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Dr. Frank Hutchinson is currently a Senior Lecturer at the University of Western Sydney, Australia; a councillor of the Peace Education Commission, International Peace Research Association ,and a member of the World Futures Studies Federation.  Previously, he has worked as a curriculum consultant at both the primary and secondary school levels in the areas of social literacy,human rights and alternatives to violence.  

His main research and teaching interests relate to issues of peaceful pedogogies,future generation studies, and non-violent social change. He did his PhD on the topic Futures Consciousness and the School (University of New England, Australia, 1993).  He is the author or contributing author of several books on peace education, human rights education, anti-racism education and futures education.  These works include: People,Problems and Planet Earth (Melbourne: Macmillan, 1982, 2nd edition 1986), Educating for

Peace (Canberra: Curriculum Development Centre, 1986), Educating for a Fairer Future (Sydney: Geography Teachers' Association & WDTC, 1988), Our Planet and Its People (Melbourne: Macmillan, 1992), Education Beyond Hatred and Fatalism (Malmö, Sweden: School of Education, Lund University, 1994), New Thinking for a New Millennium (London: Routledge, 1996), Educating Beyond Violent Futures  (London: Routledge, 1996), World Yearbook of Education: Futures education (London: Kogan Page, 1998), Peace Education: context and values, Leece: UNESCO & Pensa Multi Media, 1999), and Peace Studies from a Global Persective: human needs in a cooperative world(Delhi: Maadhyam, 2000). Among his forthcoming works are an open-learning module for post-secondary students on inter-cultural mapping and pathways to reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians (Sydney:

OTEN/ Technical and Further Education); contributing authorship to a volume on young people's anticipations of the future (Bergin and Garvey. Greenwood publishing Group, Westport, Connecticut), and entries on Mahatma Gandhi, Kenneth Boulding and Johan Galtung for the International Encyclopaedia of Political Economy (London:Routledge).

  Dr Frank Hutchinson School of Sociology and Justice Studies University of Western Sydney Hawkesbury Campus Locked Bag 1797 South Penrith Distribution Centre NSW 1797 Australia  Tel: +61 2 4570 1963 Fax: +61 2 4570 1531 email: f.hutchinson@uws.edu.au