Dr Lew Zipin

Adjunct Senior Research Fellow UniSA Education Futures

email Lew.Zipin@unisa.edu.au

Research Degree Supervisor

Research

Research focus

Specialist Studies in Education
Education
History and Philosophy of Specific Fields
Sociology
Cognitive Sciences

Research

Outputs

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

Open access indicates that an output is open access.

Books

Year	Output
2010	Blackmore, J, Brennan, M & Zipin, L 2010, Re-positioning university governance and academic work, Sense Publishers, Rotterdam.

Chapters

Year	Output
2023	Zipin, L & Brennan, M 2023, 'Opening school walls to funds of knowledge: students researching problems that matter in Australian communities', in Moises Esteban-Guitart (ed.), Funds of Knowledge and Identity Pedagogies for Social Justice: International Perspectives and Praxis from communities, Classrooms, and Curriculum, Routledge, UK, ch. 3, pp. 41-56. Open access 8
2021	Zipin, L & Brennan, M 2021, 'Ethical vexations that haunt 'knowledge questions' for curriculum', in B Green, P Roberts & M Brennan (eds), Curriculum Challenges and Opportunities in a Changing World, Springer, Switzerland, ch. 11, pp. 173-193. Open access 7
2018	Brennan, M & Zipin, L 2018, 'Curriculum for all? Exploring the potentials for (in)justice in the Australian curriculum', in A Reid & D Price (eds), The Australian curriculum: promises, problems and possibilities, Australian Curriculum Studies Association, Australia, ch. 14, pp. 179-187.
2018	Zipin, L & Brennan, M 2018, 'Transforming the curriculum frame: working knowledge around problems that matter', in S Gannon, R Hattam & W Sawyer (eds), Resisting educational inequality : reframing policy and practice in schools serving vulnerable communities, Routledge, New York, ch. 22, pp. 245-256. Open access
2015	Brennan, M, Zipin, L & Sellar, S 2015, 'Negotiating with the neighbours: balancing different accountabilities across a cluster of regional schools', in B Lingard, G Thompson & S Sellar (eds), National Testing in Schools: An Australian Assessment, Routledge, UK, ch.15, pp. 199-211. 13
2010	Blackmore, J, Brennan, M & Zipin, L 2010, 'Repositioning university governance and academic work: an overview', in J Blackmore (ed.), Re-positioning university governance and academic work, Sense Publishers, Netherlands, ch. 1, pp. 1-16.
2010	Zipin, L & Henderson, D 2010, 'Bringing clay to life', in B Prosser, B Lucas & A Reid (eds), Connecting lives and learning: renewing pedagogy in the middle years, Wakefield Press, Adelaide, Australia, ch. 1, pp. 20-41.
2010	Zipin, L 2010, 'Situating university governance in the ethico-emotive ground tone of post/late times', in J Blackmore (ed.), Re-positioning university governance and academic work, Sense Publishers, Netherlands, ch. 10, pp. 147-162.
2010	Zipin, L, Brennan, M & Semmens, BD 2010, 'The RPiN challenge for principals', in B Prosser (ed.), Connecting lives and learning: renewing pedagogy in the middle years, Wakefield Press, Adelaide, Australia, ch. 9, pp. 157-174.
2009	Zipin, L & Brennan, M 2009, 'Analysing secondary school strategies in changing times : the insights and gaps of a governmentality lens', in MA Peters (ed.), Governmentality studies in education, Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, ch. 18, pp. 341-354.
2009	Zipin, L & Hattam, R 2009, 'Partnership action research for social justice: politics, challenges and possibilities', in S Noffke & B Somekh (eds), The Sage handbook of educational action research, Sage, UK, ch. 41, pp. 508-520.
2008	Brennan, M & Zipin, L 2008, 'Neo-colonization of cultural struggles for justice in Australian education and teacher education', in Ann M Phelan & Jennifer Sumison, Critical readings in teacher education: provoking absences, Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, pp. 99-114.
2008	Zipin, L & Reid, AD 2008, 'A Justice-Oriented Citizenship Education: Making Community Curricular', in James Arthur, Ian Davies & Carole Hahn, Education for citizenship and Democracy, SAGE, London, pp. 533-544. 69

Journal Articles

Year	Output
2025	Zipin, L 2025, 'Bourdieu's philosophical anthropologies: Exploring and Marxifying his framework for academic field research', Educational Philosophy and Theory, vol. 57, no. 8, pp. 764-780. Open access 1
2024	Zipin, L 2024, 'Activist educative response to the Palestine crisis: a Jewish anti-Zionist perspective', Curriculum Perspectives, vol. 44, pp. 383-388. Open access
2024	Zipin, L 2024, 'Curriculum for living structural crises towards socially just futures: bringing diverse funds of knowledge into participatory-democratic action around lifeworld problems that matter', Curriculum Perspectives, vol. 44, pp. 249-262. Open access 4
2023	Colina Neri, R, Zipin, L, Rios-Aguilar, C & Huerta, AH 2023, 'Surfacing deep challenges for social educational justice: putting funds, wealth, and capital frameworks into dialogue', Urban Education, vol. 58, no. 7, pp. 1512-1538. 25 19
2022	Brennan, M, Mayes, E & Zipin, L 2022, 'The contemporary challenge of activism as curriculum work', Journal of Educational Administration and History, vol. 54, no. 3, pp. 319-333. Open access 38 27
2022	Rizvi, F, Peters, MA, Zembylas, M, Tukdeo, S, Mason, M, de Souza, LMT, Chengbing, W, Soudien, C, Tarc, P, Lingard, B, Tarc, A, Hughes, C, Bamberger, A, Zipin, L & Rud, A 2022, 'The long read: on the global relevance of the US elections', Educational Philosophy and Theory, vol. 54, no. 14, pp. 2389-2408. Open access 2 2
2021	Zipin, L, Brennan, M & Sellar, S 2021, 'Young people pursuing futures: making identity labors curricular', Mind, Culture, and Activity: An International Journal, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 152-168. Open access 11 5 1
2021	Zipin, L, Brennan, M & Trevorrow, D 2021, 'Aggravating students' structural vulnerabilities: cruel miseries of selection for 'success' in schools with power-marginalised intake', Journal of Applied Youth Studies, vol. 4, pp. 401-420. Open access 2
2020	Zipin, L & Brennan, M 2020, 'Introduction - knowledge-and-ethics: strong curriculum values both, together', Curriculum Perspectives, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 83-86. Open access 3
2020	Zipin, L 2020, 'Building curriculum knowledge work around community-based 'problems that matter': let's dare to imagine', Curriculum Perspectives, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 111-115. Open access 21
2019	Sellar, S & Zipin, L 2019, 'Conjuring optimism in dark times: Education, affect and human capital', Educational Philosophy and Theory, vol. 51, no., pp. 572-586. Open access 32 21 1
2015	Zipin, L, Sellar, S, Brennan, M & Gale, T 2015, 'Educating for futures in marginalized regions: a sociological framework for rethinking and researching aspirations', Educational Philosophy and Theory, vol. 47. no. 3, pp. 227-246. 251 195 6
2012	Bunda, T, Zipin, L & Brennan, M 2012, 'Negotiating university 'equity' from Indigenous standpoints: a shaky bridge', International Journal of Inclusive Education, vol. 16, no. 9, pp. 941-957. 60 43
2009	Hattam, R & Zipin, L 2009, 'Towards pedagogical justice', Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 297-301. 25 20
2009	Hattam, R, Brennan, M, Zipin, L & Comber, BM 2009, 'Researching for social justice: contextual, conceptual and methodological challenges', Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 303-316. 56 49
2009	Zipin, L 2009, 'Dark funds of knowledge, deep funds of pedagogy: exploring boundaries between lifeworlds and schools', Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 317-331. 217 147

Conferences

Year	Output
2008	Hattam, RJ & Zipin, L 2008, 'Collaborative Action Research for Social Justice: Politics, Challenges and Possibilities', Association for Active Educational Researchers (AARE), pp. 1-10. Open access
2008	Zipin, L & Reid, AD 2008, 'Pursuing strong curricular connection to students' lives: Addressing conceptual and methodological challenges', AARE, pp. 1-25. Open access

Reports

Year	Output
2020	Brennan, M, Chapman, A, Zipin, L, Rudolph, S, Barron, R, Rogers, B & Woods, A 2020, The growing urgency of attending to the state of education research in Australian higher education, Australian Association for Research in Education, Australia. Open access

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

Organisation	Country
Beijing Normal University	CHINA
Deakin University	AUSTRALIA
Department of Education and Children's Services	AUSTRALIA
Education University of Hong Kong	HONG KONG
Flinders University	AUSTRALIA
Hebrew University	MEXICO
Human Sciences Research Council (South Africa)	SOUTH AFRICA
Indiana University	UNITED STATES
International School of Geneva	SWITZERLAND
Manchester Metropolitan University	UNITED KINGDOM
National Institute of Advanced Education	INDIA
Open University of Cyprus	CYPRUS
Shanxi University	CHINA
University of California	UNITED STATES
University of Melbourne	AUSTRALIA
University of Queensland	AUSTRALIA
University of Sao Paulo	BRAZIL
University of South Australia	AUSTRALIA
University of Southern California	UNITED STATES
VicSRC: Empowering students across Victoria	AUSTRALIA
Victoria University	AUSTRALIA
Washington State University	UNITED STATES
Western University	CANADA
York University	CANADA

Teaching & student supervision

Research degree supervision

Supervisions from 2010 shown

Thesis title	Student status
I've got my degree and teacher registration but where do I get my professional identity?	Completed
Practicalities, fictions and possibilities: becoming socially critical teachers of PE	Completed
Problematising knowledge and practices of Occupational Health and Safety in a small factory	Completed
Studying the effects of NAPLAN on Indigenous education in remote schools, Australia	Completed
The relationship between indigenous peoples and the university: solid or what?	Completed
Towards an emergentist marxist sociology of education: addressing the problems of naturalism and structure-agency	Completed

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