Associate Professor
BA(UC Davis) MA DipTchg(CSU Sacramento) PhD(Otago)
Dunedin Campus
Tel 64 3 479 8820
Email susan.sandretto@otago.ac.nz
Biography
I arrived in New Zealand in 1997 from California where I was a Spanish Immersion primary school teacher. I worked as a research assistant and guest lecturer at the University of Otago in the Faculty of Education and the Higher Education Development Centre from 1999. I completed my doctorate at Otago in 2004 and was appointed as a lecturer that same year. My research interests include multiliteracies, critical literacy, gender issues in education and practitioner research. I teach across the primary teacher education and education studies programmes and supervise at the postgraduate level.
Publications
Mandic, S., García Bengoechea, E., Hopkins, D., Coppell, K., Smith, M., Moore, A., Keall, M., Ergler, C., Sandretto, S., … Flaherty, C., … Stephenson, J., … Spence, J. C. (2023). Examining the transport to school patterns of New Zealand adolescents by home-to-school distance and settlement types. Journal of Transport & Health, 30, 101585. doi: 10.1016/j.jth.2023.101585
Journal - Research Article
Sandretto, S., & Davis, S. (2023). Listening and responding to the voices of tamariki and rangatahi in research. In F. Meyer & K. Meissel (Eds.), Research methods for education and the social disciplines in Aotearoa New Zealand. (pp. 321-327). Wellington, New Zealand: NZCER Press.
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
Sandretto, S., Shafer, D., & Locke, T. (2023). The fate of critical literacy in an age of standards based hegemonies: The New Zealand context. In A. Goodwyn, J. Emanuel, R. Roberts, L. Scherff, W. Sawyer, C. Durrant & D. Zancanella (Eds.), International perspectives on English teacher development: From initial teacher education to highly accomplished professional. (pp. 226-240). Abingdon, UK: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003168140-21
Chapter in Book - Research
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. (2017). Using process drama to expand the literacy programme: An exemplar. Wellington, New Zealand: NZCER Press, 50p.
Authored Book - Research
Tilson, J., & Sandretto, S. (2016). Integrating critical multiliteracies using the Four Resources Model: A New Zealand guide. Wellington, New Zealand: NZCER Press, 75p.
Authored Book - Research
Sandretto, S., & Klenner, S. (2011). Planting seeds: Embedding critical literacy into your classroom programme. Wellington, New Zealand: NZCER Press, 280p.
Authored Book - Research
Sandretto, S., & Davis, S. (2023). Listening and responding to the voices of tamariki and rangatahi in research. In F. Meyer & K. Meissel (Eds.), Research methods for education and the social disciplines in Aotearoa New Zealand. (pp. 321-327). Wellington, New Zealand: NZCER Press.
Chapter in Book - Research
Sandretto, S., Shafer, D., & Locke, T. (2023). The fate of critical literacy in an age of standards based hegemonies: The New Zealand context. In A. Goodwyn, J. Emanuel, R. Roberts, L. Scherff, W. Sawyer, C. Durrant & D. Zancanella (Eds.), International perspectives on English teacher development: From initial teacher education to highly accomplished professional. (pp. 226-240). Abingdon, UK: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003168140-21
Chapter in Book - Research
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
Sandretto, S. (2016). Engaging students in dialogue. In D. Fraser & M. Hill (Eds.), The professional practice of teaching in New Zealand. (5th ed.) (pp. 98-117). Cengage Learning.
Chapter in Book - Research
Sandretto, S. (2016). Tensiones teórico-metodológicas desde una mirada post estructural, en un proyecto de investigación de self-study colaborativo. In C. Hirmas & R. Fuentealba (Eds.), Formadores de Formadores, Descubriendo La Propia Voz a Través del Self-Study. (pp. 97-115). Santiago, Chile: Organización de Estados Iberoamericanos.
Chapter in Book - Research
Sandretto, S. (2015). 'I like my beer cold, my TV loud and my homosexuals f-laming': Using critical literacy to draw attention to heteronormative hegemony in texts in popular culture. In A. C. Gunn & L. A. Smith (Eds.), Sexual cultures in Aotearoa New Zealand education. (pp. 49-66). Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago University Press.
Chapter in Book - Research
Mandic, S., García Bengoechea, E., Hopkins, D., Coppell, K., Smith, M., Moore, A., Keall, M., Ergler, C., Sandretto, S., … Flaherty, C., … Stephenson, J., … Spence, J. C. (2023). Examining the transport to school patterns of New Zealand adolescents by home-to-school distance and settlement types. Journal of Transport & Health, 30, 101585. doi: 10.1016/j.jth.2023.101585
Journal - Research Article
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
Martin, K. M., Davis, L. S., & Sandretto, S. (2021). Engagement with science across the middle years in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies, 56, 83-99. doi: 10.1007/s40841-020-00185-x
Journal - Research Article
Keall, M., Hopkins, D., Coppell, K., Sandretto, S., Garcia Bengoechea, E., Spence, J., … Mandic, S. (2020). Implications of attending the closest school on adolescents’ physical activity and car travel in Dunedin, New Zealand. Journal of Transport & Health, 18, 100900. doi: 10.1016/j.jth.2020.100900
Journal - Research Article
Sandretto, S., Hopkins, D., Wilson, G., & Mandic, S. (2020). Competing tensions: Active transport to school, school choice and policy making. Journal of Transport & Health, 18, 100908. doi: 10.1016/j.jth.2020.100908
Journal - Research Article
Martin, K. M., Davis, L. S., & Sandretto, S. (2019). Students as storytellers: Mobile-filmmaking to improve student engagement in school science. Journal of Science Communication, 18(05), A04. doi: 10.22323/2.18050204
Journal - Research Article
Sandretto, S., & Nairn, K. (2019). Do parenting advice books help or harm? Critiquing ‘common-sense’ advice for mothers raising boys. Gender & Education, 31(3), 327-343. doi: 10.1080/09540253.2018.1533919
Journal - Research Article
Mandic, S., Sandretto, S., Hopkins, D., Wilson, G., Moore, A., & García Bengoechea, E. (2018). “I wanted to go here”: Adolescents’ perspectives on school choice. Journal of School Choice, 12(1), 98-122. doi: 10.1080/15582159.2017.1381543
Journal - Research Article
Sandretto, S. (2018). A case for critical literacy with queer intent. Journal of LGBT Youth, 15(3), 197-211. doi: 10.1080/19361653.2018.1466753
Journal - Research Article
Mandic, S., Sandretto, S., García Bengoechea, E., Hopkins, D., Moore, A., Rodda, J., & Wilson, G. (2017). Enrolling in the closest school or not? Implications of school choice decisions for active transport to school. Journal of Transport & Health, 6, 347-357. doi: 10.1016/j.jth.2017.05.006
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
Trevethan, H., & Sandretto, S. (2017). Repositioning mentoring as educative: Examining missed opportunities for professional learning. Teaching & Teacher Education, 68, 127-133. doi: 10.1016/j.tate.2017.08.012
Journal - Research Article