Andrew Deuchar
Biographic Data
| ID | 757216 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Deuchar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Deuchar |
| SIGNATURE | DEUCHAR A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6198-3811 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Tracing pedagogy from below: An affirmative account of international students’ learning practices in higher education
This article draws on semi-structured interviews to analyse international students’ learning practices in an Australian university. Drawing critical internationalisation studies into conversation with asset-based pedagogies, I propose tracing pedagogy from below as an analytical and methodological route toward an affirmative account of international students’ learning practices. In contrast to depictions of international students as passive or re…
Policy makers as experts and teachers in need of reform: A critique of ‘evidence-based’ reforms of initial teacher education in Australia
In 2023 the Australian government mandated reforms to initial teacher education (ITE) courses across Australia. The key rationale of the Strong Beginnings Report is to better prepare teachers for the classroom and help stem the flow of teachers leaving the profession. This article suggests that the Strong Beginnings Report mobilises forms of evidence that privilege bureaucratic intervention over teachers’ insight and capacity. Using Bacchi’s ‘Wha…
Fossil fuel interests, climate obstructionism, and higher education policy: A critique of the Australian Universities Accord
This article examines how national higher education policy can obfuscate the need for effective climate action. It critiques the Australian Universities Accord, a recent policy aimed at creating an economically prosperous, socially equitable, and environmentally sustainable nation. Through a critical analysis of the Australian Universities Accord, we show how it: i) was formed with significant input from fossil fuel actors, networks, and interest…
Education governance and the infrastructures of schooling: The making of an eco-school in rural Argentina
This article draws on infrastructure studies to examine how a newly built eco-school in rural Argentina furthers sustainability learning and action. We consider how infrastructures mediate the possibilities of schooling, including the physical building of the school itself and the region in which it is located, the objects, desks, technologies and so on within the school, and broader policy regimes through which education systems are constituted.…
Enacted spaces of peer learning: Tracing practices of relationality among international students in higher education
This article attends to practices of peer learning among international students on and around an Australian university campus. Informed by posthuman theories, we frame peer learning as a relational process that is entangled with objects, bodies, technologies, spaces and materialities. Our analysis pays attention to the vitality of various spaces and the pedagogic practices they call forth. In doing so, it differs from educational theorising that …
International education policy and/as the limits of humanism: A posthuman critique from the Anthropocene
Critiques of international education policy frequently take issue with how it stabilises neoliberal values at the expense of the progressive aims of education. Yet the humanism underpinning these debates can work to exclude environmental concerns from the remit of educational policy. This article offers a posthuman critique of the Australian Strategy for International Education 2021–2030 that does not take for granted that international education…
A caring transformation of international education: Possibilities, challenges and change
The COVID-19 pandemic has had profound impacts on all facets of international education. Not only has it highlighted the inadequacy of existing care arrangements but it has also created new care needs. There is increased recognition among policy makers and education providers that they need to understand and support the wellbeing of international students more effectively – and indeed with greater care. Drawing on sociomaterial theories of care, …
Rewriting the hills: Youth sociality as a mode of navigating unemployment in a context of outmigration in North India
This article examines the ways in which educated yet unemployed young people attempt to configure ways of being productive in a small hill town in North India. Young people who do not migrate to large urban centres from this township are the subject of contradictory discourses: in some moments they are seen as an antidote to the 'problem of migration', but in other moments they are ridiculed for not making good use of their time. Both discourses …
The social practice of international education: Analysing the caring practices of Indian international students in Australian universities
This article contributes to debates about international student mobility and the globalisation of higher education by attending to the caring practices of Indian international students at Australian universities. Drawing on qualitative material produced with postgraduate students, it examines the practical, economic, emotional and social ways they support each other throughout their educational sojourns. The main argument is that Indian internati…
The problem with international students' ‘experiences’ and the promise of their practices: Reanimating research about international students in higher education
The increasing number of people studying abroad has drawn significant scholarly attention to the experiences of international students. While these works have productively informed policy and practice regarding how international students may be better supported, they have not always considered the active ways international students contribute to higher education. This article suggests that adopting the notion of experience as a conceptual startin…
The Labouring Practices of Jobless Degree Holders: Rethinking Work, Productivity, and Labour in a Small Hill Town in North India
This article critiques productivist and wage‐centric conceptualisations of labour by analysing the labouring practices of jobless degree holders in the Indian Himalayas. I draw on ethnographic material to illuminate how young men developed forms of unpaid labour that centred skills associated with their educational credentials. Educated youth were able to produce positive reputations through their labour and made sense of their activities as maki…
Between unemployment and enterprise in neoliberal India: Educated youth creating work in the private education sector
This paper draws on ethnographic material to analyse how unemployed youth create work in the private educational sector. It shows how a set of educated young men, who moved from rural areas to a north Indian city to find work, are seeking to create jobs after an extended period of unemployment. Having attended coaching clinics and private tuition centres to prepare for white‐collar jobs, they draw on the experience, knowledge, and skills they hav…
"Strategically "Out of Place: Unemployed Migrants Mobilizing Rural and Urban Identities in North India
Increasing numbers of young people are migrating across the Global South to pursue tertiary education and find employment. In north India, though, as elsewhere, migrants are often unable to realize the kind of social mobility to which they aspire. This article examines the ways in which educated yet unemployed male migrants perform identities to contend their marginality. Through a multisited ethnography, during which I accompanied participants t…
Young Men, Education and Ethnicity in Contemporary Darjeeling
Utilising qualitative research methods and drawing upon theories of social reproduction, this article examines how ethnicity intersects with students’ experiences of education in Darjeeling. The research explores how young men’s aspirations articulate their ethnic identity and their associated political demands. It shows how ethnicities are fostered within friendship groups on college campuses and also discusses young men’s criticisms of the Gork…
Ambivalence and optimism: The contradictory meanings of education for lower middle class young men in Dehradun, India
Between unemployment and enterprise in neoliberal India: Educated youth creating work in the private education sector
This paper draws on ethnographic material to analyse how unemployed youth create work in the private educational sector. It shows how a set of educated young men, who moved from rural areas to a north Indian city to find work, are seeking to create jobs after an extended period of unemployment. Having attended coaching clinics and private tuition centres to prepare for white‐collar jobs, they draw on the experience, knowledge, and skills they hav…
Ambivalence and optimism: The contradictory meanings of education for lower middle class young men in Dehradun, India
The problem with international students' ‘experiences’ and the promise of their practices: Reanimating research about international students in higher education
The increasing number of people studying abroad has drawn significant scholarly attention to the experiences of international students. While these works have productively informed policy and practice regarding how international students may be better supported, they have not always considered the active ways international students contribute to higher education. This article suggests that adopting the notion of experience as a conceptual startin…
"Strategically "Out of Place: Unemployed Migrants Mobilizing Rural and Urban Identities in North India
Increasing numbers of young people are migrating across the Global South to pursue tertiary education and find employment. In north India, though, as elsewhere, migrants are often unable to realize the kind of social mobility to which they aspire. This article examines the ways in which educated yet unemployed male migrants perform identities to contend their marginality. Through a multisited ethnography, during which I accompanied participants t…
The social practice of international education: Analysing the caring practices of Indian international students in Australian universities
This article contributes to debates about international student mobility and the globalisation of higher education by attending to the caring practices of Indian international students at Australian universities. Drawing on qualitative material produced with postgraduate students, it examines the practical, economic, emotional and social ways they support each other throughout their educational sojourns. The main argument is that Indian internati…
The Labouring Practices of Jobless Degree Holders: Rethinking Work, Productivity, and Labour in a Small Hill Town in North India
This article critiques productivist and wage‐centric conceptualisations of labour by analysing the labouring practices of jobless degree holders in the Indian Himalayas. I draw on ethnographic material to illuminate how young men developed forms of unpaid labour that centred skills associated with their educational credentials. Educated youth were able to produce positive reputations through their labour and made sense of their activities as maki…
Education governance and the infrastructures of schooling: The making of an eco-school in rural Argentina
This article draws on infrastructure studies to examine how a newly built eco-school in rural Argentina furthers sustainability learning and action. We consider how infrastructures mediate the possibilities of schooling, including the physical building of the school itself and the region in which it is located, the objects, desks, technologies and so on within the school, and broader policy regimes through which education systems are constituted.…
International education policy and/as the limits of humanism: A posthuman critique from the Anthropocene
Critiques of international education policy frequently take issue with how it stabilises neoliberal values at the expense of the progressive aims of education. Yet the humanism underpinning these debates can work to exclude environmental concerns from the remit of educational policy. This article offers a posthuman critique of the Australian Strategy for International Education 2021–2030 that does not take for granted that international education…
Rewriting the hills: Youth sociality as a mode of navigating unemployment in a context of outmigration in North India
This article examines the ways in which educated yet unemployed young people attempt to configure ways of being productive in a small hill town in North India. Young people who do not migrate to large urban centres from this township are the subject of contradictory discourses: in some moments they are seen as an antidote to the 'problem of migration', but in other moments they are ridiculed for not making good use of their time. Both discourses …
Young Men, Education and Ethnicity in Contemporary Darjeeling
Utilising qualitative research methods and drawing upon theories of social reproduction, this article examines how ethnicity intersects with students’ experiences of education in Darjeeling. The research explores how young men’s aspirations articulate their ethnic identity and their associated political demands. It shows how ethnicities are fostered within friendship groups on college campuses and also discusses young men’s criticisms of the Gork…
Ambivalence and optimism: The contradictory meanings of education for lower middle class young men in Dehradun, India
Young Men, Education and Ethnicity in Contemporary Darjeeling
Utilising qualitative research methods and drawing upon theories of social reproduction, this article examines how ethnicity intersects with students’ experiences of education in Darjeeling. The research explores how young men’s aspirations articulate their ethnic identity and their associated political demands. It shows how ethnicities are fostered within friendship groups on college campuses and also discusses young men’s criticisms of the Gork…
Between unemployment and enterprise in neoliberal India: Educated youth creating work in the private education sector
This paper draws on ethnographic material to analyse how unemployed youth create work in the private educational sector. It shows how a set of educated young men, who moved from rural areas to a north Indian city to find work, are seeking to create jobs after an extended period of unemployment. Having attended coaching clinics and private tuition centres to prepare for white‐collar jobs, they draw on the experience, knowledge, and skills they hav…
"Strategically "Out of Place: Unemployed Migrants Mobilizing Rural and Urban Identities in North India
Increasing numbers of young people are migrating across the Global South to pursue tertiary education and find employment. In north India, though, as elsewhere, migrants are often unable to realize the kind of social mobility to which they aspire. This article examines the ways in which educated yet unemployed male migrants perform identities to contend their marginality. Through a multisited ethnography, during which I accompanied participants t…
The Labouring Practices of Jobless Degree Holders: Rethinking Work, Productivity, and Labour in a Small Hill Town in North India
This article critiques productivist and wage‐centric conceptualisations of labour by analysing the labouring practices of jobless degree holders in the Indian Himalayas. I draw on ethnographic material to illuminate how young men developed forms of unpaid labour that centred skills associated with their educational credentials. Educated youth were able to produce positive reputations through their labour and made sense of their activities as maki…
The social practice of international education: Analysing the caring practices of Indian international students in Australian universities
This article contributes to debates about international student mobility and the globalisation of higher education by attending to the caring practices of Indian international students at Australian universities. Drawing on qualitative material produced with postgraduate students, it examines the practical, economic, emotional and social ways they support each other throughout their educational sojourns. The main argument is that Indian internati…
The problem with international students' ‘experiences’ and the promise of their practices: Reanimating research about international students in higher education
The increasing number of people studying abroad has drawn significant scholarly attention to the experiences of international students. While these works have productively informed policy and practice regarding how international students may be better supported, they have not always considered the active ways international students contribute to higher education. This article suggests that adopting the notion of experience as a conceptual startin…
A caring transformation of international education: Possibilities, challenges and change
The COVID-19 pandemic has had profound impacts on all facets of international education. Not only has it highlighted the inadequacy of existing care arrangements but it has also created new care needs. There is increased recognition among policy makers and education providers that they need to understand and support the wellbeing of international students more effectively – and indeed with greater care. Drawing on sociomaterial theories of care, …
Rewriting the hills: Youth sociality as a mode of navigating unemployment in a context of outmigration in North India
This article examines the ways in which educated yet unemployed young people attempt to configure ways of being productive in a small hill town in North India. Young people who do not migrate to large urban centres from this township are the subject of contradictory discourses: in some moments they are seen as an antidote to the 'problem of migration', but in other moments they are ridiculed for not making good use of their time. Both discourses …
Enacted spaces of peer learning: Tracing practices of relationality among international students in higher education
This article attends to practices of peer learning among international students on and around an Australian university campus. Informed by posthuman theories, we frame peer learning as a relational process that is entangled with objects, bodies, technologies, spaces and materialities. Our analysis pays attention to the vitality of various spaces and the pedagogic practices they call forth. In doing so, it differs from educational theorising that …
International education policy and/as the limits of humanism: A posthuman critique from the Anthropocene
Critiques of international education policy frequently take issue with how it stabilises neoliberal values at the expense of the progressive aims of education. Yet the humanism underpinning these debates can work to exclude environmental concerns from the remit of educational policy. This article offers a posthuman critique of the Australian Strategy for International Education 2021–2030 that does not take for granted that international education…
Policy makers as experts and teachers in need of reform: A critique of ‘evidence-based’ reforms of initial teacher education in Australia
In 2023 the Australian government mandated reforms to initial teacher education (ITE) courses across Australia. The key rationale of the Strong Beginnings Report is to better prepare teachers for the classroom and help stem the flow of teachers leaving the profession. This article suggests that the Strong Beginnings Report mobilises forms of evidence that privilege bureaucratic intervention over teachers’ insight and capacity. Using Bacchi’s ‘Wha…
Fossil fuel interests, climate obstructionism, and higher education policy: A critique of the Australian Universities Accord
This article examines how national higher education policy can obfuscate the need for effective climate action. It critiques the Australian Universities Accord, a recent policy aimed at creating an economically prosperous, socially equitable, and environmentally sustainable nation. Through a critical analysis of the Australian Universities Accord, we show how it: i) was formed with significant input from fossil fuel actors, networks, and interest…
Education governance and the infrastructures of schooling: The making of an eco-school in rural Argentina
This article draws on infrastructure studies to examine how a newly built eco-school in rural Argentina furthers sustainability learning and action. We consider how infrastructures mediate the possibilities of schooling, including the physical building of the school itself and the region in which it is located, the objects, desks, technologies and so on within the school, and broader policy regimes through which education systems are constituted.…
Tracing pedagogy from below: An affirmative account of international students’ learning practices in higher education
This article draws on semi-structured interviews to analyse international students’ learning practices in an Australian university. Drawing critical internationalisation studies into conversation with asset-based pedagogies, I propose tracing pedagogy from below as an analytical and methodological route toward an affirmative account of international students’ learning practices. In contrast to depictions of international students as passive or re…
Sociology (14 works) · Political science (12 works) · Law (8 works) · Social science (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Global Education and Multiculturalism (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Higher education (6 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Pedagogy (5 works)