This is a collection of documents with reference to Knowledge Producing Schools (KPS). It includes book chapters, journal articles and conference papers. Some of the files below are versions of papers submitted for publication. Formatting and minor editorial changes may make these versions a little different from those in the published form. They are, more or less, in reverse order of publication dates:
Some of the older papers and presentations had to be retrieved from defunct web sites.
McGrath, Carmel (2014) Rethinking Student Engagement and Learning Partnerships: The Knowledge Producing School PhD Thesis, Deakin University.
Larson, Joanne (2014) Radical Equality in Education: Starting Over in U.S. Schooling. Routledge.
Marshman, Margaret (2012 ) Projects, Puzzles and Other Pedagogies: Working with Kids to Solve Local Problems. Research Paper. University of the Sunshine Coast.
Rowan, L. & Bigum, C. (Eds.) (2012) Transformative Approaches to New Technologies and Student Diversity in Futures Oriented Classrooms: Future Proofing Education. Springer.
Lankshear, Colin and Knobel, Michele (2011) New Literacies: Everyday Practices and Social Learning. Open University Press.
Bigum, C. (2010). Enactments, networks and quasi-objects: a stranger in a strange land. In R. Tinning & K. Sirna (Eds.), Education, Social Justice and the Legacy of Deakin University: Reflections of the Deakin Diaspora. (pp. 39-57). New York: Peter Lang.
Rowan, L., & Bigum, C. (2010). Fronteras/avanzadas/lo que se mueve en los márgenes/lo que se mueve en los límites, exponenciales y educación: extendiendo la universidad, haciendo escuela de forma diferente. Tendencias Pedagógicas(16), 31-44. Edges, Exponentials & Education: Extending The University, Doing School Differently. The paper on the site is in English with Spanish abstract.
Rowan, L., & Bigum, C. (2010). At the Hub of it All: Knowledge Producing Schools as Sites for Educational and Social Innovation. In D. Clandfield & G. Martell (Eds.), The School As Community Hub: Beyond Education’s Iron Cage . (pp. 185-203). Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
Bigum, Chris and Rowan, Leonie (2009) Renegotiating Knowledge Relationships in Schools in Noeffke, S.E., and Somekh B. (Eds) The SAGE Handbook of Educational Action Research. Sage.
Lankshear, Colin and Knobel, Michelle (2007) New Technologies in the Work of Secondary English Classrooms in Adams, Anthony and Brindley, Sue (Eds) Teaching Secondary English with ICT. Chapter 7. Open University Press.
Somekh, Bridget (2007) Pedagogy and Learning with ICT: Researching the Art of Innovation. Routledge.
De Vincentis, Sue (2007) Agile Education: Student-driven knowledge production. ACEL Conference Sydney 10-12 October 2007
Schneider, Sandra (2006) A Deweyan Perspective on Knowledge Producing Schools: Re- creative technologies for communities of inquirers. PhD Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
Rowan, Leonie and Bigum, Chris (2005) Quality Teaching for Quality Learning: CCTs and Transformative Classrooms. Professional Voice 4(1)– ‘Teacher Quality & Quality Teaching’, Australian Education Union.
Rowan, Leonie and Bigum, Chris (2005) Transforming frameworks: new approaches to CCTS and the pursuit of educational equity. Paper presented at the Australian Teacher Education Association Conference, Gold Coast, July 2005 and at the British Educational Research Association Conference, Glamorgan, September 2005.
Larson, Joanne and Marsh, Jackie (2005) Making Literacy Real: Theories and Practices for Learning and Teaching. Sage Publications Ltd.
Rowan, Leonie and Bigum, Chris (2004) Beyond pretence: new sensibilities for computing and communication technologies in teacher education. Paper presented at the Australian Teacher Education Association 2004 Conference.
Bigum, Chris (2004) Rethinking Schools and Community: The Knowledge Producing School in Marshall, S., Taylor, W., Huo, Y. X., Using Community Informatics to Transform Regions . pp. 52-66 Idea Group Inc (IGI).
Bigum, Chris (2004) The Knowledge Producing School. CITE Conference, Hong Kong University.
Cooling, C., Graham, T., Moore, T., and Walker-Gibbs, B. (2003) Building interactive relationships: The risks, dilemmas and learning initiatives associated with partnerships with ‘real’ purpose. Waraburra State School and Faculty of Education and Creative Arts, Central Queensland University
Bigum, Chris (2003) The Knowledge Producing School: Moving away from the work of finding educational problems for which computers are solutions. Computers in New Zealand Schools
Lankshear, Colin and Knobel, Michelle (2003) Planning pedagogy for i-mode: from flogging to blogging via wi-fi. IFTE Conference, Melbourne July 7 2003
Bigum, Chris (2002) The knowledge producing school: beyond IT for IT’s sake in schools. Professional Voice, Vol 2, No 2.
Bigum, C 2002, ‘Schools and knowledge production: community informatics for a knowledge economy‘, in Marshall, W, Taylor, W and Macpherson, C (eds) Refereed papers from the 4th International Information Technology in Regional areas Conference, Rockhampton, Central Queensland, Australia, 27-29 August 2002, pp. 208-215.
Bigum, Chris (2002) Design sensibilities, schools and the new computing and communication technologies, in Snyder, I (eds), Silicon Literacies: Communication, Innovation and Education in the Electronic Age . pp. 130-140, Routledge, London
Bigum, Chris (2000) Managing new relationships: design sensibilities, the new information and communication technologies and schools, Australian Principals Association’s Professional Development Council (APAPDC) National Online Conference [Online].