Professor Robert Hattam

Emeritus Professor UniSA Education Futures

email Robert.Hattam@unisa.edu.au

Research Degree Supervisor

About me

social justice and education
teachnologies of self
socially engaged Buddhism

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

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Research

Research focus

Specialist Studies in Education
Sociology
Education
History and Philosophy of Specific Fields
Curriculum and Pedagogy

Highlights

Critical sociology of teachers' work,School reform,Policy ethnography,Social justice and schooling,Technologies of self,Critical pedagogy,Cross-cultural dialogue

Research

Outputs

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.

Books

Year	Output
2024	Hattam, S, Hattam, R, King, S & Weiler, T 2024, Enabling pedagogy and action research in higher education, DOI Press, China.
2018	Gannon, S, Hattam, R & Sawyer, W 2018, Resisting educational inequality: reframing policy and practice in schools serving vulnerable communities, Taylor and Francis, UK. 3
2017	Hayes, D, Hattam, R, Comber, B, Kerkham, L, Lupton, R & Thomson, P 2017, Literacy, leading and learning: beyond pedagogies of poverty, Routledge, UK. 36
2016	Peterson, A, Hattam, R, Zembylas, M & Arthur, J 2016, The Palgrave international handbook of education for citizenship and social justice, Palgrave Macmillan, UK. 18
2014	Smyth, J, Down, B, McInerney, P & Hattam, RJ 2014, Doing critical educational research: a conversation with the research of John Smyth, Peter Lang AG International Academic Publishers, US.

Chapters

Year	Output
2023	Gribble, A, Miltenoff, J, Hattam, R & Maher, K 2023, 'An arts-led recovery in 'disadvantaged' schools!', in J Carter, D Price & B MacGill (eds), Arts-based Practices with Young People at the Edge, Palgrave Macmillan, Switzerland, ch. 9, pp. 165-191. 1
2023	Hattam, R 2023, 'Towards a decolonising Australian culturally responsive pedagogy?', in Lester-Irabinna Rigney (ed.), Global Perspectives and New Challenges in Culturally Responsive Pedagogies: Super-diversity and Teaching Practice, Routledge, UK, ch. 7, pp. 75-87.
2023	Morrison, A, Rigney, LI, Hattam, R & Diplock, A 2023, 'Advancing culturally responsive pedagogy in an Australian context', in Lester-Irabinna Rigney (ed.), Global Perspectives and New Challenges in Culturally Responsive Pedagogies: Super-diversity and Teaching Practice, Routledge, UK, ch. 17, pp. 211-221.
2022	Hickey, A, Riddle, S, Robinson, J, Hattam, R, Down, B & Wrench, A 2022, 'Relational pedagogy and democratic education', in S Riddle, A Heffernan & D Bright (eds), New Perspectives on Education for Democracy: Creative Responses to Local and Global Challenges, Routledge, US, ch. 15, pp. 200-212. Open access 7
2020	Hattam, R 2020, 'From South African Black theology and Freire to 'Teaching for resistance': the work of Basil Moore', in SR Steinberg & B Down (es), The SAGE Handbook of Critical Pedagogies, Sage Publications, UK, ch. 33, vol. 2, pp. 320-333.
2019	Peterson, A & Hattam, R 2019, 'Critical race theory and teacher education: toward compassionate coalitions for the future', in KT Han & J Laughter (eds), Critical race theory in teacher education: informing classroom culture and practice, Teachers College Press, US, ch. 15, pp. 157-166. Open access
2018	Gannon, S, Hattam, R & Sawyer, W 2018, 'Researching educational sites serving 'disadvantaged' (sub)urban communities: reframing policy and practice', in S Gannon, R Hattam & W Sawyer (eds), Resisting educational inequality: reframing policy and practice in schools serving vulnerable communities, Routledge, UK, ch. 1, pp. 1-14. Open access
2018	Hattam, R 2018, 'Diversity, global citizenship and the culturally responsive school', in I Davies, LC Ho, D Kiwan et al. (eds), The Palgrave handbook of global citizenship and education, Palgrave Macmillan, UK, ch. 17, pp. 257-275. 9
2018	Hattam, R 2018, 'Researching the 'North': educational ethnographies of a sub(urban) region', in (eds), Resisting educational inequality: reframing policy and practice in schools serving vulnerable communities, Routledge, UK, ch. 19, pp. 214-224. 2
2018	Hattam, R, Sawyer, W & Gannon, S 2018, 'Reclaiming educational equality: towards a manifesto', in S Gannon, R Hattam & W Sawyer (eds), Resisting educational inequality: reframing policy and practice in schools serving vulnerable communities, Routledge, UK, ch. 26, pp. 294-301. 6
2016	Hattam, R & Sullivan, A 2016, 'Promoting pedagogies of engagement in secondary schools: possibilities for pedagogical reform', in A Sullivan, B Johnson & B Lucas (eds), Challenging Dominant Views on Student Behaviour at School, Springer, Singapore, ch. 4, pp. 45-61. 4
2016	Hattam, R 2016, 'Citizenship, schooling, and 'educational disadvantage'', in A Peterson et al. (eds), The Palgrave international handbook of education for citizenship and social justice, Springer, UK, ch. 2, pp. 27-47. Open access 3
2015	Zembylas, M, Hattam, R & Lanas, M 2015, 'Towards pedagogies of "senseless kindness" in critical education', in PL Thomas et al. (eds), Pedagogies of kindness and respect: on the lives and education of children, Peter Lang, US, ch. 20, pp. 291-304. Open access
2012	Hattam, R & Matthews, J 2012, 'Reconciliation as a resource for critical pedagogy', in P Ahluwalia et al. (eds), Reconciliation and pedagogy, Routledge, UK, ch. 2, pp. 10-28. 4
2012	Hattam, R, Atkinson, S & Bishop, P 2012, 'Rethinking reconciliation and pedagogy in unsettling times', in P Ahluwalia et al. (eds), Reconciliation and pedagogy, Routledge, UK, ch. 1, pp. 1-9. 11
2011	Hattam, RJ 2011, 'Listen to me, I'm still leaving: young people's perspectives on schooling', in T Stehlik & J Patterson (eds), Changing the paradigm : education is the key to a socially inclusive future, Post Pressed, Mt Gravatt, Qld, ch. 3, pp. 40-61.
2010	Voudantas, P & Hattam, R 2010, 'Making community curricular in an adult literacy class', in B Prosser, B Lucas & A Reid (eds), Connecting lives and learning: renewing pedagogy in the middle years, Wakefield Press, Adelaide, Australia, ch. 8, pp. 142-156.
2009	Hattam, R 2009, 'Pursuing a deconstructive subjectivity in education: the case of equanimity meditation', in P Willis et al. (eds), Spirituality, mythopoesis and learning, Post Pressed, Mt Gravatt, Queensland, ch. 9, pp. 114-129.
2009	Zipin, L & Hattam, R 2009, 'Partnership action research for social justice: politics, challenges and possibilities', in S Noffke & B Somekh (eds), The Sage handbook of educational action research, Sage, UK, ch. 41, pp. 508-520.
2008	Hattam, RJ & Matthews, J 2008, 'Did Buddha Laugh? Zen, humour and pedagogy', in arus Bussey, Sohail Inayatullah and Ivana Milojevic, Alternative Educational Futures: Pedagogies for an emergent world, Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, pp. 223-234.
2008	Hattam, RJ 2008, 'Socially-engaged Buddhism as a provocation for critical pedagogy in unsettling times', in H Wang & C Eppert (eds), Cross-cultural studies in curriculum: eastern thought, educational insights, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, New York, ch. 4, pp. 109-136. 9

Journal Articles

Year	Output
2024	Maher, K, Rigney, L-I, King, M, Garrett, R, Windle, J, Memon, N, Wrench, A, Carter, J, Paige, K, O'Keeffe, L, Lovell, M, Schulz, S, Soong, H, Colton, J, McDonald, S & Hattam, R 2024, 'Curriculum, democracy and pedagogies for justice: a collective futures dialogue', Curriculum Perspectives, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 105-119. Open access 1
2024	Schulz, S, Rigney, LI, Zembylas, M, Hattam, R & Memon, N 2024, 'Affect and the force of counter stories: learning racial literacy through thinking and feeling', Pedagogy Culture and Society, vol. 32, no. 5, pp. 1307-1324. 4 3 5
2024	Sisson, J, Rigney, L, Hattam, R & Morrison, A 2024, 'Co-constructed engagement with Australian Aboriginal families in early childhood education', Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, online, pp. 1-15. Open access 1
2022	Biesta, G, Heugh, K, Cervinkova, H, Rasinski, L, Osborne, S, Forde, D, Wrench, A, Carter, J, Safstrom, CA, Soong, H, O'Keeffe, S, Paige, K, Rigney, L-I, O'Toole, L, Hattam, R, Peters, MA & Tesar, M 2022, 'Philosophy of education in a new key: publicness, social justice, and education; a South-North conversation', Educational Philosophy and Theory, vol. 54, no. 8, pp. 1216-1233. Open access 30 28 8
2022	Hickey, A, Riddle, S, Robinson, J, Down, B, Hattam, R & Wrench, A 2022, 'Relational pedagogy and the policy failure of contemporary Australian schooling: activist teaching and pedagogically driven reform', Journal of Educational Administration and History, vol. 54, no. 3, pp. 291-305. Open access 20 16
2021	Hattam, R 2021, 'Pedagogies of non-self as practices of freedom', Studies in Philosophy and Education: An International Quarterly, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 51-65. 2 1
2020	Hattam, R 2020, 'Untimely meditations for critical pedagogy', Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, vol. 48, no. 1, pp. 79-92. 4 3
2019	Osborne, S, Paige, K, Hattam, R, Rigney, L-I & Morrison, A 2019, 'Strengthening Australian Aboriginal participation in university STEM programs: a Northern Territory perspective', Journal of Intercultural Studies, vol 40. no 1, pp. 49-67. 9 9 4
2015	Bignall, S, Rigney, D & Hattam, R 2015, 'Colonial letters patent and excolonialism: forgetting, counter-memory and mnemonic potentiality', Borderlands E-Journal: New Spaces in the Humanities, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 1-23. Open access
2015	Hattam, R & Baker, B 2015, 'Technologies of self and the cultivation of virtues', Journal of Philosophy of Education, vol. 49, no. 2, pp. 255-273. 12 8
2015	Hattam, R, Garrett, R & Simons, M 2015, 'Will this be just? Will we survive?: The SACE research project', Curriculum Perspectives, vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 30-40. Open access
2015	Paige, KA, Hattam, R & Daniels, CB 2015, 'Two models for implementing Citizen Science projects in middle school', Journal of Educational Enquiry, vol. 14 no. 2, pp. 4-17. Open access 8 1
2014	Bignall, S, Rigney, D & Hattam, R 2014, 'The postcolonial time that remains', Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 269-287. 1 2
2014	Hattam, R & Smyth, J 2014, 'Thinking past educational disadvantage, and theories of reproduction', Sociology, vol. 49, no. 2, pp. 270-286. 11 9
2012	Pugh, K, Every, D & Hattam, R 2012, 'Inclusive education for students with refugee experience: whole school reform in a South Australian primary school', The Australian Educational Researcher, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 125-141. 68 56
2012	Zipin, L, Sellar, S & Hattam, R 2012, 'Countering and exceeding 'capital': a 'funds of knowledge' approach to re-imaging community', Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 179-192. 77 64
2010	Hattam, R & Every, D 2010, 'Teaching in fractured classrooms : refugee education, public culture, community and ethics', Race, Ethnicity and Education, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 409-424. 27 19
2010	Hattam, RJ & Zembylas, M 2010, 'What's anger got to do with it? : towards a post-indignation pedagogy for communities in conflict', Social Identities, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 23-40. 21 15
2009	Brady, K, Prosser, B & Hattam, RJ 2009, 'Revolution or backlash? The mediatisation of education policy in Australia', Critical Studies in Education, vol. 50, no. 2, pp. 159-172. 42
2009	Hattam, R & Zipin, L 2009, 'Towards pedagogical justice', Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 297-301. 21 19
2009	Hattam, R, Brennan, M, Zipin, L & Comber, BM 2009, 'Researching for social justice: contextual, conceptual and methodological challenges', Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 303-316. 53 48
2008	Hattam, RJ, Quinn, R & Prosser, B 2008, 'Putting the `home' back into homework: an example of middle school reform', Curriculum Perspectives, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 48-58.
2008	Prosser, B & Hattam, RJ 2008, 'Unsettling deficit views of students and their communities', The Australian Educational Researcher, vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 89-106. 38 9

Reports

Year	Output
2020	Rigney, L, Sisson, J, Hattam, R & Morrison, A 2020, Bringing culturally responsive pedagogies and Reggio Emilia education principles into dialouge, University of South Australia, Australia. Open access
2019	Morrison, A, Rigney, L-I, Hattam, R & Diplock, A 2019, Toward an Australian culturally responsive pedagogy: a narrative review of the literature, University of South Australia, Australia. Open access
2016	Paige, K, Hattam, R, Rigney, L-I, Osborne, S & Morrison, A 2016, Strengthening indigenous participation and practice in STEM: university initiatives for equity and excellence, University of South Australia, Australia. Open access
2010	Cormack, P, Comber, BM, Wilkinson, L, Bills, DF, Barnett, JA, Brennan, M, Chartres, MT, Hattam, RJ, Jorgensen, R, Kerkham, LJ, Reid, A & Sullivan, P 2010, 2009 futureSACE school to work innovation program : literacy and numeracy project final report, UniSA, South Australia. Open access
2010	Gale, T, Hattam, R, Comber, B, Tranter, D, Bills, D, Sellar, S & Parker, S 2010, Interventions early in school as a means to improve higher education outcomes for disadvantaged students, Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations, Australia.
2010	Gale, T, Hattam, R, Parker, S, Comber, B, Bills, D & Tranter, D 2010, Interventions early in school as a means to improve higher education outcomes for disadvantaged (particularly low SES) students : Component B: A survey of the nature and extent of outreach activities conducted by Australian higher education (Table A) providers, Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations, Australia. Open access
2010	Gale, T, Tranter, D, Bills, D, Hattam, R & Comber, B 2010, Interventions early in school as a means to improve higher education outcomes for disadvantaged (particularly low SES) students: Component A: A review of the Australian and international literature, Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations, Australia. Open access
2010	Gale, TC, Tranter, DR, Bills, DF, Hattam, RJ & Comber, BM 2010, Interventions early in school as a means to improve higher education outcomes for disadvantaged (particularly low SES) students : a design and evaluation matrix for university outreach in schools, Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations, Canberra, Australia.
2010	Sellar, S, Hattam, R, Bills, D, Comber, B, Tranter, D & Gale, T 2010, Interventions early in school as a means to improve higher education outcomes for disadvantaged (particularly low SES) students : Component C: Case studies of selected Australian university outreach activities, Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations, Australia. Open access
2009	Cormack, P, Comber, B, Wilkinson, L, Hattam, RJ, Brennan, M, Kerin, RJ, Kerkham, L, Reid, A & Walsh, J 2009, 2008 futureSACE School to Work Innovation Program: literacy project final report, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia. Open access

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

Organisation	Country
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
Member ARC College of Experts	2019
Editorial Board Member The Australian Educational Researcher	2018
Expert appointment Australian Research Council (ARC)	2018
Editorial Board Member The Australian Educational Researcher	2017
Expert appointment Australian Research Council (ARC)	2017
Member Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE)	2017
Member American Educational Research Association (AERA)	2017
Distinguished Contribution to Research in Educational Leadership Award Australian Council for Educational Leaders South Australian Branch (ACEL SA)	2016

Teaching & student supervision

Research degree supervision

Supervisions from 2010 shown

Thesis title	Student status
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

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Professor Robert Hattam

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