PUBLICATIONS – Dr Tristan McCowan
Books
McCowan, T. (2009) Rethinking Citizenship Education: a Curriculum for Participatory
Democracy. London: Continuum.
Gentili, P. & McCowan, T. (eds.) (2003) Reinventar a Escola Pública: Política Educacional
para um Novo Brasil. [Reinventing the Public School: Education Policy for a New
Brazil]. Petrópolis: Vozes.
Refereed journal articles
McCowan, T. (2010, forthcoming) School democratisation in prefigurative form: two Brazilian
experiences. Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 5 (1).
McCowan, T. (2009) A „seamless enactment‟ of citizenship education, Journal of Philosophy
of Education, 43 (1), 85-99.
McCowan, T. (2009) Towards an understanding of the means-ends relationship in
citizenship education, Journal of Curriculum Studies, 41 (3), 321-342.
McCowan, T. (2008) Curricular Transposition in Citizenship Education. Theory and
Research in Education, 6 (2) 153-172.
McCowan, T. (2007) Expansion without equity: an analysis of current policy on access to
higher education in Brazil. Higher Education, 53 (5), 579-598.
McCowan, T. (2006) Educating citizens for participatory democracy: a case study of local
government education policy in Pelotas, Brazil. International Journal of Educational
Development, 26 (5), 456-470.
McCowan T (2004) The Growth of Private Higher Education in Brazil: Implications for Equity
and Quality. Journal of Education Policy, 19 (4), 453-472.
Other journal articles
McCowan, T. (2006) The foundations of critical questioning in citizenship education.
Curriculum Without Borders [Currículo Sem Fronteiras], 6 (2), available at
http://www.curriculosemfronteiras.org/vol6iss2articles/mccowanen.htm
McCowan, T. (2006) Approaching the political in citizenship education: the perspectives of
Paulo Freire and Bernard Crick. Educate~ The London Journal of Doctoral Research in
Education, 6 (1) 57-70.
McCowan, T. (2006) Is the commodification of higher education inherently objectionable?
Prospero, 12 (4), 20-27.
McCowan, T. (2005) O crescimento da educação superior privada no Brasil: implicações
para as questões de eqüidade, qualidade e benefício público [Portuguese version of
“The Growth of Private Higher Education in Brazil”].
Education Policy Analysis Archives, 13(27), available at
http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v13n27/.
McCowan, T. (2004) Tooley's Seven Virtues and the Profit Incentive in Higher Education.
Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2 (2), available at
http://www.jceps.com/?pageID=article&articleID=29.
McCowan, T. (2004) Conformity and the questioning of authority in the citizenship education
debates. Educate~ The London Journal of Doctoral Research in Education, 4 (2), 1932.
McCowan, T. (2003) Participation and Education in the Landless People‟s Movement of
Brazil, Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 1(1), available at
http://www.jceps.com/?pageID=article&articleID=6.
Chapters in books
McCowan, T. (2009, forthcoming) „Prefigurative‟ approaches to participatory schooling:
experiences in Brazil. In S. Cox, C. Dyer, A. Robinson-Pant and M. Schweisfurth (Eds)
Children as Decision Makers in Educational Contexts: Sharing Experiences Across
Cultures. London: Continuum.
McCowan, T. (2009, forthcoming) The elusive notion of „quality‟ in the Bologna Process: the
case of England. In J. M. Paraskeva (Ed.) Unaccomplished Utopia: Neo-Conservative
Dismantling of Public Higher Education in the European Union. Rotterdam: Sense.
McCowan, T. (2009, forthcoming) Can schools make good citizens? In R. Bailey (ed.) An
Introduction to the Philosophy of Education. London: Continuum.
McCowan, T. and Gandin, L. A. (2009, forthcoming) Reinventing educational spaces,
building active citizenship: two Brazilian experiences. In R. Cowen and A. Kazamias
(Eds), International Handbook of Comparative Education. Amsterdam: Springer.
McCowan, T. (2008) Educando cidadãos para a democracia participativa: um estudo de
caso das políticas educacionais de um governo local (Pelotas, Brasil) [Portuguese
translation of “Educating citizens for participatory democracy”]. In A. L. M. Hypolito, M.
C. L. Leite, M. A. Dall' Igna and V. Marcolla (Eds) Gestão educacional e democracia
participativa. Porto Alegre: UFRGS.
McCowan, T. (2008) Higher Education and the Profit Incentive. In D. Hill (Ed.) Global
Neoliberalism and Education and its Consequences. New York: Routledge.
McCowan, T. (2003) Deltakelse og utdanning I de jordløses bevegelse i Brasil [Norwegian
translation of “Participation and Education in the Landless People‟s Movement of
Brazil”]. In Students and Academics International Fund (Eds) Kunnskap, makt og
frigjøring. Oslo: SAIH.
Other publications
McCowan, T. (2008) The growth of private providers in Brazil. In id21 Insights Education,
Issue #7, Building sustainable higher education. Online at
http://www.id21.org/insights/insights-ed07/index.html
McCowan, T. (2007) UNESCO. In G. L. Anderson and K. Herr (Eds) Encyclopedia of
Activism and Social Justice. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
McCowan, T. (2007) UNICEF. In G. L. Anderson and K. Herr (Eds) Encyclopedia of Activism
and Social Justice. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
McCowan, T. (2007) Citizen Schools. In G. L. Anderson and K. Herr (Eds) Encyclopedia of
Activism and Social Justice. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
McCowan, T. (2007) Landless Movement. In G. L. Anderson and K. Herr (Eds) Encyclopedia
of Activism and Social Justice. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
McCowan, T. (2005) Review of L. Neves (ed.) (2004) „Reforma Universitária do Governo
Lula: Reflexões para o Debate‟. Education Review, May 2005.
McCowan, T. (2004) Breaking with the past: gender equality and the Landless People's
Movement, Brazil. Equals. Newsletter for Beyond Access: gender, education and
development. Issue 8, September, 5-6.
McCowan, T. (2004) Shopping for Degrees – Latin America‟s New Private Universities.
Hemispheric Secretariat on Education Newsletter, no.2, March, 16-19.