Published Papers
Tierney, R. J. (2020) Notes on global reading: critical cultural traversals, transactions and transformations. In Lauren Ila Misiaszek (Ed.) Exploring the Complexities in Global Citizenship Education: Hard Spaces, Methodologies, and Ethics. [Pp. 36-68). New York: Routledge. https://www.academia.edu/40450420/Notes_on_global_reading_critical_cultural_traversals_transactions_and_transformations.
Tierney, R. J. (2018) Toward a model of global meaning making. Journal of Literacy Research, 50, 4 . 1–26. https://doi.org/10.1177/1086296X18803134; https://independent.academia.edu/RobTierney/Papers
Tierney, R. J. (2018) Global educational research in western times: the rise and plight of China. Frontiers of Education in China, 13: 2,163-192. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11516-018-0010-4https://www.academia.edu/37171936/Global_Educational_Research_in_Western_Times_The_Rise_and_Plight_of_Chinese_Educational_Research
Tierney, R. J. (2017) Multitopia: global citizenship across diverse spaces. Global Commons Review, I, Paulo Freire Institute-UCLA and the UNESCO-UCLA Chair in Global Learning and Global Citizenship Education, 75-81. https://independent.academia.edu/RobTierney/Papers
Tierney, R. J. (2017) Populism and literacy consciousness in uncertain global times. Journal of Literacy Research, Insights column, 4-7.https://independent.academia.edu/RobTierney/Papers
Tierney, R. J., & Wei, K. (2016) Knowledge mobilization within and across the People’s Republic of China and the United States: A cross-national study of internationalization of educational research. American Educational Research Journal December 2016, Vol. 53, No. 6, pp. 1759–1791 DOI: 10.3102/0002831216678320 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.3102/0002831216678320
Tierney, R. J. (2012). Changing histories changing literacies: making the case for Nigeria. In O. Emejulu & I Isiugo-Abanihe. (Ed.) Cross-disciplinary perspectives in literacy and language studies. Vol. 1 International Deployment Committee for Africa, IRA and Africa-Link Books, Owerri Nigeria (pp. 1-10). Location + Publisher?
Hoffman, J. V., Rogers, T, Sailors, M. & Tierney, R.J. (2011) Multilingual practices, critical literacies, and visual culture: a focus on African Contexts. Reading Research Quarterly, 46(4) 389-398.
Tierney, R. J. (2006). Global/cultural teachers creating possibilities: reading worlds, reading selves and learning to teach. Pedagogies, (inaugural issue of journal) published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. pp. 77-87. https://independent.academia.edu/RobTierney/Papers
Teasdale, R., Tierney, R. J., Ames, W., & Wray, R. (1978). A cross-cultural comparison of item analysis data on the Revised ITPA. Australian Psychologist, 3, 391-399.
Tierney, R. J. (1976). A comparison of Australian and American reading teachers. In J. E. Merritt (Ed.), New Horizons in Reading (pp. 537-549). Newark, DE: International Reading Association.
Monographs & Reports
Tierney, R. J., Arua, A., Moanakwena, P. G., Rogers, T., & Lenters, K. (2005). Improving the quality of literacy learning in the content areas: situational analysis of secondary level education in Botswana, International Reading Association and UNESCO Section for General Secondary, Technical and Vocational Education. https://independent.academia.edu/RobTierney/Papers
Presentations at National & International Meetings
Tierney, R. J. (2018) Imagining and Realizing a New Paradigm for China’s Educational Future. Keynote address at the International Conference on “Ideas and action for educational excellence”at Nanjing Normal University, September 23. 2018.
Tierney, R. J. (2018) Shifting our research toward epistemological eclecticism built upon critical, decolonizing, indigenizing, ethical and transformative parameters. Workshop presentation for University of Calgary, Queensland Institute of Technology, Beijing Normal University, November 9, 2018
Tierney, R. J. (2018) Contemporary educational research: toward global eclecticism. Minzu University, Beijing, November 19, 2018.
Morgan, R. V & Tierney, R. J. (2018) Finding our way cross-culturally: educators walking within working with and for Indigenous communities. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association Annual meeting, New York; April 14, 2018.
Tierney, R.J. (2018)Searching for Epistemological and Educational Multitopia. Invited Meadows Chair Lecture, North Texas University, Dallas February 27, 2018.
Tierney, R. J. (2018) Global Competition and Universalism in Educational Research, Thinking, and Practice. Invited address North Texas University, Dallas, February 28, 2018.
Tierney, R. J. (2017) Global educational research in western times: the rise and plight of Chinese educational research. Paper presented at Beijing Normal University, December, 2017.
Tierney, R.J. (2018) Searching for Epistemological and Educational Multitopia. Invited Meadows Chair Lecture, North Texas University, Dallas February 27, 2018.
Tierney, R. J. (2018) Global Competition and Universalism in Educational Research, Thinking, and Practice. Invited address North Texas University, Dallas, February 28, 2018.
Tierney, R. J. (2017) Global educational research in western times: the rise and plight of Chinese educational research. Paper presented at Beijing Normal University, December, 2017.
Kan, Wei & Tierney, R. J. (2017) Beyond western empiricism to global eclecticism in educational research Paper presented at the World Educational Research Meeting, Hong Kong, December 1, 2017.
Tierney, R. J. (2017) Global Compliance and the Challenges of Internationalizing Educational Research in the Age of the Western Empire Building. Paper presented at Sixth Worldwide Forum for Comparative Education, Beijing Normal University, September 24, 2017.
Tierney, R. J. (2017) Comparative educational research: in search of an ethical compass. Paper presented at Sixth Worldwide Forum for Comparative Education, Beijing Normal University, September 23, 2017.
Tierney, R. J. (2017) Internationalization of collaborative inquiry across time and space zones for teaching and learning: interculturalidad traverses, ethical praxis, the body politic. Paper presented at Third Global Summit of Teacher Education, Beijing Normal University, October 15, 2017.
Tierney, R. J. (2017) Rediscovering our worlds: readers as situated participants, reflexive responders, respectful entrepreneurs, discerning critics, creative artists and cultural advocates. Keynote presentation to Tenth Pan-African Literacy conference, Abuja, Nigeria, August, 28, 2017.
Tierney, R. J. & Smith, G. (2017) Internationalization of the Literacy Research association. Workshop given to the Literacy Research Association Board, San Antonio, April 26, 2017.
Tierney, R. J. (2016). Cross national research: the shaping of epistemologies and ethics. XVI World Congress of Comparative Education Societies Beijing, August 2016.
Tierney, R. J. (2016). Ethics in international contexts – processes, procedures and cultural considerations. Literacy Research Association Annual meeting, Nashville Tennesee, November 30, 2016.
Tierney, R. J., Xiang, Ran, Kan, W. (2016) Western Epistemology and Global Literacy Research: a Decade of Literacy Research in the United States. Paper presented at the Literacy Research Association Annual Meeting, Nashville, Tennessee. November 30, 2016. https://www.academia.edu/30717654/Western_Epistemology_and_Global_Literacy_Research_a_Decade_of_Literacy_Research_in_the_United_States
Tierney, R. J. (2016). Unpacking Ethical Chasms: The Guise of Global Educational Empowerment and Internationalization. Paper presented at World Educational Research Association/American Educational Research Association joint meeting, Washington DC. April 9, 2016. In conjunction with the symposium Border Crossings and Ethical Praxis: Global Educational Pursuits Within and Across Cultures Sat, April 9, 2016.
Tierney, R. J. (2015). Ideologies of research: Respecting others; seeing and positioning self. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Literacy Research Association, Carlsbad, California. December 2015.
Tierney, R. J. & Kan, Wei. (2015). The shaping of educational scholarship at a time of heightened globalization: turning the mirror on insularity, ignorance, arrogance and collusion. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Literacy Research Association, Carlsbad, California. December 2015.
Tierney, R. J. & Kan, Wei. (2014). Confronting global knowledges: Chinese and US educational researchers in the 21st century. Paper presented at World Educational Research Association, Edinburgh, Scotland, November 21, 2014.
Tierney, R. J. (2014). Striving to become a leading University and Faculty of Education: Lessons from different countries. Paper presented at the Fifth Anniversary of the Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, June 28, 2014.
Tierney, R. J. (2014). Cross-national educational research and the changing knowledge economies: global convergence, local divergence and transformation within China, North America and the Pacific. Paper presented at Tri-nation education conference on Internationalization in Education at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, March 30, 2014. https://www.academia.edu/RobTierney/Papers
Tierney, R. J. (2010) Beyond the paradoxes with cross-border pursuits. Paper presented at the Hawaii International Conference on Education, January, 2010 Honolulu
Tierney, R. J. (2009) Global issues: multi-directional forces and tensions. Invited presentation U 21 Education meeting/ American Educational Research Association. April 20, 2009 San Diego.
Tierney, R. J. (1988). Cross-national perspectives on the state of reading research. Address presented at the Twelfth World Congress on Reading, Queensland, Australia.
Tierney, R. J. (1976). Directions for Australian and American reading instruction. Paper presented at Sixth World Congress on Reading, Singapore.
Tierney, R. J. (1974). A comparative perspective: Australian and American reading teachers. Paper presented at the Fifth World Congress on Reading, International Reading Association, Vienna, Austria.
Tierney, R. J. (1974). The generalizability of psycholinguistics research to other English-speaking cultures. Paper presented at the Nineteenth Annual Convention, International Reading Association, New Orleans, Louisiana. Published in ERIC-CRIER ed. 092 917.
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