
- Available for supervision
- Media expert
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Education, Queensland University of Technology
- Doctor of Philosophy, Queensland University of Technology
Research interests
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children's citizenship
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storytelling
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arts-based research methodologies
Research impacts
The participatory art project The Walking Neighbourhood hosted by children is an arts and research collaboration that provokes rethinking of the geographies of fear (Valentine, 2004) that control children’s limited access to the public sphere (e.g., see Gill, 2007, Malone, & Rudner, 2011), and perpetuate commonly held perceptions of children as incompetent becomings (e.g., see Coady, 2008). The Walking Neighbourhood project confronts the public imaginary through public performance of child-led neighbourhood walks that foreground children’s visibility and independence in public spaces. The project supports the inclusion of children and children’s perspectives in urban participation. To date the project has taken place in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, Australia; Old Chiang Mai City, Chiang Mai, Thailand; Bagot, Darwin, Australia; Seoul, Korea; Redfern and Kings Cross, Australia; Kuopio, Finland.
Adult audience members interviewed after experiencing a child-led walk consistently speak with delight of the experience and how it invoked them to understand children and the neighbourhood differently, cultivating (re)thinking and (re)imagining of children, childhood and public spaces, effectively cultivating public pedagogy. Two professions who have voluntarily declared the impact of The Walking Neighbourhood project on their practice are urban designers and city councillors. Urban designers intently listen to and observe the young walk hosts' interactions with urban spaces and assert the inclusion of consultation with children in their future designs. City councillors see the performance of child-led walks as a means to foreground the inclusion of children and families in council policy and plans. In sum, the project produces intergenerational civic learning and engagement which in turn builds stronger communities. Cultural exchange between participants furthers intercultural understandings and empathy nurturing social participation of young people as active citizens of urban communities today.
Works
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2017
Journal Article
Walking Borders: explorations of aesthetics in ephemeral arts activism for asylum seeker rights
Phillips, Louise Gwenneth and Montes, Catherine (2017). Walking Borders: explorations of aesthetics in ephemeral arts activism for asylum seeker rights. Space and Culture, 21 (2), 92-107. doi: 10.1177/1206331217729509
2017
Other Outputs
Giving voice to the young: survey shows people want under-18s involved in politics
Phillips, Louise, Perales, Francisco and Ritchie, Jennie (2017, 09 11). Giving voice to the young: survey shows people want under-18s involved in politics The Conversation
2017
Other Outputs
How to encourage literacy in young children (and beyond)
Phillips, L. and Harris, P. (2017, 07 11). How to encourage literacy in young children (and beyond) The Conversation
2017
Journal Article
Dedication to Narelle Oliver (1960-2016)
Phillips, Louise and Willis, Linda-Dianne (2017). Dedication to Narelle Oliver (1960-2016). Practical Literacy: The Early and Primary Years, 22 (1), 4-5.
2017
Journal Article
Wonder
Willis, Linda-Dianne and Phillips, Louise (2017). Wonder. Practical Literacy: The Early and Primary Years, 22 (1), 3-3.
2017
Journal Article
Intergenerational and intercultural civic learning through storied child-led walks of Chiang Mai
Phillips, Louise Gwenneth and Tossa, Wajuppa (2017). Intergenerational and intercultural civic learning through storied child-led walks of Chiang Mai. Geographical Research, 55 (1), 18-28. doi: 10.1111/1745-5871.12182
2017
Journal Article
iBecome: iPads as a tool for self-making
McLay, Katherine, Renshaw, Peter and Phillips, Louise Gweneth (2017). iBecome: iPads as a tool for self-making. International Journal of Educational Research, 84, 68-78. doi: 10.1016/j.ijer.2016.05.009
2016
Journal Article
Civic action and play: examples from Maori, Aboriginal Australian and Latino communities
Adair, Jennifer Keys, Phillips, Louise, Ritchie, Jenny and Sachdeva, Shubhi (2016). Civic action and play: examples from Maori, Aboriginal Australian and Latino communities. Early Child Development and Care, 187 (5-6), 1-14. doi: 10.1080/03004430.2016.1237049
2016
Other Outputs
Do kindy boot camps get children ready for school?
Phillips, L. (2016, 09 29). Do kindy boot camps get children ready for school? The Conversation
2016
Journal Article
Human rights for children and young people in Australian curricula
Phillips, Louise (2016). Human rights for children and young people in Australian curricula. Curriculum Perspectives, 36 (2), 1-14.
2016
Journal Article
Walking in indeterminate spaces: possibilities for political coexistence
Phillips, Louise (2016). Walking in indeterminate spaces: possibilities for political coexistence. Qualitative Research Journal, 16 (4), 331-344. doi: 10.1108/QRJ-09-2015-0084
2016
Journal Article
Learning and teaching with cultural stories
Phillips, Louise (2016). Learning and teaching with cultural stories. Practical Literacy: The Early and Primary Years, 21 (2), 20-22.
2016
Journal Article
Using culturally diverse literature
Willis, Linda and Phillips, Louise (2016). Using culturally diverse literature. Practical Literacy: The Early and Primary Years, 21 (2), 3-3.
2016
Other Outputs
Walk with me
Phillips, Louise Gwenneth, Owen, Alice, Borland-Sentinella, Deanna and Peirano, Elena (2016). Walk with me. West End, QLD, Australia: Brisbane's Anywhere Festival 7th and 8th May 2016.
2016
Journal Article
Visual literacy
Phillips, Louise and Willis, Linda (2016). Visual literacy. Practical Literacy: The Early and Primary Years, 21 (1), 3-3.
2016
Book Chapter
Educating children and young people on the UNCRC: actions, avoidance and awakenings
Phillips, Louise G. (2016). Educating children and young people on the UNCRC: actions, avoidance and awakenings. Children’s rights, educational research and the UNCRC: past, present and future. (pp. 39-59) edited by Jenna Gillett-Swan and Vicki Coppock. Didcot, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom: Symposium Books.
2015
Journal Article
20th anniversary platinum edition
Willis, Linda, Phillips, Louise, English, Robyn and Friend, Lesley (2015). 20th anniversary platinum edition. Practical Literacy: The Early and Primary Years, 20 (3), 3-3.
2015
Journal Article
Language and literacy learning environments
Phillips, Louise, Willis, Linda, English, Robyn and Friend, Lesley (2015). Language and literacy learning environments. Practically Primary, 20 (2), 3-3.
2015
Other Outputs
Walking borders: arts activism for refugee rights
Phillips, Louise and Gutierrez-Sanfeliu, Carles (2015). Walking borders: arts activism for refugee rights. Caulfield North, VIC, Australia: Right Now.
2015
Journal Article
Ten ways for cultivating language and literacy learning through engagement with families and communities ...
Phillips, Louise (2015). Ten ways for cultivating language and literacy learning through engagement with families and communities .... Practically Primary, 20 (1), 3-40.
Funding
Past funding
Supervision
Availability
- Dr Louise Phillips is:
- Available for supervision
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Master Philosophy
Ladies who stitch - online craft communities and what they can teach workplace Learning & Development
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Liz Mackinlay
Completed supervision
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2022
Doctor Philosophy
For the love of good stories: A narrative inquiry into a reading for enjoyment pedagogy
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Liz Mackinlay
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2020
Doctor Philosophy
Students who struggle with literacy in the print culture of high school: Exploring strategies for success
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Liz Mackinlay
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2020
Doctor Philosophy
Teacher data agency and the mediation of new ways of knowing in schools: A socio-cultural perspective of professional learning, relationships and educational change
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Bob Lingard
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2019
Doctor Philosophy
Storytelling as Pedagogy to Facilitate Meaning-Making in English Learning as a Foreign Language for Young Learners
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Peter Renshaw
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2019
Doctor Philosophy
Understanding Education for Sustainability through Systems Thinking and the Complex Adaptive System Approach: A Case Study at a Malaysian University
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Peter Renshaw
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2022
Doctor Philosophy
An Investigation of the Contours of Children's Perezhivaniya Arising From a Narrative-Based Environmental Education Program.
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Peter Renshaw
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2018
Doctor Philosophy
An investigation of the enacted primary English language education policy in Vietnam: The experiences of teachers, students and parents
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Peter Renshaw, Associate Professor Obaid Hamid
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2017
Doctor Philosophy
Literacy, change, and globalisation: literacy practices in a rural Lao village
Associate Advisor
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2016
Doctor Philosophy
iKnow, iAm, iPad: A Reflexive Microethnographic Investigation of iPad-using High School Students
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Peter Renshaw
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2016
Doctor Philosophy
Exploring children's experiences of NAPLAN: Beyond the cacophony of adult debate
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Bob Lingard
Media
Enquiries
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- children's citizenship
- children's rights
- early childhood education
- early literacy development
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