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Biography

Bryan is a Lecturer in Humanities and Social Sciences education at James Cook University. His work looks at anti-racist and decolonising readings of humanities and social sciences education. Specifically, his work critically interrogates place, colonial and racialised logics in curriculum practice, and the convergence of history, geography, and citizenship education in re-imagining local and global places. His current line of work looks at the making of settler place and how everyday features of the urban landscape writes settler possession into the material and symbolic spaces of communities.

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Research

Research Interests

anti-racism; decolonisation; place; humanities education.

Teaching

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Advisor Type

Primary

Research Advisor Accreditation
Role

Chair; Independent Academic

Completed JCU Research Students
An Exploration of Tertiary Education and Community Experiences for Persons Living in Australian Rural Areas
Doctorate by Research - time-based- 2022

Activities

Education
PhD, University of Ottawa
2010 - 2015
B.A. (Hons.), Queen's University
2004 - 2008
M.A., Wilfrid Laurier University
2008 - 2009
B.Ed., University of Ottawa
2009 - 2010
Media
Episode 52: Bryan Smith, Fook'n Conversation
Naming of streets a cultural guidepost, Townsville Bulletin
Drive with Adam Stephen (July 5 2019), ABC Radio
Associations
Social and Citizenship Education Association of Australia
2024

Output

Placial Villains: Naming, Memorial Geographies of Invasion, and the Work of Social Studies
2024
Smith, Bryan (2024) Placial Villains: Naming, Memorial Geographies of Invasion, and the Work of Soci. New York, NY, USA: ...
Other Publication ResearchOnline@JCU
Hacking education in the 21st century
2018
Smith, Bryan; Ng-A-Fook, Nicholas; Radford, Linda; Smitherman Pratt, Sarah (2018) Hacking education . Chalotte, NC, USA...
Other Publication ResearchOnline@JCU
Hacking Education in a Digital Age: teacher education, curriculum and literacies
2018
Smith, Bryan; Ng-A-Fook, Nicholas; Radford, Linda; Pratt, Sarah Smitherman (2018) Hacking Education . Chalotte, NC, USA...
Other Publication ResearchOnline@JCU
Doing oral history education toward reconciliation
2017
Ng-A-Fook, Nicholas; Smith, Bryan (2017) Doing oral history education toward reconciliation. New York, NY, USA: [DOI] ...
Other Publication ResearchOnline@JCU
Provoking digital common sense: Reddit, racialized language and the final vocabulary of race
2016
Smith, Bryan (2016) Provoking digital common sense: Reddit, racialized language and the final vocabu. New York, NY, USA: ...
Other Publication ResearchOnline@JCU
Curriculum as invader: Normalising white place in the Australian curriculum
2024
Smith, Bryan (2024) 'Curriculum as invader: Normalising white place in the Australian curriculum'. The Curriculum Journal, 35 (1):108-124. [DOI] ...
Journal Publication ResearchOnline@JCU
Walking the stories of colonial ghosts: A method of/against the geographically mundane
2024
Smith, Bryan (2024) 'Walking the stories of colonial ghosts: A method of/against the geographically . Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 21 (1):84-108. [DOI] ...
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Framing the global: Assessing the purpose of global citizenship education in primary geography
2023
Smith, Bryan; Neoh, Jia Ying (2023) 'Framing the global: Assessing the purpose of global citizenship. Citizenship Teaching & Learning, 18 (3):313-329. [DOI] ...
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Effecting anti-racism in citizenship: challenges, possibilities, and a necessary re-consideration
2022
Smith, Bryan (2022) 'Effecting anti-racism in citizenship: challenges, possibilities, and a necessar. The Social Educator, 40 (1):3-15. ...
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Space is the place: pre-service teachers re/map cartographic landscape
2020
Thumlert, Kurt; Smith, Bryan; Hébert, Cristyne; Tomin, Brittany (2020) 'Space is the place: pre-serv. Digital Culture & Educatio, 12 (1):52-71. ...
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A curriculum of migrant home: settler geographies, land and colonial place-making
2020
Smith, Bryan (2020) 'A curriculum of migrant home: settler geographies, land and colonial place-maki. Cultural and Pedagogical Inquiry, 12 (2):42-53. [DOI] ...
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Engaging geography at every street corner: using place-names as critical heuristic in social studies
2018
Smith, Bryan (2018) 'Engaging geography at every street corner: using place-names as critical heuris. The Social Studies, 109 (2):112-124. [DOI] ...
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Methodologically historicizing social studies education: curricular filtering and historical thinking as social studies thinking
2017
Smith, Bryan (2017) 'Methodologically historicizing social studies education: curricular filtering a. Canadian Journal of Education, 40 (2). ...
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Reconsidering the summer residence: the city-text, historical commemoration and banal settler geography
2017
Smith, Bryan (2017) 'Reconsidering the summer residence: the city-text, historical commemoration and. Canadian Social Studies, 49 (1):24-29. ...
Journal Publication ResearchOnline@JCU
Cartographies of colonial commemoration: critical toponymy and historical geographies in Toronto
2017
Smith, Bryan (2017) 'Cartographies of colonial commemoration: critical toponymy and historical geogr. Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies, 15 (2):34-47. ...
Journal Publication ResearchOnline@JCU
Mobile applications and decolonization: cautionary notes about the curriculum of code
2016
Smith, Bryan (2016) 'Mobile applications and decolonization: cautionary notes about the curriculum o. Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 13 (2):144-163. [DOI] ...
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Towards a theory of decolonizing citizenship
2015
Smith, Bryan; Rogers, Pamela (2015) 'Towards a theory of decolonizing citizenship'. 5 :59-71. ...
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Confronting race and colonialism: experiences and lessons learned from teaching social studies
2014
Smith, Bryan (2014) 'Confronting race and colonialism: experiences and lessons learned from teaching. 20 (1):25-39. ...
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Mobile(izing) educational research: historical literacy, m-learning, and technopolitics
2014
Smith, Bryan; Ng-A-Fook, Nicholas; Corrigan, Julie (2014) 'Mobile(izing) educational research: histo. 49 (3):583-602. ...
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Teaching a "Social Studies without Guarantees": disrupting essentialism, ameliorating exclusions and planting the seeds
2014
Smith, Bryan (2014) 'Teaching a Social Studies without Guarantees: disrupting essentialism, ameliora. 8 (1):64-79. ...
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Currere and critical pedagogy: thinking critically about self-reflective methods
2013
Smith, Bryan (2013) 'Currere and critical pedagogy: thinking critically about self-reflective method. 10 (2):3-16. ...
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Deconstructing a curriculum of dominance: teacher education, colonial frontier logics, and residential schooling
2011
Smith, Bryan; Ng-A-Fook, Nicholas; Berru, Sara; Spence, Kevin (2011) 'Deconstructing a curriculum of. 8 (2):53-70. ...
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Violence
2020
Gertz, Janine; Maguire, Emma; Petray, Theresa; Smith, Bryan (2020) 'Violence' M/C Journal, 23 (2) . [DOI] ...
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Embracing “the wrong path”: place-naming and the work yet to do
2019
Smith, Bryan (2019) 'Embracing “the wrong path”: place-naming and the work yet to do' Professional Educator, 20 (1) :22-23. ...
Journal Contribution ResearchOnline@JCU
Unwieldy social studies and traces of historical thinking: a response to Gibson and Case
2017
Smith, Bryan (2017) 'Unwieldy social studies and traces of historical thinking: a response to Gibson Canadian Journal of Education, 40 (2) . ...
Journal Contribution ResearchOnline@JCU
Colourblindness in/of place: Memory, colonial place, and education’s ignorance of the blue
2025
Smith, Bryan (2025) 'Colourblindness in/of place: Memory, colonial place, and education’s ignorance In: Smith, Bryan (2025) Colourblindness in/of place: Memory, colonial place, a...