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 I am currently an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education, University of Southern Queensland, Australia where I teach undergraduate courses  on Identity & Culture and Issues & Images of Education.  My postgraduate work includes a course on Critical Pedagogy and I work with a number of inspirational and talented doctoral candidates.  My own doctorate looked at notions of whiteness in an Australian educational context, and my current research and writing remains firmly connected to anti-racist pedagogies, the "new ethnographies" and decolonising research practice.  Prior to entering  the university field, I spent 13 years as an early childhood teacher.  I am the editor of and contributor to the two editions of Culture and Identity (2002, 2005), co-author (with friend & colleague, Andrew Hickey) of (Re)Presenting Education: Students, teachers, schools and the public imagination (2006)  and, again with Andrew, co-editor of and contributor to Educating for Healthy Communities (2007).

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Jon

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Austin

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Australia