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Dr Libby Jackson-Barrett

Associate Dean

Staff Member Details
Telephone: +61 8 6304 6176
Email: e.jacksonbarrett@ecu.edu.au
Campus: Mount Lawley  
Room: ML17.109  
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3662-657X

Libby is a Senior Lecturer with the School of Education and Kurongkurl Katijin.

Background

Libby has worked in Initial Teacher Education for 17 years and has a particular interest in culturally relevant and critical pedagogy, diversity, inclusively and Indigenous education issues. Libby and colleagues have worked on a number of research projects in Aboriginal Education.

Libby’s current research is On Country Learning with Murdoch University colleague Associate Professor Libby Lee-Hammond. Their On Country Learning research is breaking new ground in Aboriginal education, receiving recognition as an Innovative Pedagogical approach in the Early Years for the Asia Pacific Region by ARNEC.

Libby is a member of the Australian Council Education Research (ACER) team for the Logie award winning first Indigenous animation, Little J and Big Cuz. Libby is also working on the Wirrpanda Deadly Sista Girlz Evaluation project with Murdoch University colleague Dr Anne Price.

Research Interests

  • Aboriginal Education On Country Learning.

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosphy - Education, Murdoch University, 2021.
  • Doctor Of Philosophy, Murdoch University, 2021.
  • Master of Education, Murdoch University, 2010.
  • Bachelor of Education, Murdoch University, 2004.
  • Bachelor of Arts, Murdoch University, 2004.
  • Diploma in University Studies, Murdoch University, 2001.

Research Outputs

2024

Book Chapters

  • Dos Santos, M., Cumming Potvin, W., Jackson-Barrett, L. (2024). Navigating the role of English in multilingual postcolonial classrooms: Literacies, pedagogy and language choice. Reimagining Literacies Pedagogy in the Twenty-first Century Theorizing and Enacting Multiple Literacies for English Language Learners (239-258). Bloomsbury Publishing.
  • Dos Santos, M., Cumming Potvin, W., Jackson-Barrett, L. (2024). Using Historical Narrative Analysis to Determine Language Choices in Postcolonial Education Contexts. Sage Research Methods: Diversifying and Decolonizing Research (22 pages). SAGE Publications Ltd. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781529683486.

Journal Articles

  • Macdonald, M., Booth, S., Jackson-Barrett, L. (2024). An ecosystem of knowledge: relationality as a framework for teachers to infuse Indigenous perspectives in curriculum. Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2024(Article in press), 18 pages. https://doi.org/10.1080/1359866X.2024.2314285.

2023

Book Chapters

  • Lee-Hammond, L., Jackson-Barrett, L. (2023). Relationships: Infused Learning On Country. Beyond the Gate: Respecting the Relationship of Children, Culture and the Natural World (177-185). Pademelon Press.
  • Lee-Hammond, L., Jackson-Barrett, L., Louis, S. (2023). Exploring Interconnectivity Between Froebelian Principles and Australian Aboriginal Ways of Knowing, Being and Doing,. The Bloomsbury Handbook to Friedrich Froebel (196-204). Bloomsbury Publishing. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/ecuworks2022-2026/3320.

Journal Articles

  • Poelina , A., Wooltorton, S., Paradies, Y., Mulligan, E., Guimond, L., Jackson-Barrett, L., Blaise, M. (2023). Learning to care for Dangaba. Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 39(3), 375-389. https://doi.org/10.1017/aee.2023.30.

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Poelina , A., Wooltorton, S., Paradies, Y., Guimond, L., Jackson-Barrett, L., Blaise, M., Mulligan, E. (2023). Learning to Care for Dangaba. [You tube Clip]. DaveLaslett.com.
  • Jackson-Barrett, L., Adam, H., Byrne, M. (2023). Wangkininy Boodjar (Talking Country). Studio Orange.

2022

Journal Articles

  • Cumming-Potvin, W., Jackson-Barrett, L., Potvin, D. (2022). Aboriginal perspectives matter: Yarning and reflecting about teaching literacies with multimodal Aboriginal texts.. Issues in Educational Research, 32(4), 1342-1363. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/ecuworks2022-2026/1792.

Reports

  • Council, KA., Poelina, V., Godden, N., Jackson-Barrett, L., Isaacs-Guthridge, R. (2022). Empowering Aboriginal Women: Gender, Justice and Equality The story of the formation of the Kimberley Aboriginal Women’s Council. Bunbury. Edith Cowan University.

2021

Book Chapters

  • Jackson-Barrett, L. (2021). Aboriginal Children's Literature: A time for healing?. Transforming Practice Transforming Lives Through Diverse Children's Literature (78-90). Primary English teaching Association Australia (PETAA).

Reports

2020

Book Chapters

  • Lee-Hammond, L., Harpley, J., Jackson-Barrett, L. (2020). Intergenerational learning in Australian Aboriginal communities. Intergenerational learning in practice: Together old and young (174-188). Routledge.

2019

Book Chapters

  • Jackson-Barrett, L., Lee-Hammond, L. (2019). Education for assimilation: A brief history of Aboriginal education in Western Australia. Sami Educational History in a Comparative International Perspective (299-316). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24112-4_17.

Journal Articles

  • Jackson-Barrett, L., Lee-Hammond, L. (2019). From Pink Floyd to Pink Hill: Transforming Education from the Bricks in the Wall to the Connection of Country in Remote Aboriginal Education. Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 44(10), 35-51. https://doi.org/10.14221/ajte.2019v44n10.3.
  • Price, A., Jackson-Barrett, L., Gower, G., Herrington, J. (2019). Understanding the complex work of Aboriginal Education Workers in schools. The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 48(1), 93-105. https://doi.org/10.1017/jie.2017.34.
  • Jackson-Barrett, L., Gower, G., Price, AE., Herrington, J. (2019). Skilling up: Providing educational opportunities for Aboriginal Education Workers through technology-based pedagogy. Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 44(1), 52-75. https://doi.org/10.14221/ajte.2018v44n1.4.
  • Lee-Hammond, L., Jackson-Barrett, L. (2019). Indigenous children's linguistic rights in the 21st century: Intentions and tensions in practice. International Journal of Early Childhood, 51(3), 301-318. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13158-019-00251-6.

2018

Journal Articles

  • Jackson-Barrett, L., Lee-Hammond, L. (2018). Strengthening identities and involvement of Aboriginal children through learning on country. Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 43(6), 86-104. https://doi.org/10.14221/ajte.2018v43n6.6.

2017

Book Chapters

  • Lee-Hammond, L., Jackson-Barrett, L. (2017). Indigenous perspectives on outdoor learning environments: On country learning. Outdoor learning environments: Spaces for exploration, discovery and risk-taking in the early years (203-219). Allen & Unwin.

2014

Journal Articles

  • Walker, B., Stomski, N., Price, A., Jackson-Barrett, L. (2014). Perspectives of Indigenous people in the Pilbara about the delivery of healthcare services. Australian Health Review, 38(1), 93-98. https://doi.org/10.1071/AH13074.

Research Projects

  • Enhancing disaster resilience and climate justice in the Western Australian community services sector, Department of Fire and Emergency Services, Grant, 2024 ‑ 2027, $892,362.
  • Climate justice toolkit , Lotterywest, Grant, 2022 ‑ 2025, $362,071.
  • Transition of Indigenous people into, and graduating from, higher education., Australian Research Council, Discovery Indigenous (IN23), 2023 ‑ 2025, $37,500.
  • Transforming Transitions 2- Building for children’s engagement and success at school, Association of Independent Schools of WA, AISWA - Grant, 2022 ‑ 2025, $173,994.
  • Pathways to Racial Literacy and Cultural Responsiveness amongst Australian teaching professionals, Edith Cowan University, Early-Mid Career Researcher Grant Scheme 2024 (Stream 1), 2024 ‑ 2025, $39,981.
  • Looking back to look forward through historical and contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children's literature , Edith Cowan University, Early-Mid Career Researcher Grant Scheme 2022 (Stream 2), 2023 ‑ 2024, $39,988.
  • Empowering Aboriginal Women: Gender, Justice and Equality, Australian Indigenous Leadership Centre, Grant, 2021 ‑ 2023, $89,979.
  • Deadly Sista Girlz, Wirrpanda Foundation Ltd, Grant, 2020 ‑ 2021, $45,000.

Research Student Supervision

Current Supervisions

Co-principal Supervisor

  • Master of Education, Education and training programs and desistance from crime: Aboriginal ex-offenders perspectives

Associate Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Moort Yarning: Experiences of Caring for Koorlungka

Completed Supervisions

No data available
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