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ASPRO Cushla Kapitzke

PhD
School of Cultural & Language Studies in Education
Centre for Learning Innovation

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My work as a critical language and literacy educator focuses on the sociology of digital literacies afforded by new media and communications technologies. As part of this work, I observed that heightened levels of copyright protection have accompanied the upsurge of creative endeavour enabled by digital technologies. From a critical sociological perspective, policy trends toward more tightly regulated intellectual property regimes are viewed as mechanisms for the maintenance of scarcity within conditions of abundance. My current teaching and research program therefore focuses on issues of creative and educational governance in relation to the shrinking domains of public knowledge and public education within economies driven by global capital.

Transnational agencies and multinational agreements play key roles in the political management of cultural practice. The World Trade Organization, its General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), and regional bilateral trade agreements such as the Australia/US Free Trade Agreement are areas I am currently exploring. I use neoFoucauldian theorizations of power, the subject, agency and governmentality to link macro forces of globalization with everyday practices in local intersections of education, the state, and the market.


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Publications

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Edited Books and Journal Issues

Kapitzke, C., & Peters, M. A. (Eds.). (In press). Global knowledge cultures. Rotterdam: Sense.

Kapitzke, C. (Ed.) (2006). Copyrights and patents: Issues and ethics for education. Special Issue of Policy Futures in Education, 4(4). London: Symposium.

Kapitzke, C., & Bruce, B. C. (Eds). (2006). Libr@ries: Changing information space and practice. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Kapitzke, C., Cheung, W-L., & Yu, Y. (Eds). (2000). Difference and dispersion: Educational research in a postmodern context. Flaxton: PostPressed.

Refereed Journal Articles

Kapitzke, C. (In press). Literacy ethics: Defence against a technology of literacy for the military. Curriculum Perspectives.

Kapitzke, C., (Ed.) (2006). Editorial. Copyrights and patents: Issues and ethics for education. Policy Futures in Education, 4(4), 330-333.

Kapitzke, C. (2006). Intellectual property rights: Governing cultural and educational futures. Policy Futures in Education, 4(4), 431-445.

Kapitzke, C. (2006). Cultural policy and copyright: A conversation with Siva Vaidhyanathan. Policy Futures in Education, 4(4), 446-453.

Pendergast, D., & Kapitzke, C. (2006). Virtual teachers: Negotiating new spaces for teaching bodies. Pedagogies: An International Journal, 1(4), 253-267.

Kapitzke, C., & Pendergast, D. (2005). Virtual schooling: Productive pedagogies or pedagogical possibilities? Teachers College Record, 107(8), 1626–1651.

Kapitzke, C., & Bruce, B. C. (2005). The arobase in the libr@ry: New political economies of children’s literatures and literacies. Computers & Composition, 22, 69–78.

Kapitzke, C. (2003). (In)formation literacy: A positivist epistemology and a politics of (out)formation. Educational Theory, 53(1), 37–53.

Kapitzke, C. (2003). Information literacy: A review and poststructuralist critique. Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 26(1), 53–66.

Kapitzke, C. (2001). Information literacy: The changing library. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 44(5), 450–456.

Kapitzke, C., Bogitini, S., Chen, M., MacNeill, G., et al. (2001). Weaving words with the Dreamweaver: Literacy, Indigeneity, and technology. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 44(4), 336–345.

Kapitzke, C. (2001). Ceremony and cybrary: Digital libraries and the dialectic of place and space. Social Alternatives, 20(1), 33–40.

Kapitzke, C. (2000). The sociality and spatiality of online pedagogy and collaborative learning in an educational media and technologies course. Educational Technology and Society, 3(3), 433–441.

Kapitzke, C. (2000). Cyber pedagogy as critical social practice in a teacher education program. Teaching Education, 11(2), 211–229.

Kapitzke, C. (2000). Information technology as cultural capital: Shifting the boundaries of power. Education and Information Technologies, 5(1), 49–62.

Refereed Book chapters

Kapitzke, C. (In press). Intellectual property or intellectual (im)property? Toward a transcultural epistemology and ethics. In C. Kapitzke & M. A. Peters (Eds.), Global knowledge cultures (pp. 1-18). Amsterdam: Sense Publishers.

Kapitzke, C., & Graham, P. (In press). Curriculum and religion. In B. McGaw, E. Baker & P. P. Peterson (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of Education (3rd ed.), 12 vols. Elsevier.

Dooley, K., Kapitzke, C., & Luke, C. (2007). New urban terrains: Literacies, world kids, and teachers. In W. Noblett & G. Pink (Eds.), Asia-Pacific Section, G. Whitty, M. Foster, A. Luke & G. Weiner (Section Editors), Handbook of urban education (pp. 371-384). Amsterdam: Kluwer.

Kapitzke, C. (2006). Redefining libr@ries by rethinking research. In C. Kapitzke & B. C. Bruce (Eds.), Libr@ries: Changing information space and practice (pp. 151-176). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Kapitzke, C., & Bruce, B. C. (2006). Introduction. In C. Kapitzke & B. C. Bruce (Eds.), Libr@ries: Changing information space and practice (pp. xxv-xlvii). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Bruce, B. C., & Kapitzke, C. (2006). The arobase in the library — The libr@ry in society. In C. Kapitzke & B. C. Bruce (Eds.), Libr@ries: Changing information space and practice (pp. 281-294). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Kapitzke, C. (2006). Foreword. Rethinking educational technologies as pedagogical architecture and aesthetics. In S. Tettegah & R. C. Hunter (Eds.), Education and technology: Issues in applications of policy and administration in K-12 schools. Advances in Educational Administration Vol 8. Oxford: JAI-Elsevier Science Press.

Kapitzke, C. (2005). Internet chatrooms: E-space for youth of the risk society. In L. Tan Wee Hin & R. Subramaniam (Eds.), Handbook of research on literacy in technology at the K–12 level (pp. 158–175). Hershey, PA: Idea Group.

Suaysuwan, N., & Kapitzke, C. (2005). Thai English language textbooks 1960–2000: Postwar, industrial and global changes. In Y. Nozaki, R. Openshaw & A. Luke (Eds.), Struggles over difference: Curriculum, texts, and pedagogy in the Asia-Pacific (pp. 79–97). Albany: State University of New York Press.

Kapitzke, C. (2005). Whose community? Which knowledge? A critical (hyperliteracies) take on information literate school communities. In J. Henri & M. Asselin (Eds.), The information literate school community 2: Issues of leadership (pp. 27–38). Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited.

Kapitzke, C., & Renshaw, P. (2004). Third space in cyberspace: Indigenous youth, new technologies and literacies. In J. Van der Linden & P. Renshaw (Eds.), Dialogic learning: Shifting perspectives to learning, instruction and teaching (pp. 45–61). Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic.

Pendergast, D., & Kapitzke, C. (2003). Virtual vignettes and pedagogical potentials: Insights into a virtual schooling service. In C. Cavanaugh (Ed.), Development and management of virtual schools: Issues and trends (pp. 192–215). Hershey, PA: Idea Group.

Luke, A., Carrington, V., & Kapitzke, C. (2003). Textbooks and early childhood literacy. In N. Hall, J. Larson, & J. Marsh (Eds.), Handbook of early childhood literacy (pp. 249–257). London: Sage.

Refereed Reviews

Kapitzke, C. (2007). Review of The access principle: The case for open access to research and scholarship by John Willinsky, 2006, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Symposium in Policy Futures in Education, 5(3), 401-423.

Kapitzke, C. (2006). Review of Globalisation, information and libraries: The implications of the World Trade Organisation`s GATS and TRIPS Agreements by Ruth Rikowski. Oxford: Chandos. In Policy Futures in Education, 4(4), 454-456.

Kapitzke, C. (2000). Review of Network science a decade later: The Internet and classroom learning by A. Feldman, C. Konold & B. Coulter. (2000). Mahwah NJ: Erlbaum. In Teaching Education, 11(2), 233–235.

Consultancy & Research Reports

Pendergast, D., Kapitzke, C., Land, R., Luke, A., & Bahr, M. (2002). Virtual Schooling Service Pilot – Two year review. Brisbane: Education Queensland.

Pendergast, D., Kapitzke, C., & Luke, A. (2002). Directions for middle years of schooling. Brisbane: Brisbane Catholic Education.

Luke, A., Elkins, J., Weir, K., Land, R., Dole, S., Carrington, V., Pendergast, D., Kapitzke, C., Van Kraayenoord, C., Moni, K., McIntosh, A., Mayer, D., Bahr, M., Hunter, S., Chadbourne, R., Bean, T., & Alvermann, D. (2002). Beyond the middle: A report about literacy and numeracy development of target group students in the middle years of schooling. Canberra: Department of Education, Science & Training.

Kapitzke, C. & Moni, K. (2001). Literacy in teacher education: Standards for preservice programs (pp. 54–84). Toowong: Queensland Board of Teacher Registration.

Bahr, N., Bennett, M., Christensen, C., Christie, P., Gillies, R., Kapitzke, C., Luke, A., MacDonald, D., & Mills, M. (2001). Educational plan for Brisbane Youth Detention Centre. Brisbane: Education Queensland.


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Research

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Competitive Grants

  • 2006 ($6,000) Exploring the impact of biosecurity education: Integrating science and literacy pedagogy through a technological intervention in schools — Ritchie, Lee, Kapitzke

  • 2006 ($25,000) Educational partnerships: Globalization as governance — Kapitzke

  • 2002 – 2004 ($75,000) Multiliteracies, school libraries and cybraries: Comparative case studies of Australia and the United States — Kapitzke, Luke, Luke, Bruce

  • 2001 ($3990) Multiliteracies and school cybraries in the middle years of schooling — Kapitzke

  • 2000 ($9766) Electronic information and communications technologies in a higher education context — Kapitzke

 Tendered Consultancies


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Teaching

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PhD Program Student Mentor

EdD Program Teaching Team
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Associations

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Membership of Journal Review Boards

Editorial Board: Critical Discourse Studies (Routledge)

Editorial Board: Policy Futures in Education (Symposium)

Editorial Board: Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (IRA)

Editorial Board: Educational Philosophy and Theory (Blackwell)

Editorial Board: Learning Inquiry (Springer Science & Business Media)

Editorial Board: International Journal of Progressive Education (UIUC)

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Contact Details

ASPRO Cushla Kapitzke
AsProf, Digital & Multimodal Litera
E Block Level 1 122
Queensland University of Technology
Victoria Park Road
Kelvin Grove Qld 4059

Phone: 3138 5424
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Email: c.kapitzke@qut.edu.au

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