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