Jill Brown(Monash)

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Dr.Jill Brown

Biography

I started my teaching career in the earlyseventies after some time as a research/welfare worker with the Brotherhood ofSt Laurence's Family Centre Project in inner Melbourne. It was during this time that Ifirst became aware of the power of language in either limiting or extendingpeople's lives. After completing a Diploma of Education I worked as an ESLteacher in Victorian government schools for over twenty years. During this timeI was involved in the development and implementation of the VictorianCertificate of Education' s provision for ESL students and in the developmentof ESL curriculum materials. I started work in the Faculty of Education atMonash in the 1990s and have taught in a range of pre-service and post-graduateprograms since then. I supervise student research at doctoral, masters andhonours level and am also responsible for a number of international programs inTESOL.

Research interests

·A major focus for research is on varying aspects of English toSpeakers of Other Languages (ESOL) teacher work and identity includingbeginning teacher identity construction and ESOL teacher work in a range ofdifferent contexts.

·I am also involved in research on the needs of refugee ESL studentswith interrupted education in mainstream subject classes, the language demandsof secondary education and the most effective ways of assisting subjectteachers in their work with these students.

·Another research interest is the school experiences of refugee,migrant and indigeous children and I am currently involved in an internationalstudy of this area.

·I have research grants to explore the educational needs of refugeestudents with interrupted education and to develop appropriate teachingmaterials to cater for these students in mainstream classes.

Selected publications

·Alerby, E. & Brown, J. R. (Eds). (2008). Voices from theMargins. School Experiences of Indigenous, Refugee and Migrant Children, SensePublishers, Rotterdam.

·Brown, J. R. (2008). He is thirsty for knowledge: Afghan andSudanese refugee children in Australia,in Eva Alerby and Jill Brown (Eds). Voices from the Margins: School Experiencesof Indigenous, Refugee and Migrant Children, Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, pp. 109-128.

·Brown, J. R. (2008). Talking to the locals: Community research andHong Kong students in an English language immersion program (Australia), in Anne Burns and JillBurton (Eds). Language Teacher Research in Australiaand New Zealand, TESOLPublishing, USA,pp. 9-23.

·Brown, J. R. & Miller, J. M. (2006). Dilemmas of identity inteacher education: reflections on one pre-service ESL teacher cohort, TESOL inContext, 1, 118-128.

·Brown, J. R., Miller, J. M. & Mitchell, J. M. (2006). Interruptedschooling and the acquisition of literacy: experiences of Sudanese refugees inVictorian secondary schools, Australian Journal of Language and Literacy,29(2), 150-162.

·Brown, J. R. (2005). 'I love teaching ESL' - constructions of ESLteacher work and identity, TESOL in Context, 15(1), 13-18.

·Miller, J. M., Mitchell, J. M. & Brown, J. R. (2005). Africanrefugees with interrupted schooling in the high school mainstream: dilemmas forteachers, Prospect, 20(2), 19-33.

·Brown, J. R. (2005). Seduction and betrayal revisited: ethicaldilemmas of insider research, Doing the Public Good: Positioning EducationResearch. Australian Association for Educational Research 2004 ConferencePapers, 29/11/04 to 02/12/04,http:www.aare.edu.au/confpap.htm, pp. 1-17.

·Brown, J. R. (2004). Warrior or mother - metaphors for ESL teacherwork, Didaktisk Tidskrift: Nordic Journal of Teaching and Learning, 14(1),25-33.

SeeJill Brown in the Monash Research Directory

Supervision

Supervision of Doctoral, Masters and BEdHonours includes such topics as:

Beginning Teacher Identity

Meeting the Needs of ESL Students in theSOSE Classroom

Communicative Language Teaching in Indonesia

Metaphors for the Work of the LanguageTeacher

The transition of ESL Students fromLanguage Centre to Mainstream Schools

Transition from primary to SecondarySchool

The needs of international students inAustralian secondary schools

Transition to work - NESB adults