Email: jamie.manolev@mymail.unisa.edu.au
Jamie Manolev is a Research Associate at the University of South Australia, and a member of the Centre for Research in Educational and Social Inclusion.
He is currently working as a postdoc on an ARC Discovery project titled School Exclusionary Policies and Practices and their Impact. His PhD research investigated the ways in which ClassDojo (an education platform) is influencing contemporary education, in particular how it is influencing school discipline practices and pedagogies.
Through his research roles Jamie is developing expertise in school discipline, datafication, education platforms, surveillance, and critical policy analysis.
Jamie’s PhD research has attracted considerable media attention including coverage spanning... Read more
About me
Jamie Manolev is a Research Associate at the University of South Australia, and a member of the Centre for Research in Educational and Social Inclusion.
He is currently working as a postdoc on an ARC Discovery project titled School Exclusionary Policies and Practices and their Impact. His PhD research investigated the ways in which ClassDojo (an education platform) is influencing contemporary education, in particular how it is influencing school discipline practices and pedagogies.
Through his research roles Jamie is developing expertise in school discipline, datafication, education platforms, surveillance, 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 AARE 2022 (Australian Association for Education in Research conference), ECER 2021 (European Conference on Educational Research), and the The Inclusive Education Summit 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
Doctor of Philosophy University of South Australia
Bacheloor of Education (Primary and Middle) University of South Australia
2022 - present Postdoctoral Researcher (UniSA)
2015 - 2022 Research Assistant (UniSA)
2014 - 2017 Teacher (South Australian Department for Education)
School Exclusionary Policies and Practices and their Impact, ARC - Discovery project, 2021-2023
An investigation of ClassDojo as a technology of power and the school discipline practices and pedagogies performed through its use, PhD, 2017-2022
School Exclusions Pilot 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 outputs for the last seven years are shown below. Some long-standing staff members may have older outputs included. To see earlier years visit ORCID, ResearcherID or Scopus
Open access indicates that an output is open access.
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| 2023 |
Open access
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| 2022 |
Open access
1
1
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| 2019 |
Open access
86
54
142
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| Year | Output |
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| 2023 |
Open access
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| 2022 |
Open access
1
1
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| 2019 |
Open access
86
54
142
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| 2020 |
Open access
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Conference presentations
Hartong, S., & Manolev, J. (2022). The construction of (good) parents (as professionals) in/through learning platforms (paper presentation). in Hartong, S., Decuypere, M., & Manolev, J. (Organisers), The rising influence of education platforms: (how) do they reshape educational professionality?. Symposium at AARE 2022, Adelaide, Australia.
Sullivan, A., Tippett, N., Manolev, J., Johnson, B., & Down, B. (2021). A critical policy analysis examining how the AITSL Professional Standards guide teachers to maintain student discipline. AARE 2021, Australia. (Virtual Conference)
Manolev, J., & Sullivan, A. (2021). 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 2021, Geneva, Switzerland. (Virtual Conference).
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
School Exclusionary Policies and Practices and their Impact, ARC - Discovery project, 2021-2023
An investigation of ClassDojo as a technology of power and the school discipline practices and pedagogies performed through its use, PhD, 2017-2022
School Exclusions Pilot 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 |
|---|---|
| University of Hamburg | GERMANY |
| University of South Australia | AUSTRALIA |
