Professor Karen Malone
Biography - Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise
- Grants / Current Projects
- Publications
- Memberships and Appointments
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Biography
Karen Malone was recently appointed Professor of Education in the School of Education at University of Western Sydney. Dr Malone is also Chair and Founder of the Child Friendly Asia-Pacific network and a member of the UNICEF International Research Advisory Board for Child Friendly Cities. She is also Asia-Pacific Director of the global UNESCO-MOST Growing Up In Cities (GUIC).
She is Assistant Editor of the journal Children and Society and reviews for a number of international journals including Children, Youth and Environments, Children's Geographies, Environmental Education Researcher and Journal for Environmental Education. In the past ten years Dr Malone has attracted over 2 million dollars in research grants, awards and consultancies and has published 5 books, 14 book chapters and over 50 refereed publications focusing on child friendly cities, childhood sociology, early childhood, children's participation, children's environments, environmental education, sustainability, urbanisation and participatory and child centered research methodologies.
Her most recent research grants include designing and implementing a national accreditation program for UNICEF and the Republic of Kazakhstan, Implementing a child friendly cities project in San Pedro, Chile funded by Fundacion Minera Escondida, Dapto Dreaming a child friendly participatory research project for Stockland developers, and the Smith Family project: How child friendly is my community? She is recently coordinating seven international research teams in Asia and Africa in collaboration with the UK Policy Institute to replicate Hillman's seminal project Children's Independent Mobility.
Areas of Research / Teaching
Childhood Sociology, Children's Environments; Participatory Action Research; Children's Rights and Participation; Globalisation; Poverty; Urbanisation and Development; Children and Youth Culture; Social Science Education; New Learning, Sustainable Development, Science Education; Environmental Education; Critical Theory.
Recent Research Projects/Grants
2011 Research on the Child Friendly Cities initiatives and development of a Child Friendly Cities certification standards and accreditation scheme for Kazakhstan ($ 24610) Funded by UNICEF Kazakhstan and Kazakhstan Government.
2011 Child Friendly Communities Research and Community Engagement Project for Brooks Reach, Dapto NSW ($47000) Funded by Stockland Urban Developers. 2010 Independent mobility as a critical aspect of children's development and quality of life: a comparative analysis of Japanese and Australian children's lives ($7500) Funded research by the ASSA Science linkage grants.
2010 Risk, Active Play and Politics: Lessons learnt from Play England UK 1998-2010 ($4 000) Funded by VicHealth, Victoria. A commissioned report to support the Active Transport Committee exploration of the issue on parent's perceptions of stranger danger and its impact on children's independent mobility.
2009 A Child Friendly City - A Way Forward ($34,980) Partnered with Elton Consulting. Funded by Penrith City Council
2008 How child friendly is my Community? Municipal early years Strategy for the City of Hobsons bay ($18 000) A community and children's consultation project to provide data for the development of the cities early years strategy.
2008 Every Experience Matters: An evidence based review of the impact of learning outside of the classroom on children' s whole development. ($20 000) Funded research project for the UK government Department of School, Families and Community in support of their Learning Outside of the Classroom manifesto.
2007-2008- Creating Child- friendly Communities- ($150 000) The Smith Family. Creating child-friendly communities is a participatory research project with children that is funded through the National Governments Strengthening Families funding program.
2006-2008 - Aboriginal children's health and environment ($115, 000) Australian Financial Markets Foundation for Children. This is a comparable research study in three diverse ‘community' settings with Aboriginal young people on their experience of place and its significance to their cultural, physical and social health and well-being.
2006 Growing Up on The South Coast ($13 000) (small ARC) University Research Council Grant.
2005 Growing Up On the South Coast (5,000) University of Wollongong Community Engagement grant
2005 Border Knowledges ($ 138, 000) RMIT Gobalism Institute team funding. This project as a whole investigated the nature of the interaction of differing knowledge systems across a range of cultural divides that had a high degree of contemporary significance. Themes included; new communication technologies, traditional and bio-medical health knowledge, knowledge management in education, and finance literacy.
2005 Community Sustainability ($340, 000). RMIT Globalism Institute team funding This longitudinal research project, studying ten communities around the globe, determined how communities are negotiating the transformations wrought by globalisation. The framing concept is ‘community sustainability'.
Publications
Books
Malone, K. (2007) (ed) Child Space: An Anthropological Exploration of Young People's Use of Space, Concept Publishers: India.
Gloria Latham, Mindy Blaise, Shelley Dole, Julie Faulkner, Josephine Lang and Karen Malone, (2006) Learning to Teach: New Times, New Practice, Oxford; Oxford University Press. [Currently writing 2nd Edition]
Robottom, I., Malone, K. and Walker, R. (2000) Case Studies in Environmental Education: Policy and Practice, Geelong: Deakin University Press.
McLeod, J., and Malone, K. (eds.) (2000) Researching Youth, Tasmania: Australian Youth Studies Clearinghouse.
Book Chapters
Malone, K. (in publication) Urban Environmental Education: in search of the endangered urban environmentalist in Russell, C., Dillon, J. and M. Breunig (eds.) Environmental Education Reader, USA: Peter Lang
Malone, K and Hartung. C. (2010) Challenges of participatory practice with children, Percy-Smith, B and Thomas, N. (eds) A Handbook of Children and Young People's Participation: Perspectives, Theory and Practice, London: Routledge.
Malone, K (2009) Education for Sustainable Development, youth and new learning, or ‘would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?' Blaze-Corcoran, P and Osano, P. (eds) Young People, Education and Sustainable Development: Exploring principles, perspectives and praxis, The Netherlands: Wageningen Publishers, pp.171-180.
Malone K (2007) Environmental Education Researchers as Environmental Activists; in AD Reid & WAH Scott (eds.) Researching Education and the Environment: retrospect and prospect, London: Routledge.
Malone, K (2007) Consuming spaces: growing up on an island in the Pacific Ocean, in Malone, K (ed) Child Space. India: Concept Publishing.
Malone, K. (2006) New learning in New Times, in Gloria Latham, Mindy Blaise, Shelley Dole, Julie Faulkner, Josephine Lang and Karen Malone, (2006) (eds) Learning to Teach: New Times, New Practice, Oxford; Oxford University Press, pp. 1-16.
Malone, K. (2006) The Lifeworlds of Children, in Gloria Latham, Mindy Blaise, Shelley Dole, Julie Faulkner, Josephine Lang and Karen Malone, (2006) (eds) Learning to Teach: New Times, New Practice, Oxford; Oxford University Press, pp. 17-41.
Dole, S, Faulkner, J. and Malone, K (2006) The Teacher in New Times, in Gloria Latham, Mindy Blaise, Shelley Dole, Julie Faulkner, Josephine Lang and Karen Malone, (2006) (eds) Learning to Teach: New Times, New Practice, Oxford; Oxford University Press
Malone, K. (2006) Hybrid Identities: Learning from Children's Stories of Place in PNG, in Behera, D (ed) Children in South Asia, India: Pearson Education.
Malone, K. (2006) United Nations: Key Player In A Global Movement For Child-Friendly Cities, in Gleeson, B & Snipe, N. (eds) Creating Child-Friendly Cities: Reinstating Kids in The City, London: Taylor and Francis.
Malone, K. (2005) Trainsurfing: “..its like bungee jumping without a rope”, in Gilbert, K (ed.), Sexuality, Sport and the Culture of Risk, Meyer & Meyer Publishing Company, Aaachen. pp. 154-176 [Invited contribution]
Malone, K. (2004) Critical Environmental Adult Education: taking on the environmental challenge. In Clover, D. (ed.) Global Perspectives in Environmental Adult Education: Justice, Sustainability and Transformation, New York: Peter Lang. [Invited contribution]
Chawla, L & Malone, K. (2003) Neighborhood Quality from Children's Eyes, In O'Brien, M & P. Christensen (eds) Children in the City: Home, Neighbourhood and City, Falmer Press: London. [Invited contribution]
Malone, K. & Hasluck, L. (2002) Australian Youth: Aliens in the suburban environment, In Chawla, L (ed.) Growing Up In An Urbanising World, Earthscan: London. [Invited contribution]
Malone, K. (2000) Dangerous Youth: geographies of youth in a climate of fear, in McLeod, J., and Malone, K. (eds.), Researching Youth, Tasmania, Australian Youth Clearinghouse.
Malone, K and Walker, R (1999) Crafting Counternarratives in Collaboration. An Impressionist Tale about a School and Community in Crisis, In Abma, T. (ed) Telling Tales, On narrative and evaluation. In, Robert Stake (series ed.) Advances in Program Evaluation, vol. 6, Greenwich, CT: JAI Press. [Invited contribution]
Hasluck, L and Malone, K. (1999) Location, Leisure and Lifestyle: Young people's retreat to home environments, In Shehan, C (ed.) Through the Eyes of the Child, Greenwich: JAI Press. pp. 177- 197.
Malone, K. (1996) Let Laverton Creek Live: Finding a sense of community amongst the scotch thistle, In Bishop, M & Gibson, G. (eds.) For a Common Cause: Case Studies of Communities and Environmental Change, Canberra: AGPS Press.
Refereed Journal Articles
Malone, K. A. (2011) My Island Home: Theorising Childhood in the Cook Islands The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology [ERA ranking A]
Malone, K. A (2011) Changing Global childhoods: the impact on children's independent mobility, Global Studies of Childhood Volume 1 Number 3, pp. 161-166.
Rudner, J and Malone, K. A (2011) Childhood in the Suburbs and the Australian Dream: how has it impacted children's independent mobility? Global Studies of Childhood Volume 1 Number 3, pp. 207 -225.
Malone, K. A and Rudner, J (2011) Global Perspectives on Children's Independent Mobility: a socio-cultural comparisons and theoretical discussion on children's lives in four countries in Asia and Africa, Global Studies of Childhood Volume 1 Number 3, pp. 243-259.
Malone, K. A. (2010). Freeing children to contribute: Building child-friendly cities in the Asia Pacific region, Childhood Matters, 115, pp. 20-25.
Malone, K. A. (2009). Designs for a Child Friendly Asia Pacific. Journal of Association for Children's Environments, 5 (1), pp.15-17.
Malone, K. A. (2009). Designs for a child-friendly city. Curriculum Leadership, 7 (2), http://cmslive.curriculum.edu.au/leader/designs_for_a_child,26559.html
Tranter, P. & Malone, K. A. (2008). Out of bounds: insights from Australian children to support sustainable cities. Encounter: Education for Meaning and Social Justice, 21 (4), pp. 20-26.
Malone, K. A. & Hartung, C. (2008). Bursting the Bubble wrap: supporting research by children to create child-friendly cities. Journal of Association for Children's Environments, 4 (1), pp. 13-15.
Marr, P. A. & Malone, K. A. (2008). Unpacking Global Education: An itinerary for pre-service teachers. In D. Webb (Eds.), SEAA Conference Proceedings, University of Newcastle, Newcastle 21-22 January 2008.
Malone, K. (2007) The Bubble-wrap generation: children growing up in walled gardens, Environmental Education Researcher, 13 (4), pp. 513-528. [ERA ranking A]
Marr, P and Malone, K (2007) What about me? Children as co-researchers, Australian Association for Research in Education Conference Fremantle, Perth, December 2007.
Malone, K (2006) Research by Children: Are we there yet? Keynote address and published paper Researching Children, Open Conference, 25th-28th June, University of East Anglia, Norwich UK, 2006
Malone, K. (2006) “Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?”: a journey in search of ESD Wonderland, Conference proceedings New Zealand Association for Environmental Education, University of Auckland, Auckland 22-25 January.
Chawla, L. Natasha Blanchet-Cohen, N. Cosco, N., Driskell, D., Kruger, J. Malone, K, Moore, R. Percy-Smith, B. (2005) Don't Just Listen- Do Something! Lessons Learned about Governance from the Growing Up in Cities Project Children, Youth and Environments 15(2), http://www.colorado.edu/journals/cye/15_2/index.htm [ERA ranking C]
Malone, K. (2005) Ambientes contenedores: el rol del los jardines botanicos como espanacios para apoyar la educacion ambiental del los ninos, Chagual Revista Del jardin Botanico Chagual, 111 (3) Diciembre, pp. 22-28.
Malone, K. & Tranter, P. (2005). “Hanging out in the school ground”: a reflective look at researching children's environmental learning, (special school ground edition),Canadian Journal for Environmental Education, 10 (1), pp. 212 - 224 [ERA ranking C]
Malone, K (2005) Science Thinking Books: Children talking, thinking and drawing their way into science, Hong Kong Journal of Early Childhood, 4 (1), pp. 15 -20.
Malone, K. (2004) “Holding Environments”: Creating spaces to support children's environmental learning in the 21st century, Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 20, pp. 53-66. [ERA ranking B]
Tranter, P. & Malone, K. (2004) Geographies of environmental learning: an exploration of children's use of school grounds, Children Geographies, 2 (1). pp. 131-156. [ERA ranking C]
Gloria Latham, Julie Faulkner, Shelley Dole, Mindy Blaise, Karen Malone, Josephine Lang (2004), The Virtual Classroom as a Pedagogical Space in Preservice Teacher Education. Conference proceedings Australian Association for Research in Education, Melbourne December, 2004.
Mindy Blaise, Shelley Dole, Gloria Latham, Karen Malone, Julie Faulkner, Josephine Lang (2004) Reconstructing Reflective Journals in Teacher Education, Conference proceedings Australian Association for Research in Education, Melbourne December, 2004.
Malone, K (2004) Pacific Paradise or Postcolonial Nightmare? Children's environmental experiences of growing up in PNG, Melanesian and Pacific Studies Centre, University of Papua New Guinea, Refereed conference proceedings, 22-24th June, 2004.
Gloria Latham, Mindy Blaise, Karen Malone, Shelley Dole, Julie Faulkner, Josephine Lang (2004) New learning in teacher education programs, Published conference proceedings Australian Teacher Education Association, 7-10 July, Bathurst, NSW.
Butcher, J, Howard, P, Labone, E, Bailey, M, Groundwater-Smith, S, McFadden, M, Mc Meniman, M, Malone, K and Martinez, K. (2003) Teacher Education, Community Service Learning and Student Efficacy for Community Engagement, Asia Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 31 (2), July, pp. 109 -124. [ERA ranking A*]
Malone, K and Tranter, P. (2003) Children's environmental Learning and Use, Design and Management of School Grounds, Children, Youth and Environments, 13 (2) http://www.colorado.edu/journals/cye/13_2/Malone_Tranter/ChildrensEnvLearning.htm [Invited contribution] [ERA ranking C]
Tranter, P and Malone, K (2003) Out of Bounds: insights from children to support a cultural shift towards sustainable and child-friendly cities, State of Australian Cities National Conference, University of Western Sydney, Parramatta, 3-5 December, 2003. Refereed proceedings available online: www.uws.edu.au/about/acadorg/caess/uf/conference
Malone, K (2003) Pacific Paradise or Postcolonial Nightmare? Children's environmental experiences of growing up on small island nations in the Pacific Ocean. Paper presented at the 15Th ICAES conference, Florence, 13-16 July 2003
Malone K & Tranter, P (2003) Schoolgrounds as sites for learning: making the most of environmental opportunities, Environmental Education Researcher, 9 (4), pp 283-303. [ERA ranking A]
Malone, K (2002) Streetlife: Youth, culture and competing uses of public space, Environment and Urbanisation, 14 (2), pp. 157-168. [ERA ranking A]
Malone, K (2002) “I want the world to be a nice place to live”: Neighbourhood Quality from a Child's Perspective, proceedings from Children and youth environments Conference, Children's Issues centre, Dunedin, June.
Malone, K (2001) Children, Youth and Sustainable Cities (special edition editorial), Local Environment, 6 (1), pp. 5-12. [ERA ranking A]
Malone, K (2000) Where do the children play? The tale of a research project spanning twenty-five years. Conference proceedings PaPER98 conference, 'A celebration of environment-behaviour research' Faculty of Architecture, University of Sydney, December 3-6, 1998. pp. 71-82
Malone, K (1999) Reclaiming silenced voices through practices of education and environmental popular knowledge production. Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 4, Summer, pp. 231-242. [ERA ranking C]
Malone, K (1999) Growing Up In Cities as a model of participatory planning and 'place-making' with young people, Young Studies Australia, 18 (2), pp. 17-23. [ERA ranking B]
Malone, K (1999) Environmental education researchers as environmental activists, Environmental Education Research, 5 (2). pp. 163-177 [ERA ranking A]
Malone, K and Hasluck, L. (1998) ‘Geographies of Exclusion': Young people perception's and use of public space, Family Matters, 49 Autumn, pp. 20-26. [ERA ranking C]
Malone, K. (1998) About the Growing Up in Cities Project, Family Matters, 49 Autumn, pp. 22-23. [ERA ranking C]
Malone, K (1995) Celebrating our subjectivity: research as lived experience, South African Journal of Environmental Education, 14, pp 10-14
Andrew, J. and Malone, K. (1995) The First Ten Years: A Review of the Australian Journal of Environmental Education, Australian Journal of Environmental Education, pp. 131-162. [ERA ranking B]
Membership in Professional Organisations
Early Childhood Australia (ECA)
Early Childhood Environmental Education Network (ECEEN)
Australian Association for Environmental Education
Australian Association for Research in Education
NSW Environmental Education Early Childhood Network
Geography Teachers Association
Professional / Community Service
Invited Member, Physical Activity Advisory Committee, Vichealth.
Associate Editor (5 year contract 2010-2015), Journal Children and Society
Invited member, UNICEF & Childwatch International Child Friendly Cities International Research Team
Editorial Advisory Board International Journal, Children, Youth and Environments
Editorial Advisory Board, International Carafax journal Children's Geographies
Guest Editor 2001 (Vol 6, No 1) Special Edition, “Children, Youth and Sustainable Cities”, International Journal Local Environment.
Australian Delegate, IUCN World Conservation Union- Education and Communication 1999-2005
Guest Editor 1995. “Postgraduate Research” Australian Journal of Environmental Education
Reviewer for following journals: Australian Educational Researcher, Australian Journal of Environmental Education, Local Environment, Environmental Education Researcher, Journal of Environmental Education
Reviewer: Australian Research Council.
