Rate My Professor Jamie Manolev

Dr Jamie Manolev is a Lecturer in the School of Education within the College of Education, Behavioural and Social Sciences at Adelaide University. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of South Australia, completed between 2016 and 2022, where his thesis investigated the influence of ClassDojo, an education platform, on school discipline practices and pedagogies. His Bachelor of Education was awarded by the University of South Australia from 2011 to 2014. Prior to his academic career, Manolev served as a Teacher for the Government of South Australia from 2015 to 2018. His professional trajectory includes roles as Research Assistant at the University of South Australia from 2015 to 2022, Research Associate from 2022 to 2026, and Lecturer from 2024 to 2026. He is a member of the Centre for Research in Educational and Social Inclusion and the Australian Association for Research in Education. Manolev's research program centers on the platformisation and datafication of education, as well as school discipline, particularly exclusionary practices. His critical orientation examines how these developments mediate education through power dynamics, contributing to disadvantage and inequality. He employs critical platform studies, critical data studies, critical policy studies, sociological theory, and Foucauldian theory. Currently, he works as a postdoc on an ARC Discovery project titled School Exclusionary Policies and Practices and their Impact. His PhD research garnered media coverage on television including The Project, radio, print, and online platforms.

Manolev has co-authored numerous publications, including Corser, K., Manolev, J., & Danby, S. (2025). Problematising ClassDojo as a digital tool for behaviour management and home-school communication in Learning, Media & Technology; Tippett, N., et al. (2025). How policies of school exclusion frame practice: a comparative analysis of Australian state education policies in The Australian Educational Researcher; Down, B., et al. (2024). What is missing in policy discourses about school exclusions? in Critical Studies in Education; Manolev, J., et al. (2024). Reshaping school discipline with metrics: an examination of teachers' disciplinary practices with ClassDojo in British Journal of Sociology of Education; Hartong, S., & Manolev, J. (2023). The construction of (good) parents (as professionals) in/through learning platforms in Tertium Comparationis; Sullivan, A., et al. (2022). Education department policy constructions within highly political contexts: a critical policy study of multiculturalism in Journal of Education Policy; and Manolev, J., Sullivan, A., & Slee, R. (2019). The datafication of discipline: ClassDojo, surveillance and a performative classroom culture in Learning, Media and Technology. He was nominated for the 2023 Ian Davey Research Thesis Prize at the University of South Australia. Manolev coordinates and teaches courses such as Inclusive Education, Foundations in Learning and Teaching 3: Educating for Diversity and Inclusion, Teaching Children with Disabilities, Curriculum, Pedagogy and Democracy, Leading Professional Learning Communities, and Project in Education. He is eligible to co-supervise Masters and PhD students.