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Professor Phillip Jones

Personal Chair in Education

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Research interests

Educational systems: administration, management and leadership

  • Higher education
  • International and comparative education

Professional biography

Phillip Jones has pioneered much Australian interest in the international dynamics of educational policy and practice. His books on the educational work of the United Nations, World Bank and UNESCO have attracted widespread interest around the world. Phillip Jones is a former Assistant Director of IDP Education Australia, and has served on a wide range on national and international bodies fostering international collaboration. He has held visiting research positions at ANU, Auckland, Bristol, Columbia, London and Pittsburgh universities. Phillip Jones' teaching interests include international and development education, global poverty and education, and globalisation and education. Phillip Jones served as Pro-Dean of the Faculty 2001-2004, and in 2005 became Director of the Research Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences (RIHSS).


Professional and community roles


Current research students

Project title Degree Research student
Education policies, development strategies and normative influences: The domestic spheres of six countries in Southeast Asia and the South Pacific. PhD Alexandra McCormick
Education and economic globalisation: An investigation of national policy formation in Sri Lanka. PhD Damaris Helene Wikramanayake
A comparison of historical and current models of theological education in two developing countries and a comparison of their outcomes with an emphasis on the transference of educational methods originating in a predominantly Christian culture to a culture PhD Stuart Brooking
Rethinking the World Bank: Neoliberalism, knowledge economy and a new world order. PhD John Girdwood

Selected publications

Books

  • Jones, P. (2007). World Bank Financing of Education: Lending, Learning and Development. London and New York: Routledge.
  • Jones, P. (2006). Education, Poverty and the World Bank. Rotterdam/Taipai: SensePublishers.

Book chapters

  • Jones, P. (2007). WCEFA: A moment in the history of multilateral education. In David P. Baker and Alexander W. Wiseman (Eds.), Education For All: Global Promises, National Challenges (Vol. 8, pp. 521–538), Amsterdam: Elsevier.
  • Jones, P. (2007). World Bank priorities for educational financing. In Phillip Jones (Ed.), World Bank Financing of Education: Lending, Learning and Development (pp. 242–261), London and New York: Routledge.
  • Jones, P. (2007). The triumph of educational fundamentalism 1986-1995. In Phillip Jones (Ed.), World Bank Financing of Education: Lending, Learning and Development (pp. 159–195), London and New York: Routledge.
  • Jones, P. (2007). From Wolfensohn to Wolfowitz. In Phillip Jones (Ed.), World Bank Financing of Education: Lending, Learning and Development (pp. 196–241), London and New York: Routledge.

Journal articles

  • Jones, P. (2008). The impossible dream: education and the MDGs. Harvard International Review, 30(3), 34–38.
  • Jones, P. (2007). Education and world order. Comparative Education, 43(3), 325–337.
  • Jones, P. (2007). Editorial: Global governance, social policy and multilateral education. Comparative Education, 43(3), 321–323.
  • Jones, P. (2006). UNDP and educational development: An institutional policy analysis. International Journal of Educational Development, 26(6), 605–617.
  • Jones, P. (2006). Elusive mandate: UNICEF and educational development. International Journal of Educational Development, 26(6), 591–604.

Conference papers

  • Jones, P. (2007). Comment l'education universelle est devenue une idee universelle. Un enjeu des premiere annees de l'UNESCO. In Boel, J 60 Ans d'histoire d'UNESCO. Actes du colloque international (pp. 419–429). Paris, 16-18 Nov 2005.
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