Professor Michael Singh

Professor Michael Singh

Professor Singh’s research focuses on the role of Australia’s education and training system in strengthening our socio-economic fabric and improving our regional and worldly understanding, specifically through addressing workforce development and labour shortages.
Currently, Professor Singh is undertaking:

  • an ARC investigation of ways to extend the capabilities of international research student-migrants in order to address Australia’s need for highly skilled workers.

  • an ARC project exploring the work of Queensland leaders in reforming Years 10, 11 and 12 as they realign education and training to changing workforce needs given local changes in the labour market due to global economic and climatic changes.

  • an ARC study of “global teachers” and their movements into and out of multicultural Australia.

  • an IELTS investigation into the efficacy of English language tests in choosing teacher education students, as well as conducting a research-based teacher education project intended to enhance Australia/China relations.

  • a UWS study of trans-national policy flows on teacher education, in particular the relationship between the Bologna Process and the Australian Higher Education Graduation Statement.

Professor Singh is supervising a number of doctoral students undertaking research relating to each of these projects.
As part of his international collaborative research in the Asia-Pacific region, Professor Singh is an Associate of the Centre for Culture, Identity and Education (University of British Columbia) where he is investigating multiculturalism post-11 September 2001.

Qualifications

DipT (USQ), GradDip Intercultural Studies (Edith Cowan), GradDip T.Lib. (QUT), BEd Hons (Deakin), PhD (Deakin)

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Selected Publications
BooksGlobalising Education

Apple, M., Kenway, J. and Singh, M. (eds) (2005) Globalising Education: Policies, Pedagogies and Politics, New York: Peter Lang.

Kell, P., Singh, M. and Shore, S. (eds) (2004) Adult Education @ 21st Century, New York: Peter Lang. adult education @ 21st century

Singh, M., Kell, P. & Pandian, A. (2002) Appropriating English: Innovation in the English Language Teaching Business, New York: Peter Lang.

Chapters

Singh, M. & Guo, W. (2008) Centring students’ bilingual capabilities in quality university teaching: Bringing “knowledge detours” and “zigzag learning” in from the margins, in J. McConachie & others (eds), Changing University Learning and Teaching, Brisbane: PostEd Press.

Singh, M. & Han, J. (2008) The commoditization of English and the Bologna Process: Global products and services, exchange mechanisms and trans-national labour, in P. Tan & R. Rubdy (eds), Language as Commodity: Global Structures, Local Marketplaces, London: Continuum.

Singh, M. & Han, J. (2008) Trans-national mobility, World Englishes and student-teachers: Bologna’s interruption of absences in teacher education, in A. Phelan & J. Sumsion (eds), Critical Readings in Teacher Education: Provoking Absences, Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.

Wang, Y. & Singh, M. (2007) Bi-lateral engagement in research: Trans-national collaborations in knowledge production, in P. Kell & G. Vogl (eds), Higher Education in the Asia Pacific: Challenges for the Future, Newcastle (UK): Cambridge.

Singh, M., & Han, J. (2007) Urban space, politics of, in G. Anderson & K. Herr (eds), Encyclopedia of activism and social justice (Vol. 3), Thousand Oaks: Sage.

Singh, M., Rizvi, F. & Shrestha, M. (2007) Student mobility and the spatial production of identities, in K. Gulson & C. Symes (eds), Spatial Theories of Education: Policy and Geography Matters, New York: Routledge.

Southwell, B., Phanalasy, O. & Singh, M. (2007) Globalisation/localisation in mathematics education: Perception, realism and outcomes of an Australian presence in Asia, in B. Atweh & others, Internationalisation and Globalisation in Mathematics and Science Education, Dordrecht: Springer.

Singh, M. & Han, J. (2006) Quality English teaching for a knowledge-producing society: Inspiring robust hope, creativity and passion, in B. Doecke, M. Howie, & W. Sawyer (eds), ‘Only Connect’: English Teaching, Schooling & Community, Kent Town (SA): Wakefield Press.

Singh, M. (2005) Identity conversion, citizenship & social studies: Asian-Australian perspectives on Indigenous Reconciliation & human rights, in Y. Nozaki, A. Luke, & R. Openshaw (eds), Struggles over Difference: Curriculum, Texts & Pedagogy in the Asia-Pacific, New York: SUNY Press.

Singh, M. (2005) Enabling trans-national learning communities, in P. Ninnes & M. Hellsten (eds), Internationalizing Higher Education, Dortrecht: Springer.

Journal Articles

Harreveld, B. & Singh, M. (2008) Amartya Sen’s capability approach and the brokering of learning provisions for young adults (PDF 219kb), Vocations and Learning: Studies in Vocational and Professional Education, 1 (3), 211-226.

Singh, M. & Fu, D. (2008), Flowery inductive rhetoric meets creative deductive arguments: Becoming transnational researcher-writers, International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies, 4 (1), 121-137.

Singh, M. & Sawyer, W. (2008) Democracy and robust hope: Queensland’s education and training reforms for the future. Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 3 (3), 223-237.

Singh, M. (2007) A sound research base for beginning teacher education: Robust hope, action policy analysis and Top of the Class, Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 35 (4), 333-349.

Han, J. & Singh, M. (2007) Getting World English Speaking Student Teachers to the Top of the Class: Making hope for ethno-cultural diversity in teacher education robust, Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 35 (3), 291 – 309.

Han, J. & Singh, M. (2007) World English Speaking student-teachers’ experience of schools: Curriculum issues, trans-national mobility and the Bologna Process, Transnational Curriculum Inquiry, 4 (1), 65-79.

Sawyer, W., Singh, M., Woodrow, C., Downes, T., Johnston, C. & Whitton, D. (2007) Robust hope and teacher education policy, Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 35 (3), 227-242.

Scanlon, C. & Singh, M. (2006) Theorizing the decline of linguistic diversity, International Journal of the Sociology of Language, (182), 1-24.

Singh, M., Han, J. & Harreveld, R. (2006) The impacts of redistributive quantum funding: Managing quality education research to extend talent, sustain openness and build toolkits, Australian Education Researcher, 6 (RARE), 175-189.

Singh, M. (2005) Changes in education and globalization, Pacific Asian Education, 17 (2), 20-33.

Singh, M. & Han, J. (2005) Globalising flexible work in universities: Socio-technical dilemmas in internationalizing education, The International Review Research in Open and Distance Learning, 6 (1).

Singh, M. & Sproats, E. (2005) Constructing local/global pedagogies: Insights into the learning experiences of international students, Education and Society, 23 (2), 43-61

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