Associate Professor Alexandra McCormick
Alex is the Associate Dean of Postgraduate Coursework Programs in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Since 2008, Alex has led and taught in the Sydney School of Education & Social Work (SSESW) Masters of Education and its International Stream, and pre-service educators in the SSESW Undergraduate Education program. Alex has coordinated a course on communication and education in the International Development Studies Stream in the Masters of Social Justice.
Educational systems: administration, management and leadership
- International and comparative education
Social structures, inequalities and social justice
- Social change
Social work and social policy
- Third sector research
Keywords: Sustainable Development Goals;Education for All, Southeast Asia and the South Pacific, global social policy, norm transfer, multi-level partnerships; decolonial approaches; critical discourse analysis
Masters coordination and teaching:
- EDPB5016 Global Equity and Education (Coordinator)
- EDPB5002 Globalisation and Education (Coordinator)
- EDPB6013 Internationalisation of Education (Coordinator)
- EDPB5018 Investigating International Education (Coordinator)
- EDMT5676 Introduction to Teaching and Learning
- EDMT6500 Schools and their Communities
- DVST6902 Development: Communication and Education (Coordinator)
Undergraduate teaching:
- EDUF3026 Global Poverty and Education (Coordinator)
- EDUF4044 Reading and Designing Research (Former Coordinator)
- EDUF1018 Education, Teachers and Teaching
2024 Sydney Southeast Asia Centre (SSEAC) Collaborative Research Grant: Equity and Learning on the Thai/ Myanmar borders: Generating Lessons from civil societies' work with Myanmar refugees and migrants on education policy and practice for democracy, peace and reconciliation
2019 International Professional Experiences for Teacher Education Students, DFAT New Colombo Plan Grant, Investigator with Jen Scott Curwood, Debra Talbot and M.A.M. Thomas
2018-2019 Listening to the Partners - the impact of a demand-driven support, Ritesh Shah, A. McCormick, E. Maber and C. Brandt, Eschborn, Germany, Deitsche Gesellshaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
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Associate Editor,Comparative Education Review (2023- current)
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Co-President, Oceania Comparative and International Education Society (OCIES) (2023-2024)
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Senior Editor (2020-2023)International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives
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Convenor (2014 - present) and co-founder, Comparative and International Education Group (CoInEd), University of Sydney
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2015-2017 Vice President, 2014-2016 Secretary, OCIES
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Sydney South East Asia Centre (SSEAC) Member
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Reviewer, Comparative Education Review; Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education; IEJ: CPand other journals
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Former Editorial Board Member, former Assistant Editor, IEJ: CP
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Member of the Australian Association for Pacific Studies (AAPS)
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Former Refugee Language Program (Creative Writing Teacher)
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2021 University of Sydney 'Good Mentor Award', SEMCAN
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2019 Teaching Innovation Award, Comparative & International Education Society
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2019 Vice Chancellor's Sponsorship Program
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2016 Teaching Excellence Award, Sydney School of Education and Social Work
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2016 Dean's Education Innovation Grant Recipient
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2014 British Association of International and Comparative Education conference grant
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2013 Thomas and Mary Ethel Ewing Postdoctoral Fellowship
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2013 Finalist Rita and John Cornforth PhD University Medal
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2010 and 2007 Australia New Zealand Comparative International Education Society (ANZCIES) Travel Scholarships
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2009 - 2010 University of Sydney Thomas T. Roberts Fellowship
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2007 - 2010 Australian Postgraduate Award (Industry) for ARC Linkage Project with Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID)
New Zealand | (University of Auckland) Collaborative investigation into teaching Comparative and International Education, with Dr. Ritesh Shah and Dr. Matthew Thomas, and supported by an OCIES Fellowship and Networking Grant |
Sweden | (Stockholm University) Research and Teaching Exchange and Partnership 2020-2025 |
Thailand | (Inclusive Education Foundation (INED) and University College London, Institute of Education) SSEAC Collaborative Research Grant 2023-2024 |
Vanuatu | (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australia, and associated institutions and schools) International Professional Experiences for Teacher Education Students (Indonesia, Timor Leste and Vanuatu), DFAT New Colombo Plan Grant, Investigator with Jen Scott Curwood, Debra Talbot and M.A.M. Thomas (delayed during COVID 19) |
| Project title | Research student |
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| Examining Policy Reform of a Teacher Continuing Professional Development Programme Among Primary School Teachers in Indonesia | Oky ADRIAN |
| The Education of Empire: Government and Missionary Contests in East and Southern Africa (1815-1940) | Zarak RANA |
| Gender Inequality In Higher Education: The Landscape of Bangladesh | Juthika SARKER |
Publications
Book Chapters
- McCormick, A., Johansson-Fua, S. (2023). Adaptation, decolonization, and integration: Oceania and global trends. In Alexander W. Wiseman (Eds.), Annual Review of Comparative and International Education 2022, Volume 46A, (pp. 147-159). Leeds: Emerald Group Publishing Limited. [More Information]
- Fonua, S., McCormick, A., Spratt, R. (2022). Becoming comparative and international educationalists in Oceania. In Alexander W. Wiseman (Eds.), Annual Review of Comparative and International Education 2021 Vol: V42, Part A. Bingley, UK: Emerald.
- McCormick, A., Johansson-Fua, S. (2019). Perspectives on Comparative and International Education in Oceania. In C. C. Wolhuter, A. W. Wiseman (Eds.), Comparative and International Education: Survey of an Infinite Field, (pp. 229-248). Bingley: Emerald. [More Information]
Journals
- McCormick, A., de Rivera, L. (2024). Love and pedagogy in doctoral supervision: a duoethnography navigating complex positionings within decolonising contexts. Pedagogy, Culture and Society. [More Information]
- Spratt, R., Anuar, A., Windle, J., McCormick, A. (2021). Celebrating and cultivating community and collaboration. International Education Journal, 20(2).
- Takayanagi, T., McCormick, A., Wambiri, G. (2021). Parents' perceptions of pre-primary education: a study of children's daily lives in the rural Kenyan village of Narok. Journal of Elementary Education, 31(2). [More Information]
Conferences
- McCormick, A. (2007). Education for All and Mi(x)conceptions of Development in Papua New Guinea since 1990. 2007 ANZCIES, 35th Annual Conference, Armidale, NSW: University of New England.
Research Reports
- Teasdale, G., Ham, M., McCormick, A. (2019). A Review of the International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, A publication of the Oceania Comparative & International Education Society (OCIES) | Final Report, (pp. 1 - 55). Sydney, Australia: Oceania Comparative and International Education Society. [More Information]
- Shah, R., McCormick, A., Maber, E., Brandt, C. (2019). Listening to the partners - the impact of a demand driven support impact study, (pp. 10 - 110). Eschborn, Germany: Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). [More Information]
2024
- McCormick, A., de Rivera, L. (2024). Love and pedagogy in doctoral supervision: a duoethnography navigating complex positionings within decolonising contexts. Pedagogy, Culture and Society. [More Information]
2023
- McCormick, A., Johansson-Fua, S. (2023). Adaptation, decolonization, and integration: Oceania and global trends. In Alexander W. Wiseman (Eds.), Annual Review of Comparative and International Education 2022, Volume 46A, (pp. 147-159). Leeds: Emerald Group Publishing Limited. [More Information]
2022
- Fonua, S., McCormick, A., Spratt, R. (2022). Becoming comparative and international educationalists in Oceania. In Alexander W. Wiseman (Eds.), Annual Review of Comparative and International Education 2021 Vol: V42, Part A. Bingley, UK: Emerald.
2021
- Spratt, R., Anuar, A., Windle, J., McCormick, A. (2021). Celebrating and cultivating community and collaboration. International Education Journal, 20(2).
- Takayanagi, T., McCormick, A., Wambiri, G. (2021). Parents' perceptions of pre-primary education: a study of children's daily lives in the rural Kenyan village of Narok. Journal of Elementary Education, 31(2). [More Information]
2019
- Teasdale, G., Ham, M., McCormick, A. (2019). A Review of the International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, A publication of the Oceania Comparative & International Education Society (OCIES) | Final Report, (pp. 1 - 55). Sydney, Australia: Oceania Comparative and International Education Society. [More Information]
- Shah, R., McCormick, A., Maber, E., Brandt, C. (2019). Listening to the partners - the impact of a demand driven support impact study, (pp. 10 - 110). Eschborn, Germany: Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). [More Information]
- McCormick, A., Johansson-Fua, S. (2019). Perspectives on Comparative and International Education in Oceania. In C. C. Wolhuter, A. W. Wiseman (Eds.), Comparative and International Education: Survey of an Infinite Field, (pp. 229-248). Bingley: Emerald. [More Information]
2017
- McCormick, A. (2017). Comparative and international learning from Vanuatu research moratoria: A plurilevel, plurilocal researcher's auto-ethnography. International Education Journal, 16(1), 78-92.
- Thomas, M., McCormick, A. (2017). Exploring equity gaps in education: Toward unity, not uniformity. International Education Journal, 16(3), 1-4.
- McCormick, A. (2017). Navigating Education Policies in Oceania: Civil Societies and Network Governance in a Decolonizing Pacific. In T. D. Jules (Eds.), The Global Educational Policy Environment in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Gated, Regulated and Governed, (pp. 151-172). Bingley: Emerald Group Publishing Limited. [More Information]
2016
- McCormick, A. (2016). Changing contexts in comparative and international education: Geopolitical shifts and research in Australia (Editorial). International Education Journal, 15(1), 1-4.
- McCormick, A. (2016). Policy constructions of childhoods: Impacts of multi-level education and development policy processes in Southeast Asia and the South Pacific. In L. Hopkins, A. Sriprakash (Eds.), The 'Poor Child': The cultural politics of education, development and childhood, (pp. 127-150). Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
- McCormick, A. (2016). Vanuatu Education Policy post-2015: 'alternative', decolonising processes for 'development'. International Education Journal, 15(3), 16-29. [More Information]
2015
- Ginns, P., Loughland, A., Tierney, R., Fryer, L., Amazan, R., McCormick, A. (2015). Evaluation of the Learning to Teach for Social Justice-Beliefs Scale in an Australian context. Higher Education Research and Development, 34(2), 311-323. [More Information]
2014
- McCormick, A. (2014). Who are the custodians of Pacific 'post-2015' education futures? Policy discourses, education for all and the millennium development goals. International Journal of Educational Development, 39, 173-182. [More Information]
2012
- McCormick, A. (2012). Whose Education Policies in Aid-Receiving Countries? A Critical Discourse Analysis of Quality and Normative Transfer through Cambodia and Laos. Comparative Education Review, 56(1), 18-47. [More Information]
2011
- McCormick, A. (2011). Some partners are more equal than others: EFA and Civil Society in Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu education policy processes. International Education Journal, 10(2), 54-70.
2007
- McCormick, A. (2007). Education for All and Mi(x)conceptions of Development in Papua New Guinea since 1990. 2007 ANZCIES, 35th Annual Conference, Armidale, NSW: University of New England.
Selected Grants
2023
- Equity and learning on the Thai/Myanmar borders: Generating lessons from civil societies' work with Myanmar refugees and migrants on education policy and practice for democracy, peace & reconciliation, McCormick A, Sydney Southeast Asia Centre/Collaborative Research Grant
2022
- COVID Kick Start, McCormick A, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/FASS COVID Kick Start Fund 2022
Selected Invited Presentations
McCormick, A. (2023) Beijing Normal University: Education Partnerships for Innovation and Progress: Examples from Australia and Oceania, December
McCormick, A. (2023) NERO Keynote:Wayfinding Emerging Researcher Journeys, OCIES, November
McCormick, A. (2023) Monash University: Global(-ising) Policies, Regional(-ising) Politics, and Local(-ising) Practices: Positionings in Globalisation and Education, April
McCormick, A. (2021) Results Australia "Raise Your Hand for Global Education" Panel Presentation. July 13.
McCormick, A. (2021) Stockholm University, ICER Colloquium Invited Speaker: Publishing in the IEJ:CP: Insights from the Editor-In-Chief. May 18.
McCormick, A. (2020) University of Melbourne, OCIES Event, Invited Panel Discussion: Tips for Getting Published, with Emeritus Professor Michael Crossley(former Editor of the journalComparative Education), andProfessor Jan van Driel (University ofMelbourne, co-Editor-in Chief ofInternational Journal of Science Education), March 13.
McCormick, A. (2018) OCIES New and Emerging Research Fono (NERF), Oceanic Scholars Panel, December 3.
McCormick, A. (2017) Guest speaker, International Women's Day, St Vincent's Girls' School, Potts Point, Sydney, March 8.
McCormick, A. (2016). Sydney Ideas, 'Educating and Enabling Girls', (public panel presentation with Dame Marie Bashir, Linda Burney MP, Associate Professor Tim Allender, and Annabel Crabb (Chair)), Great Hall, University of Sydney, Australia, August 9.
McCormick, A. (2016). Univeristy of Auckland, RUPIE, "Is there a place for Comparative and International Education in Teacher Education?", October 17.