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Teaching commitmentBiographyMy career in education spans 15 years. I have taught language educators and language learners from diverse cultural backgrounds both in Australia and overseas. Prior to joining the staff at Monash, I worked at the School of Education, University of Queensland.
Research InterestsGlobalization and English language education, sociocultural perspectives on language and literacy learning, teacher education and professional learning, critical multiculturalism and ethics in education, spatial analysis of learning environments
Research grants
ARC Discovery Tsolidis, G. & Kostogriz, A. (2005-2006). Tanscultural literacies: Diaspora, identity and schooling (ongoing).
SMGS Kostogriz, A. & Tsolidis, G. (2004). Cultural-semiotic landscaping of diasporic space (completed).
SMGS Elder, C., Miller, J., Kostogriz, A., Brown, J., & Jensen, M-T. (2004) Professional identities and practices of L2 teachers (completed).
SMGS Doecke, B., Kostogriz, A., & Brown, J. (2003). Writing in professional learning (completed)
DEST Goos, M., Kostogriz, A., Galbraith, P., Short, P., Jolly, L., Coco, A., Lowrie, T. & Frid, S. (2002-2003) Home, School and Community Partnerships to Support Childrens Numeracy (completed)
Professional Associations
- International Society for Cultural and Activity Research
- Australian Association for Research in Education
- Australian Teacher Education Association
SupervisionCentral issues addressed in the thesis of supervised students:
relations between culture, identity and learning in ESL/EFL education;
critical discourse analysis of language policies and teaching resources;
reading and writing in a second language;
globalization and World Englishes;
communicative language teaching (CLT) in EFL context;
Activity Theory and language teaching/learning;
English language education in postcolonial conditions;
critical pedagogy in TESOL
PublicationsEditorship
Berry, M., Clemans, A. & Kostogriz, A. (Eds.)(2007). Dimensions of professional learning: Professionalism, practice and identity. Rotterdam, Sense Publishers.
Kostogriz, A. & Godley, A. (2007). The construction of academic literacy and difference. Special issue of English Teaching: Practice and Critique. 6(2).
Vadeboncour, J., Kostogriz, A. & Hirst, E. (Eds.)(2006). Semiotic, dialogic and material spaces. Special issue of Mind, Culture, and Activity. 13(3), Lawrence Erlbaum.
Book chapters
Kostogriz, A. (2007). Spaces of professional learning. In Berry, M., Clemans, A. & Kostogriz, A. (Eds), Dimensions of professional learning: Professionalism, identities and practice, (pp. 23-36). Sense Publishers. Rotterdam.
Kostogriz, A. (2006). The role of texts in the production and transformation of cultural-semiotic space. In A. Pastukhov (Ed.), Genres and text-types in academic and media discourses, (pp. 224-237). Orel, RF: Kartush.
Kostogriz, A. (2005). (Trans)cultural spaces of writing. In D. Doecke & G. Parr (Eds.), Writing=Learning, (pp. 104-119), Adelaide: AATE/Wakefield Press.
Kostogriz, A. (2005). Dialogical imagination of (inter)cultural spaces: Rethinking the semiotic ecology of second language and literacy learning. In J.K. Hall, G.Vitanova & L. Marchenkova (Eds.), Dialogue with Bakhtin on Second and Foreign Language Learning: New Perspectives, (pp. 189-210). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Green, B. & Kostogriz, A. (2002). Learning disabilities and the New Literacy Studies: A socially critical perspective. In J. Soler, J. Wearmouth & G. Reid (Eds.), Contextualising difficulties in literacy development: Exploring politics, culture, ethnicity and ethics, (pp. 102- 114), London: Routledge.
Journal articles
Kostogriz, A. & Doecke, B. (2008). English and its others: Towards an ethics of transculturation. Changing English, 15 (3), pp. 257-272.
Kostogriz, A & Tsolidis, G. (2008). Transcultural literacy: Between the global and the local. Pedagogy, Culture & Society, 16 (2), pp. 125-136.
Kostogriz, A. (2008). Becoming a teacher in neo-liberal conditions. Review essay. Pedagogy, Culture & Society, 16 (3), pp. 321-325.
Doecke, B. & Kostogriz, A. (2008). Becoming a professional (and other dissident acts). L1-Educational Studies in Language and Literature, 8 (4), pp. 63-84.
Tsolidis, G. & Kostogriz, A. (2008). After hours schools as core to the spatial politics of in-betweeness. Race, Ethnicity and Education, 11 (3), pp. 319-328.
Doecke, B., Green, B., Kostogriz, A., Reid, J-A., & Sawyer, W. (2007). Knowing practice in English teaching? Research challenges in representing the professional practice of English teachers. English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 6 (3), pp. 4-21.
Coco, A., Goos, M. & Kostogriz, A. (2007). Tutor and teacher timescapes: Lessons from a home-school partnership. The Australian Educational Researcher, 34 (1), pp. 73-87.
Kostogriz, A. & Godley, A. (2007). The construction of academic literacy and difference. Editorial introduction. English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 6 (2), pp. 1-7.
Kostogriz, A. & Doecke, B. (2007). Encounters with 'strangers': Towards dialogical ethics in English language education. Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 4 (1), pp. 1-24
Kostogriz, A. & Peeler, E. (2007). Professional identity and pedagogical space: Negotiating difference in teacher workplaces. Teaching Education, 18 (2), pp. 107-122
Kostogriz, A. (2006). Putting space on the agenda of sociocultural research in education. Mind, Culture, and Activity, 13 (3), pp. 174-188
Vadebouncer, J., Hirst, E. & Kostogriz, A. (2006). Spatializing sociocultural research: A reading of mediation and meaning as third spaces, Mind, Culture, and Activity, 13(3), pp. 161-173
Doecke, B. & Kostogriz, A. (2005). Teacher education and critical inquiry: The use of activity theory in exploring alternative understandings of language and literacy, The Australian Journal of Teacher Education, vol. 30 (1), pp. 15-26
Doecke, B., Kostogriz, A., & Charles, C. (2004). Heteroglossia: A space for developing critical language awareness? English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 3(3), pp. 29-42
Kostogriz, A. (2000). Social construction of identities in community of practice classrooms. Teaching Education, pp. 365-370
Referred conference proceedings
Goos, M., Jolly, L. & Kostogriz, A. (2005). Home, school and community partnerships for numeracy education in a remote Indigenous community, in Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Mathematics Education and Society, GoldCoast (July)
Kostogriz, A. (2005). Semiotic spatiality and cultural hybridity, in the Language, Education and Diversity 2003 conference proceedings, the University of Waikato, Hamilton
Doecke, B. & Kostogriz, A. (2004) Heteroglossic spaces: interrogating academic literacies in teacher education, in Proceedings of the 2004 Australian Teacher Education Association Conference, CSU, Bathurst
Conference papers
Kostogriz, A. (2008). Professional ethics of English teaching in multicultural conditions. Paper presented at the 15th World Congress of Applied Linguistics Multilingualism: Challenges and opportunities. Essen, Germany, 24-29 August
Kostogriz, A. (2006). On strangers, moral panics and the neo-liberalization of teacher education. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Australian Association for Research in Education, Adelaide, 27-30 November
Kostogriz, A. (2006). Dialogical ethics in a global society: Cultural difference and answerability. Paper presented at the 4th International Conference on the Dialogical Self, Braga, Portugal, 1-3 June
Kostogriz, A. & Tsolidis, G. (2005). Transcultural literacy: Diaspora and identity reconsidered. Paper presented at the International Congress of the International Society for Cultural and Activity Research, Seville, 20-24 Sep
Kostogriz, A. (2004). Rethinking the spatiality of literacy practices in multicultural conditions. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Australian Association for Research in Education, Melbourne, 28th Nov 2nd Dec
Kostogriz, A. & Peeler, E. (2004). Professional identity and pedagogical space: Negotiating difference in teacher workplaces. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Australian Association for Research in Education Melbourne, 28th Nov 2nd Dec
Brown, J., Charles, C., Doecke, B. & Kostogriz, A. (2004). Heteroglossia: A space for developing critical language awareness? Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Australian Association for Research in Education Melbourne, 28th Nov 2nd Dec
Short, T., Goose, M. & Kostogriz, A. (2004). Conceptualising, conducting and disseminating research for the public. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Australian Association for Research in Education Melbourne, 28th Nov 2nd Dec
Kostogriz, A. (2003). Semiotic spatiality and cultural hybridity: The use of Bakhtinian theory in language and literacy pedagogy, paper presented at the International Conference on Language, Education and Diversity, The University of Waikato, Hamilton, 25th 29th Nov
Doecke, B. & Kostogriz, A. (2003). Teacher Education and Critical Inquiry: The Use of Activity Theory in Exploring Alternative Understandings of Language and Literacy, paper presented the Joint Conference of the Australian Association for Research in Education and New Zealand Association for Research in Education, Auckland, 30th Nov - 3 Dec
Kostogriz, A. (2000). Activity Theory and the New Literacy Studies: Modelling the Literacy Learning Activity System, paper presented at the AARE Conference, The University of Sydney, 4th - 7th Dec
Kostogriz, A. (2000). Hybrid literacies in classroom communities: Living and learning in the 'Thirdspace', paper presented at the Scaffolding Language and Learning in Educational Contexts Conference, Sydney, UTS, 6th - 8th Dec
Invited symposia
Doecke, B. & Kostogriz, A. (2005). Teacher education, research and resource development in cross-cultural issues for the school sector, paper given at symposium in honour of Michael Clyne, Language Policy, Education and Cross-cultural Communication Melbourne University, 1 Apr
Kostogriz, A. (2004). Mediation in cultural-historical psychology: Implications for the New Literacy Studies, paper given at symposium on New Psychologies in Education and Beyond: Post-Critical Explorations, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, 26 27 Aug
Kostogriz, A. (2004). Sociocultural and activity theory: dimensions of historical significance, paper given at symposium on Exploring sociocultural and activity theory: historical and contemporary trends, the Centre for Childhood Studies, Monash University, Faculty of Education, 27 Nov
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