Greg Burnett
- greg.burnett@jcu.edu.au
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7267-8510- Senior Lecturer in Education
- Education
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Publications
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Contact Details
Senior Lecturer
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- greg.burnett@jcu.edu.au
- https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Greg-Burnett/stats
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Biography
Greg Burnett is Senior Lecturer in the College of Arts, Society and Education at James Cook University in Australia. His research and teaching emphases include: a broad sociology of education with a Pacific focus; the influence of cultural and other social difference on schooling; and an exploration of critical and postcolonial theory as a basis for teaching, learning and researching in teacher education. His professional and personal life have emerged from various Pacific ‘routes’ that have led via Australia, Nauru, Kiribati, Fiji and New Zealand to name but a few. In each of these places he has lived and worked as an educator at various levels for extended periods over the last 30 years.
Research
Research Interests
Pacific systems of schooling, Postcolonial theory, Critical discourse analysis
Teaching
Teaching Interests
Sociology of education, Social justice and schooling, Indigenous education, Pacific education systems
Research Advisor Accreditation
Advisor Type
Mentor
Research Advisor Accreditation
Role
Chair; Independent Academic
Taught Modules
[ED1401] Education Perspectives and PracticeCoordinator, Lecturer
2026
[ED5883] Global EducationCoordinator, Lecturer
2026
Current JCU Research Students
Child language acquisition: A study in Lewo, Vanuatu
Master of Philosophy (Society and Culture)
Mainland Chinese students’ experience of learning English at a transnational higher education institution in Singapore
Doctor of Philosophy (Education)
Improving Chinese Language Teachers' Approaches to Teaching Chinese Writing Proficiency Skills via Distance Education - Preparing a Smoother Transition from Junior to Senior Years
Doctor of Philosophy (Education)
Completed JCU Research Students
Backpackers or educators? A critical analysis of foreign teacher’s identities in an international school within Guangdong province Southern China
Master of Philosophy (Education)- 2025
Exploring Picturebooks as Pedagogical Resources for Understanding Kanaky/New Caledonian Identities
Doctor of Philosophy (Society and Culture)- 2025
Output
Taylor, Subhashni; Brolese, Melissa; Burnett, Greg; Taylor, Neil (2026) 'The Impact of a Place-Based Citizen Science Project on Students’ Attitudes Toward STEM'. Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, 26 . [DOI]
Suluma, Wili; Burnett, Greg (2025) 'The Boarding School Education of Remote Aboriginal Students'. Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 35 (2):51-69. [DOI]
Burnett, Greg; Suluma, Wili (2024) 'Formal education in Nauru: A Pacific development assistance story'. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 65 (2):276-287. [DOI]
Burnett, Greg; Tikoduadua, Mereseini; Lingam, Govinda I. (2021) 'Fijian teachers working across Pacific borders: teacher identities, pedagogies and sense of difference'. Micronesian Educator, 30 :9-16.
Journal Publication
ResearchOnline@JCU
Burnett, Greg; Prakash, Kusum; Sharma, Vinata (2019) 'Negotiating conflicting discourses of quality teaching in Fiji: initial teacher education and practicum at the University of the South Pacific'. Waikato Journal of Education, 24 (1). [DOI]
Burnett, Greg (2019) 'Reading constructive alignment against the grain at the University of the South Pacific'. Directions: A Journal of Education Studies, 33 (1):100-107.
Journal Publication
ResearchOnline@JCU
Toward a theoretical framework for educational aid and teacher education within the Pacific Region
2018
Burnett, Greg (2018) 'Toward a theoretical framework for educational aid and teacher education within the Pacific Region'. Journal of Pacific Studies, 38 (1):5-22.
Journal Publication
ResearchOnline@JCU
Gasson, N. Ruth; Burnett, Greg; Sanderson, Lara J.; van der Meer, Jacques (2018) '(Re)conceptualising inclusive education in New Zealand: listening to the hidden voices'. Disability & Society, 33 (4):618-637. [DOI]
Journal Publication
ResearchOnline@JCU
Sullivan, Terence; Serow, Penelope; Taylor, Neil; Angell, Emily; Tarrant, Jodana; Burnett, Greg; Smardon, Dianne (2017) 'Supporting families: a nurturing teacher education strategy in Nauru'. Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 45 (1):39-52. [DOI]
Journal Publication
ResearchOnline@JCU
Sullivan, Terence; Serow, Penelope; Taylor, Neil; Burnett, Greg; Tarrant, Jodana; Smardon, Dianne; Angell, Emily (2015) 'A flexible delivery teacher education strategy in Micronesia'. Micronesian Educator, 21 :33-43.
Journal Publication
ResearchOnline@JCU
Gasson, N.R.; Sanderson, L.J.; Burnett, G.; van der Meer, J. (2015) '“It’s all he’s going to say”: using poetic transcription to explore students’ mainstream and residential school experiences'. Disability & Society, 30 (5):731-742. [DOI]
Journal Publication
ResearchOnline@JCU
Freeman, Claire; Lingam, Govinda Ishwar; Burnett, Greg (2015) 'Children's changing urban lives: a comparative New Zealand–Pacific perspective'. Journal of Urban Design, 20 (4):507-525. [DOI]
Journal Publication
ResearchOnline@JCU
Serow, Penelope; Taylor, Neil; Burnett, Greg; Sullivan, Terry; Smardon, Dianne; Tarrant, Jodana; Angell, Emily (2014) 'One size doesn’t fit all: teacher education in developing Pacific Island countries'. Journal of the International Society for Teacher Education, 18 (2):18-28.
Journal Publication
ResearchOnline@JCU
Curriculum reform in Solomon Islands: a shift from Eurocentrism to Solcentrism in curriculum making
2014
Lingam, Govinda Ishwar; Burnett, Greg; Lilo, Jullian Fenney; Lingam, Narsamma (2014) 'Curriculum reform in Solomon Islands: a shift from Eurocentrism to Solcentrism in curriculum making'. Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 23 (3):345-353. [DOI]
Journal Publication
ResearchOnline@JCU
Burnett, Greg (2013) 'Approaches to English literacy teaching in the Central Pacific Republic of Kiribati: quality teaching, educational aid and curriculum reform'. Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 33 (3):350-363. [DOI]
Journal Publication
ResearchOnline@JCU
Burnett, Greg; Lingam, Govinda i. (2013) 'The social construction of urban Fijian childhoods: literacy
teaching, Waka readers and children's lives'. Asia Pacific Education Review, 14 (2):255-265. [DOI]
Journal Publication
ResearchOnline@JCU
Burnett, Greg; Lingam, Govinda Ishwar (2012) 'Postgraduate research in Pacific education: interpretivism and other trends'. Prospects, 42 (2):221-233. [DOI]
Journal Publication
ResearchOnline@JCU
Burnett, Greg (2012) 'Research paradigm choices made by postgraduate students with Pacific education research interests in New Zealand'. Higher Education Research & Development, 31 (4):479-492. [DOI]
Journal Publication
ResearchOnline@JCU
Pacific tertiary students in New Zealand’s South: towards a more nuanced framework for understanding
2012
Burnett, Greg (2012) 'Pacific tertiary students in New Zealand’s South: towards a more nuanced framework for understanding'. New Zealand Journal of Teachers’ Work, 9 (1):50-64.
Burnett, Greg (2021) 'Constructive alignment in Pacific tertiary education: building the waka with nails' International Journal for Academic Development, 26 (1) :106-109. [DOI]
Journal Contribution
ResearchOnline@JCU
Teacher education and quality teaching in a globalizing world: a socially critical cautionary tale
2021
Burnett, Greg (2021) ICTLD 2021: 5th International Conference on Teacher Learning and Development Teacher education and quality teaching in a globalizing world: a socially critical cautionary tale Online, .
Burnett, Greg; Raturi, Shikha (2020) 'Acknowledging the graduate student research experience: lessons for supervisors from the auto-ethnographic writing of thesis acknowledgements and dedications pages' In: Burnett, Greg, and Raturi, Shikha (2020) Acknowledging the graduate student research experience: lessons for supervisors from the auto-ethnographic writing of thesis acknowledgements and dedications pages. In: Blair, Erik, Watson, Danielle, and Raturi, Shikha, (eds.) Graduate Research Supervision in the Developing World: policies, pedagogies and practices. Routledge Research in Higher Education . Routledge, New York, NY, USA, pp. 155-168(Eds.). Graduate Research Supervision in the Developing World: policies, pedagogies and practices. New York, NY, USA : Routledge. [DOI]
Book Chapter
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