Adjunct Professor
Anne Hickling-Hudson
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Teacher Education & Leadership
Biography
Anne Hickling-Hudson's academic career in the Faculty of Education at QUT spans 25 years. Having retired in 2012, she continues as professor in an adjunct capacity in the School of Cultural and Professional Learning in Education.
Widely published, she is a pioneer in using postcolonial theory as a technique of comparative education. Her research focus is on analysing educational policy and national development, teacher education and the intercultural curriculum, and internationalism/ international mobility in higher education. She has been awarded both international and national fellowships, including a Rockefeller Fellowship and an Australian postdoctoral fellowship, to study and publish on the cultural politics of education in developing countries,including higher education in Cuba. Research grants that she has won include
two large Australian Research Council (ARC) grants to work collaboratively on researching education to counter HIV and AIDS in Papua New Guinea, and a grant from the Office of Learning and Teaching (OLT) to collaborate with three other Australian universities and several state museums and libraries for involving student teachers in an initiative entitled ‘Learning and Teaching in Public Spaces’.
She has been deeply involved in socio-educational reform, curriculum design and the education of teachers in decolonising societies, particularly in the Caribbean and Australia. In the 1980s, she worked with the late Paulo Freire to prepare teachers in the Caribbean for educational change. In Australia she has designed and implemented university courses to prepare educators for teaching and researching international education, and has helped to promote Indigenous studies in teacher education.
Anne plays a national and international role in promoting and facilitating education research and exchange in the profession, having been a past President (2001-2004) of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES), of the British Association of International and Comparative education (BAICE), of the Australia and New Zealand Comparative and International Education Society (ANZCIES), and of the Australian Association for Caribbean Studies (AACS) (2009-2011). She has also been a member of other influential professional associations including the American Educational Research Association (AERA) of which she was chair of the Postcolonial Education SIG, and the USA-based Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) of which she was a Board member.
Anne has given numerous invited keynote conference addresses, conference papers and university guest lectures in countries including: Australia, the UK, Canada, the USA, South Africa, Ghana, Sudan, Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad, Cuba, China, Nepal, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan.
Personal details
Positions
- Adjunct Professor
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Teacher Education & Leadership
Keywords
Comparative & international education, cross-cultural education, curriculum, education policy, ethnicity/ race, gender, postcolonial theory, social equity, socio-economic development, teacher education
Research field
Education Systems, Curriculum and Pedagogy, Other Education
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- PhD (University of Queensland)
- MA (University of Hong Kong)
- MEd (University of The West Indies)
- GDMedia (Aust Film,T.V. & Radio Sch.)
- DipEd (University of The West Indies)
- BA (University of The West Indies)
Professional memberships and associations
- Professional Associations - presidencies and board memberships
2009 – 2010: President, by invitation, of BAICE (British Association for International and Comparative Education). Presented Keynote Address at BAICE conference, Univesrity of East Anglia, September 2010.
2009 – 2011: President of the Australian Association for Caribbean Studies (AACS). Convened and led 8th Conference of the AACS, Brisbane, 11-13 Feb., 2009. Chaired 9th conference of the AACS in Newcastle, New South Wales, 16-18 Feb, 2011.
2001 – 2004: President of the World Council of Comparative and International Education (WCCES). Convened, led and presented keynote address at 12th conference of the WCCES in Havana, Cuba 2004.
2005 – 2010: Executive member, Board of the World Council of Comparative and International Education (WCCES).
1997 - 1998: President of the Australia & New Zealand Comparative and International Education Association (ANZCIES).
- Editor & Advisory Board membership of Academic Books and Journals
Co-Editor (with Prof. Peter Mayo & Prof Antonia Darder): Postcolonial Studies in Education. Book series (Palgrave Macmillan) launched in 2010. Ten books published, with several more in preparation.
Co-Editor (with Prof. Peter Mayo and Dr. Milosh Raykov): Postcolonial Directions in Education. Online journal (Horizons Press) launched in 2011.
Member of Editorial International Boards of Scholarly Journals
Compare (current). This includes mentorship of new writers.
International Journal of Educational Development (current)
Asia-Pacific Journal of Education (current)
Policy Futures in Education (current)
Caribbean Journal of Education (current)
Comparative Education Review (2001 – 2005)
Teaching
CLB049 The Global Teacher (B.Ed. elective) Offered in Semester 1 each year. Themes: Educational implications of globalisation & change; global wealth & poverty disparities in education; Peace studies and conflict awareness; Educational activism for human rights; Pedagogies to challenge oppression; Health and environmental pedagogies for the non-specialist teacher; Gender and education in global context; Planning for teaching with a multiliteracies approach including information technology, media and multi-lingual planning.
CLB401 Cultural Diversity and Education (B.Ed. elective) Offered on-line. Themes: Patterns and implications of ethnic diversity in Australian socio-cultural contexts; perceptions of ethnicity and anti-racist education; multicultural pedagogies for diversity; Indigenous issues in education; planning the multicultural school and classroom.
CLN604 – Globalisation and Educational Change (M.Ed. Elective) Offered in Semester 1 each year. Themes: Perspectives on analysing socio-cultural change; globalisation theories; postcolonial theory and its application to education; country case studies of education and change; analysing change in educational policy for sectors and curriculum including language planning, gender issues, multicultural studies and futures studies.
EDB003 – Teaching and Learning Studies: Practising Education (B.Ed. core subject) Member of team of lecturers.
EDB007 – Culture Studies: Indigenous Education (B. Ed. Core subject) Member of team of lecturers.
Publications
- Hickling-Hudson, A., Corona-Gonzalez, J. & Preston, R. (2012). The capacity to share: A study of Cuba's international cooperation in educational development. Palgrave Macmillan. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/58446
- Hickling-Hudson, A., Corona-Gonzalez, J., Lehr, S. & Majoli Viani, M. (2012). The Cuban revolution and internationalism: Structuring education and health. In A. Hickling-Hudson, J. Corona Gonzalez & R. Preston (Eds.), The capacity to share : a study of Cuba's international cooperation in educational development [Postcolonial studies in education] (pp. 13–34). Palgrave Macmillan USA. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/58458
- Hickling-Hudson, A., (2012). Studying in Cuba, returning home to work: Experiences of graduates from the English-Speaking Caribbean. In A. Hickling-Hudson, J. Corona Gonzalez & R. Preston (Eds.), The capacity to share : a study of Cuba's international cooperation in educational development [Postcolonial studies in education] (pp. 107–126). Palgrave Macmillan USA. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/58456
- Hickling-Hudson, A. & Klees, S. (2012). Alternatives to the World Bank's strategies for education and development. In SJ. Klees, J. Samoff & NP. Stromquist (Eds.), The World Bank and education; Critiques and alternatives [Volume 14: Comparative and International Education: A Diversity of Voices] (pp. 209–226). Sense Publishers. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/58213
- Hickling-Hudson, A., (2012). Grenada, education and revolution, 1979-83. In R. Lewis (Ed.), Caribbean Political Activism : Essays in Honour of Richard Hart (pp. 227–253). Ian Randle Publishers. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/58443
- Hickling-Hudson, A. & Sidhu, R. (2011). Australian universities and the challenges of internationalization. In B. Lindsay & WJ. Blanchett (Eds.), Universities and Global Diversity: Preparing Educators for Tomorrow (pp. 157–175). Routledge. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/48337
- Hickling-Hudson, A., (2011). Teaching to disrupt preconceptions: Education for social justice in the imperial aftermath. Compare, 41(4), 453–465. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/49303
- Hoff, L. & Hickling-Hudson, A. (2011). The role of International Non-Governmental Organisations in promoting adult education for social change: A research agenda. International Journal of Educational Development, 31(2), 187–195. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/42743
- McLaughlin, J. & Hickling-Hudson, A. (2005). Beyond Dependency Theory. A Postcolonial Perspective on Educating Papua New Guinea Students in Australian High Schools. Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 25(2), 193–208. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/3505
- Hickling-Hudson, A., (2005). White, Ethnic and Indigenous: Pre-service Teachers Reflect on Discourses of Ethnicity in Australia. Policy Futures in Education, 3(4), 340–359. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/3463
QUT ePrints
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Awards
- Type
- Appointment to Prestigious Positions
- Reference year
- 2004
- Details
- 2004: President of the World Council of Comparative and International Education Societies (WCCES), comprising 36 academic societies of comparative and international education across the globe. Convened and led 12th conference of the WCCES in Havana, Cuba, November 2004. Gave Keynote Address at this conference.
- Type
- Appointment to Prestigious Positions
- Reference year
- 2010
- Details
- Invited as President of the British Association for International and Comparative Education (BAICE). In this capacity, gave presidential keynote address at annual BAICE conference, University of East Anglia, UK, September 2010.
- Type
- Appointment to Prestigious Positions
- Reference year
- 2012
- Details
- Co-Program Chair of the Postcolonial Studies in Education SIG of the American Education Research Association (AERA), the world's largest professional association of education researchers.
- Type
- Funding Award
- Reference year
- 2012
- Details
- Member of EU $500,000 research project `Ethical Internationalism in Higher Education in Times of Global Crises', September 2012 to December 2015. This competitive project won funding of EUR 500,000 from the Finnish Academy of Sciences for 40 months. It is led by Professor Vanessa de Oliveira (Andreotti) of the EDGE research group, University of Oulu, Finland (hosting university) in partnership with 20 universities internationally.
- Type
- International Collaboration
- Reference year
- 2012
- Details
- Collaborating member of an International Research Network (IRN), (2012 to 2015), established by the World Education Research Association (WERA) to study the topic: `Global Ethics in Higher Education'. The IRN, comprising members from 20 universities worldwide, is led by Prof Vanessa Andreotti of the Faculty of Education at Oulu University in Finland. It will produce yearly reports on research carried out on this topic.
- Type
- Appointment to Prestigious Positions
- Reference year
- 2011
- Details
- 2011: Elected as President of the Australian Association for Caribbean Studies (AACS)for a two-year term. Presided over 9th AACS conference, Newcastle, Australia, February 2011.
- Type
- International Collaboration
- Reference year
- 2011
- Details
- Consultant and adviser for two weeks (November 2010), invited to contribute to the 'Humanising Pedagogy' program of professional development for lecturers in the Faculty of Education, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
- Type
- Funding Award
- Reference year
- 2009
- Details
- Winner of $10,000 Commonwealth Foundation grant from the UK to implement an international Workshop for Drama Education in the Campaign Against HIV/AIDS.Outcome: Organised and convened community education workshop, 7 to 9 Feb 2009, at QUT for Caribbean, Pacific and Australian Indigenous educators on drama in community education to counter HIV/AIDS.
- Type
- Editorial Role for an Academic Journal
- Reference year
- 2012
- Details
- Editor (with Prof. Peter Mayo) of online journal,'Postcolonial Directions in Education', launched in September 2012
- Type
- Editorial Role for an Academic Journal
- Reference year
- 2010
- Details
- Editor (with Professors Peter Mayo and Antonia Darder) of the book series 'Postcolonial Studies in Education', published by Palgrave-Macmillan.
Supervision
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- Front Page Schools, Back Page Schools: A case study of factors perceived to affect academic performance in five Papua New Guinea secondary schools (2012)
- Unmasking workshop ecology in applied performance (2012)
- The Impact of Socio-Cultural Factors upon Human-Centred Design in Botswana (2007)
- A Study of Leadership of the Department of Education in Papua New Guinea : Perspectives from Postcolonial and Leadership Theory (2002)