Dr Christina Davidson is in the School of Education at Charles Sturt University. Her career as an academic encompasses over thirty years as a teacher and research in four Australian universities. Prior to becoming an academic, Christina taught in a number of schools in Sydney and in Wagga Wagga, NSW. Christina has focused on literacy education throughout her career as an educator.

Christina is a conversation analyst. She examines children’s social interaction with each other and with adults. Her work has addressed young children’s talk and interactions in homes and in classrooms, including during use of digital technologies and during literacy activities. Most recently, she has focused on talk and interaction of primary school students to achieve dialogic pedagogies. This work has been conducted in collaboration with Christine Edwards-Groves, and has involved the action research of teachers to promote more dialogic classrooms. 

Research on dialogic pedagogies has resulted in numerous publications including:

Edwards-Groves, C., & Davidson, C. (2017). Becoming a meaning maker: Talk and interaction in the dialogic classroom. Newtown: Primary English Teaching Association Australia.

Davidson, C., & Edwards-Groves, C. (2019). Managing the delicate matter of advice giving: Accomplishing communicative space in Critical Participatory Action Research.Educational Action Research. doi/full/10.1080/09650792.2018.1559744

 Davidson, C., & Edwards-Groves, C. (2018). “But you said this...”: Students’ management of disagreement within a dialogic approach to literacy instruction. Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 41(3), 190-200.

Recently, Christina was the co-editor of an edited book addressing international research in the field of dialogic teaching.

Christina has taught a range of literacy and research subjects at CSU. She supervises doctoral students in the School of Education and is especially interested in teaching research students about ethnomethodology and conversation analysis