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Dr Susan SandrettoProfessor
BA(UC Davis) MA DipTchg(CSU Sacramento) PhD(Otago)

Dunedin Campus
Tel +64 3 479 8820
Email susan.sandretto@otago.ac.nz

Biography

I arrived in New Zealand in 1997 from California where I was a Spanish Immersion primary school teacher.  I worked as a research assistant and guest lecturer at the University of Otago in the Faculty of Education and the Higher Education Development Centre from 1999.  I completed my doctorate at Otago in 2004 and was appointed as a lecturer that same year. My research interests include multiliteracies, critical literacy, gender issues in education and practitioner research. I teach across the primary teacher education and education studies programmes and supervise at the postgraduate level.

Publications

Sandretto, S. (2024). Critical literacy: We can't wait any longer to plant the seeds [Keynote]. Proceedings of the New Zealand Literacy Association (NZLA) National Literacy Symposium: Building resilient minds with critical literacy. Retrieved from https://nzla.org.nz/ Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Sandretto, S. (2024, September). A case for future-facing literacies. University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Inaugural Professorial Lecture]. Other Research Output

Sandretto, S., García Bengoechea, E., Wilson, G., Kidd, G., & Mandic, S. (2024). Adolescents’ active transport to school and parental perspectives in a school choice policy environment. Active Travel Studies, 4(1), 4. doi: 10.16997/ats.1489 Journal - Research Article

Mandic, S., García Bengoechea, E., Coppell, K. J., Keall, M., Smith, M., Hopkins, D., Sandretto, S., … Flaherty, C., … Stephenson, J., King, K., Kentala, K., … Spence, J. C. (2024). Travel to school patterns and perceptions of walking to school in New Zealand adolescents before versus during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Transport & Health, 36, 101803. doi: 10.1016/j.jth.2024.101803 Journal - Research Article

Mandic, S., Bengoechea, E. G., Coppell, K., Keall, M., Smith, M., Hopkins, D., Sandretto, S., … Stephenson, J., King, K., Kentala, K., … Spence, J. C. (2023). School travel and perceptions of walking to school in New Zealand adolescents prior to versus during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Sport & Exercise Science, 7(4), (pp. 140). doi: 10.36905/jses.2023.04.01 Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

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