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Dr Kathleen Mahon

Senior Lecturer

Institute for Teaching and Learning Innovation
k.mahon@uq.edu.au
+61 7 344 31380

Overview

Dr Kathleen Mahon is a Senior Lecturer, Higher Education, at the University of Queensland. Kathleen’s main research areas are higher education pedagogy and the professional learning of university teachers and leaders. She is particularly interested in how the university environment affects teaching and learning and educational leadership in higher education, and how sustainable and sustaining conditions can be promoted. Much of her work is centred on the notions of praxis and praxis-oriented pedagogy, and the challenges and possibilities for both in today's universities. Her interest in praxis has stemmed from concerns she has, after over thirty years as an educator, that there is still much work to be done to ensure that educational institutions live up to their own good intentions. Since completing her PhD on critical pedagogical praxis in higher education in 2014, Kathleen has become known internationally for her work on both educational praxis and practice theory, with her co-authored publications on the theory of practice architectures being particularly widely cited.

Kathleen is a co-founding Senior Editor of the international journal, Journal of Praxis in Higher Education, and a member of the Editorial Board for the Journal for Experiential Education. She is also a member of the Pedagogy, Education and Praxis (PEP) international collaborative research network, which includes scholars from universities in Australia, Sweden, Norway, Finland, the Netherlands, Colombia, and New Zealand.

Kathleen is a Docent (Associate Professor) at the University of Boras, in Sweden, where she has been working as an academic developer since 2016. Her research and university teaching is grounded in many years of teaching and leading in secondary schools in Queensland and the Northern Territory, and outdoor education centers in Queensland, Australia. Kathleen currently supervises PhD doctoral candidates in Sweden and Uganda.

Research Interests

  • Professional learning of university teachers
    How university teachers develop professionally in and through practice, academic communities, and professional learning programs; what enables and constrains university educator professional learning; and how professional learning can best be supported and nurtured in an academic environment.
  • Educational praxis
    How educational praxis conceptualised, realised, and nurtured in educational settings, especially universities.
  • Practice theory and its use in educational research
    How practice theory, and particularly the theory of practice architectures (Kemmis et al. 2014), can be put to work to critically investigate educational practices and educational environments and contribute to their transformation.

Publications

  • Journal Article: Doctoral supervision as and for praxis

    Mahon, Kathleen (2023). Doctoral supervision as and for praxis. Journal of Praxis in Higher Education, 5 (2), 118-139. doi: 10.47989/kpdc318

  • Journal Article: Praxis perspectives on doctoral supervision from across disciplines

    Rouse, Rebecca, Kalckert, Andreas and Mahon, Kathleen (2023). Praxis perspectives on doctoral supervision from across disciplines. Journal of Praxis in Higher Education, 5 (2), 1-11. doi: 10.47989/kpdc528

  • Book Chapter: Finding worlds worth living in

    Kemmis, Stephen and Mahon, Kathleen (2023). Finding worlds worth living in. Living Well in a World Worth Living in for All: Volume 1: Current Practices of Social Justice, Sustainability and Wellbeing. (pp. 225-233) edited by Kristin Elaine Reimer, Mervi Kaukko, Sally Windsor, Kathleen Mahon and Stephen Kemmis. Singapore: Springer Singapore. doi: 10.1007/978-981-19-7985-9_13

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  • Finding worlds worth living in

    Kemmis, Stephen and Mahon, Kathleen (2023). Finding worlds worth living in. Living Well in a World Worth Living in for All: Volume 1: Current Practices of Social Justice, Sustainability and Wellbeing. (pp. 225-233) edited by Kristin Elaine Reimer, Mervi Kaukko, Sally Windsor, Kathleen Mahon and Stephen Kemmis. Singapore: Springer Singapore. doi: 10.1007/978-981-19-7985-9_13

  • “Neoliberalised” (human) bodies and implications for professional education

    Mahon, Kathleen (2021). “Neoliberalised” (human) bodies and implications for professional education. Embodiment and professional education: body, practice, pedagogy. (pp. 213-228) edited by Stephen Loftus and Elizabeth Anne Kinsella. Singapore: Springer Singapore. doi: 10.1007/978-981-16-4827-4_15

  • Education for a world worth living In

    Kaukko, Mervi, Francisco, Susanne and Mahon, Kathleen (2020). Education for a world worth living In. Pedagogy, education, and praxis in critical times. (pp. 1-13) edited by Kathleen Mahon, Christine Edwards-Groves, Susanne Francisco, Mervi Kaukko, Stephen Kemmis and Kirsten Petrie. Singapore: Springer Singapore. doi: 10.1007/978-981-15-6926-5_1

  • Leading as shared transformative educational practice

    Edwards-Groves, Christine, Wilkinson, Jane and Mahon, Kathleen (2020). Leading as shared transformative educational practice. Pedagogy, education, and praxis in critical times. (pp. 117-140) edited by Kathleen Mahon, Christine Edwards-Groves, Susanne Francisco, Mervi Kaukko, Stephen Kemmis and Kirsten Petrie. Singapore: Springer Singapore. doi: 10.1007/978-981-15-6926-5_6

  • Preface

    Mahon, Kathleen, Edwards-Groves, Christine, Francisco, Susanne, Kaukko, Mervi, Kemmis, Stephen and Petrie, Kirsten (2020). Preface. Pedagogy, Education, and Praxis in Critical Times. (pp. v-vii) Singapore: Springer.

  • What is educational praxis?

    Mahon, Kathleen, Heikkinen, Hannu L. T., Huttunen, Rauno, Boyle, Tess and Sjølie, Ela (2020). What is educational praxis?. Pedagogy, education, and praxis in critical times. (pp. 15-38) edited by Kathleen Mahon, Christine Edwards-Groves, Susanne Francisco, Mervi Kaukko, Stephen Kemmis and Kirsten Petrie. Singapore: Springer Singapore. doi: 10.1007/978-981-15-6926-5_2

  • Practice Architectures and Being Stirred into Academic Practices of a Research Group

    Mahon, Kathleen, Francisco, Susanne and Lloyd, Annemaree (2018). Practice Architectures and Being Stirred into Academic Practices of a Research Group. Education in an Era of Schooling. (pp. 167-181) Singapore: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-981-13-2053-8_12

  • Practice architectures of university education

    Kemmis, Stephen and Mahon, Kathleen (2017). Practice architectures of university education. Practice theory perspectives on pedagogy and education: praxis, diversity and contestation. (pp. 107-141) edited by Peter Grootenboer, Christine Edwards-Groves and Sarojni Choy. Singapore: Springer Singapore. doi: 10.1007/978-981-10-3130-4_6

  • Transforming Education and Professional Practice

    Francisco, Susanne, Mahon, Kathleen and Kemmis, Stephen (2016). Transforming Education and Professional Practice. Exploring Education and Professional Practice. (pp. 257-264) Singapore: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-981-10-2219-7_15

  • Coming to ‘practice architectures’: A genealogy of the theory

    Kemmis, Stephen and Mahon, Kathleen (2016). Coming to ‘practice architectures’: A genealogy of the theory. Exploring education and professional practice: through the lens of practice architectures: through the lens of practice architectures. (pp. 219-238) edited by Kathleen Mahon, Susanne Francisco and Stephen Kemmis. Singapore: Springer Singapore. doi: 10.1007/978-981-10-2219-7_13

  • Creating a niche for critical pedagogical praxis

    Mahon, Kathleen (2016). Creating a niche for critical pedagogical praxis. Positive psychology for positive pedagogical actions. (pp. 7-21) edited by Benjamin Zufiaurre and Maider Perez de Villarreal. Hauppauge, NY, United States: Nova Science Publishers.

  • Introduction: Practice theory and the theory of practice architectures

    Mahon, Kathleen, Kemmis, Stephen, Francisco, Susanne and Lloyd, Annemaree (2016). Introduction: Practice theory and the theory of practice architectures. Exploring education and professional practice: through the lens of practice architectures: through the lens of practice architectures. (pp. 1-30) edited by Kathleen Mahon, Susanne Francisco and Stephen Kemmis. Singapore: Springer Singapore. doi: 10.1007/978-981-10-2219-7_1

  • Provoking praxis amidst a faculty restructure: a practice architecture perspective

    Mahon, Kathleen and Galloway, Letitia (2016). Provoking praxis amidst a faculty restructure: a practice architecture perspective. Exploring education and professional practice: through the lens of practice architectures: through the lens of practice architectures. (pp. 183-199) edited by Kathleen Mahon, Susanne Francisco and Stephen Kemmis. Singapore: Springer Singapore. doi: 10.1007/978-981-10-2219-7_11

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