Dr Lew Zipin

Dr Lew Zipin is Lecturer for the School of Education in the subjects of Sociology of Education and Education Policy Studies. Lew is Course Co-coordinator for Reading Educational Policy Research in the Educational Doctorate program and Course Co-coordinator in Policy, Curriculum and Teaching Studies 1 & 2 (Graduate Certificate).

He is a Researcher for both:
The Hawke Research Institute for Sustainable Societies
The Centre for Studies in Literacy, Policy and Learning Cultures.

Details of Lew's research interests and publications are available in his Curriculum Vitae

• Sociology of Education
• Educational Policy
• Building Professional Learning Communities
• Influences on Contemporary Education

Australian Association for Research in Education

Australian Curriculum Studies Association

American Educational Research Association

1999 - PhD, Educational Policy Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
       Structure, Agency, and the Philosophical Problem of Foundations: Neo/Post Tensions in Critical Theories and School Research

1992 - MA, Educational Policy Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison

1988 - BA, Psychology, Cornell University, Ithaca NY

• Educational Policy
• Curriculum/Teaching - Middle Years
• Redesigning Pedagogies
• Learning Communities
• Community Capacity Building
• Critical and Reflective Writing

BOOKS

Blackmore, J., Brennan, M., & Zipin, L. (Eds.) (Forthcoming 2008). Repositioning University Governance and Academic Work. Netherlands: Sense Publishers.

BOOK CHAPTERS

Brennan, M. & Zipin, L. (2008). Neo-colonization of cultural struggles for justice in Australian education and teacher education. In A. M. Phelan, J. S. Sumsion (Eds.). Critical readings in teacher education: Provoking absences. Sense Publishers.

Zipin, L. & Hattam, R. (Forthcoming 2008). Partnership Action Research for Social Justice: Politics, Challenges and Possibilities. In S. Noffke & B. Somekh (Eds.) Handbook for Educational Action Research. London, Sage.

Zipin, L. & Reid, A. (2008). A Justice-Oriented Citizenship Education: Making Community Curricular. In The Sage Handbook of Education for Citizenship and Democracy. Sage publications.

Zipin, L. & Brennan, M. (2004). Managerial governmentality and the suppression of ethics. In M. Walker & J. Nixon (Eds.) Reclaiming Universities from a Runaway World. Buckingham: Open University Press, Society for Research in Higher Education.

Zipin, L. (1998). Looking for sentient life in discursive practices: The question of human agency in critical theories and school research. In T.S. Popkewitz and M. Brennan (Eds.) Foucault’s Challenge: Discourse, Knowledge and Power in Education. New York: Teachers College Press.

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Zipin, L. & Brennan, M. (2006). Meeting literacy needs of pre-service cohorts: Ethical dilemmas for socially just teacher educators. Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 34(3), 333-351.

Zipin, L. (2006). Governing Australia’s universities: The managerial strong-arming of academic agency. Social Alternatives, 25(2), 26-31.

Zipin, L. (2004). Post-humanism and the Problem of Theorizing Coherence. Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, 18(2), 219–234.

Zipin, L. & Brennan, M. (2003). The suppression of ethical dispositions through managerial governmentality: A habitus crisis in Australian higher education. International Journal of Leadership in Education, 6(4), 349-368.

Zipin, L. (2003). Gramsci right and left: Michael Apple’s view of the wars of position along educational fronts (Review Essay). The Australian Educational Researcher, 30(2), 109-119.

Brennan, M., Kenway, J., Thomson, P. & Zipin, L. (2002). Uneasy alliances: University, workplace, industry and profession in the Education Doctorate. The Australian Educational Researcher, 29(3), 63-83.

Zipin, L. (1999). Simplistic fictions in Australian higher education policy debates: A Bourdieuan analysis of complex power struggles. Discourse: studies in the cultural politics of education, 20(1), 21-39.

CONFERENCE PAPERS

Zipin, L. & Reid, A. (2008). Pursuing strong curricular connection to students' lives: Addressing conceptual and methodological challenges. In P. Jeffery (Ed.) Published proceedings of the 2007 annual conference of the Australian Association for Research in Education. Copy of paper

Zipin, L. & Hattam, R. (2008). Collaborative action research for social justice: Politics, challenges and possibilities. In P. Jeffery (Ed.) Published proceedings of the 2007 annual conference of the Australian Association for Research in Education. Copy of paper

Ovsienko, H. & Zipin, L. (2007). Making social justice curricular: Exploring ambivalences within teacher professional identity. In Jeffrey, P. (Ed.) Proceedings of the Australian Association for Research in Education Annual Conference, Adelaide, 2006. Copy of paper

Zipin, L., Brennan, M. & Sellar, S. (2007). Making social justice problematic: Exploring an educational aporia. In Jeffrey, P. (Ed.) Proceedings of the Australian Association for Research in Education Annual Conference, Adelaide, 2006. Copy of paper

Zipin, L. (2005). The Pedagogical Challenge: Facing the aporetic madness of social justice, In P. Jeffery (Ed.) Published proceedings of the 2005 annual conference of the Australian Association for Research in Education. Copy of paper

Brennan, M. & Zipin, L. (2005). Generations of Social Justice in Australian Schools? In P. Jeffery (Ed.) Published proceedings of the 2005 annual conference of the Australian Association for Research in Education. Copy of paper

Zipin, L. & Brennan, M. (2001). ‘Cultural capital' and the literacy needs of a new generation of pre-service teachers. In M. Brennan (Ed.), Education Futures and New Citizenships (published proceedings of the 2001 conference of the Australian Curriculum Studies Association), Canberra, Australia.

Zipin, L. (1997). Reading the West Debates: How Simplistic Fictions Codify Complex Power Struggles. In Gale, T., Erben, A., & Danaher, P. (Eds.) Diversity, Difference & Discontinuity: (Re)mapping Teacher Education for the Next Decade. Refereed Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of the Australian Teacher Education Association, Yeppoon, Queensland, July 1997.