Dr Susan Sandretto, Our People, College of Education, University of Otago, New Zealand

Dr Susan Sandretto 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.

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Publications

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.

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

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

Wells, T., Sandretto, S., & Tilson, J. (2022). Metaxis moments prompted by authentic questions in primary classroom contexts. Research in Drama Education. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/13569783.2022.2064738

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

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

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

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

Tilson, J., & Sandretto, S. (2021). “I haven’t earned the right to just play around with my literacy programme”: Strategies, tactics and policy actors/subjects. English Teaching. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1108/ETPC-11-2020-0152

Journal - Research Article

Wells, T., Sandretto, S., & Tilson, J. (2021). Learning "what it's like to be someone else apart from yourself": Developing holistic empathy with process drama. Pedagogy, Culture & Society. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/14681366.2021.1949633

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

Wells, T., & Sandretto, S. (2017). “I’m on a journey I never thought I’d be on”: Using process drama pedagogy for the literacy programme. Pedagogies, 12(2), 180-195. doi: 10.1080/1554480X.2016.1245147

Journal - Research Article

Agnew, S., & Sandretto, S. (2016). A case for critical literacy analysis of the advertising texts of menstruation: Responding to missed opportunities. Gender & Education, 28(4), 510-526. doi: 10.1080/09540253.2015.1114073

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

Smith, L., Nairn, K., & Sandretto, S. (2016). Complicating hetero-normative spaces at school formals in New Zealand. Gender, Place & Culture, 23(5), 589-606. doi: 10.1080/0966369X.2015.1034245

Journal - Research Article

Blanch, K., Nairn, K., & Sandretto, S. (2014). Facebook in the classroom: Blended audiences and multiple front-stages. International Journal of Social Media & Interactive Learning Environments, 2(1), 70-84. doi: 10.1504/IJSMILE.2014.059693

Journal - Research Article

Brown, K., Nairn, K., & Sandretto, S. (2014). Learners' experiences in negotiating excellence. New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies, 49(1), 87-100.

Journal - Research Article

Sandretto, S. (2014). Teachers' metaphors of literacy: Do we need new metaphors? Curriculum Matters, 10, 232-251.

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

Haigh, M., Kane, R., & Sandretto, S. (2012). The positioning of students in newly qualified secondary teachers’ images of their ‘best teaching’. Journal of Education for Teaching, 38(3), 245-259.

Journal - Research Article

Jarvis, K., & Sandretto, S. (2010). The power of discursive practices: Queering or heteronormalising? New Zealand Research in Early Childhood Education, 13, 43-56.

Journal - Research Article

Sandretto, S. (2010). A reparative reading of a confessional narrative of 'inclusion': Working within an 'ethic of discomfort'. International Journal of Learning, 17(3), 255-268.

Journal - Research Article

Sandretto, S. (2009). Theoretical and methodological tensions in a poststructural, collaborative self-study research project. Studying Teacher Education, 5(1), 89-101. doi: 10.1080/17425960902830476

Journal - Research Article

Sandretto, S., Ballard, K., Burke, P., Kane, R., Lang, C., Schon, P., & Whyte, B. (2007). Nailing jello to the wall: Articulating conceptualizations of social justice. Teachers & Teaching, 13(3), 307-322.

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

Kane, R., Sandretto, S., & Heath, C. (2004). An investigation into excellent tertiary teaching: Emphasising reflective practice. Higher Education, 47(3), 283-310.

Journal - Research Article

Sandretto, S. (2004). ″You know what I mean?″: Initiating critical dialogue on the term social justice. New Zealand Journal of Educational Leadership, 19, 31-46.

Journal - Research Article

Kane, R. G., Sandretto, S. E., & Heath, C. J. (2002). Telling half the story: A critical review of research on the teaching beliefs and practices of university academics. Review of Educational Research, 72(2), 177-228.

Journal - Research Article

Sandretto, S. E., Kane, R. G., & Heath, C. J. (2002). Making the tacit explicit: A teaching intervention programme for early career academics. International Journal for Academic Development, 7(2), 135-145.

Journal - Research Article

Mandic, S., Hopkins, D., García Bengoechea, E., Moore, A., Sandretto, S., Coppell, K., Ergler, C., Keall, M., … Spence, J. C. (2020). Built environment changes and active transport to school among adolescents: BEATS Natural Experiment Study protocol. BMJ Open, 10(3), e034899. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-034899

Journal - Research Other

Sandretto, S. (2013). Developing critical literacy across the curriculum. SPANZ: Journal of the Secondary Principals' Association of New Zealand, (December), 22-28.

Journal - Research Other

Sandretto, S. (2009). Editor's preface. Critical Literacy, 3(2), 3-5.

Journal - Research Other

Sandretto, S. (2012). Planting seeds with critical literacy. English in Aotearoa, 78, 42-49.

Journal - Professional & Other Non-Research Articles

Sandretto, S. (2012). Using multiliteracies to navigate blue skies. Collected, (Term 4), 12-13.

Journal - Professional & Other Non-Research Articles

Martin, K., Davis, L. S., & Sandretto, S. (2019). A seed for future adoption: Mobile-filmmaking in the secondary school classroom. Proceedings of the World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning. (pp. 54-61). Retrieved from https://www.learntechlib.org/

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Kishimoto, T., & Sandretto, S. (2008). 'Culture' or teaching? Japanese women's learning experiences in New Zealand high school and university classrooms. In T. McGrath (Ed.), Proceedings of the 19th ISANA International Education Association Conference. The Gap, Australia: ISANA International Education Association. Retrieved from www.proceedings.com.au/isana2008

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

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