CAPSTRANS RESEARCH ASSOCIATE
Associate Professor Peter Kell
Associate Professor in Adult Education and Training,
Faculty of Education, University of Wollongong
Qualifications
PhD (Deakin University)
MEdAdmn (Deakin University)
GradDip Educational Studies (Charles Sturt University)
Diploma of Teaching (University of Canberra)
Research Programs
Globalisation and International Development
Australia in the Asia-Pacific
Globalisation and Education
Research Specialisation
Includes transnational education, international markets in education, the internationalistion
of vocational education and language and literacy policy in South East Asia.
Languages
Indonesian (basic).
Current Research Projects
- Why do international literacy rankings count? An analysis of international literacy and numeracy testing. Peter Kell. & Mohan Chinnappan
This project explores the nature of international literacy and numeracy testing. The research is documenting the development of PISA and TIMSS and its application in the Asia Pacific.
- International literacy indices Ambigapathy Pandian (USM), Peter Kell & Marilyn Kell (UWS)
This joint project with the Universiti of Sains Malaysia (USM) and the University of Western Sydney explores questions about international literacy testing in Malaysia.
- Welcome to Wollongong for International Students (W2W) Gillian Vogl and Peter Kell
This is a community based research project designed to recognize the contribution of international students to the Illawarra. The project involved a civic welcome, a mini-festival and a community website ww.w2w.uow.edu.au. The project is part of a broader project on global student mobility.
- Australian volunteers abroad in communities in the Asia Pacific Peter Kell, Tim Scrase, Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase (UoW) & Roger O’Hallaron, PALMS Australia.
This is an ARC linkage with PALMS Australia, a volunteer sending agency. The research explores questions about the preparation of volunteers for community development placements in the Asia Pacific.
Recent Publications
- (in press for 2004) “Globalism and Localism and the Politics of Resistance; Public Sector
Workers in North Queensland”, in Michael Singh, Jane Kenway and Michael Apple (eds.),
Education, Globalisation and Governance, Common Ground Press, Melbourne.
- (2003) with A. Pandian and G. Chakravarthy (eds.), New Literacies, New Practices, New
Times, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Putrajaya.
- (2003) with Michael Singh and Sue Shore (eds.) Adult
Education @ 21st Century, Lang, New York (xxv+299pp).
- (2003) “Questioning Developmental Globalism: Threats to Language and Ecological Sustainability”,
in Peter Kell, Michael Singh and Sue Shore (eds.), Adult
Education @ 21st Century, Peter Lang, New York, pp. 55-70.
- (2002) (ed.) Ways of learning : the
revolution in teaching and learning, Common Ground Publishing, Melbourne.
- (2002) with M. Singh and A. Pandian, Appropriating
English Innovation and The Global Business of English Language Teaching, Lang, New
York.
- (2002) “Open For Business: The Market, The State and Adult Literacy in Australia Up
to and Beyond 2000”, in J. Lo Bianco, and R. Wickert (eds.) Language and Literacy
Australian Policy Activism, Language Australia, Canberra, pp. 241-256.
- (2001) “Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! Who? Who? Who? How Diversity Came Last at the Sydney
2000 Olympics”, in S. Phillips (ed.) Australian Multiculturalism: Everyday Diversity,
Common Ground, Press Melbourne.
- (2001) “Futures in the New Globalised Education Market in Education and Training”,
in M. Kalantzis and A. Pandian (eds.) Literacy Matters: Issues for New Times, Common
Ground/USM, Melbourne/Penang, pp. 19-33.
- (2000) Good Sport Australian Sport and
the Myth of the Fair Go, Pluto Press, Sydney.
Current research students
Koolchalee Chongcharoen
Jirayu Sanvong
Organisational Affiliations
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