Academy Fellow

TOM O'DONOGHUE is Professor of Education in the Graduate School of Education, the University of Western Australia. He is also an elected fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He specialises in the history of education in the English-speaking world, with particular reference to the history of teachers and the process of education in faith-based schools.

Another strand in his work is concerned with examining the historical antecedents of various contemporary educational issues. His work is distinguished methodologically by the way in which it is informed by theoretical perspectives from the social sciences, especially those clustered under the label of 'interpretivist sociology'.

He is a former President of the Australian and New Zealand History of Education Society.

He is also an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of the Professions at the University of Adelaide.

Fellowships, Honorary Memberships

• Fellow of the Royal Historical Society;
• Adjunct Professor, Faculty of the Professions, University of Adelaide (2010 - 2014 );
• Adjunct Professor, The University of the Sunshine Coast, Qld (2007 - 2009);
• Visiting Professor, Divine Word University, Madang, PNG (2000 - 2009);
• President of the Australian and New Zealand History of Education Society (2002 & 2003
• Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Education, Australian Catholic University (2016 -

BOOKS

O’Donoghue, T. (2024) The Development of University Teaching Over Time (London: Routledge). 

O’Donoghue, T. and Mortimer, J. (2024) Teacher Preparation in Papua New Guinea: Past and Present (Biggley, UK: Emerald Publishing).

O’Doherty, T., O’Connor, L., and O’Donoghue, T. (2024) P. W. Joyce: Pioneering Educationist who Contributed to the Shaping of the Emerging Irish Nation (London, Palgrave Macmillan).

O’Donoghue, T. and Harford, J. (2021) Piety and Privilege. Catholic Secondary Schooling in Ireland and the Theocratic State, 1922-67 (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

O’Doherty, T. and O’Donoghue, T. (2021) Radical Reform in Irish Schools, 1900-1921: The ‘New Education’ Turn (London: Palgrave Macmillan).

Mortimer, J. and O’Donoghue, T. (2021) The Making of Geography as a Secondary School Subject: A Perspective from Australia (Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press).

Harford, J. and O’Donoghue, T. (eds.) (2020) A Cultural History of Education in the Modern Age: 1920 to the Present (London: Bloomsbury).

Rakovic. J., O’Donoghue, T. and Clarke, S. (2019) Leaders and Leadership in Serbian Primary Schools: Perspectives Across Two Worlds (London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan).

O’Donoghue, T. and Clarke, S (eds.) (2019) New Directions in Research on Education Reconstruction in Challenging Circumstances (Ontario, Queen’s University Open Monograph Series: The Theory and History of Education International Research Group, 2019).

O’Donoghue, T. and Clarke, S (eds.) (2019) New Directions in Research on Education Reconstruction in Challenging Circumstances (Ontario, Queen’s University Open Monograph Series: The Theory and History of Education International Research Group, 2019).

O’Donoghue, T. and O’Doherty, T. (2019) Irish Speakers and Schooling in the Gaeltacht, 1900 to the Present (London: Palgrave Macmillan).

O’Donoghue, T. and Moore, K. (2018) Teacher Preparation in Australia: History, Policy and Future Directions (Biggley, UK: Emerald Publishing)

O’Donoghue, T. (2018) Planning Your Qualitative Research Thesis and Project: An Introduction to Interpretivist Research in Education and the Social Sciences (London: Routledge).

Kheang. T., O’Donoghue, T. and Clarke, S. (2018) Primary School Leadership in Cambodia: Time Present and Time Past (London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan)

O’Donoghue, T., Harford, J. and O’Doherty, T. (2017) Teacher Preparation in Ireland: History, Policy and Future Directions (Biggley, UK: Emerald Publishing) (9781787145122).

Karareba, G., Clarke, S., and O’Donoghue, T. (2017) Primary School Leadership in Post-conflict Rwanda : A Narrative Arc (London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan)

O’Donoghue, T. (2017) Understanding Contemporary Education: Key Themes and Issues (London: Routledge) (97811386725 - 5).

O’Donoghue, T. and Harford, J. (2016) Secondary School Education in Ireland: History, Memories and Life Stories, 1922-1967 (London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan).

Clarke, S. and O’Donoghue, T. (2016) School Leadership in Diverse Contexts (London: Routledge).

Zuniga, C.G., O’Donoghue, T., and Clarke, S. (2015) A Study of the Secondary School History Curriculum in Chile from Colonial Times to the Present (Rotterdam: Sense Publishers) (ISBN: 9789462099241).

Ledger, S., Vidovich, L. and O’Donoghue, T. (2014) Global to Local: Curriculum Policy proceses: The Enactment of the International Baccalaureat in Remote International Schools (The Netherlands: Springer) (ISBN 978-3-319-08762-7).

Shine, K. and O’Donoghue, T. (2013) Schoolteachers in the News (New York: Cambria Press).

O'Donoghue, T. & Clarke, S.(eds.)(2013). School Leadership in Post-conflict Societies: The Importance of Context (London: Routledge).

O’Donoghue, T. (2012). Catholic Teaching Brothers: Their Life in the English-speaking World, 1891-1965. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Lopes, E., O’Donoghue, T. and O’Neill, M. (2011). The Education of Children in Geographically Remote Regions through Distance Education: Perspectives and Lessons from Australia. North Carolina: Information Age Publishing.

O’Donoghue, T.A. and Clarke, S. (2010). Leading Learning: Process, Themes and Issues in International Perspective. London: Routledge.

O’Donoghue, T.A. (2007). Planning Your Qualitative Research Project: A Beginner’s Guide to Research in Education. London: Routledge.

O’Donoghue, T.A. (2004). Come Follow Me and Forsake Temptation: Catholic Schooling and the Recruitment and Retention of Teachers for Religious Teaching Orders,1922-65. Bern: Peter Lang.

O’Donoghue, T.A. and Punch, K. (eds) (2003). Qualitative Educational Research in Action. London: RoutledgeFalmer.

O’Donoghue, T.A. (2001). Upholding the Faith: The Process of Education in Catholic Schools in Australia, 1922-65. New York: Peter Lang.

O’Donoghue, T.A. (1999). The Catholic Church and the Secondary School Curriculum in Ireland, 1922-62.

New York: Peter Lang.

O’Donoghue, T.A. and Dimmock, C.A.J. (1998). School Restructuring: International Perspectives. London: Kogan Page.

Dimmock, C.A.J. and O’Donoghue, T.A. (1997). Innovative School Principals and Restructuring: Life History

Portraits of Successful Managers of Change. London: Routledge.