Dr Julie Maakrun

Biography

Senior Lecturer Julie Maakrun lectures in primary pedagogy; social justice and primary curriculum key learning areas. Having commenced her career as a primary school teacher, Julie has held many roles in schools, including teaching and learning co-coordinator, executive school member and primary school principal. Julie has organised and led international immersion programs to Kenya, Tanzania and Timor -Leste. Julie's PhD, focussed on the development of intercultural competence in preservice teachers through their involvement in international immersion programs. Julie has published in peer reviewed journals and has presented at national conferences. Julie has received the following awards for her work: Office of Learning and Teaching: Australian Awards for University Teaching - Award for Programs that Enhance Learning (Team); Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning (Team); Vice Chancellor’s Award (Team) - Initiatives the Enhance Student Learning.

Teaching Areas

Primary pedagogy, social justice, primary key learning areas.

Undergraduate courses taught include but not limited to:

EDUC1006 Learning & Development
EDUC1017 The Global Citizen
EDUC2008 Australia & the World
EDUC2034 Foundational Principles of Teaching
EDUC3017 Diversity in Education
EDUC4006 Professional Engagement

Postgraduate courses taught

EDUC6009 Planning for Effective Teaching
EDUC 6027 Internship & Transition to Teaching

Research Expertise and Supervision

Intercultural competence; service learning; immersion programs.

Book Chapters

Dervin, F., Moloney, R., & Simpson, A. (Eds.). (2020). Intercultural competence in the work of teachers: Confronting ideologies and practices. Routledge.
Hall, T., Gray, T., Downey, G., & Singh, M. (Eds.). (2018). The Globalisation of Higher Education: Developing Internationalised Education Research and Practice. Springer.

Journal Articles and Proceedings

Maakrun, J. (2020). The confluence of short-term immersion and intercultural competence: Positive impacts for Australian preservice teachers.
Kearney, S., & Maakrun, J. (2020). Let's Get Engaged: The Nexus between Digital Technologies, Engagement and Learning. Education Sciences, 10(12), 357.
Maakrun, J., & Kearney, S. (2020). An Intercultural Immersion: Personal, Professional, and Cultural Expectations of Student Participants. International Journal of Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement, 8(1), 18721.
Kearney, S., & Maakrun, J. (2020). Building Cultural Competence in initial teacher education through international service-learning. In Intercultural Competence in the Work of Teachers (pp. 125-136). Routledge.
Oh, H., Sutherland, M., Stack, N., Badia Martín, M., Blumen, S., Nguyen, Wormald, C., Maakrun, J., Baier, B., Schmidt, M. & Ziegler, A. (2019). Adolescent Perception of Potential High-Performing Classmates: A Cross-National Exploration. Roeper Review, 41(2), 88-101.
Oh, H., Sutherland, M., Stack, N., Badia Martín, M., Blumen, S., Nguyen, Wormald, C., Maakrun, J., Baier, B., Schmidt, M. & Ziegler, A. (2019). Adolescents’ social perceptions of academically high-performing students: a country and gender comparative study. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 1-18.
Kearney, S., & Maakrun, J. (2018). Where Is the “Service” in Service-Learning? Critiquing International Programmes as a Means of Increasing the Global-Mindedness of Teacher Education Students. In The Globalisation of Higher Education (pp. 413-426). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
Maakrun, J., & Maher, M. (2016). Cultural interface theory in the Kenya context and beyond. Issues in Educational Research, 26(2), 298.
Maakrun, J. (2016). International service learning: benefits to African teachers. Journal of Service-Learning in Higher Education, 5(1), n1.
Oh, H., Sutherland, M., Stack, N., Badia Martín, M., Blumen, S., Nguyen, Wormald, C., Maakrun, J., Baier, B., Schmidt, M. & Ziegler, A. (2016). Motivational Orientations of High-Achieving Students as Mediators of a Positive Perception of a High-Achieving Classmate: Results from a Cross-national Study. Anales De Psicología/Annals of Psychology, 32(3), 695-701.
Oh, H., Sutherland, M., Stack, N., Badia Martín, M., Blumen, S., Nguyen, Wormald, C., Maakrun, J., Baier, B., Schmidt, M. & Ziegler, A. (2015). A cross-cultural study of possible iatrogenic effects of gifted education programs: Tenth graders’ perceptions of academically high performing classmates. High Ability Studies, 26(1), 152-166.
Hyerim, O., Sutherland, M., Stack, N., del Mar Badia,M., Blumen, S., Nguyen Quoc, A., Wormald, C., Maakrun, J., Baier, B., Schmidt, M. & Ziegler, A. (2014). A Cross-National Comparison of School Students’ Perceptions Regarding High Performing Peers, Turkish Journal of Giftedness and Education, 4 (1), 10-23
Kearney, S., Perkins, T. & Maakrun, J. (2014). A transformative experience: A short-term cross-cultural service-learning immersion to Kenya. Issues in Educational Research, 24(2), 229-237.

Conference Papers

Kearney, S. & Maakrun, J. (2019, November 13-15) The power and reach of global service learning. Service Learning Australia Summit. Griffith University, Queensland.
Russell, G., Sherwood, J & Maakrun, J. (2017, March 21-23) Disrupting worldviews: methodological and pedagogical issues in community driven service learning. AIATSIS 2017 Canberra, Australia.
Kearney, S. & Maakrun, J. (2016, June 9-10) Initial teacher education and intercultural competence: Critiquing international programs as a means of increasing the global-mindedness of teacher education students in Australia. Office of Learning and Teaching, Australia.
Perkins, T., & Maakrun J. (2015, October 27-30) Collaborative responsivity: A novel approach to university team-teaching (2015 Annual Conference of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Melbourne, Australia).
Maakrun, J., & Perkins, T. (2015, October 27-30) The impact of international service learning project on pre service teachers levels of agency and cultural competence (2015 Annual Conference of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Melbourne, Australia).

Conference Presentations

2019: Service-Learning Summit: Griffith University
The power and reach of global service-learning (Joint presentation)
2017: Australian Institute of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS): Canberra
Disrupting world views: methodological and pedagogical issues in community driven service learning. (Joint presentation)
2016: Developing Global Perspectives: Sydney
Initial teacher education and intercultural competence: Critiquing international programs as a means of increasing the global-mindedness of teacher education students in Australia. (Joint presentation)
2015: International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (ISSOTL): Melbourne
The impact of an international service learning project on pre service teachers levels of agency and cultural competence

In the Media

Fenech, E. (2012, April). Social justice trip evolves into permanent charity [University of Notre Dame Media Release] Retrieved from
http://researchonline.nd.edu.au/media_release/811
Fenech, E. (2011, November). Notre Dame students help give Kenyan children the gift of education [University of Notre Dame Media Release] Retrieved from http://researchonline.nd.edu.au/media_release/365

Professional Affiliations

Primary English Teaching Association Australia

Awards

2015

Office of Learning and Teaching: Australian Awards for University Teaching
Award for Programs that Enhance Learning: Increasing Global Mindedness through International Service-learning: Kenya Immersion Project. (Team)

2014

Office of Learning and Teaching: Australian Awards for University Teaching
Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning (Team)

2013

Vice Chancellor’s Award
Initiatives the Enhance Student Learning - International Service Learning: Kenya Immersion Project (Team)

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