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Teaching commitmentBiographyCynthia researches and teaches in the areas of Sociology of Education and International Education. She uses identity and difference; and postcolonial theories to understand cultural differences and equality issues in education. Her areas of specialisation are identity, culture and education; ethnic politics and education; gender and schooling; and cultural differences and globalisation within an international context. She is also interested in the paradigms of research methodologies. Her recent work explores the debates around transnational identites, education and the global economy. Cynthia has had experience within the education sectors in Malaysia. She was awarded the 2004 Mollie Holman Medal for Excellence for her doctoral thesis "Theorisations of identity and difference: ways of being Malay, Chinese and Indian schoolgirls in a Malaysian secondary school". In 2006, she was awarded an Australia-Malaysia Fellowship for a research project on Malaysian Youth Identities. She was a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Education, University of London from September to December 2006. Cynthia is currently working on her book "Ethnicities, Gender and Education: Winners, Losers and Difference". She also sits on the board of the Research Committee on Women in Society, International Sociological Association (2006-2010).
Research InterestsSOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION:
Cultural diversity and equality issues
Identities, ethnicities and education
Gender and schooling
Transnational identities, education and the global economy
INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION
Internationalising the curriculum
Cultural difference and globalisation
SOUTHEAST ASIAN/MALAYSIAN STUDIES
Culture, Difference and Education
Ethnicity and Education
Gender and Identity
QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
Ethnography
Postcolonial Research Approaches
Professional Associations
- Board member, Research Committee on Women in Society, International Sociological Association (2006-2010)
- Member of the International Sociological Association (ISA) (2005- )
- Member of the International Federation of University Women (IFUW) (1999 - )
- Member of the Australian Association of Research in Education (AARE) (2001 - )
- Member of the American Educational Research Association (AERA)(2003- )
- Member of the Malaysian Social Science Association (MSSA) (2006 - )
SupervisionFemale Chinese International Students in Secondary Schools in Victoria: Ethnicity, Gender and International Education.
Indonesian-Muslim Youths in Australia: Family,Community and Schooling Experiences
Chinese Supplementary/Weekend Schools in Australia: Cultural and Educational Politics
Globalisation, Internationalisation, and Graduate Attributes: Vietnamese Business Graduates from an Australian University
'Global' Teachers in an International School in China: Difference, Culture and Globalisation
African female students in Australian universities: Gender, Race and International Education
Young women in Indonesia: Ethnicity, religion and education
Humanitarian Education in Rwanda
Greek-Australian Women in Higher Education: Gender, Culture and Education
Gendered Discourses of Year 12 Australian History Curriculum in Victoria.
PublicationsBooks
Mirza, Heidi Safia & Joseph, Cynthia. (Eds) (in-press, 2010). Black and Postcolonial Feminisms in New Times: Researching Educational Inequalities. London: Routledge [also published as Special Issue Race, Ethnicity and Education].
Book Chapters
Joseph, Cynthia (2008). Ethnicities and Education in Malaysia: Difference, Center and Margins. Wan, G. F. (Ed) The Education of Diverse Populations : A Global Perspective. Dordrecht: Springer
Joseph, C. & Coram, S. (2008). Education and National Diversity. G.H. Guntram & D. Kaplan (Eds) Nations and Nationalisms: A Global Historical Overview. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO
Joseph, C. (2007). "You cannot just sit there and just accept what they say": Ethnic minority Indian teenage schoolgirls in contemporary postcolonial Malaysia. In J. McLeod & A. Allard (Eds.) Learning from the Margins: Young Women, Social Exclusion and Education. London: RoutledgeFalmer Press.
Joseph, Cynthia (2006). The politics of educational research in contemporary postcolonial Malaysia: Discourses of globalisation, nationalism and education. In J. Ozga, T. Popkewitz & T. Seddon (Eds.) World Yearbook of Education 2006: Educational research and policy. London: Taylor and Francis.
Joseph, C., Winzer, M. & Pollard, V. (2006). Schooling in Australia: The interplay of education, politics and culture. In K. Marzurek & M. Winzer (Eds.) Schooling around the world: Practices, challenges and debates. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.
Journal articles/research monographs
Joseph, Cynthia (2009). Postcoloniality and Ethnography: Negotiating Ethnicity, gender and power. Race, Ethnicity and Education, 12, 1, 11-25.
Joseph, Cynthia (2008). Identities, difference and power: Decolonising practices in Internationalising the Curriculum. Intercultural Education, 19, 1, 29-39.
Joseph, Cynthia (2006). Resisting discourses of gender, ethnicity and schooling: Ways of being Malay, Chinese and Indian schoolgirls in Malaysia. Pedagogy, culture and society, 14, 1, 35-53.
Joseph, Cynthia (2006). "It is so unfair here...it is so biased": negotiating the politics of ethnic identification in ways of being Malaysian schoolgirls. Asian Ethnicity, 7, 1, 53-73.
Joseph, Cynthia (2005). Discourses of schooling in contemporary Malaysia: pedagogical practices and ethnic politics. Australian Journal of Education, 49, 28-45.
Joseph, Cynthia (2004). Ways of being Malay, Chinese and Indian girls in a Malaysian secondary school: Negotiating discourses of gender, ethnicity and schooling, refereed paper presented at the 2004 American Educational Research Association Conference, April 2004, San Diego, US.
Joseph, Cynthia (2000). Researching teenage girls and schooling in Malaysia: bridging theoretical issues of gender identity, culture, ethnicity and education, Journal of Intercultural Studies, 21, 2, 177-192.
Maznah, I, T.W.Tan & Joseph, Cynthia (1999). Self-development: A continual act of coping. Proceedings of the 55th Annual Convention of the International Council of Psychologists.
Maznah, I & Joseph, Cynthia (1998). Malaysian adolescents' understanding of the self. Malaysia : Universiti Sains Malaysia, School of Educational Studies.
Joseph, Cynthia (1997). The relationship between academic self-concept and academic achievement of Form Four students in a Malaysian Junior Science College, Journal of Applied Research in Education, 1, 2, 49-59.
Joseph, Cynthia (1997). The effects of self-concept and value system on the academic achievement of Malaysian students, Educators and Education, 15, 70-84.
Journal Editorship
Mirza, Heidi Safia & Joseph, Cynthia ( March 2009). Editorial, Black Feminisms and Postcolonial Paradigms: Researching Educational Inequalities. Special Issue Race, Ethnicity and Education. 12, 1.
Joseph, Cynthia; Marginson, Simon & Yang, Rui (2005). Editorial, International Education in the Asia-Pacific region. Special Issue of Australia Journal of Education.
Publications in progress
Joseph, Cynthia (under review). Ethnicities, Gender and Education : Winners, Losers and Difference
Tupuola, A.; Joseph, C.; Gutierrez, N. & Osakonor, K. (Eds.) (under review) Culture, Politics and Wellbeing: Young Women in the Global Diaspora
Reports
Clifford, Valerie & Joseph, Cynthia (2005) "Internationalisation of the curriculum: an investigation of the pedagogical practices at Monash University". Melbourne: Monash University
Joseph, Cynthia (2003). Background paper: Schooling sector in Malaysia, A Research-consultancy Study to Formulate a Human Resource Development Master-plan for Malaysia by the Macquarie Graduate School of Management, Funded by the United Nations Development Programme and Economic Planning Unit, Prime Minister's Department, Malaysia
RESEARCH/CONSULTANCY
Australia Research Council (ARC) Discovery Grant, Prof TL Seddon; Dr C Joseph; Dr A Devos; Dr LL Henriksson; Dr B Niemeyer "The Teaching Occupation in Learning Societies: A global ethnography of occupational boundary work" 2009-2011
Monash Small Grants. Dr C Joseph & Dr L Tudball "Internationalisation of Education in Victorian Schools: Policies, Practices and Identities", 2009.
Australia Malaysia Fellowship, Australia-Malaysia Institute, Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, "Youths in Malaysian Universities: Ethnicity, Education and Globalisation", August-September 2006
Faculty of Education, Monash University, Individual Research Project, "Transnationalism, ethnicities and education: Southeast Asian female students in Australian higher education institutions" , March 2006-March 2007
Strategic Initiative Funding by the Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic), Monash University, Academic Planning Investigation project "Internationalisation of the curriculum: An investigation of pedagogical practices at Monash University" March 2004-July 2005 (with Assoc. Prof. Valerie Clifford, Higher Education Development Unit, Monash University)
Collaborative University of Melbourne and Monash University Grants in Educational Technologies, "RE-search Possibilities! Researching Education: strategies, ethics, actions, resources, critiques, hypotheticals" a CD-ROM to support post-graduate thesis students", February 2004-August 2005, ((with Dr Gaell Hildebrand as Team leader and colleagues from Monash and Melbourne University as team members)
United Nations Development Programme and Economic Planning Unit of the Prime Ministers Department, Malaysia, Research Consultant for the Schooling sector, Education and Training module, in the development of a Human Resource Masterplan for Malaysia, November 2002-January 2005
Faculty of Education, Monash University, Individual Research Project, "Ways of being global Malaysian young women: negotiating discourses of globalisation, nationalism and education", October 2003-September 2004,
Monash University Small Research Grants Scheme, "Sex-role stereotypes and student teacher motivation" February 2003-February 2004 (with Dr. Georgina Tsolidis)
In Malaysia, Cynthia was involved in two university short term research grant projects funded by Science University of Malaysia. The first investigated "The Development of Malaysian Adolescents' Understanding of Self" and the second "Private Education in Malaysia: Social Impact".
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