Dr Greg Burnett

Senior Lecturer, Associate Postgraduate & Distance Coordinator

Greg Burnett BEd PhD(NE) DipTchg

Registry, G.22
University of Otago College of Education
Union St East
Tel 64 3 479 5464
Email greg.burnett@otago.ac.nz

Biography

I joined the University of Otago in July 2006. From 2003 to 2006 I was in the School of Education at the University of the South Pacific (USP) in, Suva Fiji. This USP teaching and writing position was part of an AUSAid funded project to convert an existing on-campus BEd degree programme into distance and flexible delivery mode to open up access to teachers across the greater Oceania area. From 2001 to 2003 I was at the University of New England (UNE), Armidale, Australia as Research Assistant to a AUD$1mill Australian Research Council funded rural education project - a partnership between the NSW Department of Education, Charles Sturt University and the University of New England investigating best practice in rural and remote NSW schools. Between 1997 and 2002, also while at UNE, I completed a PhD based on over 15 years of prior primary and secondary teaching in rural/remote Australia as well as Nauru and Kiribati in the Central Pacific. These and other diverse teaching and living experiences continue to inform my critical and postcolonial research interests, teaching emphases and publishing output in the College of Education at the University of Otago.

Research Interests

Supporting Pacific Students at Otago: Tertiary Study Experiences, Preferences and Attitudes - with Tofilau Nina Kirifi-Alai (Manager, Pacific Islands Centre) and Claire Matthewson (Director, Director, Summer School and Continuing Education)
The impact of work on the well-being of young New Zealanders - with Ruth Gasson (College of Education)
“How do you know?”: Pacific postgraduate students educational research paradigm and methodology choices in NZ Universities

Book Chapter

Burnett, G. (2009). The Pacific past that is not one: Problematising re-indigenised Pacific futures. In B. H. Stroud & S. E. Corbin (Eds.), Handbook on social change (pp. 205-219). New York: Nova Science.

Burnett, G. (2008). Language policy work and teaching: Complicating Pacific language communities. In J. Dorovolomo, C. F. Koya, H. P. Phan, J. Veramu, & U. Nabobo-Baba (Eds.), Pacific education: Issues and perspectives (pp. 180-195). Lautoka, Fiji: University of the South Pacific.

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Conference Contribution - Other

Burnett, G. (2010, July). How do you know? Interrogating educational research done on the cultural margins in New Zealand. Verbal presentation at the 21st International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development (ISSBD) Biennial Congress, Lusaka, Zambia.

Burnett, G. (2010, November). Educators for the return home: Research paradigm choices made by Pacific postgraduate education students while studying in New Zealand. Verbal presentation at the Mobilities Symposium: Towards a Movement-driven Social Science in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Dunedin, New Zealand.

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Conference Contribution - Refereed

Burnett, G. (2008). From Pacific region to Pacific rim: Newly arrived Pacific children's transition to southern New Zealand schools. Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Educational Research Association Conference, (pp. 198-199). APERA. Retrieved from http://www.apera08.nie.edu.sg/l5_prog.htm

Burnett, G. (2008). From training to beginning teacher: Anxieties and desires in transition. Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Educational Research Association Conference, (pp. 162). APERA. Retrieved from http://www.apera08.nie.edu.sg/l5_prog.htm

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Journal Article - Refereed

Burnett, G. (2010). Anxieties, desires and Sylvia: From preparation to beginning teacher. New Zealand Journal of Teachers' Work, 7(2), 143-155.

Burnett, G. (2009). Critically theorising the teaching of literacy and language in Pacific schooling: Just another Western metanarrative? Critical Literacy: Theories and Practices, 3(2), 17-32.

Burnett, G. (2008). Pacific elementary school teachers and language policy critique: Context, text and consequences. Asia Pacific Education Review, 9(2), 148-156.

Burnett, G., & Dorovolomo, J. (2008). Teaching in difficult times: Solomon Island teachers' narratives of perseverance. Journal of Peace, Conflict and Development, 12. Retrieved from http://www.peacestudiesjournal.org.uk/edition.asp?id=24

Burnett, G., & Dorovolomo, J. (2008). Teaching in difficult times: Solomon Island teachers' narratives of perseverance. Journal of Pacific Studies, 30, 37-62.

Lingam, G. I., & Burnett, G. (2008). Reaching the unreached primary teachers: Distance teacher education at the University of the South Pacific. Journal of Distance Learning, 12(1), 16-26.