Associate Professor Tom Maxwell
Associate Professor, Faculty of The Professions, School of Education
Qualifications
BSc (University of Sydney), MEd (University of New England), PhD (University of New England), DipEd (University of Sydney), MACE
Contact
| Email: | tmaxwell@une.edu.au |
| Room: | FEHPS Building (E7) |
| Phone: | 02 6773 2583 (or +61 2 6773 2583 overseas) |
Tom Maxwell is a member of the Education Contexts Teaching and Research Group (TRG). He is also the Program Director for the Bhutan Project, and a member of the Centre for Research on Education in Context (CREC).
Publications
Current Research Projects
Dissertations Supervised
Affiliations
- Australian College of Educators
- Australian Association for Research in Education
- Australasian and Asia-Pacific Centre of Educational Innovation and Development
Research interests
- Action research;
- Professional development;
- Doctoral education, especially professional doctorates;
- Multi-method research;
- Education in Bhutan;
- Rural education.
Consultancy
- Queensland Department of Education: member of a team involved in the Consultancy Project on Distance Education Materials (1995-1996)
- Ministry of Education, Bhutan with Dr David Laird, Bhutan INSET Review 1998-99
- UNESCO-Pakistan EFA Report for Afghanistan (Jan-Feb 2000)
Initiatives
- International Baccalaureate
- Bhutan Multigrade Program
Research Grants
2005 - Higher Education Innovation Programme (HEIP): "Education Alumni Support Project (EdASP)" (won with Dr Howard Smith at UNE) - $29,938 2002-2004 - ARC Linkage Grant: "Productive Partnerships for Teaching Quality: Quality Improvement, School-Community Practice and Teacher Education in and for Rural and Remote Settings"(with eight colleagues from UNE, CSU and the NSW Department of Education and Training) $956,804 | |
| 2001 - McWilliam, E. (QUT), Taylor, P. (Griffith U), Green, B (UNE), Holland, S. (Edith Cowan U), Maxwell, T.W. (UNE) and Thompson, P. (U of SA) 2001. Improving doctoral education in Australian universities: Learning from professional doctorate programs" Evaluation and Investigation Project granted by DETYA $68,975.85 | |
| 1997-8 - Adaptation of Urban Aboriginal Children to Mainstream Schooling. $38,962. Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. A/Prof A-K Eckermann, Prof G Kaplan & Dr TW Maxwell. |
Editor
Reader
- Studies in Higher Education
- Journal of Cooperative Education and Internships
- Journal of Educational Enquiry