Ms Sam Schulz

Position/s:Lecturer / Academic Skills Advisor
Student Learning Centre
Phone: +61 8 82017984
Email:
Location: Student Centre (B11)
Postal address: GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia

Biography

Sam is a lecturer and academic skills advisor in the Student Learning Centre, and PhD candidate in the Faculty of Education, Humanities and Law. Sam's research explores the dispositions of 'white' teachers to their work and place within South Australia's Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands. The research adopts a poststructuralist orientation to life history methodology, and employs ideas from critical race and whiteness studies and the work of French theorist Michel Foucault. 

Qualifications

PhD Education (Indigenous Education) in progress (Flinders University of South Australia)
Bachelor of Education (UPLS) with First Class Honours (Flinders University of South Australia)
Master of Arts (Creative Writing) (University of Adelaide)
Bachelor of Arts (Flinders University of South Australia)

Honours, awards and grants

2012: Best Student Paper Award, Faculty of Education, Humanities & Law

2006: Australian Postgraduate Award

2006: Mace Bearer, Education Graduation Ceremony, Flinders University of South Australia

2004: University Medal Recipient, Flinders University of South Australia

2004: Chancellor's Letter of Commendation, Flinders University of South Australia

2004: ANZ Bank Prize in Teacher Education

2003: Chancellor's Letter of Commendation, Flinders University of South Australia

2002: Colin Thiele Award for Literature

2001: Australian Government Award for Voluntary Service in a Developing Nation

Teaching

Teaching interests

  • Sociology of Education
  • Qualitative Research Methods
  • Indigenous Education
  • Critical Race and Whiteness Studies
  • Social Justice

Research and supervision

Research interests

  • Social Justice Education
  • Critical Race and Whiteness Studies
  • Poststructuralism in Educational Research
  • Life History Methodology
  • Governmentality Studies in Education

Publications

Refereed journal articles
Schulz, S. (2011). White teachers and the good governance of Indigenous souls: White governmentality and Ernabella Mission (1937-1971). Race, Ethnicity and Education, 14(2), pp.209-232. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13613324.2010.519979.
Schulz, S. (2007). Inside The Contract Zone: White teachers in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands. International Education Journal, 8(2), pp.270-283. [online]. http://ehlt.flinders.edu.au/education/iej/articles/v8n2/Schulz/paper.pdf.
Schulz, S. (2005). The Gifted:  Identify Construction Through the Practice of Gifted Education. International Education Journal, 5(5), pp.117-128.
Other public research outputs
Schulz, S. (2003). Christmas in October. Cracker! A Christmas Collection, pp.110-116.
Schulz, S. (2003). Slipshod. Anthology of Australasian Stories, pp.84-88.
Clarkson, R., Harrison, K., Hudson, G., Jedynak, L., Sallis, E. and Schulz, S. (2002). Editors. Forked Tongues: A Delicious Anthology of Poetry and Prose.
Schulz, S. (2002). D&M. Forked Tongues: A delicious anthology of poetry and prose, pp.88-98.
Schulz, S. (2002). Number Seven. Forked Tongues: A delicious anthology of poetry and prose, pp.35-42.

Professional and community engagement

Subject/s

  • Education - Aboriginal
  • Race relations
  • Teaching


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