James Bell

BA Guilford C (USA), PhD N. Carolina
Lecturer, SOE

Research Interests

1. Sociological and philosophical perspectives in education
2. Critical theory and popular culture
3. Postmodern critiques of schooling
4. Critical literacies and social change
5. Ethics and education; postcolonial pedagogies
6. Critical outcomes education in tertiary settings

Publications

1. Thompson, G. & Bell, J. (2005). School connectedness: Student voices examine power and subjectivity. The International Journal on School Disaffection, 3 (1), 13-22.
2. Bell, James W. (2001) Building Bridges/Making Meanings: Texts of Popular Culture and Critical Pedagogy in Theory and Practice, Chapter 14 in Negotiating Critical Literacies in Classrooms, Ed: Barbara Comber and Anne Simpson, Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, pp 229-244.

Contact Details

j.bell@murdoch.edu.au