The Freire Project

Andrew Hickey is a member of the Centre for Research in Transformative Pedagogy and Lecturer in Social Theory and Cultural Studies in the Faculty of Education, USQ. He has published in the areas of identity, representation politics, critical pedagogy and critical qualitative research methodologies and is the author of (Re)Presenting Education: students, teachers, schools and the public imagination (with Jon Austin) published by Pearson in 2006. Andrew is also a musician, plays in Blues-Rock bands and maintains a collection of Fender Stratocaster guitars. He co-founded a musicians collective for underprivileged youth prior to coming to university work, and takes an active interest in the ways that young people, communities and 'ordinary' people affect social betterment in the increasingly globalised and privatised locales of the contemporary.