Tom Griffiths
Biographic Data
| ID | 505462 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tom Griffiths |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tom |
| FAMILY NAME | Griffiths |
| SIGNATURE | GRIFFITHS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Newcastle Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7820-6787 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 132 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Education to transform the world: Limits and possibilities in and against the SDGs and ESD
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a significant marker in global efforts to universalise a conception of ecologically sustainable human development. SDG 4’s expanded vision of quality education for all extends to the Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) Agenda’s call for education that contributes to all of SDGs, and prepares students to ‘transform our world’. From a critical perspective, this paper considers the …
Ecology and Empire: Environmental History of Settler Societies
Ecology and Empire examines the relationship between the expansion of empire and the environmental experience of the extra-European world. For the first time it moves the debate beyond the North American frontier by comparing the experience of settler societies in Australia, South Africa and Latin America. From Australian water management and the crisis of deforestation in Latin America, to beef farming in the Transvaal, this topical book provide…
Socialism in Cuba: Debate and Socialist Renewal for the Twenty-First Century
Following the popular triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959, and declaration of its socialist character in 1961, a form of Cuban socialism has been in power. The historical trajectory of Cuban socialism in power has moved through periods of fierce independence and debate about a particular Cuban model of socialism, close and disciplined political and economic alignment with the former Soviet Union, and renewed periods of critical debate followi…
Revisiting “Can the subaltern speak?”: Introduction
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a sense of the perspectives that guide the collection of articles. Design/methodology/approach This paper provides an introductory essay regarding the contributions and critics associated with Spivak’s work. Findings In addition, the contents lay out brief descriptions of the articles included in the collection. Originality/value The notion of revisiting “Can the subaltern speak?” provides authors w…
Urban Education, Work, and Social Mobility in Oceania: World-Systems Patterns, and Limits, for Peripheral Zones
Environmental History, Australian Style
Australia has been a leader in the recent emergence of ‘the environmental humanities’. One of the core disciplines of the new field is environmental history, which has developed a distinctive style in Australia since the 1970s. Understanding the continent's unusual human and natural histories has elicited a peculiarly intimate relationship to deep time, and settler Australians have been required to learn a very different ecology and to comprehend…
Education for Social Transformation: Soviet University Education Aid in the Cold War Capitalist World-System
International education is seen as an effective form of soft power. This article reviews one of history's largest and most ambitious attempts to achieve global influence through university education, and to reshape the world-the Soviet university aid program, 1956-91. Drawing on existing research and Soviet archival materials, we lay out and contextualize characteristic features of the Soviet education aid program. Specifically, we identify its f…
Work Capability Assessment concerns
Debate continues apace over the appropriateness and efficacy of the Work Capability Assessment (WCA) which is used to decide entitlement to Employment and Support Allowance in the UK. Conflicting and contrasting reports have again been emerging recently as more evidence is amassed, while policy goals are re-visited and real-life experiences reflect widespread distress and hardship. This article is a critical attempt to map out some of the many st…
World culture in the capitalist world-system in transition
World culture theory (WCT) offers an explanatory framework for macro-level comparative analyses of systems of mass education, including their structures, accompanying policies and their curricular and pedagogical practices. WCT has contributed to broader efforts to overcome methodological nationalism in comparative research. In this paper, we acknowledge the contributions of world culture theory in these terms, but develop the case for an alterna…
Education in/for socialism: Historical, current and future perspectives
Why a special issue on education in socialism, or education for socialism, in 2013, as we fast approach the 25th anniversary of the collapse of historical socialism in Eastern Europe, and witness the ongoing rise of China driven by its model of capitalist growth overseen by the Communist Party of China (CPC)? Many would argue that we ought to concede that ideas of socialism, or communism, have been definitively relegated to nothing more than obje…
Schooling for twenty‐first‐century socialism: Venezuela’s Bolivarian project
The global dominance of neoliberal policy prescriptions in recent decades has been well documented, with particular implications for educational systems. These include reduced public expenditure and provision, the promotion of individual (parental) choice, competition, increased user‐pays and the privatisation of education. Against this background, this paper reviews contemporary educational reforms in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, which …
Entries
An Unnatural Disaster: Remembering and Forgetting Bushfire
The Black Saturday 2009 Victorian bushfires have again made Australians think critically about their relationship with nature and the challenges of living on the fire continent. Drawing on the historical experience of the 1939 Black Friday bushfire, this article argues that there are cultural and psychological pressures working against the memory of holocaust fire. It is hard for humans to accept that nature can overwhelm culture. As bereaved peo…
History and the Creative Imagination
The following is the text of the Inaugural Greg Dening Annual Lecture, delivered by Professor Griffiths at the University of Melbourne, 11 December 2008
Fifty Years of Socialist Education in Revolutionary Cuba: A World-Systems Perspective
The educational achievements of revolutionary Cuba are well documented, and of international importance given the current global struggle to achieve universal primary schooling as one of the Millennium Development Goals. Revolutionary Cuba achieved and has sustained universal access to free and secular public education at all levels, with a high degree of equity, alongside a comprehensive program of adult education and the unprecedented provision…
Books
Keeper of the Faith: A Biography of Jim Cairns. By Paul Strangle Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2002. Pp. xv + 464. $49.95 cloth. New Guinea: Crossing Boundaries and History. By Clive Moore. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2003. Pp. 274. US$50 paper. The Lowest Rung: Voices of Australian Poverty. By Mark Peel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. 206. $37.95 paper. The Italians in Australia. By Gianfranco Cresciani. Cam…
Environmental History in Australasia
Australia and New Zealand share a southern, settler society history and cultural solidarity as British colonies and dominions. Their early unity as 'Australasia' is where this paper begins, focusing on the strong role of science in shaping environmental history and policy in both countries. Agricultural science was crucial to environmental policy and has given a distinctive quality to the practice of environmental history in Australasia. But the …
Towards better teaching: Productive pedagogy as a framework for teacher education
The Man from Snowy River
George Seddon takes a cheeky pride in his native wit, in his ability to improvise, invent, and to trip lightly over difficult terrain. These are the bush virtues of the Man from Snowy River. In this essay I reflect upon the interdisciplinary (and undisciplined) nature of Seddon's vision and practice, and place him in a tradition of nature and landscape writing in Australia that goes back to the 19th century. But I also suggest that he has been ah…
Discovering Hancock: The journey to Monaro
True Gardens of the Gods: Californian-Australian Environmental Reform, 1860-1930
Hunters and Collectors: The Antiquarian Imagination in Australia (Studies in Australian History)
The urge to preserve, to search for the past in order to package and present it, is a powerful impulse. This act of making history is not only the domain of academic historians and professional myth-makers. Thousands of amateur enthusiasts, driven by curiosity and local knowledge have explored documentary, oral and environmental sources to shape their own histories and perceptions of the land and its people, black and white. This book explores th…
Author’s respone
Secrets of the Forest: Discovering History in Melbourne's Ash Range
History and natural history: Conservation movements in conflict
(1991). History and natural history: Conservation movements in conflict? Australian Historical Studies: Vol. 24, No. 96, pp. 16-32
Hunters and Collectors: The Antiquarian Imagination in Australia (Studies in Australian History)
The urge to preserve, to search for the past in order to package and present it, is a powerful impulse. This act of making history is not only the domain of academic historians and professional myth-makers. Thousands of amateur enthusiasts, driven by curiosity and local knowledge have explored documentary, oral and environmental sources to shape their own histories and perceptions of the land and its people, black and white. This book explores th…
Towards better teaching: Productive pedagogy as a framework for teacher education
An Unnatural Disaster: Remembering and Forgetting Bushfire
The Black Saturday 2009 Victorian bushfires have again made Australians think critically about their relationship with nature and the challenges of living on the fire continent. Drawing on the historical experience of the 1939 Black Friday bushfire, this article argues that there are cultural and psychological pressures working against the memory of holocaust fire. It is hard for humans to accept that nature can overwhelm culture. As bereaved peo…
History and natural history: Conservation movements in conflict
(1991). History and natural history: Conservation movements in conflict? Australian Historical Studies: Vol. 24, No. 96, pp. 16-32
Environmental History in Australasia
Australia and New Zealand share a southern, settler society history and cultural solidarity as British colonies and dominions. Their early unity as 'Australasia' is where this paper begins, focusing on the strong role of science in shaping environmental history and policy in both countries. Agricultural science was crucial to environmental policy and has given a distinctive quality to the practice of environmental history in Australasia. But the …
Education to transform the world: Limits and possibilities in and against the SDGs and ESD
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a significant marker in global efforts to universalise a conception of ecologically sustainable human development. SDG 4’s expanded vision of quality education for all extends to the Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) Agenda’s call for education that contributes to all of SDGs, and prepares students to ‘transform our world’. From a critical perspective, this paper considers the …
Schooling for twenty‐first‐century socialism: Venezuela’s Bolivarian project
The global dominance of neoliberal policy prescriptions in recent decades has been well documented, with particular implications for educational systems. These include reduced public expenditure and provision, the promotion of individual (parental) choice, competition, increased user‐pays and the privatisation of education. Against this background, this paper reviews contemporary educational reforms in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, which …
Revisiting “Can the subaltern speak?”: Introduction
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a sense of the perspectives that guide the collection of articles. Design/methodology/approach This paper provides an introductory essay regarding the contributions and critics associated with Spivak’s work. Findings In addition, the contents lay out brief descriptions of the articles included in the collection. Originality/value The notion of revisiting “Can the subaltern speak?” provides authors w…
Environmental History, Australian Style
Australia has been a leader in the recent emergence of ‘the environmental humanities’. One of the core disciplines of the new field is environmental history, which has developed a distinctive style in Australia since the 1970s. Understanding the continent's unusual human and natural histories has elicited a peculiarly intimate relationship to deep time, and settler Australians have been required to learn a very different ecology and to comprehend…
Work Capability Assessment concerns
Debate continues apace over the appropriateness and efficacy of the Work Capability Assessment (WCA) which is used to decide entitlement to Employment and Support Allowance in the UK. Conflicting and contrasting reports have again been emerging recently as more evidence is amassed, while policy goals are re-visited and real-life experiences reflect widespread distress and hardship. This article is a critical attempt to map out some of the many st…
History and the Creative Imagination
The following is the text of the Inaugural Greg Dening Annual Lecture, delivered by Professor Griffiths at the University of Melbourne, 11 December 2008
The natural history of Melbourne’: The culture of nature writing in Victoria, 1880–1945∗
World culture in the capitalist world-system in transition
World culture theory (WCT) offers an explanatory framework for macro-level comparative analyses of systems of mass education, including their structures, accompanying policies and their curricular and pedagogical practices. WCT has contributed to broader efforts to overcome methodological nationalism in comparative research. In this paper, we acknowledge the contributions of world culture theory in these terms, but develop the case for an alterna…
Education in/for socialism: Historical, current and future perspectives
Why a special issue on education in socialism, or education for socialism, in 2013, as we fast approach the 25th anniversary of the collapse of historical socialism in Eastern Europe, and witness the ongoing rise of China driven by its model of capitalist growth overseen by the Communist Party of China (CPC)? Many would argue that we ought to concede that ideas of socialism, or communism, have been definitively relegated to nothing more than obje…
Fifty Years of Socialist Education in Revolutionary Cuba: A World-Systems Perspective
The educational achievements of revolutionary Cuba are well documented, and of international importance given the current global struggle to achieve universal primary schooling as one of the Millennium Development Goals. Revolutionary Cuba achieved and has sustained universal access to free and secular public education at all levels, with a high degree of equity, alongside a comprehensive program of adult education and the unprecedented provision…
The Man from Snowy River
George Seddon takes a cheeky pride in his native wit, in his ability to improvise, invent, and to trip lightly over difficult terrain. These are the bush virtues of the Man from Snowy River. In this essay I reflect upon the interdisciplinary (and undisciplined) nature of Seddon's vision and practice, and place him in a tradition of nature and landscape writing in Australia that goes back to the 19th century. But I also suggest that he has been ah…
Boundaries of the Sacred: The Williams family in New Zealand, 1823‐30
Boundaries of the Sacred: The Williams family in New Zealand, 1823‐30
Voices old and new: Perceptions of environment and history in an Australian country town
(1986). Voices old and new: perceptions of environment and history in an Australian country town. Landscape Research: Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 2-6
The natural history of Melbourne’: The culture of nature writing in Victoria, 1880–1945∗
History and natural history: Conservation movements in conflict
(1991). History and natural history: Conservation movements in conflict? Australian Historical Studies: Vol. 24, No. 96, pp. 16-32
Secrets of the Forest: Discovering History in Melbourne's Ash Range
Hunters and Collectors: The Antiquarian Imagination in Australia (Studies in Australian History)
The urge to preserve, to search for the past in order to package and present it, is a powerful impulse. This act of making history is not only the domain of academic historians and professional myth-makers. Thousands of amateur enthusiasts, driven by curiosity and local knowledge have explored documentary, oral and environmental sources to shape their own histories and perceptions of the land and its people, black and white. This book explores th…
Author’s respone
Discovering Hancock: The journey to Monaro
True Gardens of the Gods: Californian-Australian Environmental Reform, 1860-1930
The Man from Snowy River
George Seddon takes a cheeky pride in his native wit, in his ability to improvise, invent, and to trip lightly over difficult terrain. These are the bush virtues of the Man from Snowy River. In this essay I reflect upon the interdisciplinary (and undisciplined) nature of Seddon's vision and practice, and place him in a tradition of nature and landscape writing in Australia that goes back to the 19th century. But I also suggest that he has been ah…
Books
Keeper of the Faith: A Biography of Jim Cairns. By Paul Strangle Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2002. Pp. xv + 464. $49.95 cloth. New Guinea: Crossing Boundaries and History. By Clive Moore. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2003. Pp. 274. US$50 paper. The Lowest Rung: Voices of Australian Poverty. By Mark Peel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. 206. $37.95 paper. The Italians in Australia. By Gianfranco Cresciani. Cam…
Environmental History in Australasia
Australia and New Zealand share a southern, settler society history and cultural solidarity as British colonies and dominions. Their early unity as 'Australasia' is where this paper begins, focusing on the strong role of science in shaping environmental history and policy in both countries. Agricultural science was crucial to environmental policy and has given a distinctive quality to the practice of environmental history in Australasia. But the …
Towards better teaching: Productive pedagogy as a framework for teacher education
Entries
An Unnatural Disaster: Remembering and Forgetting Bushfire
The Black Saturday 2009 Victorian bushfires have again made Australians think critically about their relationship with nature and the challenges of living on the fire continent. Drawing on the historical experience of the 1939 Black Friday bushfire, this article argues that there are cultural and psychological pressures working against the memory of holocaust fire. It is hard for humans to accept that nature can overwhelm culture. As bereaved peo…
History and the Creative Imagination
The following is the text of the Inaugural Greg Dening Annual Lecture, delivered by Professor Griffiths at the University of Melbourne, 11 December 2008
Fifty Years of Socialist Education in Revolutionary Cuba: A World-Systems Perspective
The educational achievements of revolutionary Cuba are well documented, and of international importance given the current global struggle to achieve universal primary schooling as one of the Millennium Development Goals. Revolutionary Cuba achieved and has sustained universal access to free and secular public education at all levels, with a high degree of equity, alongside a comprehensive program of adult education and the unprecedented provision…
Schooling for twenty‐first‐century socialism: Venezuela’s Bolivarian project
The global dominance of neoliberal policy prescriptions in recent decades has been well documented, with particular implications for educational systems. These include reduced public expenditure and provision, the promotion of individual (parental) choice, competition, increased user‐pays and the privatisation of education. Against this background, this paper reviews contemporary educational reforms in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, which …
Education in/for socialism: Historical, current and future perspectives
Why a special issue on education in socialism, or education for socialism, in 2013, as we fast approach the 25th anniversary of the collapse of historical socialism in Eastern Europe, and witness the ongoing rise of China driven by its model of capitalist growth overseen by the Communist Party of China (CPC)? Many would argue that we ought to concede that ideas of socialism, or communism, have been definitively relegated to nothing more than obje…
Work Capability Assessment concerns
Debate continues apace over the appropriateness and efficacy of the Work Capability Assessment (WCA) which is used to decide entitlement to Employment and Support Allowance in the UK. Conflicting and contrasting reports have again been emerging recently as more evidence is amassed, while policy goals are re-visited and real-life experiences reflect widespread distress and hardship. This article is a critical attempt to map out some of the many st…
World culture in the capitalist world-system in transition
World culture theory (WCT) offers an explanatory framework for macro-level comparative analyses of systems of mass education, including their structures, accompanying policies and their curricular and pedagogical practices. WCT has contributed to broader efforts to overcome methodological nationalism in comparative research. In this paper, we acknowledge the contributions of world culture theory in these terms, but develop the case for an alterna…
Environmental History, Australian Style
Australia has been a leader in the recent emergence of ‘the environmental humanities’. One of the core disciplines of the new field is environmental history, which has developed a distinctive style in Australia since the 1970s. Understanding the continent's unusual human and natural histories has elicited a peculiarly intimate relationship to deep time, and settler Australians have been required to learn a very different ecology and to comprehend…
Education for Social Transformation: Soviet University Education Aid in the Cold War Capitalist World-System
International education is seen as an effective form of soft power. This article reviews one of history's largest and most ambitious attempts to achieve global influence through university education, and to reshape the world-the Soviet university aid program, 1956-91. Drawing on existing research and Soviet archival materials, we lay out and contextualize characteristic features of the Soviet education aid program. Specifically, we identify its f…
Urban Education, Work, and Social Mobility in Oceania: World-Systems Patterns, and Limits, for Peripheral Zones
Revisiting “Can the subaltern speak?”: Introduction
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a sense of the perspectives that guide the collection of articles. Design/methodology/approach This paper provides an introductory essay regarding the contributions and critics associated with Spivak’s work. Findings In addition, the contents lay out brief descriptions of the articles included in the collection. Originality/value The notion of revisiting “Can the subaltern speak?” provides authors w…
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