Work phone number: +61 8 830 24150
Email: jamie.manolev@mymail.unisa.edu.au
Jamie Manolev works as a Researcher and is a PhD candidate at the University of South Australia.
He is currently working as a Chief Investigator on a project examining exclusionary policies and practices in Australian schools and the impact they have on vulnerable children. He has worked on two ARC Linkage projects as a Research Assistant, the Behaviour at School Study, and the Refugee Student Resilience Study (ongoing). His PhD research is investigating the ways in which ClassDojo (an educational technology) is influencing contemporary education, in particular within the domains of school discipline and classroom management.
Through his roles as a researcher and PhD candidate Jamie is developing expertise in discipline, classroom... Read more
About me
Jamie Manolev works as a Researcher and is a PhD candidate at the University of South Australia.
He is currently working as a Chief Investigator on a project examining exclusionary policies and practices in Australian schools and the impact they have on vulnerable children. He has worked on two ARC Linkage projects as a Research Assistant, the Behaviour at School Study, and the Refugee Student Resilience Study (ongoing). His PhD research is investigating the ways in which ClassDojo (an educational technology) is influencing contemporary education, in particular within the domains of school discipline and classroom management.
Through his roles as a researcher and PhD candidate Jamie is developing expertise in discipline, classroom management, surveillance, critical concepts of data, governance, and critical policy analysis.
Jamie’s PhD research has attracted considerable media attention including coverage spanning television (The Project), radio, print, and online mediums. This has provided him with the opportunity to develop his research engagement and communication skills, in particular through interaction with the media.
As a part of his broader research activity, he has presented research from his PhD at The Inclusive Education Summit 2018, and the Australian Association for Education in Research conference 2018. He has also led a co-authored paper published in the peer-reviewed journal Learning, Media and Technology, and published articles in The Conversation and EduResearch Matters.
About me
Member, Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE)
Member, Surveillance Studies Network
About me
| Date | Title |
|---|---|
| 16/12/2020 |
This tool turns classroom discipline into a game. But is it fair?, https://expmag.com/2020/12/this-tool-turns-classroom-discipline-into-a-game-but-is-it-fair/ |
| 21/10/2020 |
NSW wants to change rules on suspending and expelling students. How does it compare to other states?, https://theconversation.com/nsw-wants-to-change-rules-on-suspending-and-expelling-students-how-does-it-compare-to-other-states-144676 |
| 19/05/2019 |
ABC Radio National, Future Tense program - Robots in the classroom and news on Wikipedia, https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/futuretense/robots-in-the-classroom-and-news-on-wikipedia/11106720 |
| 18/02/2019 |
Vast amounts of data about our children are being harvested and stored via apps used by schools, https://www.aare.edu.au/blog/?s=classdojo |
| 10/02/2019 |
Behaviour monitoring 'Big Brother' school app comes in for a pounding (South Africa), https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/news/2019-02-10-behaviour-monitoring-big-brother-school-app-comes-in-for-a-pounding/ |
| 31/01/2019 |
Digitally tracking student behaviour in the classroom encourages compliance, not learning, https://theconversation.com/digitally-tracking-student-behaviour-in-the-classroom-encourages-compliance-not-learning-110181 |
| 23/01/2019 |
Study claims @ClassDojo encourages an archaic approach to school discipline, https://ukedchat.com/2019/01/23/classdojo-discipline/ |
| 21/01/2019 |
Researchers raise alarm bells over hugely popular education app, https://au.educationhq.com/news/56407/researchers-raise-alarm-bells-regarding-hugely-popular-education-app/# |
| 18/01/2019 |
'It's all about controlling students': researchers slam popular app, https://www.smh.com.au/education/it-s-all-about-controlling-students-researchers-slam-popular-app-20190118-p50s8l.html |
About me
2014 - 2017 Teacher (South Australian Department for Education)
2015 - present Research Assistant (UniSA)
2019 - present Researcher (UniSA)
Investigating the implementation of ClassDojo to manage behaviour, and its popularisation among teachers, PhD, 2017-2021
School Exclusions Study: Exclusionary policies and practices in Australian schools and the impact they have on vulnerable children 2019-2020
How schools foster refugee student resilience, ARC - Linkage Project, 2018-2020
Research
Excludes commercial-in-confidence projects.
School Exclusions Study: Exclusionary policies and practices in Australian schools and the impact they have on vulnerable children 2019-2021
How schools foster refugee student resilience, ARC - Linkage Project, 2018-2020
Research
Research since 2008 is shown below. To see earlier years visit ORCID
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Conference presentations
Manolev, J., & Sullivan, A. (2020). Datafying school discipline: Examining ClassDojo as a technology of government in the school and classroom (paper presentation). in Hartog, S (Organiser), Seeing through Data: The Normalizing Politics of Datafication and its Impact on Teacher and Student Subjectivities. Symposium at ECER 2020, Glasgow, Scotland. https://eera-ecer.de/ecer-2020-glasgow/ (Conference cancelled).
Sullivan, A., Johnson, B., Manolev, J., & Tippett, N. (2020). School Exclusions in Australia: Critical Policy Analysis of Education Legislation Guiding Disciplinary School Practices. ECER 2020, Glasgow, Scotland. https://eera-ecer.de/ecer-2020-glasgow/ (Conference cancelled).
Manolev, J., & Sullivan, A. (2019). Platform governance: ClassDojo, power and the production of data-driven realities of school discipline and student conduct. AARE 2019, Brisbane, Australia.
Sullivan, A., Johnson, B., Slee, R., Manolev, J., & Tippett, N. (2019). School Exclusions in Australia: Critical policy analysis of education legislation guiding disciplinary school practices. AARE 2019, Brisbane, Australia.
Sullivan, A., Baak., M., Johnson, B., Slee, R., & Manolev, J. (2019). A critical policy study of the Australian federal government multicultural statement and its alignment and misalignment with education policies. AARE 2019, Brisbane, Australia.
Manolev, J., Sullivan, A,. & Slee, R. (2018). The datafication of discipline: ClassDojo, surveillance and a performative classroom culture. AARE 2018, Sydney, Australia.
Manolev, J., Sullivan, A,. & Slee, R. (2018). ClassDojo’s datafication of discipline: Surveillance, performativity and the data based management of students. The Inclusive Education Summit 2018, Geelong, Australia.
Research
Investigating the implementation of ClassDojo to manage behaviour, and its popularisation among teachers, PhD, 2017-2021
School Exclusions Study: Exclusionary policies and practices in Australian schools and the impact they have on vulnerable children 2019-2020
How schools foster refugee student resilience, ARC - Linkage Project, 2018-2020
External engagement & recognition
| Organisation | Country |
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| University of South Australia | AUSTRALIA |
