Dr Bob Boughton
Senior Lecturer, Faculty of The Professions, School of Education
Qualifications
BA (Hons) (Syd), PhD (La Trobe), DipEd (SAust)
Contact
| Email: | bob.boughton@une.edu.au |
| Room: | PDaL Building (N14-19) |
| Phone: | 02 6773 2913 (or +61 2 6773 2913 overseas) |
Bob is a member of the Adult and Workplace Education group withn the School of Education.
Affiliations
ALA, AVETRA, Aust Society for the Study of Labour History, and NTEU.
Areas of Teaching
I am supervising Masters research and PhD students in adult
education and peace studies, and teaching in the following adult
education units in our Bachelors, Graduate Certificate and Masters
programs:
- PDLD 381 Context of Workplace Education and Training;
- PDLD 470 Introduction to Adult Education and Training;
- PDLD 450 Introduction to Workplace Education and Training;
- PDLD 475 Professional Project in Adult Education and Training;
- PDLD 476 Fields of Practice in Adult Education and Training;
Other topics and programs of study can be arranged by negotiation.
Research interests
- Popular education and social movements
- Indigenous adult and vocational education
- Adult education history and theory
- Social determinants of health
Current Research
- Mid-term Review of Australia's National Strategy for Vocational education and training for indigenous Peoples (as part of a consortium led by he National Centre for Vocational Education Research)
- A 'revisionist' history of Australian adult and workplace education
- The political economy of secondary and post-compulsory Indigenous education in the NT
- The role of popular education and capacity building in health development
Other Achievements
- Co-author Australians for Reconciliation Learning Circles Kit (1st edition)
- Commissioned evaluations of agencies and programs in Indigenous health and education including of Central
- Australian Remote Health Training Unit and Secondary Indigenous Education Provision in Alice Springs; and
- Curriculum development and policy advocacy work for Aboriginal community-controlled adult education provider
Personal Approach
In terms of adult education theory and practice, I locate myself in the critical tradition of popular education, seeking to work in and with organised social movements for peace, justice and equality.
Publications
Boughton, B. (1997). Does Popular Education Have a Past? New Directions in Australian Adult Education. B. Boughton, T. Brown and G. Foley. Sydney, University of Technology Sydney (UTS) Centre for Popular Education, pp 1-27.
Boughton, B. (1998). Alternative VET Pathways to Indigenous Development. Adelaide, N.C.V.E.R.
Durnan, D. and B. Boughton (1999). Succeeding Against the Odds. The outcomes obtained by Indigenous students in Aboriginal community-controlled colleges. Adelaide, National Centre for Vocational Education Research.
Boughton, B. (1999). "Just as impelled as ever to try the liberal racket". The influence of communism and anti-communism on Australian adult education history, as seen through the life of Esmonde Higgins. Some topics on adult education in Australia: Papers presented at a seminar on the history of adult education. E. Reid-Smith. Canberra, Adult Learning Australia Research Network and Centre for Learning and Work Research, Griffith University.
Boughton, B. (1999). Strategies to Overcome Institutional Racism in Education. Submission to the Collins Review of Aboriginal Education in the NT, 20th April 1999.
URL: http://192.94.208.240/Crc/General/CRCPubs/pubs/publications%20files/collins.PDF
Boughton, B. (1999). Towards Evidence-based Improvements in Aboriginal Education and Health. Summary Report of the CRC ATH Indigenous Health and Education Systematic Review Project. Darwin, Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal and Tropical Health.
URL: http://192.94.208.240/Crc/General/CRCPubs/Unref_papers/bobevidence.PDF
Boughton, B. (2000). What is the Connection between Aboriginal Education and Aboriginal Health? CRC ATH Occasional Paper Series, No. 2. Darwin, Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal and Tropical Health.
URL: http://192.94.208.240/Crc/General/CRCPubs/ocps/op%20files/issue002.pdf
Gray, A. and B. Boughton (2001). Education and Health Behaviour of Indigenous Australians: evidence from the 1994 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Survey (NATSIS). Darwin.
URL: http://192.94.208.240/Crc/General/CRCPubs/ocps/op%20files/issue003.pdf
Boughton, B. (2001). The Communist Party of Australia's Involvement in the Struggle for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People's Rights 1920-1970. Labour and Community: Historical Essays. R. Markey. Wollongong, University of Wollongong Press: 263-294.
Boughton, B. (2001). "Inequalities in Central Australia's health system undermine Aboriginal health." CARPA Newsletter(Issue 33, November): pp. 20- 21.
Boughton, B. (2001). Popular Education, Capacity-building and Action Research: Increasing Aboriginal Community Control over Education & Health Research. CRC ATH Occasional Paper Series. Issue No. 5. Darwin, CRC ATH.
URL: http://192.94.208.240/Crc/General/CRCPubs/ocps/op%20files/issue005.pdf
Central Australian Aboriginal Congress and B. Boughton (2001). Taking Control: Improving Secondary Indigenous Education in Central Australia. Alice Springs, CAAC.
Ewald, D. and B. Boughton (2002). Maternal Education and Child Health: An Exploratory Investigation in a Central Australian Aboriginal Community." CRC ATH Occasional Papers Series Issue No 7.
URL: http://192.94.208.240/Crc/General/CRCPubs/ocps/op%20files/Issue007.pdf
Boughton, B. (In press). "The Workers' University": Australia's Marx Schools & the International Communist Movement's Contribution to Popular Education. Popular Education: Engaging the Academy. J. Crowther, V. Galloway and I. Martin.