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HickeyA, (2012). Cities of Signs: Learning the logic of urban spaces. Peter Lang, New York

Charting the ways that public pedagogies mobilise cultural logics within urban space, Cities of Signs draws on cultural studies, urban sociology and critical pedagogy to present a case for reading the city as a signed landscape.

Hickey, A. (2010). When the Street Becomes a Pedagogue, in Jennifer Sandlin, Brian Schultz and Jake Burdick (eds.), The Handbook of Public Pedagogy. Routledge, London.

This chapter builds on earlier work that explores the operation of the streetscape as host for public pedagogies. Using the signs and symbols presented in the street by the mass-communication complex, this chapter charts a critical process for ‘being’ in the street.

Hickey, A. (2008). iCon of a Generation. in Dylan Wittkower (ed.), iPod and Philosophy, Open Court, Chicago.

This chapter argues that the iPod and similar digital accoutrements of youth operate as a simulacrum of 'youth-ness'. Represented in the mass-communication networks of contemporary Western locales, ‘youthness’ maintains a set of specific thematic tropes repeated throughout the cultural network. Using the iPod as a symbolic representation of youthful ‘hipness’, ideas of youth-ness as commodified through mass communication networks are deconstructed.

Austin, J. and Hickey, A. (eds.) (2007) Education for healthy communities: possibilities through SOSE and HPE. Pearson Education Australia, Frenchs Forest, Australia. ISBN 9780733989629

This edited book works through possibilities for mobilising the SOSE and HPE curriculum areas for social betterment and community participation. Each chapter author presents new ways of looking at the curriculum to generate effective participatory social engagement.

Hickey, A. and Austin, J. and Hagan, S. (2007) Standing up to racism: the “Nigger Brown” stand. In: Austin, Jon and Hickey, Andrew, (eds.) Education for healthy communities: possibilities through SOSE and HPE. Pearson Education Australia, Frenchs Forest, Australia. ISBN 9780733989629

This chapter charts the experiences of Steven Hagan and his campaign to remove the word ‘Nigger’ from a sports oval. Via the representation Hagan received in the media and the centrality of his concerns for understanding the racial history of Australia, a reading of the ‘politics of representation’ of race is presented.

Hickey, A. (2007) What is community? In: Austin, Jon and Hickey, Andrew, (eds.) Education for healthy communities: possibilities through SOSE and HPE. Pearson Education Australia, Frenchs Forest, Australia. ISBN 9780733989629


This chapter presents a thorough exploration of the key ideas and theoretical traditions that have informed understandings of community. By tackling the core conceptual markers inherent in definitions of community in the social sciences, the chapter works through what community might mean in the contemporary.

Hickey, A. and Austin, J. (2007) Engaging Community Resource Issues: the Toowoomba Water Futures Debate. In: Austin, Jon and Hickey, Andrew, (eds.) Education for healthy communities: possibilities through SOSE and HPE. Pearson Education Australia, Frenchs Forest, Australia. ISBN 9780733989629

This chapter explores the implications of a significant community resource issue and posits a process for engaging social participation and change. From the case study of one educators work in mobilising community awareness, the chapter presents a process for activating social change through the curriculum.

Danaher, P.A. and Hickey, A. and Brown, A. and Conway, J. (2007) Exploring elements for creating an online community of learners within a distance education course at the University of Southern Queensland. In: Luppicini, Rocci J., (ed.) Online learning communities. Perspectives in Instructional Technology and Distance Education. Information Age Publishing, Greenwich, CT, pp. 219-240. 978-1-59311-679-8 (hbk.)

This chapter charts the experiences of a group of undergraduate students in dealing with online media and learning technologies. An approach toward the deployment of technologies as appropriate to the learning needs of users is charted.

Hickey, A. and Austin, J. (2006) (Re)presenting education: students, teachers, schools and the public imagination. Pearson Education Australia, Frenchs Forest, Australia. ISBN 0733984045

This book presents a cultural studies approach to reading the popular representations of teachers, schools and schooling in the mass media. It argues for a critical approach in dealing with the politics of representation in play, and works through a reading of print, film and television images of education.

Hickey, A. (2005) Applying deconstruction: establishing a critical viewpoint. In: Austin, Jon, (ed.) Culture and identity. Pearson Education Australia, Frenchs Forest, Australia, pp. 31-45. ISBN 0733973299

This chapter presents a review of Derrida's key ideas and application of Deconstruction. A focus on deconstruction as a critical practice is presented in this chapter in order to offer possibilities for mobilising a critical aesthetic in everyday practice.


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