Bryan Smith
- bryan.smith@jcu.edu.au
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0105-0857- Senior Lecturer, Education
- Education
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Publications
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Awards
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Biography
Bryan is a Senior Lecturer in Humanities and Social Sciences education. 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 places. His current research looks at the making of white 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
Research Advisor Accreditation
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 the rural areas of Australia
Doctor of Philosophy (Education) (Res)- 2022
Completed Honours and External Research Students
Playing and Making History: How Game Design and Gameplay Afford Opportunities for a Critical Engagement with the Past
PHD
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
Associations
Awards
Employment
Lecturer, York University
2016 - 2017
Lecturer, James Cook University
2018 - 2024
Output
Hébert, Cristyne; Ng-A-Fook, Nicholas; Ibrahim, Awad; Smith, Bryan (2019) Internationalizing Curriculum Studies: Histories, Environments, and Critiques. Cham, Switzerland: [Edited Publication] [DOI]
Other Publication
ResearchOnline@JCU
Smith, Bryan; Ng-A-Fook, Nicholas; Radford, Linda; Pratt, Sarah Smitherman (2018) Hacking Education in a Digital Age: teacher education, curriculum and literacies. Chalotte, NC, USA: [Edited Publication]
Other Publication
ResearchOnline@JCU
Smith, Bryan (2025) 'Colonial anxiety and the virtuous work of the Humanities and Social Sciences'. Critical Studies in Education, . [DOI]
Smith, Bryan; Neoh, Jia Ying; McDowall, Ailie; Kim, Eun-Ji Amy (2024) 'Preparing teachers for critical global and democratic practice: shifting inquiries into the teaching of democracy and global citizenship in teacher education'. Curriculum Perspectives, 44 :525-536. [DOI]
Smith, Bryan (2024) 'Curriculum as invader: Normalising white place in the Australian curriculum'. The Curriculum Journal, 35 (1):108-124. [DOI]
Smith, Bryan (2024) 'Walking the stories of colonial ghosts: A method of/against the geographically mundane'. Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 21 (1):84-108. [DOI]
Journal Publication
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Smith, Bryan; Neoh, Jia Ying (2023) 'Framing the global: Assessing the purpose of global citizenship education in primary geography'. Citizenship Teaching & Learning, 18 (3):313-329. [DOI]
Journal Publication
ResearchOnline@JCU
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 necessary re-consideration'. The Social Educator, 40 (1):3-15.
Journal Publication
ResearchOnline@JCU
Thumlert, Kurt; Smith, Bryan; Hébert, Cristyne; Tomin, Brittany (2020) 'Space is the place: pre-service teachers re/map
cartographic landscape'. Digital Culture & Education, 12 (1):52-71.
Smith, Bryan (2020) 'A curriculum of migrant home: settler geographies, land and colonial place-making'. Cultural and Pedagogical Inquiry, 12 (2):42-53. [DOI]
Journal Publication
ResearchOnline@JCU
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 heuristic in social studies'. The Social Studies, 109 (2):112-124. [DOI]
Journal Publication
ResearchOnline@JCU
Smith, Bryan (2017) 'Methodologically historicizing social studies education: curricular filtering and historical thinking as social studies thinking'. Canadian Journal of Education, 40 (2).
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ResearchOnline@JCU
Smith, Bryan (2017) 'Reconsidering the summer residence: the city-text, historical commemoration and banal settler geography'. Canadian Social Studies, 49 (1):24-29.
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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 geographies in Toronto'. Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies, 15 (2):34-47.
Journal Publication
ResearchOnline@JCU
Smith, Bryan (2016) 'Mobile applications and decolonization: cautionary notes about the curriculum of code'. Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 13 (2):144-163. [DOI]
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ResearchOnline@JCU
Smith, Bryan; Rogers, Pamela (2015) 'Towards a theory of decolonizing citizenship'. Citizenship Education Research Journal, 5 :59-71.
Smith, Bryan (2014) 'Confronting race and colonialism: experiences and lessons learned from teaching social studies'. In Education, 20 (1):25-39.
Smith, Bryan; Ng-A-Fook, Nicholas; Corrigan, Julie (2014) 'Mobile(izing) educational research: historical literacy, m-learning, and technopolitics'. McGill Journal of Education, 49 (3):583-602.
Journal Publication
ResearchOnline@JCU
Smith, Bryan (2014) 'Teaching a Social Studies without Guarantees: disrupting essentialism, ameliorating exclusions and planting the seeds'. Critical Literacy: theories and practices, 8 (1):64-79.
Smith, Bryan (2013) 'Currere and critical pedagogy: thinking critically about self-reflective methods'. Transnational Curriculum Inquiry, 10 (2):3-16.
Journal Publication
ResearchOnline@JCU
Smith, Bryan; Ng-A-Fook, Nicholas; Berry, Sara; Spence, Kevin (2011) 'Deconstructing a curriculum of dominance: teacher education, colonial frontier logics, and residential schooling'. Transnational Curriculum Inquiry, 8 (2):53-70.
Journal Publication
ResearchOnline@JCU
Smith, Bryan (2019) 'Embracing “the wrong path”: place-naming and the work yet to do' Professional Educator, 20 (1) :22-23.
Smith, Bryan (2017) 'Unwieldy social studies and traces of historical thinking: a response to Gibson and Case' Canadian Journal of Education, 40 (2) .
Smith, Bryan (2025) 'Colourblindness in/of place: Memory, colonial place, and education’s ignorance of the blue' In: Smith, Bryan (2025) Colourblindness in/of place: Memory, colonial place, and education’s ignorance of the blue. In: Newlands, Maxine, and Hansen, Claire, (eds.) Critical Approaches to the Australian Blue Humanities. Routledge Environmental Humanities . Routledge, London, UK, pp. 187-197(Eds.). Critical Approaches to the Australian Blue Humanities. London, UK : Routledge. [DOI]
Book Chapter
ResearchOnline@JCU
Smith, Bryan (2024) 'Placial Villains: Naming, Memorial Geographies of Invasion, and the Work of Social Studies' In: Smith, Bryan (2024) Placial Villains: Naming, Memorial Geographies of Invasion, and the Work of Social Studies. In: van Kessel, Cathryn, and Edmondson, Kimberly, (eds.) Teaching Villainification in Social Studies: Pedagogies to Deepen Understandings of Social Evils. Teachers College Press, New York, NY, USA, pp. 181-195(Eds.). Teaching Villainification in Social Studies: Pedagogies to Deepen Understandings of Social Evils. New York, NY, USA : Teachers College Press.
Book Chapter
ResearchOnline@JCU
Smith, Bryan; Ng-A-Fook, Nicholas; Radford, Linda; Smitherman Pratt, Sarah (2018) 'Hacking education in the 21st century' In: Smith, Bryan, Ng-A-Fook, Nicholas, Radford, Linda, and Smitherman Pratt, Sarah (2018) Hacking education in the 21st century. In: Smith, Bryan, Ng-A-Fook, Nicholas, Radford, Linda, and Smitherman Pratt, Sarah, (eds.) Hacking Education in a Digital Age: teacher education, curriculum, and literacies. Contemporary Perspectives in Philosophy and Technology, Chalotte, NC, USA, ix-xxiv(Eds.). Hacking Education in a Digital Age: teacher education, curriculum, and literacies. Chalotte, NC, USA : Contemporary Perspectives in Philosophy and Technology.
Book Chapter
ResearchOnline@JCU
Ng-A-Fook, Nicholas; Smith, Bryan (2017) 'Doing oral history education toward reconciliation' In: Ng-A-Fook, Nicholas, and Smith, Bryan (2017) Doing oral history education toward reconciliation. In: Llewellyn, Kristina R., and Ng-A-Fook, Nicholas, (eds.) Oral History and Education: theories, dilemmas, and practices. Palgrave Studies in Oral History . Palgrave Macmillan, New York, NY, USA, pp. 65-86(Eds.). Oral History and Education: theories, dilemmas, and practices. New York, NY, USA : Palgrave Macmillan. [DOI]
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ResearchOnline@JCU
Smith, Bryan (2016) 'Provoking digital common sense: Reddit, racialized language and the final vocabulary of race' In: Smith, Bryan (2016) Provoking digital common sense: Reddit, racialized language and the final vocabulary of race. In: Ng-A-Fook, Nicholas, Ibrahim, Awad, and Reis, Giuliano, (eds.) Provoking Curriculum Studies: Strong Poetry and the Arts of the Possible. Studies in Curriculum Theory Series . Routledge, New York, NY, USA, pp. 104-115(Eds.). Provoking Curriculum Studies: Strong Poetry and the Arts of the Possible. New York, NY, USA : Routledge.
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ResearchOnline@JCU