About
Tom G. Griffiths is a Professor of International Education and Development. Tom’s research has two inter-related trajectories: 1) the development of world-systems analysis as a theoretical framework for engaged educational research, and 2) the study of the relationship between models of mass education and (historical, current, future) socialist projects, informed by this framework. Throughout, Tom’s research has sought to explore education's potential contribution, via the preparation of engaged citizens, to the construction of a more democratic, equal, just, peaceful, and ecologically sustainable world-system.
Field of study
Socialism Critical pedagogy Critical theory
Research groups
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Svarstad, Hanne
; Jornet, Alfredo; Peters, Glen Philip;
Griffiths, Tom G.
; Benjaminsen, Tor A
(2023).
Critical climate education is crucial for fast and just transformations.
Nature Climate Change.
Vol. 13.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-023-01875-2
Griffiths, Tom G.
; Starnawski, Marcin
(2022).
World-Systems Analysis.
Tierney, Rob; Rizvi, Fazal; Ercikan, Kadriye (Ed.).
International Encyclopedia of Education. p. 19-28.
Elsevier.
https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-818630-5.01003-4
Griffiths, Tom G.
; Cardona, Euridice T. Charon
(2022).
Cuban education in the Cold War National independence within international socialism.
Tröhler, Daniel; Piattoeva, Nelli; Pinar, William F. (Ed.).
World Yearbook of Education 2022: Education, Schooling and the Global Universalization of Nationalism. p. 201-217.
Routledge.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003137801
Griffiths, Tom G.
(2022).
World-Systems Critical Education.
Maisuria, Alpesh (Ed.).
Encyclopaedia of Marxism and Education. p. 661-672.
De Gruyter Brill.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3262223
Starnawski, Marcin;
Griffiths, Tom G.
(2022).
World-systems analysis and curriculum theory.
Tierney, Rob; Rizvi, Fazal; Ercikan, Kadriye (Ed.).
International Encyclopedia of Education. p. 96-104.
Elsevier.
https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-818630-5.03017-7
Griffiths, Tom G.
(2022).
Educación y la transformación del sistema-mundo capitalista.
González, Aldo Ocampo (Ed.).
p. 54-65.
Ediciones CELEI.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4050649
Griffiths, Tom G.
; Robertson, Bill
(2021).
Employability.
Themelis, Spyros (Ed.).
Critical Reflections on the Language of Neoliberalism in Education: Dangerous Words and Discourses of Possibility. p. 100-106.
Routledge.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003111580
Griffiths, Tom G.
; Williams, Joanne
(2021).
Utopia.
Themelis, Spyros (Ed.).
Critical Reflections on the Language of Neoliberalism in Education: Dangerous Words and Discourses of Possibility. p. 136-143.
Routledge.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003111580
Griffiths, Tom G.
(2021).
Dependency Theory and world-systems Analysis in Comparative and International Education: Critical Accounts of Education and Development.
Jules, Tavis D.; Shields, Robin; Thomas, Matthew A. M. (Ed.).
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Theory in Comparative and International Education. p. 87-104.
Bloomsbury Academic.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3765286
Griffiths, Tom G.
(2020).
Education under and for Socialism: What Hope Progress?.
Miethe, Ingrid; Weiss, Jane (Ed.).
Socialist Educational Cooperation and the Global South. p. 273-296.
Peter Lang Publishing Group.
https://doi.org/10.3726/b17544
