Susan Sandretto
{{Short description|New Zealand American professor of education}}
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Susan Elaine Sandretto is an American–New Zealand academic, and is a full professor at the University of Otago, specialising in working with teachers to develop critical literacy in primary and secondary school pupils. Sandretto also works on unintended consequences of educational policy, such as changes to active transport.
Academic career
Sandretto trained as a teacher, and worked as a Spanish immersion teacher in California primary schools before moving to New Zealand in 1997. She lectured in education at the University of Otago, and completed a PhD titled Teacher education and social justice: theorising professional practice at Otago in 2004.{{Cite thesis|title=Teacher education and social justice: theorising professional practice|last=Sandretto|first=Susan Elaine|type=PhD thesis|publisher=University of Otago|url=https://otago.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/64OTAGO_INST/qef3lj/alma9994689801891|date=2004|oclc=156749120}} Sandretto then joined the faculty of the university, rising to associate professor in 2019 and full professor in 2024.{{Cite web |last=Otago |first=University of |date=2023-12-12 |title=Otago announces 29 new professors |url=https://www.otago.ac.nz/news/newsroom/otago-announces-29-new-professors |access-date=2024-06-20 |website=www.otago.ac.nz |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2018-12-14 |title=17 Otago academics made professors |url=https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/campus/university-of-otago/17-otago-academics-made-professors |access-date=2024-06-22 |website=Otago Daily Times |language=en}}
Sandretto's research and teaching focus on the development of critical literacy, which is the ability to find embedded discrimination in media, although she is also interested in multiliteracies and gender issues in education. She teaches in primary teacher education, and education studies. Sandretto is part of the writing team for the English Learning Area of the New Zealand refreshed curriculum, Te Mātaiaho, and has produced materials to support literacy development in the classroom.{{Cite web |title=Planting Seeds: Embedding critical literacy into your classroom programme {{!}} New Zealand Council for Educational Research |url=https://www.nzcer.org.nz/nzcerpress/planting-seeds-embedding-critical-literacy-your-classroom-programme |access-date=2024-06-22 |website=www.nzcer.org.nz}}{{Cite web |title=Conference Keynote Speakers |url=https://nzla.org.nz/events/2024-national-symposium/keynote-speakers-2/ |access-date=2024-06-22 |website=New Zealand Literacy Association |language=en-NZ}} Sandretto has also focused on how educational policy can have unintended effects, such as changes in rates of active transport. Sandretto is a member of the Built Environment Active Transport to School research group, a Health Research Council-funded project led by Sandra Mandic at Otago and Auckland University of Technology.{{Cite web |title=Inaugural professorial lecture: A case for future-facing literacies |url=https://www.otago.ac.nz/news/events/inaugural-professorial-lecture-professor-susan-sandretto |access-date=21 June 2024 |website=University of Otago events|date=18 June 2024 }}{{Cite web |last=Education |first=College of |date=2020-12-17 |title=Professor Susan Sandretto |url=https://www.otago.ac.nz/education/staff/susansandretto |access-date=2024-06-20 |website=www.otago.ac.nz |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Harwood |first=Brenda |date=2021-04-08 |title=Transport study back on track: leader |url=https://www.odt.co.nz/the-star/transport-study-back-track-leader |access-date=2024-06-22 |website=Otago Daily Times |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Harwood |first=Brenda |date=2022-12-01 |title='Little change' in teens' habits |url=https://www.odt.co.nz/the-star/beats-symposium |access-date=2024-06-22 |website=Otago Daily Times |language=en}}
In 2008 Sandretto won Otago University Students' Association's New Supervisor of the Year award.{{Cite news |last=Rudd |first=Allison |date=2008-11-22 |title=Students choose supervisor of year |url=https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/students-choose-supervisor-year |access-date=2024-06-22 |work=Otago Daily Times |language=en}}
Selected works
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- {{Cite Q|Q126789336}}
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References
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External links
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7Vth7K18MQ Nightly interview: Susan Sandretto], Southern TV, 27 September 2017, via YouTube
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Category:New Zealand academics
Category:New Zealand women academics
Category:Academic staff of the University of Otago
Category:University of Otago alumni