Dr Fida Sanjakdar
		Phone: 9919 4119 Fax:9919 4646 Email:fida.sanjakdar@vu.edu.au Office: C401C

• International Association for Intercultural Education
• Australian Curriculum Association Australia
• Australian Association for Research in Education

Qualifications

• Ph. D., The University of Melbourne, 2006
• M. Ed., The University of Melbourne, 2000
• B.Ed (Sec), Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), 1996
• B.Teaching, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), 199

• Primary and Secondary Education
• Curriculum, Assessment and Pedagogy
• Social Context of Education

• Curriculum theory, design, development
• Critical and creative pedagogy
• Critical action research
• Critical theory and ethnography
• Cross-cultural education
• Health and sexual health
• Islamic Education
• Morals and values education

Publications

Journal articles:

• Sanjakdar, F. (2008) ‘Teacher Talk’: The problems, perspectives and possibilities of developing a comprehensive sexual health education curriculum for Australian Muslim students, Sex Education (in press)
• Sanjakdar, F. (2008) Participatory Action Research: Creating spaces for beginning conversations in sexual health for young Australian Muslims, Educational Action Research (in press)
• Sanjakdar, F. (2004). Challenging English Teaching: Exploring ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ as a means of developing moral education through English Metaphor, Secondary English Teachers Association (ETA), pp. 66-70
• Sanjakdar, F.(2002). The Health Issues of Australian Muslim Youth: What every teacher must know Education Links, no. 64, pp. 27-30.
  
  

              Conference papers:

• Sanjakdar, F., Thomas, P., & Cacciattolo, M. (2008) Reconceptualising Pre-service Teacher Education at Victoria University: Putting the Byte into Inquiry Learning to be presented at the Third International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, Italy, 22-25 July (forthcoming)
• Sanjakdar, F. (2008) Revelation vs. Tradition: Beginning Curriculum Conversations in Sexual Health for Australian Muslim Youth to be presented at the Third International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, Italy, 22-25 July (forthcoming)
• Sanjakdar, F. (2008) Developing Islamic Ideological perspectives in sexual health: An Australian school experience to be presented at the Eighth International Conference on Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations, Canada, 17-20 June (forthcoming)
• Sanjakdar, F. (2005) Teachers’ struggle for an Islamically appropriate sexual health education curriculum at their school, Refereed paper for AARE conference, Sydney, November 2005.
• Sanjakdar, F. (2004) The critical role of schools and teachers in developing a sexual health education curriculum for Muslim students  Refereed paper for AARE conference, Melbourne, November 2004.

Conference papers (others):

• Sanjakdar, F. (2005). Controversy in our classrooms: problems, perspectives, possibilities, Paper for AARE conference, Sydney November.
• Sanjakdar, F. (2001). Educating Muslim Children: A study of the Hidden and Core curriculum of an Islamic school’ paper for AARE conference, Fremantle, Western Australia.

Books (Forthcoming):

Sanjakdar, F. (Ed) Digital Portfolios: Opening Boundaries of Inquiry Landscapes in
Pre-Service Teacher Education, (Pearson Education).

Book chapters:

• Sanjakdar, F. & Cacciattolo, M.  (2008) Inquiry learning in pre-service teacher education: Creating a web of possibilities In Sanjakdar, F. (Ed) Digital Portfolios: Opening Boundaries of Inquiry Landscapes in Pre-Service Teacher Education, Pearson Education (Forthcoming).
• Sanjakdar, F & Cara, C. (2008) Elaborate scrapbooks or Individualised portraits: Student reflections on the pre-service teacher portfolio In Sanjakdar, F. (Ed) Digital Portfolios: Opening Boundaries of Inquiry Landscapes in Pre-Service Teacher Education, Pearson Education Australia (Forthcoming).
• Senior, K. & Sanjakdar, F. (2005). Narratives of struggle: Dialogues and conversations on the professional teaching portfolio. In T. Hay & J. Moss (Eds). Portfolios, Performance and Authenticity, Pearson Publications, Melbourne.
• Sanjakdar, F. (2004). Developing an appropriate sexual health education curriculum framework for Muslim students, In B. van Driel (Ed) Combating Islamaphobia in Educational Practice, Trentham Books, Netherlands.
• Dixon, M. & Sanjakdar, F. (2004). Holding the Gaze: Teachers noticing and naming students. In Moss, J. (et al), Initiations and Inspirations: Pathways to successful teaching, Curriculum Cooperation, Melbourne, Victoria.

DE&T Publications:

Dixon, M., Moss, J., Ferguson, P., Senior, K., Ure, C., Sanjakdar, F., Anderson, M., Cobbold, C. (2006), Investigating contemporary pedagogical Content Knowledge in Thinking, ICT and Science in Victoria: Intertwining Knowledge and Practice, Melbourne, Department of Education & Training