Dr Marcus Bussey
BA(Hons) W.Aust., DipEd Melb., BEd S.Qld., PhD USC.
Position: Lecturer in World History
Office: IC1.20
Tel: +61 7 5459 4889
Email: mbussey@usc.edu.au
Teaching areas
- World History
- Sustainable Futures
Research areas
- culture and history
- macrohistory and social change
- futures studies including educational futures, youth futures, sustainable futures, business futures, futures of the Arts
- social theory
- post-structuralism (focus on Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault and Judith Butler)
- post-colonialism (focus on Ashis Nandy, Ananta Kumar Giri, Ranajit Guha, Ziauddin Sardar and Vinay Lal)
- sustainability and adaptive capacity
Profile
Dr Marcus Bussey is an educator and futurist with more than 25 years experience. He has taught widely throughout Australia having spent 5 years at a yoga based neohumanist school, 4 years in an urban community school run by a parent cooperative, 7 years in Montessori primary and high schools, and 5 years at the University of the Sunshine Coast where he currently teaches world history.
He recently completed his PhD entitled Where next for Pedagogy: Critical agency in educational futures. He has presented papers on education, social change and community engagement in Taiwan, Croatia, Israel, India, Sweden and the US. In 2003, he completed a pilot study for the Queensland Department of Families as part of their project Queensland 2020: a State for All Ages. This included a stimulus paper and 20-minute video, both entitled Youth Voices: Young Queenslander’s Values in a Time of Structural Ageing.
Marcus teaches the World History courses in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of the Sunshine Coast. He is also a researcher involved with this University's Regional Sustainability Research Centre where he is conducting postdoctoral research as part of the South East Queensland Climate Adaptation Research Initiative.
Marcus is also an accomplished musician with 4 CDs to his credit and he uses the Suzuki method to teach classical guitar. He has authored over 50 articles, book chapters and an encyclopedia entry. He has co-edited both Neohumanist Educational Futures: Liberating the Pedagogical Intellect (Tamkang University Press: 2006) and Alternative Educational Futures: Pedagogies for Emergent Worlds (Sense Publishers, 2008) with Sohail Inayatullah and Ivana Milojevic, and co-authored Futures Thinking for Social Foresight with Richard Slaughter (2005). He is an associate of Prout College and a member of the Australian Association for Research in Education.
Professional memberships
- Queensland Suzuki Music Teachers Association
- Australian Association for Research in Education
- World Futures Study Federation
Publications
Many of Dr Marcus Bussey's publications are available from the COAST Research Database.
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