Naomi Barnes

• PhD
• Research Assistant at Queensland University of Technology

Drawing on the notion of cutting together-apart introduced by Karen Barad and combining it with Lefebvre’s notion of a flaneur (f. flâneuse) who moves between temporal, spatial and political relationships, this article performs a collaboration mediated by social media, namely blogging and tweeting. It draws on the notion of history, space, and soci...

This article reports on the experiences of 26 first year students as they record on Facebook snapshots of their experiences navigating social integration into university. There is still a substantial gap in student transition success research conceptually framed by the understanding that first year transition is about becoming. Transition as becomi...

Qualitative education research is an inherently complex landscape, presenting the qualitative researcher with constant ethical and reasoned decision-making. Presented as a narrative dialogic, this paper traces and juxtaposes the method stories of two qualitative researchers who focused their work around education phenomena, but in different context...

In this chapter I discuss an approach new to digital scholarship in two ways; both being points of some academic debate. Firstly, the selection of phenomenography as the most appropriate methodology because its reason for being aligned with the type of online research I wanted to conduct through a digital sociologist and theoretical lens, and secon...

I did not become a teacher the day I walked out of university. I was trained as a teacher but it took many years for me to feel like a teacher. I’m still not sure I’m there yet. Often transition takes years. There is a lot written about how to act in the first year of a new education environment. There is a lot written about what we should know and...

Nearly every time I write, I learn something new. Something new about myself or something new about my thoughts. Either I am challenged or I work something out by myself through the crystallizing process of placing thoughts on a page. If I knew back then what I know now, I never would have deleted that blog post. I regret deleting it now. I was mer...

I've been writing, reading and researching teacher-workplace learning with the aim of working out why new and good teachers are leaving the profession in droves. It's very easy in that particular space to always be looking at the policies and the programs, however, in the last couple of days, I've had some interactions with teachers (not involved i...

I've been writing, reading and researching teacher-workplace learning with the aim of working out why new and good teachers are leaving the profession in droves. It's very easy in that particular space to always be looking at the policies and the programs, however, in the last couple of days, I've had some interactions with teachers (not involved i...

As educators, we want to teach in ways that support our students to be the best that they can be. We yearn for the lightbulb moment. We are so proud of them when they surprise us. We scream as loud as anyone when they break a record. We live vicariously through their successes. But in the contemporary, connected world the ability to stand out from...

I am embarking on the enrollment process for my daughter at the moment and I have chosen the local state school. It is a regular, run-of-the-mill, public school down the road from my house. It runs at an average on the My School website, below average on like schools, and it has had a long reputation for being rough. So why have I chosen it? https:...

Facebook status updates provided the data for a study about the transition learning experiences of 1st-year university students. Strict ethical guidelines were proposed by the PhD researcher from the outset of the study. Anonymity was considered important for the approved ethical clearance for both the university and the participants. Phenomenograp...

http://naomisphd.blogspot.com.au/2014/07/pedagogy-and-social-media-using.html

Understanding how students experience their first year of higher education (FYHE) is an essential component of sophisticated transition curriculum design. Contemporary student voice is largely absent from the research which informs third generation FYHE research. Social network sites (SNSs) are a tool for adding student voice to the development of...

Facebook status updates provided the data for a study into the transition learning experiences of first year university students. The research responded to criticism that research about social media and education tends to focus on how social network sites can be adapted or controlled in the educational setting. The research referred to here, used F...

The Jacaranda World History Atlas is a completely new History atlas designed to meet the requirements of the Australian History Curriculum. This unique resource has been written to meet the learning needs of year 7-10 History students. Combining clear, high-impact maps, stimulating sources and engaging activities, the Jacaranda World History Atlas...