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Key details

Areas of expertise

  • Education policy and governance
  • Commercialization of Education
  • Teachers rights
  • Digital learning and leadership

Available to supervise research students

Available for media queries

About Janine Arantes

Janine Aldous Arantes is an academic in the College of Arts, Business, Law, Education and Information Technology (CoABLEIT) at Victoria University and a researcher with the Institute for Sustainable Industries & Liveable Cities (ISILC).

Janine is interested in the implications of digital technology in education, with a particular focus on topics such as:

  • the commercialisation of educational systems
  • critical algorithm studies
  • education policy and governance in terms of teachers’ consumer, human and workplace rights
  • the varied ways in which educational systems are negotiating technology and resultant benefits and implications for teachers.

Qualifications

  • PhD (Newcastle)
  • GradCertMarketing (Deakin)
  • MEd (Monash)
  • GradDipEd (Monash)
  • BSc (UniMelb)

Key publications

Year Citation
2024 Vicars, M., & Arantes, J. (241101). Invisible Data: Exploring the impact of missing LGBTQI+ data in educational algorithmic decision-making (DIPR (2022)). DIPR: DIPR.

Year Citation
2025 Arantes, J., & Vicars, M. (251130). AI Against I: Crisis, Continuity and Change In Vicars, M. (Ed.) (pp. 1-12). TBC: TBC.
2025 Arantes, J. (250501). Personalization in Australian K-12 classrooms: Unpacking the hidden impact on teachers working conditions In D'Arcy, J. (Ed.) (pp. 1-12). DIPR: DIPR Book Series.
2024 Arantes, J., Buchanan, R., & Goriss-Hunter, A. (241101). Digital Poverty in Higher Education: Perspectives from Australia In Prinsloo, P. (Ed.) (pp. 1-12). London: Spinger.
2024 Arantes, J. (240501). Redefining classroom readiness: how initial teacher training can mitigate risks and capitalize on the potential of GenAI In Mahmud, S. (Ed.) (pp. 1-12). Global: IGI Global.
2024 Arantes, J. (240501). It ll be alright' in edited book title, 'Doing Doctoral Research: Narratives of Practice' In Cacciattolo, M. ;. (Ed.) (pp. 1-12). Australia: Brill.
2024 Arantes, J. (240213). Redefining Classroom Readiness: How Initial Teacher Training Can Mitigate Risks and Capitalize on the Potential of GenAI In Mahmud, S. (Ed.) (pp. 1-17). Canada: IGI Global.
2024 Arantes, J. (240206). Comparative dialogues on reflexivity: what do pre-service teachers need to understand about 'objectivity' and 'evidence' in their emergent workplace during a post-truth age? In Yayalar, E. O;. (Ed.) (pp. 1-1). Canada: Vernon Press.

Year Citation
2024 Arantes, J. (241103). Safeguarding Teacher well-being in the age of AI: Workplace surveillance and psychosocial risk. Australian Educaiotnal Researcher, (1-16).
2023 Arantes, J. (231231). Banning mobile phones in schools: Safeguarding children from default datafication. Computers and Education Open, (1-12).

Research funding for the past 5 years

Funding details for this researcher are currently unavailable.

Supervision of research students at VU

Available to supervise research students

Available for media queries

Currently supervised research students at VU

No. of students Study level Role
2 PhD Integrated Associate supervisor
1 PhD Associate supervisor

Currently supervised research students at VU

Students & level Role
PhD Integrated (2) Associate supervisor
PhD (1) Associate supervisor

Completed supervision of research students at VU

No. of students Study level Role
1 Master of Research Associate supervisor

Completed supervision of research students at VU

Students & level Role
Master of Research (1) Associate supervisor

Other supervision of research students

5 Minor Thesis Students at Victoria University 2 PhD students at Victoria University (Associate)

Teaching activities & experience

Bachelor of Education Course Chair (Shared Role, 2022-2023)

Key academic roles

Dates Role Department / Organisation
Aug 2019 - Present
Senior Lecturer
Victoria University
Jan 2021 - Present
Research Fellow
Institute of Sustainable and Liveable Cities
Jan 2017 - Jan 2019
Trainer - Certificate III Education Support
Chisholm TAFE
Dates Role & Department/Organisation
Aug 2019 -
Present
Senior Lecturer
Victoria University
Jan 2021 -
Present
Research Fellow
Institute of Sustainable and Liveable Cities
Jan 2017 -
Jan 2019
Trainer - Certificate III Education Support
Chisholm TAFE

Awards

Year Award
2023

Future Digileader - KTH Sweden

2021

Vice Chancellor's Award - Student Impact - Victoria University

2019

Scholarship, Heidelberg Computational Humanities Summer School - Heidelberg University, Germany

2019

Cengage Fellowship - International Quantitative Ethnography Conference, Wisconsin, USA

2019

LAK Scholarship - International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge

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Keynote and invited speeches

Year Title/Description
2023

Plenary - VU Research Festival

Digital Twins

Media appearances

12th August 2019

Ban smart phones in schools. Not because they’re disruptive but because of this

AARE Blog - Largely missing from the ban-phones-in-schools debate are the opinions of important regulatory bodies such as the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) and the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC). Although these bodies may seem far removed from the debate, I believe how they view data and data collection should be heard.