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Dr Tony Carusi BA, MA, PhD

Senior Lecturer in Educational Studies

Doctoral Supervisor
Institute of Education

As a Senior Lecturer of Educational Studies in the Institute of Education, my background in social theory and philosophy informs my research and teaching interests in education theory and policy analysis. My work looks at the commonsensical, unquestioned routines and practices within the field of education, from pedagogy to policy-making, and the historically-situated, discursive processes whereby these routines and practices persist, particularly involving those processes that appear natural in spite of critical resistance efforts. 

Professional

Contact details

  • Ph: 0800 627 739 ext. 84316
    Location: Room CV 2.02, Collinson Village
    Campus: Turitea

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Arts - Emory University (1998)
  • Master of Arts - Boston College (2005)
  • Doctor of Philosophy - Georgia State University (2011)

Certifications and Registrations

  • Licence, Supervisor, Massey University

Research Expertise

Research Interests

Education policy

Sociology of Education

Educational Theory

Politics of Education

Rhetoric and Philosophy

Thematics

21st Century Citizenship, Resource Development and Management

Area of Expertise

Field of research codes
Education (130000):
Education Policy (160506):
Education Systems (130100):
History and Philosophy of Education (220202): History and Philosophy of Specific Fields (220200): History of Ideas (220209): History of Philosophy (220210): Philosophy And Religious Studies (220000):
Policy and Administration (160500): Social Theory (160806): Sociology (160800): Sociology of Education (160809): Studies In Human Society (160000)

Research Projects

Summary of Research Projects

Position Current Completed
Project Leader 0 1

Research Outputs

Journal

Carusi, FT. (2022). Symposium Introduction: The Politics of Educational Instrumentalism. Educational Theory. 72(3), 281-286
[Journal article]Authored by: Carusi Jr, F.
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Carusi, FT. (2022). Refusing Teachers and the Politics of Instrumentalism in Educational Policy. Educational Theory. 72(3), 383-397
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Brennan, M., Carusi, T., Clarke, M., Heck, D., Heimans, S., Reid, JA., . . . Singh, P. (2022). What has been “missing” or “missed” over the last 50 years in APJTE?. Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education. 50(3), 233-248
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Carusi, FT. (2021). The ontological rhetorics of education policy: a non-instrumental theory. Journal of Education Policy. 36(2), 232-252
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Carusi, FT., Di Paolantonio, M., Hodgson, N., & Ramaekers, S. (2020). Doing Academia in “COVID-19 Times”. Antistasis an open Educational Journal. 10(3), Retrieved from https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/antistasis/article/view/31440
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Tony Carusi, F., & Szkudlarek, T. (2020). Education is society … and there is no society: The ontological turn of education. Policy Futures in Education. 18(7), 907-921
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Carusi, FT., & Niwa, T. (2020). Learning not to be poor: the impossible position of teachers in Aotearoa New Zealand education policy discourse. Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education. 48(1), 30-44
[Journal article]Authored by: Carusi Jr, F., Niwa, T.
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Carusi, FT. (2017). Why Bother Teaching? Despairing the Ethical Through Teaching that Does Not Follow. Studies in Philosophy and Education. 36(6), 633-645
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Carusi, FT., Rawlins, P., & Ashton, K. (2018). The ontological politics of evidence and policy enablement. Journal of Education Policy. 33(3), 343-360
[Journal article]Authored by: Ashton, K., Carusi Jr, F., Rawlins, P.
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Carusi, FA. (2014). Lost in conflation: An argument for the ambivalence of hegemony in educational studies. Critical Questions in Education. 5(1), 9-25 Retrieved from https://academyforeducationalstudies.org/journals/journal/
[Journal article]Authored by: Carusi Jr, F.
Carusi, FT. (2014). Book Review: C. Lubienski & Lubienski, S. (2014). The public school advantage: Why public schools outperform private schools. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press.. New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies. 49(1)
[Book Review]Authored by: Carusi Jr, F.
Carusi Jr, FA. (2014). Lost in Conflation: Reorienting the Concept of Hegemony in Educational Studies. Critical Questions in Education. 5(1), 9-25 Retrieved from http://education.missouristate.edu/AcadEd/default.htm
[Journal article]Authored by: Carusi Jr, F.
Carusi, T. (2010). Reconsidering Common Sense: Vico and Education. Philosophy of Education Yearbook. , 168-176
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Book

Carusi, FA. (2016). Social imaginaries and schooling. In . Michael A. Peters (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory. (pp. 1 - 6). : Springer
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Carusi, FT. (2013). Dyst(r)opia: The Tropological Operations of Dystopia and Education Policy. In Dystopia and Education. (pp. 51 - 67). : Information Age Publishing
[Chapter]Authored by: Carusi Jr, F.
Boyles, D., Carusi, T., & Attick, D. (2009). Historical and critical interpretations of social justice. In W. Ayers, T. Quinn, & D. Stovall (Eds.) Handbook of social justice in education. (pp. 30 - 42). : Taylor & Francis
[Chapter]Authored by: Carusi Jr, F.

Thesis

Carusi, FT. (2011). The Persistence of Policy: A Tropological Analysis of Contemporary Education Policy Discourse in the United States. (Doctoral Thesis)
[Doctoral Thesis]Authored by: Carusi Jr, F.

Report

Rawlins, P., Ashton, K., Carusi, T., & Lewis, E. (2015). Investing in educational success: An investigation of the evidence base.
[Commissioned Report]Authored by: Ashton, K., Carusi Jr, F., Rawlins, P.
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Conference

Carusi Jr, F.Failure is not an option: A Topology of Education’s Impossibility.. . Maynooth University
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Carusi Jr, F.
Carusi Jr, F.Refusing teachers and the politics of instrumentalism in education policy. . Maynooth, Ireland
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Carusi Jr, F.
Carusi Jr, F., & Szkudlarek, T.Adorno and Laclau: How Can Negative Dialectic Contribute to the Theory of Hegemony?. . Rome, Italy
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Carusi Jr, F.
Carusi, FA.What are teachers for? The politics of instrumentalism in education policy. . University of Gdansk
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Carusi Jr, F.
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Carusi, FA.Ironies of enactment: Investing in educational success as a limit case for policy enactment. . Wellington, New Zealand
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Carusi, FA.The ontological turn in education policy studies: Ontological politics and policy ontology. . Warsaw, Poland
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Carusi Jr, F.
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Carusi, FA.What ethical teaching? why bother?. . Warsaw, Poland
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Carusi, ., Wolgemuth, JR., Green, S., Agosto, V., Kearby, J., Riley, M., . . . Romano, J. (2015, April). It'll be more of the same, just worse: Dystopian future(s) of education assessment. Presented at American Educational Research Association 2015 Annual Meeting. Chicago, Illinois, USA.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Carusi Jr, F.
Carusi Jr, FA.Hegemonic Horizon/Queer Horizon: Politics of the Constitutive Outside.
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Carusi Jr, F.
Carusi Jr, FA.From Part to Whole and Back Again: The Role of Synecdoche in the Persistence of Policy.
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Carusi Jr, F.
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Carusi Jr, FA. (2013, April). Dyst(r)opia: A Tropological Argument for Dystopia in Education. Presented at American Educational Research Association
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Backer, D., Biesta, G., Boyles, D., Carusi Jr, FA., Eastman, N., & Seltzer-Kelly, D. (2012, March). A Philosophy of Education Situated in the World. Presented at Philosophy of Education Society
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Carusi Jr, F.
Carusi Jr, FA., & Baez, B. (2012, February). The Political Right: Mourning, Melancholia, and the Death of the Public. Presented at 64th Southeast Philosophy of Education Society. University of Alabama, Birmingham.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Carusi Jr, F.
Carusi Jr, FA., & Seltzer-Kelly, D.It’s What, not How You Say It: ‘Accountability and Assessment,’ Now We Can Teach.
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Other

Carusi Jr, F. (2019, November). Failure is not an option: A topology of education's impossibility. In Maynooth University Centre for Public Education and Pedagogy.
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Teaching and Supervision

Contact Supervisor

Summary of Doctoral Supervision

Position Current Completed
Main Supervisor 2 0
Co-supervisor 1 2

Current Doctoral Supervision

Main Supervisor of:

  • Daniel Kusnierik - Doctor of Philosophy
    Function of Arts in Education in Relation to the Potential of Social Change
  • Melanie Grey - Doctor of Philosophy
    The Use Of Te Whare Tapa Wha Within New Zealand Counselling Contexts

Co-supervisor of:

  • Leanne Romana - Doctor of Philosophy
    How, when and where do we belong? Exploring teacher perspectives of belonging from lived experience

Completed Doctoral Supervision

Co-supervisor of:

  • 2022 - Timu-O-Te-Rangi Niwa - Doctor of Education
    Problematizing Māori Achievement in Education Policy: An Exploratory Mixed-Methods Study on Teacher Enactment of Ka Hikitia
  • 2021 - Anne-Marie O'Neill - Doctor of Philosophy
    A genealogical examination of curriculum-assessment as governmentality in Aotearoa New Zealand

Media and Links

Media

  • 30 Jan 2014 - Magazine
    The Listener
    Interview on NZ and US Education Policy