Robert Hattam is a Professor in the School of Education, and leader of the Pedagogies for Justice research group. His research focuses on teachers’ work, educational leadership, critical and reconciliation pedagogies, refugees, and school reform. His research program includes: (i) school based studies that engage with teachers as they attempt to redesign pedagogical practices in response to their own existential classroom challenges and provocations for more justice; (ii) cultural studies in hopeful sites of public pedagogy of new social movements and especially socially-engaged Buddhism and ‘reconciliation’ broadly defined; and (iii) philosophical investigations into friendship, forgiveness, hospitality and conviviality. ... Read more
About me
Robert Hattam is a Professor in the School of Education, and leader of the Pedagogies for Justice research group. His research focuses on teachers’ work, educational leadership, critical and reconciliation pedagogies, refugees, and school reform. His research program includes: (i) school based studies that engage with teachers as they attempt to redesign pedagogical practices in response to their own existential classroom challenges and provocations for more justice; (ii) cultural studies in hopeful sites of public pedagogy of new social movements and especially socially-engaged Buddhism and ‘reconciliation’ broadly defined; and (iii) philosophical investigations into friendship, forgiveness, hospitality and conviviality. He has published in a range of international journals including Sociology, Pedagogy, Culture and Society, British Journal of Sociology of Education, British Educational Research Journal, Social Identities, Critical Studies in Education, and Discourse: studies in the cultural politics of education. He has been involved in book projects with others that include: Schooling for a Fair Go, Teachers' Work in a Globalising Economy, Dropping Out, Drifting Off, Being Excluded: Becoming Somebody Without School, Connecting Lives and Learning, Pedagogies for Reconciliation, Leading Literacy Learning: Beyond Pedagogies of Poverty, and Awakening-Struggle: Towards a Buddhist Critical Theory.
About me
About me
Doctor of Philosophy University of South Australia
Graduate Diploma of Teaching Adelaide College of Advanced Education
Bachelor of Science The University of Adelaide
Research
Excludes commercial-in-confidence projects.
Culturally responsive schooling, ARC - Discovery Projects, 01/01/2022 - 31/12/2024
Toward an Australian culturally responsive pedagogy, ARC Discovery Indigenous, 01/03/2017 - 30/11/2020
Children learning to live together in a diverse community: Culturally Responsive Pedagogy in Reggio Emilia inspired Early Learning Settings, Department for Education, 04/06/2018 - 20/02/2020
Hawke EU Centre for Mobilities, Migrations and Cultural Transformations, European Commission, 01/07/2014 - 28/02/2018
Negotiating a space in the nation: the case of Ngarrindjeri, ARC - Discovery Projects, 31/08/2010 - 31/12/2016
Still Running Twice As Hard!, South Australian Secondary Principals Association Inc (SASPA), 28/04/2016 - 04/05/2016
Educational leadership and turnaround literacy pedagogy, ARC - Linkage Project, 19/06/2012 - 31/03/2016
Research
Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. Some long-standing staff members may have older outputs included. To see earlier years visit ORCID, ResearcherID or Scopus
Open access indicates that an output is open access.
Year | Output |
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2024 |
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2018 |
3
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2017 |
36
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2016 |
18
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2014 |
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Year | Output |
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2023 |
1
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2023 |
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2023 |
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2022 |
Open access
7
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2020 |
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2019 |
Open access
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2018 |
Open access
|
2018 |
9
|
2018 |
2
|
2018 |
6
|
2016 |
3
|
2016 |
Open access
3
|
2015 |
Open access
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2012 |
4
|
2012 |
11
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2011 |
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2010 |
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2009 |
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2009 |
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2008 |
9
|
2008 |
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Year | Output |
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2024 |
Open access
1
|
2024 |
5
3
5
|
2024 |
Open access
1
|
2022 |
Open access
30
27
8
|
2022 |
Open access
20
16
|
2021 |
2
1
|
2020 |
4
3
|
2019 |
9
9
4
|
2015 |
Open access
|
2015 |
12
8
|
2015 |
Open access
|
2015 |
Open access
8
1
|
2014 |
1
2
|
2014 |
11
9
|
2012 |
68
56
|
2012 |
76
64
|
2010 |
27
19
|
2010 |
20
15
|
2009 |
41
|
2009 |
21
19
|
2009 |
53
48
|
2008 |
|
2008 |
38
9
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Year | Output |
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2020 |
Open access
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2019 |
Open access
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2016 |
Open access
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2010 |
Open access
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2010 |
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2010 |
Open access
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2010 |
Open access
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2010 |
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2010 |
Open access
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2009 |
Open access
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Research
External engagement & recognition
Organisation | Country |
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ACER Forester | AUSTRALIA |
Australian Education Union | AUSTRALIA |
Beijing Normal University | CHINA |
Canterbury Christ Church University | UNITED KINGDOM |
Cooperative Research Centre for Remote Economic Participation | AUSTRALIA |
Department of Education and Children's Services | AUSTRALIA |
Federation University Australia | AUSTRALIA |
Flinders University | AUSTRALIA |
Gawler and District College | AUSTRALIA |
Griffith University | AUSTRALIA |
Maynooth University | IRELAND |
Monash University | AUSTRALIA |
Murdoch University | AUSTRALIA |
Open University of Cyprus | CYPRUS |
Playford International College | AUSTRALIA |
Queensland University of Technology | AUSTRALIA |
Southern Cross University | AUSTRALIA |
University of Adelaide | AUSTRALIA |
University of Auckland | NEW ZEALAND |
University of Birmingham | UNITED KINGDOM |
University of Cambridge | UNITED KINGDOM |
University of Lower Silesia | POLAND |
University of Manchester | UNITED KINGDOM |
University of New South Wales | AUSTRALIA |
University of Nottingham | UNITED KINGDOM |
University of Oulu | FINLAND |
University of Queensland | AUSTRALIA |
University of South Australia | AUSTRALIA |
University of Southern Queensland | AUSTRALIA |
University of Sydney | AUSTRALIA |
University of the Sunshine Coast | AUSTRALIA |
Victoria University | AUSTRALIA |
Western Sydney University | AUSTRALIA |
External engagement & recognition
Engagement/recognition | Year |
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MemberARC College of Experts |
2019 |
Editorial Board MemberThe Australian Educational Researcher |
2018 |
Expert appointmentAustralian Research Council (ARC) |
2018 |
Editorial Board MemberThe Australian Educational Researcher |
2017 |
Expert appointmentAustralian Research Council (ARC) |
2017 |
MemberAustralian Association for Research in Education (AARE) |
2017 |
MemberAmerican Educational Research Association (AERA) |
2017 |
Distinguished Contribution to Research in Educational Leadership AwardAustralian Council for Educational Leaders South Australian Branch (ACEL SA) |
2016 |
Teaching & student supervision
Supervisions from 2010 shown
Thesis title | Student status |
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Design, creativity and zen | Current |
Examining the emergence of Islamic Pedagogy in Australian Islamic Schools with implications for renewal. | Current |
Professional learning communities that support social justice through action-research: a critical narrative ethnography of the redesigning pedagogies in the north project | Current |
Towards critical global literacies: building social participation and citizenship in a superdiverse world | Current |
A gender regime of contemporary Vietnamese universities as evident in women's leadership practices | Completed |
As seen in the movies : towards a cosmopolitan imagining of post-Yugoslavia | Completed |
Assembling the 21st century learner: teachers' perspectives, textual representations and the case of challenge based learning | Completed |
Building the Education Revolution: a revolution or a missed opportunity? | Completed |
Caring to know: the problem of justice-seeking education in the community services sector | Completed |
Class, disaffection and negotiating agonistic freedoms to be 'otherwise': exploring working-class students' turn-back-around to mainstream school | Completed |
Culturally responsive pedagogies of success: improving educational outcomes for Australian Aboriginal students | Completed |
Culturally responsive pedagogy action research and teacher change: becoming responsive through responsive becoming | Completed |
Culturally responsive pedagogy on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara lands | Completed |
Dialogic possibilities in scripted classrooms: a single school ethnography | Completed |
Education for all ... careers for some? Second-chance education for adult learners | Completed |
Educational leadership: cultivating plurality in a dialogic teacher 'public space' | Completed |
Educational leadership: the reluctant aspiring principal - dilemmas of playing the game! | Completed |
Giving a good account: people living with HIV/AIDS as policy actors in advanced liberal times | Completed |
Heretical medicine: the exclusion of homoeopathy | Completed |
Make it count: responsive mathematics pedagogy with urban and regional Aboriginal learners | Completed |
Moving on. Primary school-aged refugee student transition from new arrival to mainstream schooling | Completed |
Negotiating belongings: the haunted journeys of Diäärjäng | Completed |
Paradox at work - a political struggle for the soul of the principal | Completed |
Practicalities, fictions and possibilities: becoming socially critical teachers of PE | Completed |
Steel rails run across my body: a compositional poethics of coloniality and the Australian railways | Completed |
Teachers and students in alternative schools: narratives from the margins of public education | Completed |
The marketisation and commodification of leaders¿, teachers¿ and students¿ work: an institutional ethnography of an all-boys school | Completed |
The public secondary school principal in contemporary times: subjectivity, resistance and the limit to neoliberal sensibilities | Completed |
Transdisciplinary learning in international education: a single school ethnography | Completed |