Staff Profile

Selected Publications: 

Thomas, M. A.M. and Lefebvre, E. E. (2024) Learning, teaching, and researching with Bourdieu: a collaborative reflection on Bourdieusian encounters. In: Stahl, G., Mu, G. M., Ayling, P. and Weininger, E. B. (eds.) The Bloomsbury Handbook of Bourdieu and Educational Research. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781350349162 (In Press)

Thomas, M. A.M. and Boivin, K. N. (2023) Teaching and teacher education: an overview of sociological perspectives. In: Maxwell, C., Yemini, M. and Engel, L. (eds.) Sociological Foundations of Education. Series: Educational foundations (3). Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781350171022

Thomas, M. A. M. and Xu, R.-H. (2023) The emergence and policy (mis)alignment of Teach For Taiwan. Journal of Education Policy, 38(4), pp. 686-709. (doi: 10.1080/02680939.2022.2095036)

Chan, S. S. W., Thomas, M. A.M. and Mockler, N. (2023) Amplifying organisational discourses to the public: media narratives of Teach for Australia, 2008-2020. British Educational Research Journal, 49(2), pp. 231-247. (doi: 10.1002/berj.3840)

Lefebvre, E. E., Pradhan, S. and Thomas, M. A. M. (2022) The discursive utility of the global, local, and national: teach for all in Africa. Comparative Education Review, 66(4), pp. 620-642. (doi: 10.1086/721709)

Thomas, M. A. M. (2022) Curricular conundrums: internationalising teaching and teacher education in Wisconsin. Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, (doi: 10.1080/13540602.2022.2098270) (Early Online Publication)

Schweisfurth, M. , Thomas, M. A.M. and Smail, A. (2022) Revisiting comparative pedagogy: methodologies, themes, and research communities since 2000. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 52(4), pp. 560-580. (doi: 10.1080/03057925.2020.1797475)

Anderson, A. B., Thomas, M. A. M. and Brewer, T. J. (2022) Teach For America influence on non-TFA teachers in TFA-hiring schools. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 30, 98. (doi: 10.14507/epaa.30.6163)

Thomas, M. A. M. and Baxendale, H. (2022) Wendy Kopp. In: Geier, B. A. (ed.) The Palgrave Handbook of Educational Thinkers. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham. ISBN 9783030810375 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-81037-5_208-1)

Lefebvre, E., Thomas, M. A.M. and Crawford-Garrett, K. (2022) The progressive neoliberalism of Teach For America. In: Sharma, A., Schmeichel, M. and Wurzburg, E. (eds.)Progressive Neoliberalism in Education: Critical Perspectives on Manifestations and Resistance.Series: Routledge studies in education, neoliberalism, and Marxism. Routledge: London, pp. 135-150. ISBN 9781032123059 (doi: 10.4324/9781003224013-12)

Lefebvre, E. E. and Thomas, M. A.M. (2022) Alternative routes to teaching. In: Peters, M. A.(ed.) Encyclopedia of Teacher Education. Springer: Singapore, pp. 32-37. ISBN 9789811686788 (doi: 10.1007/978-981-16-8679-5_49)

Horne, J. and Thomas, M. A.M. (Eds.) (2022) Australian Universities: A conversation about public good. Series: Public and Social Policy Series. Sydney University Press. ISBN 9781743328705

Jules, T. D., Shields, R. and Thomas, M. A.M. (Eds.) (2021) The Bloomsbury Handbook of Theory in Comparative and International Education. Bloomsbury Academic: London. ISBN 9781350078758

Thomas, M. A.M. , Rauschenberger, E. and Crawford-Garrett, K. (Eds.) (2021)Examining Teach For All: International Perspectives on a Growing Global Network. Series: Oxford studies in comparative education. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY. ISBN 9780367523879

Thomas, M. A.M. and Schweisfurth, M. (2021) Constructivism and learner-centeredness in comparative and international education: where theories meet practice. In: Jules, T. D., Shields, R. and Thomas, M. A.M. (eds.) The Bloomsbury Handbook of Theory in Comparative and International Education. Bloomsbury Academic: London, pp. 299-312. ISBN 9781350078758 (doi: i10.5040/9781350078789.ch-017)

Thomas, M. A.M. , Crawford-Garrett, K. and Rauschenberger, E. (2021) A growing global network: the development of international research on Teach For All. In: Thomas, M. A.M., Rauschenberger, E. and Crawford-Garrett, K. (eds.) Examining Teach For All: International Perspectives on a Growing Global Network. Series: Oxford studies in comparative education. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY, pp. 36-59. ISBN 9780367336486 (doi: 10.4324/9780429331695-3)

Thomas, M. A. M. and Vavrus, F. K. (2021) The Pluto problem: reflexivities of discomfort in teacher professional development. Critical Studies in Education, 62(4), pp. 486-501. (doi: 10.1080/17508487.2019.1587782)

Thomas, M. A.M. and Talbot, D. (2021) Exploring epistemologies: deepening pre-service teachers’ ways of knowing through international professional experience. Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 49(2), pp. 163-176. (doi: 10.1080/1359866X.2019.1695100)

Crawford-Garrett, K., Oldham, S. and Thomas, M. A. M. (2021) Maintaining meritocratic mythologies: Teach For America and Ako Mātātupu: Teach First New Zealand. Comparative Education, 57(3), pp. 360-376. (doi: 10.1080/03050068.2021.1885130)