Program Coordinator - M.Teach (Secondary)
Subject Coordinator: Learners, Teachers and Pedagogy (Secondary); Primary Humanities; Teaching: Professional Perspectives

Australian Association for the Study of Religions

DipT. B.Ed. M.Ed. PhD.

Curriculum, Humanities education, Learning and Teaching

Social justice and curriculum reform
Social difference and education
Race, religion and education
Indigenous education
Sustainability Education
Women in Religion
Thai Buddhist women (mae chi) and education
Thai Buddhist women (mae chi) and ordination debates

PAPERS IN REFEREED JOURNALS

Kameniar, B., Imtoual, A., & Bradley, D. 2010 (in press) ‘”Mullin the Yarndi” and Other Wicked Problems at a Multiracial Early Childhood Education site in Regional Australia.’ Education Policy. 24 (1).

Kameniar, B. 2009 ‘Thai Buddhist Women, “Bare Life” and Bravery’. Penny Magee Lecture. Australian Religion Studies Review. 22 (3).

Kameniar, B. 2009 '"Little Buddha" and "Gandhi" Go to School: An Examination of the Use of Popular Film in Four Religious Education Classes'. Australian Religion Studies Review. Volume 22 (1), pp 28-41.

Imtoual, A., Kameniar, B., & Bradley, D., 2009 “Bottling the good stuff: Stories of hospitality and yarnin’ in a multi-racial kindergarten”. Australian Journal of Early Childhood. 34 (2), pp 24-30.

Kameniar, B. 2007 ‘Shaking Religious Education: A New Look at the Literature’. Religious Education. Volume 102 (4), pp 403-418.

Kameniar, B. 2007 ‘Buddhas, bindis, and bodies: Stereotyping Religion, Race and the Body’. Journal of Religious Education. Volume 55 (2), pp 33 – 39.

Kameniar, B. 2007 ‘Dilemmas in Providing Hospitality to Others in the Classroom: Stories about one Christian Religious Education Teacher’. Transnational Curriculum Inquiry. Volume 4 (3).

BOOK REVIEWS

Kameniar, B. 2005 Review of Kearney, C. 2003. ‘Monkey’s Mask: identity, memory, narrative’. Studies in Continuing Education. Vl 27, No 3, November, pp 314-318.

REFEREED CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

Kameniar, Barbara (Forthcoming) '“Women in Between”: Bhikkhuni Ordination Debates,“bare life”, and the Mae Chi in Thailand'. In "Buddhism free thinking? The philosophical and social dimensions of Buddhism". Edited by Gerhard Preyer and Siegfried C.A. Fay. Routledge. Submitted August 2008

Kameniar, B. 1999 ‘Visiting the Buddha: A postcolonial reading of “the excursion” as a pedagogic device.’ In Contesting the Curriculum. Edited by Bruce Johnson and Alan Reid. Katoomba: Social Science Press.

NON-REFEREED CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

Kameniar, Barbara, 1998 Chapter 8 ‘Indonesia’. In Heinemann Outcomes: SOSE 1. Studies of Society and Environment. Port Melbourne: Rigby Heinemann.

Kameniar, Barbara, 1997 Chapter 8 ‘Vietnam’. In Heinemann Outcomes: SOSE 2. Studies of Society and Environment. Port Melbourne: Rigby Heinemann.

CONFERENCE PAPERS (published in proceedings)

Kameniar, B., Imtoual, A., & Bradley, D. 2008 'The Invisible Bus: Stories of Leadership and Community Building in a racially and culturally diverse pre-school'. International Conference on Educational Leadership in Cultural Diversity and Globalization. Phuket, Thailand, on CD Rom.

Imtoual, A. & Kameniar, B. 2008 'Bottling the Good Stuff: stories of successful pre-schooling in a multi-racial regional town'. Paper presented at the IERC/AARE conference University of Notre Dame, Fremantle, Western Australia.

Kameniar, Barbara, 2007 ‘Rurality, Ordination Debates and Thai Mae Chi’. Invited paper presented at the International Congress on Buddhist Women’s Role in the Sangha: Bhikshuni Vinaya and Ordination Lineages. University of Hamburg.

Kameniar, Barbara, 1998, ‘Bodies, Pedagogies and the Buddha’. Paper delivered at the Australian Association of Research in Education Conference, Adelaide.

CONFERENCE PAPERS (unpublished)

Kameniar, Barbara, 2009 "Death and Religious Identity in Religious Education: Stories from four Australian Religious Education Classrooms". British Sociological Association, Religion Study Group Conference - "Religion and Knowledge", University of Durham, England.

Kameniar, Barbara, 2008 "Thai Buddhist Women, ‘Bare Life’ and Bravery". Penny Magee Lecture. Invited paper presented at the "2008 International Congress for the Study of Bible, Religion and Theology". University of Auckland, New Zealand

Kameniar, Barbara, 2007 ‘”Shifting the focus again”: The politics of geography and class in bhikkhuni ordination debates in Thailand’. Paper presented at "The end of the world as we know it? New directions in Australian spirituality". Australian Catholic University, Melbourne.

Kameniar, Barbara, 2007 ‘Bhikkhuni Ordination”. Invited paper presented at the Festival of Feminist Theology and Biblical Studies, Sophia, Adelaide.

Kameniar, Barbara, 2006 ‘The Shake of Religious Education, or how to find space for hospitality in practice through a new look at the literature’. Paper presented at the Celebrating the Past – Anticipating the Future conference, UNISA.

Kameniar, Barbara, 2004 ‘Vipissana as Critical Pedagogy’. Paper presented as part of a symposium on Buddhism and Critical Pedagogy, Doing the Public Good: Positioning Education Research. The University of Melbourne.

Kameniar, Barbara, 2004 ‘Hosts and Hostages in the Religion Education Classroom’. Paper presented at the Fear and Fascination: the Other in Religion conference, UWS.

Kameniar, Barbara, 2003, ‘Hosts and Hostages in the Classroom’. Paper presented at the Placing Race and Localising Whiteness Conference, Adelaide.

Kameniar, Barbara, 2002, ‘By the people, for the people, who are the people?: Critically reviewing civic identities’, Paper presented to the InASA Conference, Adelaide.

Kameniar, Barbara, 2001, ‘Who Killed Collet Barker?: working with student teachers in developing a postcolonial curriculum’, Paper presented to the Disrupting Preconceptions: Postcolonialism and Education Conference, Brisbane.

Kameniar, Barbara, 2001, ‘Democratising “Democracy”: critically (re)viewing civic identities’. Keynote Address at the Civics and Citizenship Education Conference, May, Adelaide.

Kameniar, Barbara, 1998, ‘Visiting the Buddha: a postcolonial reading of “the excursion” as a pedagogic device’. Paper delivered at the Cultural Studies Association of Australia Conference, Adelaide. This paper became a chapter of the same name in the book Contesting the Curriculum. Edited by B. Johnson and A. Reid. Katoomba: Social Science Press (1999).

In progress:

"Global Flows and Regional Living: re-imagining sustainable schools".
This is a five year, ethnographic study examining community engagement in two schooling sites in a regional South Australian city. The project seeks to establish best practice models for working with communities on issues of social justice, education, diversity and change.

"Examination of an educational program for Buddhist "nuns" in regional Thailand".
This project builds on prior research into the lives of the mae chi (Buddhist renunciant women) in Thailand. Early studies have focused on daily lives (1993) and ordination debates (1993, 2007).

"An ethnographic study of three Indigenous Australian children’s first year at school". Faculty Competitive Grant