Senior Lecturer
EdD (Otago), PGDipArts (Otago), BEd (Otago), DipTchg (Otago)
Dunedin campus
Tower Block, S3.03
Tel +64 3 479 8809
Email jane.tilson@otago.ac.nz
Biography
I joined the University of Otago as a lecturer in 2000 having previously taught as a primary school teacher for twenty years in Dunedin, Auckland and London and Cambridge in the United Kingdom.
In May 2015 I graduated with my Doctorate in Education. My qualitative thesis underpinned by critical theory examined how to support preservice teachers' critically reflective practice using dialogue around their videotaped teaching practice. I employed HyperRESEARCH a qualitative data analysis tool and critical discourse analysis (CDA) to analyse how our dialogue did, or did not support shifts in preservice teacher's critically reflective practice as they discussed their videotaped teaching practice.
My current research platform includes projects around future focused literacy practices, critically reflective practice and in examining how the use of video supports preservice teachers to make theory to practice and practice to theory connections.
Teaching area
- Professional practice papers in the undergraduate primary teacher education programme and Master of Teaching and Learning Programme (primary)
- Literacy within a Bachelor of Arts paper
Research interests
- Critical Literacy
- Critical Multiliteracies
- Reflective Practice
- Teacher Education
Postgraduate supervision
I have been a co-supervisor for EDUC and EDUX 490 and 590 papers focused around literacy.
Awards
2015 Doctorate of Education awarded with Distinction. My thesis is listed under the 2014 'Exceptional Doctoral Theses in the Division of Humanities':
2014 Exceptional Theses – Division of Humanities
Publications
Wells, T., Sandretto, S., & Tilson, J. (2023). Bridging the theory-practice divide in teacher education through process drama pedagogy: “You fully experience what you're learning”. Teaching & Teacher Education, 124, 103993. doi: 10.1016/j.tate.2022.103993
Journal - Research Article
Wells, T., Sandretto, S., & Tilson, J. (2023). Metaxis moments prompted by authentic questions in primary classroom contexts. Research in Drama Education, 28(2), 195-209. doi: 10.1080/13569783.2022.2064738
Journal - Research Article
Wells, T., Sandretto, S., & Tilson, J. (2023). Learning "what it's like to be someone else apart from yourself": Developing holistic empathy with process drama. Pedagogy, Culture & Society, 31(4), 809-825. doi: 10.1080/14681366.2021.1949633
Journal - Research Article
Tilson, J., & Sandretto, S. (2022). “I haven’t earned the right to just play around with my literacy programme”: Strategies, tactics and policy actors/subjects. English Teaching, 21(2), 143-155. doi: 10.1108/ETPC-11-2020-0152
Journal - Research Article
Sandretto, S., Tilson, J., & Shafer, D. (2022). Critical literacy praxis in Aotearoa New Zealand. In J. Z. Pandya, R. A. Mora, J. H. Alford, N. A. Golden & R. S. de Roock (Eds.), The handbook of critical literacies. (pp. 117-124). New York, NY: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003023425-13
Chapter in Book - Research
Wells, T., Sandretto, S., & Tilson, J. (2023). Bridging the theory-practice divide in teacher education through process drama pedagogy: “You fully experience what you're learning”. Teaching & Teacher Education, 124, 103993. doi: 10.1016/j.tate.2022.103993
Journal - Research Article
Wells, T., Sandretto, S., & Tilson, J. (2023). Learning "what it's like to be someone else apart from yourself": Developing holistic empathy with process drama. Pedagogy, Culture & Society, 31(4), 809-825. doi: 10.1080/14681366.2021.1949633
Journal - Research Article
Wells, T., Sandretto, S., & Tilson, J. (2023). Metaxis moments prompted by authentic questions in primary classroom contexts. Research in Drama Education, 28(2), 195-209. doi: 10.1080/13569783.2022.2064738
Journal - Research Article
Tilson, J., & Sandretto, S. (2022). “I haven’t earned the right to just play around with my literacy programme”: Strategies, tactics and policy actors/subjects. English Teaching, 21(2), 143-155. doi: 10.1108/ETPC-11-2020-0152
Journal - Research Article
Sandretto, S., & Tilson, J. (2017). Discursive constructions of literacies: Shifting sands in Aotearoa New Zealand. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 38(2), 222-234. doi: 10.1080/01596306.2015.1075472
Journal - Research Article
Tilson, J., Sandretto, S., & Pratt, K. (2017). Connecting theory to practice: Using preservice teachers' beliefs, theories and video-recorded teaching to prompt a cycle of praxis. Teaching & Teacher Education, 67, 454-463. doi: 10.1016/j.tate.2017.07.012
Journal - Research Article
Sandretto, S., & Tilson, J. (2016). Complicating understandings of students' multiliterate practices with practitioner inquiry. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 60(1), 63-70. doi: 10.1002/jaal.524
Journal - Research Article
Sandretto, S., & Tilson, J. (2016). Designing curriculum literacies. Set: Research Information for Teachers, 2, 3-11. doi: 10.18296/set.0040
Journal - Research Article
Sandretto, S., & Tilson, J. (2014). "The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present": Preparing your students for their critically multiliterate future today. Set: Research Information for Teachers, 1, 51-60.
Journal - Research Article
Sandretto, S., and the Critical Literacy Research Team, including Tilson, J. (2006). Extending guided reading with critical literacy. Set: Research Information for Teachers, 3, 23-28.
Journal - Research Article
Kershner, R., Hennessy, S., Tilson, J., Slakmon, B., Calcagni, E., Kerslake, L., … Trevethan, H., Sandretto, S., & Seleznyov, S. (2019). T-SEDA: A flexible research-informed PD approach to teacher inquiry into dialogue. Proceedings of the 18th Biennial Conference of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI). (pp. 326-327). Retrieved from https://www.earli.org/book-abstracts
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Sandretto, S., & Tilson, J. (2019). "I haven't earned the right to just play around with my literacy programme": When tactics fail. Te Hā o te Takata: Proceedings of the New Zealand Association for Research in Education (NZARE) Conference. SAN19148. Retrieved from http://www.eenz.com/nzare19/
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Sandretto, S., & Tilson, J. (2016). How to incite change in literacy policy and practice: Strategies and tactics for teacher educators. Proceedings of the Teacher Education Forum of Aotearoa New Zealand - Te Rauika Titohu Kaiako o Aotearoa (TEFANZ) Conference: How Best to Educate a Nation's Teachers? Debating Quality Teacher Education for Today and the Future. Retrieved from http://www.tefanz.org.nz/conferences/2016-conference/
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Sandretto, S., & Tilson, J. (2014). Discursive constructions of literacies: Enduring and emerging discourses in Aotearoa New Zealand. Proceedings of the Joint Australian Association for Research in Education and New Zealand Association for Research in Education (AARE-NZARE) Conference: Speaking Back Through Research. Retrieved from http://aare-nzare2014.com.au/
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Sandretto, S., & Tilson, J. J. (2013). "Listen to the students a bit more": Bridging multiliterate funds of knowledge with student researchers. Proceedings of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting. Retrieved from http://www.aera.net
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Cameron, J., Juntrasook, A., Morrison, C., Nairn, K., Renner, S., Sligo, J., Tilson, J., Trevethan, H., Wass, R., & Anakin, M. (2012). Negotiating and sustaining academic writing groups. Proceedings of the Joint International Conference of the Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) and the Asia Pacific Educational Research Association (APERA). Retrieved from http://aare-apera2012.com.au/
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Hokianga, T., Sandretto, S., & Tilson, J. (2012). Weaving critical multiliteracies into your classroom programme [Workshop]. Proceedings of the New Zealand Reading Association Conference. Retrieved from http://www.cvent.com/events/2012-new-zealand-reading-association-conference/custom-35-a2d22d51035e4fd9b7b0ad0c72fa54a4.aspx
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Sandretto, S., & Tilson, J. (2012). "I sort of thought that I knew myself": Student autoethnographies into their multiliterate development [Workshop]. Proceedings of the New Zealand Reading Association Conference. Retrieved from http://www.cvent.com/events/2012-new-zealand-reading-association-conference/custom-35-a2d22d51035e4fd9b7b0ad0c72fa54a4.aspx
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Anakin, M., Morrison, C., Nairn, K., Tilson, J., Trevethan, H., Cameron, J., Juntrasook, A., Wass, R., & Sligo, J. (2011). Collaborative academic writing group [Panel discussion]. In K. Shephard, T. Harland & A. Cohen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Spotlight on Teaching and Learning Colloquium. (pp. 18). Dunedin, New Zealand: HEDC, University of Otago. [Abstract]
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Sandretto, S., & Tilson, J. (2011). Preparing students for multiliteracies: Looking to teacher research into the in and out-of-school multiliterate practices of their students. Proceedings of the 17th Biennial Conference of the Australasian Human Development Association (AHDA). (pp. 84). Retrieved from http://www.otago.ac.nz/ahda2011/
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Sandretto, S., Tilson, J., Hill, P., Upton, J., Howland, R., & Parker, R. (2005). Critical literacy as research process and product. Proceedings of the New Zealand Association for Research in Education National Conference. [CD-ROM], (pp. 119). [Abstract]
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