Alex Bacalja

“It’s got that power over you”: Negotiating Projective Identities in the English Classroom

Alexander Bacalja

Journal article  |  2020  |  Game Studies: the international journal of computer game research

This paper explores the learning affordances associated with Gee’s notion of the projective identity principle. A case study intro..

Digital writing in the new literacies age: Insights from an online writing community

Alexander Bacalja

Journal article  |  2020  |  Literacy Learning: The Middle Years

Young people write themselves into being through online forms of expression characterised by literate digital practices. This pape..

What counts? Inclusion and diversity in the senior English curriculum

Lauren Bliss, Alexander Bacalja

Journal article  |  2020  |  The Australian Educational Researcher

This paper reports findings from a research project investigating text lists in the Senior Victorian English curriculum between 20..

The Struggle with Cultural Consecration in English: Turning Towards Youth Literacies

Alex Bacalja

Journal article  |  2020  |  Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education

This paper explores the continued cultural consecration of narrow forms of knowledge and literate practice in senior Australian En..

Representing Australian Indigenous Voices: Text Selection in the Senior English Curriculum

Alexander Bacalja, Lauren Bliss

Journal article  |  2019  |  English in Australia

This paper reports findings from a study investigating trends in character, historical setting, authorship and themes across Victo..

Representing Australian Indigenous Voices: Text Selection in the Senior English Curriculum

Alexander Bacalja, Lauren Bliss

Journal article  |  2019  |  English in Australia

What critical literacy has to offer the study of video games

Alexander Bacalja

Journal article  |  2018  |  Australian Journal of Language and Literacy

What Videogames have to Teach Us (Still) about Subject English

Alexander Bacalja

Journal article  |  2018  |  English in Australia

A Report on Trends in Senior English Text-lists

A Bacalja, Lauren Bliss

Report  |  2018

The purpose of this project is to investigate text-list trends in the Senior Victorian English curriculum between 2010 and 2019. I..

Videogames, distinction and subject-English: new paradigms for pedagogy

A Bacalja

Thesis / Dissertation  |  2017

At a time when the proliferation of videogame ownership and practice has led to greater attention on the consequences of increased..