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Dr Rachel Cunneen

Dr Rachel CuneenPosition

Senior Lecturer - Teacher Education

Contact details

E: rachel.cunneen@canberra.edu.au
T: +61 2 62012067
L: Building 6 Room D6

Biography

Rachel Cunneen received her PhD in Australian literature from the ANU in 2003. Since then, she has taught at tertiary, secondary and pre-primary levels in the ACT. She has held an assistant professor position in teacher education at the º¬Ðß²ÝÊÓƵ since 2011. She is currently convening Literacy for Teachers, but has also convened the Sociocultural Politics of Education and Arts Education. She is also a researcher on an OLT grant investigating successful tertiary pathways for students from a refugee background and is broadly interested in the intersections between literacy and social justice.

Research Interests

  • The Australian English Curriculum and the mythopoetic classroom
  • Arts-based education and embodied learning
  • Literacy, literature and tertiary education