Recent Publications

Books

Vadeboncoeur, J. A. & Stevens, L. P. (Eds.). (2005). Re/constructing "the adolescent": Sign, symbol and body. New York: Peter Lang.

Vadeboncoeur, J. A. & Jervis-Tracey, P. (Eds.). (2004). Crossing boundaries: Perspectives across paradigms in educational research. Brisbane, QLD: Australian Academic Press.

Vadeboncoeur, J. A. & Rawolle, S. (Eds.). (2003). Educational imaginings: On the play of texts and contexts. Brisbane, QLD: Australian Academic Press.

articles

Vadeboncoeur, J. A. (2009). Spaces of difference: The contradictions of alternative educational programs. Educational Studies, 45(3), 280-299.

Vadeboncoeur, J. A. (2006). Engaging young people: Learning in informal contexts. Review of Research in Education, 30, 239-278.

Vadeboncoeur, J. A., Hirst, E., & Kostogriz, A. (2006). Spatialising sociocultural research: A reading of mediation and meaning as third spaces. Mind, Culture, and Activity: An International Journal, 13(3), 161-173.

Hirst, E. & Vadeboncoeur, J. A. (2006). Patrolling the borders of Otherness: Dis/placed identity positions for teachers and students in schooled spaces. Mind, Culture, and Activity: An International Journal, 13(3), 203-225.

Vadeboncoeur, J. A. & Luke, A. (2004). Who’s / whose at risk? Answerability and the critical possibilities of classroom discourse. Critical Discourse Studies, 1(2), 201-223.

Vadeboncoeur, J. A. & Torres, M. N. (2003). Constructing and reconstructing teaching roles: A focus on generative metaphors and dichotomies. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 24(1), 87-103.

chapters

Vadeboncoeur, J. A. (2005). Naturalized, restricted, packaged and sold: Reifying the fictions of "adolescent" and "adolescence." Re/constructing "the adolescent": Sign, symbol and body (pp. 1-24). New York: Peter Lang.

Vadeboncoeur, J. A. (2005). The difference that time and space make: An analysis of institutional and narrative landscapes. In J. A. Vadeboncoeur & L. P. Stevens (Eds.), Re/constructing "the adolescent": Sign, symbol and body (pp. 123-152). New York: Peter Lang.

Rawolle, S. & Vadeboncoeur, J. A. (2003).Educational research in an age of scientific and economic rationalism: An argument for talking back. In J. A. Vadeboncoeur & S. Rawolle (Eds.), Educational imaginings: On the play of texts and contexts (pp. 1-34). Brisbane, QLD: Australian Academic Press.

Vadeboncoeur, J. A. & Rawolle, S. (2003). Ethics in educational research: A step toward answerability. In J. A. Vadeboncoeur & S. Rawolle (Eds.), Educational imaginings: On the play of texts and contexts (pp. 375-392). Brisbane, QLD: Australian Academic Press.

Portes, P. R. & Vadeboncoeur, J. A. (2003). Mediation in cognitive socialization: The influence of socioeconomic status. In A. Kozulin (Ed.), Vygotsky's theory of education in cultural context (p. 371-392). New York: Cambridge University Press.

Vadeboncoeur, J. A. & Portes, P. R.  (2002). Students "at risk": Exploring identity from a sociocultural perspective. In D. M. McInerney & S. Van Etten (Eds.), Research on sociocultural influences on motivation and learning, Vol. 2, (pp. 89-128). Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing.