School of Education Staff

Professor Georgina Tsolidis

Position:	Program Coordinator - Master of Education Studies
Location:	Mt Helen Campus, T Building, Room T307A
Phone:	+61 3 5327 9721
Fax:	+61 3 5327 9717
Email:	g.tsolidis@ballarat.edu.au

Qualifications

Ph.D.
Dip.Ed.
B.Ed.
B.A.

Teaching

EDMED7037: Ways of Researching (Advanced)
EDMED7038: Analysis & Enquiry: Reading & Framing the Research

Biography

Georgina Tsolidis worked as a secondary school teacher before taking up various positions within the Department of Education, including as an English as a Second Language consultant, research officer, project manager and policy analyst. Before taking up her position at UB she worked in the Faculty of Education, Monash University.

Research Interests

Sociology of education with a particular focus on identity and schooling.
Gender and/or ethnicity in relation to schooling and the family.
Globalisation, diaspora and mobility.

Areas of Expertise

International education.
Gender and schooling.
Multicultural education.
Culture and gender inclusive pedagogies.

Publications

Books

Tsolidis, G. (2006) Youthful Imagination – schooling, subcultures and social justice, Peter Lang Publications, New York.

Tsolidis, G. (2001) Schooling, Diaspora and Gender – Being Feminist and Being Different, Open University Press, Buckingham and Philadelphia.

Tsolidis, G. (1986) Educating Voula - A Report on non-English Speaking Background Girls and Education, Ministry of Education, Victoria.

Chapters

Tsolidis, G. (2008) Paideia, Values and Multiculturalism, Boudouris, K. and K. Kalimtzis (Eds) Paideia:Education in the Global Era, International Center for Greek Philosophy and Culture, Athens.

Tsolidis, G. (2008) Australian Multicultural Education – Revisiting and Resuscitating, Wang, (Ed) The Education of Diverse Populations: A Global Perspective, Netherlands:Springer.

Tsolidis, G. (2000) Diasporic youth: Moving beyond the academic versus the popular in school cultures, McLeod, J. and K. Malone (Eds) Researching Youth, Hobart:Australian Clearinghouse for Youth Studies, 71-93.

Tsolidis, G. (1998) Ethnicity, Gender and Educational Experience - some insights from Chinese and Vietnamese students, Brownlee, P. and C. Mitchell (Eds) Migration Research in the Asia Pacific: Theoretical and Empirical Issues, Asia Pacific Migration Research Network, Working Paper No 4, Migration and Multicultural Program Institute for Social Change and Critical Inquiry, NSW:University of Wollongong.

Tsolidis, G. (1997) Responding to the Pupils Culture and Language, Sachs, J. and L. Logan (Eds) Meeting the Challenge of Primary Schooling, London:Routledge, 134- 146.

Tsolidis, G. (1995) Cultural difference and Australian feminism, Guerra, C. and R. White (Eds) Ethnic Minority Youth in Australia, Hobart:National Clearinghouse for Youth Studies, 71 - 83.

Tsolidis, G. (1995) Greek-Australian Families, Hartley R. (Ed.) Families and Cultural Diversity, St Leonards, NSW:Allen and Unwin/Australian Institute of Family Studies, 123- 135.

Tsolidis, G. (1990) Ethnic Minority Girls and Self Esteem, Kenway, J and S. Willis, S (Eds) Hearts and Minds: Self-Esteem and the Schooling of Girls, London:Falmer Press.

Tsolidis, G. (1988) Ethnic minority women: reassessing the assumed Taylor, S and M. Henry (Eds) Battlers and Bluestockings, Canberra:Australian College of Education.

Journal Articles (Recent)

Tsolidis, G. (2008) The (Im)Possibility of Post-modern Ethnography – Researching diasporic identities in spaces not included, Ethnography and Education.

Tsolidis, G. and Kostogriz A. (2008) ‘After hours’ schools as core to the spatial politics of in-betweeness, Race Ethnicity and Education.

Kostogriz, A. & Tsolidis, G. (2008). Transcultural literacy: Between the global and the local. Pedagogy, Culture & Society, 16 (2) . Tsolidis, G. and Pollard, V. (2007) Re-deploying Techniques of Pastoral Power by Telling Tales on Student Teachers, Teaching Education 18 (1) 49 - 59.

Tsolidis, G. (2006) Strategic encounters - choosing school subcultures that facilitate imagined futures, British Journal of the Sociology of Education 27 (5).

Tsolidis, G. and Dobson, I. (2006) Single sex schooling – Is it more than a class act? Gender and Education, 18 (2) 213 -228.

Tsolidis, G. (2004) How do we understand the everyday of globalization without making it up? Globalization, Societies and Education 2 (1) 127 –131.

Tsolidis, G. (2003) Mothers, memories and cultural imaginings, The Greek Review of Social Research Special Issue - Gender and International Migration: Focus on Greece, 110A’, 141 – 163.

Tsolidis, G. (2002) How do we teach and learn in times when the notion of 'global citizenship' sounds like a cliché, Journal of Research in International Education 1(2) 135 - 140.

Tsolidis, G. (2002) New Times, New Nationalism, Pedagogy, Culture and Society 10 (1) 135 – 140.

Tsolidis, G. (2002) Clytemnestra’s Daughters – The Maternal in Diasporic Cultural Re/production, Kirkman, M., J. Maher and K. Souter (Eds) The Fertile Imagination: Narratives of Reproduction, Special Book Issue of Meridian, 18 (2) 23 - 38.

Tsolidis, G. (2001) New Cultures, New Classrooms - International education and the possibility of radical pedagogies, Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 9 (1) 97 - 110.

Refereed Conference Proceedings (Recent)

Tsolidis, G. (2008) Youthful Imagination, schooling, subcultures and social justice, Paris International Conference on Education, Economy & Society, Paris, France, 17 to 19 July 2008.

Tsolidis, G. (2008) Cultural Memory of Sacred Spaces in Migrations and Diasporas - Sharing Sacred Spaces, ACS Crossroads Conference, University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica, July 3 – 7.

Tsolidis, G. (2007) The (Im)Possibility of Post-modern Ethnography - Researching diasporic identities in spaces not included, Oxford Ethnography and Education Conference, 10 – 11 September, Oxford.

Tsolidis, G. (2007) Simpson, his donkey and the rest of us – Public pedagogies of the value of belonging, Moral Education and Australian Values Conference, Monash University, April 27-28.

Tsolidis, G. (2007) Australian Multicultural Education – Revisiting and Resuscitating, AERA, Chicago, April.

Tsolidis, G. (2007) Paideia : Education in the Global Era, 19th International Conference of Philosophy, Samos, Greece, July.

Tsolidis, G. (2006) Implications of Empire 'Back Home' - diaspora, gender and return migration - Imperatives of empire in post-multicultural nation states XVIth International Sociology Association World Congress of Sociology, Durban, July.

Tsolidis, G. (2005) The role of education and schooling in the identities of ‘second-generation’ Australians, Invitational Workshop, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, Second Generation Migrants: Contesting definitions and realities, University of Queensland, November.

Kostogriz, A. and Tsolidis, G. (2005) Transcultural literacy: Diasporic spaces and identities reconsidered, International Society for Cultural and Activity Research, Seville, September.

Tsolidis, G. (2005) Living Diaspora ‘back home’ – Daughters of Greek emigrants living in Greece, Modern Greek Studies Association Annual Symposium, Chicago, November.

Seminar Presentations (Recent)

Tsolidis, G. (2008) Elite Government Schooling: Facilitating imagined futures, 27 February, University of Ballarat.

Associations

AARE
Association for Cultural Studies

Supervision

Georgina Tsolidis has extensive experience supervising students at the Honours, Master and doctoral levels. She has supervised theses related to gender studies, multicultural and international education and in sociology more broadly. Current supervision includes;

Sue Asimoudis – Identity, diaspora and gender
Clare Charles – Gender, popular culture and schooling
Karen Felstead – Literacy, early childhood and mothers
Melinda McPherson – Refugee women, education and representation
Kevin Tant – International education
Kerry Theodora – Women and higher education
Linda Zibell – Imagination, pedagogy and critical environmental literacies