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Associate Professor Tim Allender

BA(Hons)(Monash), DipEd(Monash), MA(Hons)(Sydney), PhD(Sydney)

History Curriculum Coordinator

Associate Professor, History of Education, History Curriculum

Affiliate, History Department, Faculty of Arts

Email:

Phone: +61 2 9351 6334

Fax: +61 2 9351 4580

Building.Room: A35.525

Research interests

Educational history, sociology and philosophy

  • History of education

Educational systems: administration, management and leadership

  • International and comparative education

Research on teaching and learning

  • Social sciences, including civics

Keywords

History, Postcolonial, History Curriculum, Feminist History, Classroom Disciplinarity, Knowledge Transfer


Professional biography

Tim's principal work concerns colonial education focusing on India using postcolonial and feminist paradigms. He has published international articles on these topics and his book, Ruling Through Education analyses, in postcolonial perspective, colonial education in north India in the late nineteenth century. He is working on an Australian Research Council (ARC) grant concerning the disciplinarity of classroom language and he has published a book on the social history of Western Victoria, Australia. He has been involved in history-syllabus development in NSW, and is particularly interested in developing its Asian perspective. And he is part of the NSW advisory board concering the development of the National Curriculum K-10. 

Tim has developed a course on cross-cultural education which has enabled his students to undertake international fieldwork research in Asia, Canada and Europe. He is also currently using the model of 'knowledge transfer' and gender for two research projects. Tim is working on two research projects with Indian educators in Mumbai and Delhi looking at underprivileged urban education; and gender and Science education. He is currently working on a University of Sydney Social Inclusion project concerning History teachers and another project on ICT in the classroom. As well, he is researching a project concerning Global Education language and its socio-cultural predications in Australia compared to other countries in Asia.


Awards

  • Thomas T. Roberts Fellowship, 1996 (AUD $10,000)

  • Visiting Fellow, University of Winchester, 2005

  • Visiting Fellow, University of London, 2010

  • Ewing Postdoctoral Fellowship 2003 (AUD $16,000)

  • LEO347548 ARC LIEF Grant jointly with Profs. McGuire (UWA); Robin Jeffrey (ANU) 2004  (AUD $150,000)

  • University of Sydney R&D  Research Grant, 2006 (AUD  $17,000)

  • University of Sydney Research Conference Fund, 2008, (AUD $1,500)                       

  • DP0663300 ARC Discovery (Large) Scheme Project: “Disciplinarity and classroom practice: Epistemological issues in the analysis and improvement of teaching and learning.” (Co-investigators: Professor Peter Freebody, A/Professor Tim Allender, A/Professor N Bahr, Dr C Christensen, Dr A Wright) 2006-2009, (AUD $279, 000).

  • University of Sydney Sesqui R&D grant, 2002 (AUD $9,000)

  • Teaching Excellence Award, Faculty of Education, University of Sydney, 2000

  • Exchanging Educational Knowledge: towards transformative models of initial teacher education, 2010. (Dr Arathi Sriprakash, A/Professor Tim Allender) Australia India Council Grant (AUD $5,000)

  • Global Education and eLearning Resources (Ms Kate Keeley, A/Professor Tim Allender) AusAID/PTC NSW Global Education (AUD $40,000)

  • (2009) Chair of an ITEC Undergraduate Program Panel, NSW Institute of Teachers

  • (2010- ) History of Education Quarterly (US) editorial team of reviewers.

  • (2011) Visiting Professor, University of Toronto, Canada

  • (2010-2012) Nominee of the NSW/ACT Committee of Chairs of Academic Boards and Senates to consult with the NSW Board of Studies on the National Curriculum (K-10 History).

  • (2010- ) Paedagogica Historica (Europe) editorial team of reviewers.

  • (2009)  Chair of an ITEC Undergraduate Program Panel, NSW Institute of Teachers

  • (2010- ) Review Committee University of Sydney Foundation Program (USFP)

  • (2011- ): 'Social Inclusion in the History Classroom' Divisional Strategic Teaching Enhancement Project Scheme (STEPS) (Dr Michael McDonnell, Ms Hannah Forsyth) ($35,000)

  • (2011- ) International Projects Development Fund: 'Teaching and Learning: the Under-privileged of Australia and India' (Prof. Padma Sarangapani (Mumbai), Dr Arathi Sriprahash (UWA), Dr Ritesh Khunyakari (Mumbai), Ms Kate Keeley (USyd) ($7,000)

  • History Fellowship (one year), Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Advanced Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, 2012-2013.

  • Sharma, M., Allender, T., Jolly, P. and Cheung, A.  'Building leadership capacity in undergraduate science teaching in India, (R11-093) ALAF (AusAID) $57,413

  • Co-Chair 'All India Law Teachers' National Congress Conference, Amity Law School, New Delhi (September 1-2, 2012)

  • (2012- ) Journal of Educational Administration and History (UK) editorial team of reviewers.


Professional and community roles

  • Editorial Board Asian Studies Review (Routledge, Asian Studies Association of Australia)

  • Editorial Board of Journal for Educational Media, Memory and Society (Berghahn Press) Georg Eckert Institute, Germany

  • The nominee of the NSW/ACT Committee of Chairs of Academic Boards and Senates consulting with the NSW Board of Studies on the  Australian National Curriculum (History).


Current projects

  • Currently working as a member of a International Special Working Group (SWG) for ISCHE (Belgium) on the history of the history textbook in schools and the politics of its language. (2008-2010)
  • DP0663300 ARC Discovery (Large) Scheme (AUD $279, 000) Project: “Disciplinarity and classroom practice: Epistemological issues in the analysis and improvement of teaching and learning.” (Co-investigators: Professor Peter Freebody, Dr Tim Allender, Dr N Bahr, Dr C Christensen, Dr A Wright).
  • Reference Group: Teaching Teachers for the Future (USyd)
  • Building leadership capacity in undergraduate Science teaching in India and Australia. (A/Prof. Manju Sharma (USyd); Dr Pratibha Jolly (Delhi University); Dr Alexandra Yeung (USyd)
  • Global Education in the HSIE Classroom and its Asian Context, (MS Kate Keeley, Ms Kate Smyth)
  • The socio-cultural predication of Under-privileged Urban Education: Australia and India (Professor Padma Sarangapani, Dr Arathi Sriprakash, Dr Ritesh Khunyakari)
  • Diversity and Difference: History Students and Social Inclusion (Dr Michael McDonnell, Ms Hannah Forsyth)
  • Special Issue: 'Knowledge Transfer and the History of Education' in 'History Education Review' (joint editor with A/Prof. Jenny Collins (Unitec, New Zealand)

Current research students

Project title Degree Research student
Headmasterly common rooms then and now: reconfiguring a client patron relationship. MEd(Research) Matthew John Leeds
Building schooling identity and tradition: the approach of the archivist. PhD Welwyn Margaret Petersen

Selected publications

Books

  • Allender, T. and Collins, J. (eds.) . (in press). 'Knowledge Transfer and the History of Education', Special Issue, History of Education Review, (forthcoming, 2013). .
  • Allender, T. (in press). Feminist Imaginaries Abroad: Female Education and the Raj, 1854-1930. London/New York: Manchester University Press.
  • Allender, T. and Spencer, S. (2009). Guest editors, special issue, ‘Fruitful Labour: Work and the Historian of Education’ History of Education (UK).. (Vol. 38:6), London: Taylor and Francis.
  • Allender, T. (2009). Guest editor, special issue, ‘Work! Work! Work! : Work and the History of Education, History of Education Review.. (Vol. 38:2), .
  • Allender, T. (2006). Ruling through education: the politics of schooling in the colonial Punjab. New Delhi: New Dawn Press. 358pp.
  • Allender, T. and Brennan, D. (1996). Coaches Called Here. Adelaide: Advertiser Press. 442pp.

Book chapters

  • Allender, T. (in press). Loreto Teaching in India, 1842-2010: Transcending the Centre-Periphery Paradigm. In Barnita Bagchi, Eckhardt Fuchs, and Kate Rousmaniere (Eds.), Connecting Histories of Education: Transactions, Transculturalisms and Transnationalisms New York: Berghahn Books.
  • Allender, T. (in press). History Lessons From the Antipodes: Teaching History Didactics in Australia (forthcoming, 2013) . In , Hasberg, E. and Erdmann, E. (eds.) History Education International (Germany: Wochenschau Verlag Schwalbach/Ts.) .
  • Allender, T. (in press). Colonial Anxieties: the State Embodiment of the Female Teacher ‘Trainer’, 1808-1931. In Joseph Bara (Ed.), Education in Colonial India: Historical Insights New Delhi: Manohar Books.
  • Allender, T. (2011). 'Imagining Innovation: State Agendas for Women's Education in Colonial India, 1854-1919'. In J. Goodman and J. Martin (Eds.), Women and Education: Major Themes in Education (reprint of History of Education Researcher article, 2007) London: Routledge.
  • Allender, T. (2011). 'Historical Analysis: New Approaches to Postcolonial Scholarship and the Subcontinent' . In , Markauskaite, L., Freebody, P., Irwin, J., (Eds) Methodological Choices and Research Designs for Educational and Social Change: Linking Scholarship Policy and Practice. Dordrecht: Sprenger.
  • Allender, T. (2009). ‘Girls at Risk: The Female Learning Space in Colonial India, 1818-1919’ . In C. Mayer, I. Lohmann, I. Grosvenor (Ed.), Children and Youth at Risk. Approaches from the History of Education (Frankfurt, Peter Lang, 2009). (pp. 289–308), Frankfurt: Peter Lang.
  • Allender, T. (2007). 'How the state made and unmade education in the Raj, 1800-1919'. In Tolley K (Ed.), Transformations in Schooling: Historical and Comparative Perspectives (Vol. 1, pp. 67–86), New York: Palgrave MacMillan.

Journal articles

Conference papers

  • Allender, T. . (2012). The Missionary Precursors of St Stephen's College. In Address, St Stephen's College, University of Delhi, September 6..
  • Allender, T. (2012). Female Education in Colonial India, 1800-1930 . In Keynote, Miranda House, University of Delhi, September 5..
  • Allender, T. (2012). 'Brown Ladies: Learning Femininity in Colonial India, 1800-1920'. In 'Rising to the Challenge' Canadian History of Education Conference (CHEA), Vancouver, Canada, October 20..
  • Allender, T. (2012). Worlds Apart, Worlds Reconfigured: The Paradigm of Piety and Knowledge Transfer, 1860-1900. In 'Rising to the Challenge' Canadian History of Education Conference (CHEA), Vancouver, Canada, October 18..
  • Allender, T. (2012). Authorising Femininity: Race and the Law in the Colonial Classroom. In All India Law Teachers' National Congress Conference, Amity Law School, Delhi, September 1.
  • Allender, T. (2012). Best Practice History Teaching in Australia: The Disciplinary Discourse . In School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), September 12..
  • Allender, T. (2011). Feminist Imaginaries Abroad: Western Female Professionalism and the Colonial State in India, 1850-1930. In Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India.
  • Sriprakash, Arathi; Keeley, C; Allender, T. (2011). 'Globalising educational knowledge? Schooling and citizenship in India and Australia' at the Knowledge / Culture / Social Change International Conference. November 7-9, 2011 UWS, Sydney. In .
  • Allender, T. (2011). Knowledge Transfer: Global Context or Historical Precursors? Workshop. In Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India .
  • Allender, T. (2011). Researching Best Practice Teachers: Developing the Knowledge of Teaching. Workshop. In Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India.
  • Allender, T. . (2011). 'Critical Literacy in the History Classroom', Workshop, October 28, 2011 OISE, University of Toronto . In Canada.
  • Allender, T. (2010). 'Teaching Across the Disciplines: The Classroom Language of Best Practice Teaching in Comparative Perspective. University of Winchester, Winchester, UK. January 20, 2010. . In University of Winchester, Winchester, UK.
  • Allender, T. (2010). 'The Curious Case of Women Religious in India: Transcending Partition and Working with Street Children' . In 'Centre and Periphery in History of Education' ANZHES conference. Wagga, Australia, December 7, 2010.
  • Allender, T. (2010). Knowledge Transfer and the Asian Contribution: Contesting Western Hegemony. Research Symposium, Suratthani Rajabhat University, Thailand. July 13, 2010.. In July 13, 2010 Research Symposium, Suratthani Rajabhat University, Thailand.
  • Allender, T. . (2010). ‘Loreto Learning in the Raj: Reconfiguring Global Female Teacher Imperatives, 1870-1930. February 3, 2010. . In ‘Learning in the Past, Research Agendas for the Future: Connecting Histories of Education, 1700-2000’ Workshop, University of Calcutta, Alipore Campus, Kolkata, India..
  • Allender, T. (2010). 'New turns in postcolonialism: feminism and teaching "abroad" in India, 1880-1920'Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, University of London. January 7, 2010.. In Institute of Historical Research Senate House, University of London .
  • Allender, T. (2009). ‘Transnational Teachers or Servants of the State?: Loreto’s Mandate in India, 1880-1920’ Consecrated Women; Crossing Boundaries’ University of London Conference. Bar Convent, York, UK. September 16, 2009.. In . Bar Convent, York, UK, September.
  • Allender, T. (2009). ‘New Historical Approaches to Postcolonial Scholarship’, Faculty of Education Methodology Series Symposium. University of Sydney. May 28, 2009. . In . University of Sydney, NSW, 28 May.
  • Wright, T., Freebody, P., Bahr, N., Allender, T., & Van Bergen, P. . (2009). 'Exploring the Disciplines: Perspectives from Physics, Biology, History and Music in the Classroom.' Paper presented at the conference of the Australasian Science Education Research Association. July, 2009.. In . Geelong, Australia, July.
  • Allender, T. (2009). ‘Understanding Gender and Transnational Intellectual Transfer on the Subcontinent’ at the Academic Staff College, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. January 24, 2010. . In . New Delhi, India, 24 January.
  • Allender, T. (2009). ‘Loreto in India: More Than Just One ‘T’, 1845-1920’ at School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. January 23, 2010. . In . New Delhi, India, 23 January.
  • Allender, T. (2008). ‘Geographers in the Village: Power plays and Pedagogues, ‘Schooling’ in North India, 1854-1860,’ ‘Work, Work, Work and the History of Education’ joint ANZHES/HES conference. University of Sydney, Australia. December 8, 2008. . In . University of Sydney, NSW, December.
  • Allender, T. (2008). ‘Teacher Teachers or Servants of the Poor? : Loreto’s Dual Mandate in India,’ ‘Work, Work, Work and the History of Education’ joint ANZHES/HES conference. University of Sydney, Australia. December 7, 2008.. In . University of Sydney, NSW, December.
  • Freebody, P., Wright, T., Allender, T., Barton, G., Van Bergen, P., Christensen, C. . (2008). ‘Knowledge Communication and Disciplinarity in Senior Schooling’ 3rd Practice Based and Practitioner Research Conference, Bergen, Norway. October, 2008.. In . Bergen, Norway, October.
  • Allender, T. (2008). ‘Print media in comparative perspective: The school text in colonial India,’ 30th Session of ISCHE ‘Education and Inequality’, Rutgers University, Newark, USA. July, 2008.. In . Rutgers University, Newark, USA, July.
  • Allender, T. (2008). ‘Teaching race and class: Embodying female professionalism in colonial India, 1750-2001’ 30th Session of ISCHE ‘Education and Inequality’ Rutgers University, Newark, USA. July, 2008.. In . Rutgers University, Newark, USA, July.
  • Allender, T. (2008). ‘Educational Futures: The Making and Unmaking of Female Professionalism in Colonial India,’ Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) 17th Biennial Conference: Is this the Asian century? Melbourne, Australia. July, 2008. . In . Melbourne, Victoria, July.
  • Allender, T. (2007). ‘Learning Abroad: The Colonial Educational Experiment in India, 1813-1919.’ XIX ISCHE Symposium ‘Empires at Home: Empires Abroad’, Hamburg University, Hamburg, Germany. July, 2007.. In . Hamburg, Germany, July.
  • Allender, T. (2007). ‘Girls at Risk: The Female Learning Space in Colonial India, 1820-1919,’XXIX ISCHE ‘Children at Risk’ Conference. Hamburg University, Hamburg, Germany. July, 2007.. In . Hamburg, Germany, July.
  • Allender, T. (2006). ‘Instructing the Women: Changing State Agendas in the Colonial India, 1854-1919’ presented at the ‘Asia Reconstructed: From Critiques of Development to Postcolonial Studies’ XIV Biennial Conference Asian Studies Association Australia (ASAA) . In . Wollongong, NSW, July.
  • Allender, T. (2005). ‘Bad Language in the Raj: Gottlieb Leitner and the Foundation of the Punjab University, 1865-1888’ presented History of Education (UK) conference. In . University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK, December.
  • Allender, T. (2005). ‘Education Innovation in India: Gottlieb Leitner and Translation in India’ presented at the ‘Education for All’ conference, History of Education Society, United Kingdom . In . University of Birmingham, Birmingham, (UK), December.
  • Allender, T. (2005). ‘Borders and Boundaries: The Actor-Network State and the Ethics of Education in India’ presented at the 27th session of the International Standing Conference for the History of Education (ISCHE). In . Sydney, NSW, July .
  • Allender, T. (2005). ‘Understanding Education in Colonial India’ presented as a guest lecture in the History of Education Lecture Series. In . Senate House, University of London, UK, September.
  • Allender, T. (2005). ‘Actor Network Theory and Women Educators in India’ presented at the Women’s Education Centre. In . Winchester University, Winchester, UK, October .
  • Allender, T. (2004). ‘India and the Globalised World’ presented to the ‘India Education Forum’ DEST . In . Canberra, ACT, November.
  • Allender, T. (2004). ‘Cross-cultural educational ethics: How the State made and unmade education in the Raj, 1800-1919’ presented at the 15th Biennial Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA). In . Canberra, ACT, June.
  • Allender, T. (2003). ‘Colonial Educational Dynamics in Raj India, 1780-1919’ Australian and New Zealand History of Education conference . In . University of Western Australia, Perth, December.
  • Allender, T. (2002). ‘Talking Textbooks in India', Australian and New Zealand History of Education Society (ANZHES) Conference . In . University of Adelaide, Adelaide, December.
  • Allender, T. (2000). ‘Anglican evangelism in North India and the Punjabi missionary classroom; the failure to educate 'the masses', 1860-77’ . In Australian and New Zealand History of Education Society (ANZHES) Conference. University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia. December.
  • Allender, T. (2000). Robert Montgomery and the Koree Mar (Daughter Slayers): A Punjabi Educational Imperative, 1855-65’ . In ‘Whose Millennium?' 13th Biennial Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA). University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia. July.

Other

  • McDonnell, M, Allender, T., and Forsyth, H. (2012). Social Inclusion and the History Classroom , St Paul's College, University of Sydney, August 1.
  • Sherington, G. and Allender, T. . (2010). History Council of NSW: Report on the National Curriculum (History), .
  • Allender, T. (2006). 'The Colonial Mindset Hangs On: What History Says About Making New Connections With India', Feature Article in the Christmas Edition of the Australian Financial Review, December 22-26, 2006.
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