Dr Mutuota Kigotho
Lecturer, English, Literacies and Language Education - Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Education; School of Education
Biography
Mutuota is a lecturer in the Department of Curriculum in the Languages, Literacies and Literature team within the School of Education at UNE.
Qualifications
BEd (University of Nairobi, Kenya)
MEd (Kenyatta University, Kenya)
EdD (Macquarie University)
Teaching Areas
Literacy Education
Secondary English
Research Interests
Distance Education and eLearning
Other interests include.....
Uptake in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in African Educational systems
Social Media: The use of ICT for Educational purposes.
Publications
Edited Book
Sims, R. & Kigotho, M. (2013) (Eds.) Education across space and time (ISBN 9780646901657) (My contribution 50%) Published by Blurb.com for the Open and Distance Learning Association of Australia. 150 pages. http://au.blurb.com/my/dashboard
Guest Editor
Roberts J., Kigotho M. & Stagg A. (2019) Expanding Horizons in open and distance learning.
Sims, R. & Kigotho, M. (2013), "Education across space and time: meeting the diverse needs of the distance learner" Journal of Distance Education, Taylor & Francis, Melbourne. http://www.tandfonline.com.ezproxy.une.edu.au/doi/pdf/10.1080/01587919.2013.806018
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01587919.2013.806018 My contribution (50%)
Refereed Journal article
Clary, D., Kigotho, M. & Barros-Torning, M. (2013) "Harnessing mobile technology to engage and deepen adolescents' knowledge of multimodal literacies" (Literacy Learning: the Middle Years, Vol 21, No. 3, pp.49-60. Australian Literacy Educators' Association, Adelaide SA.
Non-Refereed Journal article
Kigotho M. (2018) Literacy across the curriculum: using personal experience narratives and blogging with struggling writers. Literacy Learning: the Middle Years.Vol 26, No 1, Australian Literacy Educators' Association Norwood, South Australia.
Refereed proceedings
Kigotho, M. & Doyle, H. (2012) "It's time to connect: twitter for educational purposes", Australian Computers in Education Conference - 2012, pp.353-362. (Refereed Proceedings ISBN 978-0-646-58654-0) http://bit.ly/ACEC2012_Proceedings (My contribution 50%)
Conference presentations
Kigotho, M. (2014) "Digital narratives and the teaching of writing" Paper presented at the Inaugural International Conference on Open and Flexible Education (ICOFE2014) 16-17 January in Hong Kong. icofe2014.ouhk.edu.hk/abs/037.html
Kigotho, M. (2011) "Fibre optic technology in Educational settings in Africa" Paper presented at the Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference – ASFLA, UNE, Armidale, 21st -23rd September 2011. ird.stou.ac.th/RD/Odl/file/group4/file_26.pdf
Kigotho, M. (2011) "Awakening the sleeping giant: Innovation in distance education in Africa" Paper presented at the Education 2011- 2021 Summit: Global Challenges and Perspectives of Blended and Distance Learning, Sydney 15th - 18th February 2011. www.docstoc.com/docs/71863533/Daily-Program_Final_280111-DB
Research Publications
Literacy: From recount to writing in true narrative (Conference publications 2007).
From implicit to explicit: Literacy and the oral narrative within ESL Classrooms (Conference publications 2006).
The teaching of narratives (Conference publications 2004).
Doctoral Thesis
The Structure of Kikuyu Oral Narratives and its Relationship to the Teaching of Writing in Kenyan Secondary Schools (2004).
Memberships
Open and Distance Association of Australia – ODLAA, Treasurer
Australian Teacher Education Association- ATEA
Australian Literacy Educators' Association – ALEA
Primary English Teaching Association of Australia
English Teachers Association - ETA
