Professor Paul Dowling

  • Qualifications and position:
    • PhD, MA, BSc, ARCS, Dip.Ed
    • Professor of Education
    • Faculty Director of Postgraduate Research
  • Faculty:
    • Faculty of Children and Learning
  • Department:
    • Culture, Communications and Media
    • Faculty Central Administration
  • Summary:
    • I am a sociologist. My work involves the development and deployment of an organizational language—social activity method (SAM)—for the sociological description of pedagogic sites, texts and technologies in any context.
  • Teaching:
    • I teach various courses and sessions on the Doctoral School doctoral training programme.
  • Postgraduate Research:
    • Current doctoral students (including completions since 2004):

      Darryll Bravenboer (Successfully completed January 2009)
      The official discourse of Higher Education. (Co-supervised with Graham Haydon).

      Jeremy Burke
      An analysis of pedagogic texts in secondary mathematics and modern foreign languages.

      Soh-young Chung (Successfully completed August 2009)
      The Crafting of Crisis: a sociological analysis of the "cultural studies paradigm shift" in literary studies

      Rod Cunningham (EdD, successfully completed 2004)
      The application of a complexity model to the analysis and development of learning.

      Russell Dudley-Smith
      The (re)production of subjectivity in the activity (classifications (contestations of the public domain), interactions, and (recruitment of) texts (particularly textbooks, newspaper articles and ICT)) of development studies at secondary level.

      Jaamiah Galant (IOE Sub-Sahara Centenary scholarship)
      The production of university knowledge.

      Dermot Kelly
      The contextualising and recontextualising of management discourse.

      Colin McCarty
      The pedagogic use of computer games.

      Mary Rees (EdD)
      Teacher educators and professional confidence

      Natasha Whiteman (ESRC Studentship, successfully completed February 2007)
      The Establishment, Maintenance and Destabilisation of Fandom: A study of two online communities and an exploration of issues pertaining to internet research.'

      Yueh-lin Tu
      Young adults learning how to dress in Taiwan.
Professor Paul Dowling

Contact details

Contact details

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  • Address:
  • Culture, Communications and Media
    Institute of Education
    University of London
    20 Bedford Way
    London WC1H 0AL

  • Office Location:
  • Room 625
    20 Bedford Way, WC1H 0AL

Publications

  • Dowling, P.C. (2009) Sociology as Method: Departures from the forensics of culture, text and knowledge. Rotterdam: Sense.
  • Dowling, P.C. and Brown, A.J. (2010) Doing Research/Reading Research: Re-interrogating education (second edition). London: Routledge.
  • Dowling, P.C. (2007) 'Social Organising', Philosophy of Mathematics Education Journal 21, 1-27.
  • Dowling, P.C. (2007) 'Quixote's Science: Public heresy/private apostasy' In B. Atweh, A.C. Barton, M. Borba, N. Gough, C. Keitel, C. Vistro-Yu and R. Vithal (eds), Internationalisation and Globalisation in Mathematics and Science Education. Dordrecht: Springer.
  • Dowling, P.C. (2004) 'Language, Discourse, Literacy: Stability, territory and transformation' In M. Olssen (ed.), Culture and Learning: Access and Opportunity in the Curriculum. Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing.
  • Chung, S-y, Dowling, P.C. and Whiteman, N. (2004) '(Dis)possessing Literacy and Literature: Gourmandising in Gibsonbarlowville' In A. J. Brown and N. Davis, The World Yearbook of Education 2004: Digital Technology, Communities and Education. London: Routledge.
  • Dowling, P.C. (2001) 'School Mathematics in late modernity: Beyond myths and fragmentation' In B. Atweh, H. Forgasz and B Nebres, Socio-Cultural Research on Mathematics Education: An International Perspective. Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum.
  • Dowling, P.C. (2001) 'Reading School Mathematics Texts' In P. Gates (ed.), Issues in Mathematics Teaching. London: Routledge-Falmer.
  • Dowling, P.C. and Brown, A.J. (2000) 'A Grand Day Out: Towards a mode of interrogation of non-school pedagogic sites', The Curriculum Journal 22(2), 247-271.
  • Dowling, P.C. (1998) The Sociology of Mathematics Education: Mathematical Myths/Pedagogic Texts. London: Falmer.