Rate My Professor Tom Griffiths

As program leader of the Comparative and International Education Group at the University of Newcastle (CIEGUN), Griffiths' research specializations center on comparative and international education through a world-systems analysis framework. His interests encompass education and social change, Latin America, pedagogy, Wallerstein's theories, world-systems analysis, and socialism, with fluent Spanish proficiency. Key research trajectories include developing world-systems analysis for comparative education and studying socialist education projects in Cuba and Venezuela. Notable awards include the Vice Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence in 2007, recognizing his stimulation of students to consider education's relationship to social justice. Key publications feature books such as 'Logics of Socialist Education: Engaging with Crisis, Insecurity and Uncertainty' (2013, with Z. Millei), 'Mass Education, Global Capital, and the World: The Theoretical Lenses of Istvan Meszaros and Immanuel Wallerstein' (2013, with R. Imre), 'Re-Theorizing Discipline in Education: Problems, Politics, and Possibilities' (2010, with Z. Millei and R.J. Parkes), and 'Education in/for Socialism: Historical, Current and Future Perspectives' (2016, with Z. Millei). Significant articles include 'Education to transform the world: limits and possibilities in and against the SDGs and ESD' (2021), 'Schooling for twenty-first-century socialism: Venezuela's Bolivarian project' (2010), and 'Fifty years of socialist education in revolutionary Cuba: A world-systems perspective' (2009). Griffiths has edited special issues for Globalisation, Societies and Education (2013) and the Journal of Critical Education Policy Studies (2015), and delivered keynote lectures such as 'Education under and for socialism: What hope progress?' in 2018.