Wendy Cumming-Potvin

BA Vancouver, GradDipEd Vancouver, MA Montreal, PhD Qld
Position, SOE

Research Interests

1. Socio-cultural and critical approach to teaching and learning, with a particular interest in scaffolding, multiliteracies and gender
2. Application of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in schools, universities and other communities
3. Teacher education and teacher identities
4. Applied ethics in schools, universities, etc. 

Projects

1. Building a  ‘reading circle’ community: Partnerships, pedagogy and technology (Funded by Murdoch University Research Excellence Grant, 2005-8)
2. Boys Education – Lighthouse schools project II (Funded by the Commonwealth Department of Education Science & Training, 2004-5)
3. Community building through intergenerational exchange programs (Funded by the Commonwealth Department of Family & Community Services, 2004-5)
4. Enhancing Literacy Based Learning in a School Community: Integrating Information Technology into a Literature-Based Program (Funded by a Murdoch University Research Excellence Grant, 2003-4)
5. Report of the Analysis of Qualitative Data from the ASP Infrastructure Trial, (Funded by the Department of Education and Training, Western Australia, Curriculum Directorate 2002-3)

Publications

1. Cumming-Potvin, W. (in press, Sept. 2008). Close up on reading: Pedagogy,  partners and ICT. Curriculum Perspectives, Curriculum Perspectives, Australia.
2. Cumming-Potvin, W.  (2007) Beyond struggling with reading: A Year Seven boy’s engagement in multi-literacy practices. Canadian Journal of Education/ Special Edition re boys and literacy. Vol 30 (2), pp. 483-508.
3. Cumming-Potvin, W.M. (2004) Disrupting literacy practices in a learning community: Empowerment through voicing. McGill Journal of Education, 39 (2), 199-219.
4. Cumming-Potvin, W.M.,  Renshaw, R. & van Kraayenoord, C. (Mar. 2004). reprint from Australian Journal of Language and Literacy & McGraw Hill. Scaffolding and bilingual shared reading experiences: Promoting primary school students' learning and development. Ed. G. Moss in Annual Editions: Early Childhood to Elementrary Literacy. McGraw Hill Publishers (in edited anthology for college use in USA).
5. Cumming-Potvin, W.M., Renshaw, P. & van Kraayenoord, C, (2003) A Sociocultural Analysis of Language Learning: New Forms of Literacy Practices in a Language and Culture Awareness Programme. Language and Education, 17, 391-407.  

Higher Degree Research Topics      

1. Multiliteracies
2. School Leadership
3. Teacher Education 
4. Philosophy & ethics in school settings
5. Collaborative learning
6. Intercultural interaction in tertiary settings
7. Pedagogy

Contact Details

w.cumming-potvin@murdoch.edu.au