Dr Kelvin McQueen
Lecturer, Faculty of The Professions, School of Education
Contact
| Email: | kmcquee2@une.edu.au |
| Room: | FEHPS Building (E7) |
| Phone: | 02 6773 3808 (or +61 2 6773 3808 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 2445 |
Kelvin McQueen is a member of the Education Contexts Group (TRG).
Kelvin received his BA DipEd and Honours degrees from Macquarie University in Sydney. After teaching for ten years in NSW rural and city public secondary schools, he taught the sociology of education and economic history at the University of Western Sydney for ten years, as well as HSIE curriculum studies for the Aboriginal Rural Education Program. Since 2005, he has taught with the Social Contexts Teaching and Research Group at the University of New England.
Publications
Kelvin's publications include Masterworks of Man and Nature (1992) for the United Nations, numerous book reviews covering educational, political and historical topics for journals such as Education, Education Links and Education Australia, and journal articles and conference papers on post-modernism, private schools, the Vinson Report, the Ramsey Review, police corruption, the Macquarie Fields and Redfern riots, and the Adult Migrant English Service. His Doctoral thesis, completed in 2004, is entitled The state aid struggle and the NSW Teachers Federation 1995–1999.
Kelvin's latest publications are:
McQueen, K. & Poynting, S. (forthcoming). What dreams may come? Class struggle and the supplanting of the ideology of equality of opportunity in Australian education. In J. Freeman-Moir & A. Scott (eds) The Lost Dream of Equality: Critical Essays on Education and Social Class, Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.
McQueen, K. (2005). Quality for Some: David Kemp's double vision of school quality. In Questioning 'Best Practice' in Education: Benefits and Disadvantages, Debates and Dilemmas (Proceedings of the Australian and New Zealand Comparative and International Education Society 33rd Annual Conference, 2–4 December, Coffs Harbour), Armidale, NSW: Centre for Research on Education in Context, School of Education, University of New England [CD-ROM].
McQueen, K. & Poynting, S. (2004). 'Rejecting class consciousness'? The demise of equality of opportunity in Australian education. International Journal of Learning (Proceedings of the New Learning Conference, July 2002, Beijing), 9.