Skip to content

Dr Aaron Teo

Dr Aaron Teo
Name Aaron Teo
Pronoun He/Him/His
Position Lecturer (Curriculum and Pedagogy)
Section School of Education and Creative Arts
Office SF A215 E
Location Springfield Campus
Phone +61 7 3470 4007
Extension 4007
Email
Qualifications BA University of Queensland , BBusMgt University of Queensland , GDipEd University of Queensland , PhD University of Queensland

Biography

Dr Aaron Teo is a Singaporean Chinese first generation migrant settler living on unceded Jagera and Turrbal lands. He is a Critical Sociologist of Education working as a Lecturer in Curriculum and Pedagogy at the University of Southern Queensland's School of Education and Creative Arts. Aaron was part of the Australian Human Rights Commission's (AHRC) Racism@Uni Advisory Committee, and is currently on the AHRC Anti-Racism Education Reference Group and the Australian Association for Research in Education's (AARE) Research Development Advisory Committee. He is Editor for the journal, Critical Studies in Education, Convenor for the AARE Social Justice Special Interest Group, and Queensland Convenor for the Asian Australian Alliance. Aaron has won multiple national awards for education research, and is the 2026 Bonn International Fellow, and State Library of Queensland's 2024 John Oxley Honorary Fellow. His research focusses on the raced and gendered subjectivities of migrant 'Asian' stakeholders in the Australian (education) context, critical 'Asia literacy', as well as critical pedagogies in white Australian (university and school) classroom spaces. Aaron interrogates experiences at the nexus of migration, racism, sexism, and multiculturalism, and is looking forward to sharing four forthcoming books in this space - two solo-authored works titled: Storying migrant Asian teacher racialisation in Australian schools: A critical autoethnographic re-membering (Springer), and Asian Australian Student Teacher Mobility and the Overwhelming Whiteness of Australian Education (Routledge) respectively; one co-authored collaboration titled: Asian Australian Racialisation and Approaches to Anti-Racism: Traces, Tropes, and Trajectories (Palgrave); and a co-edited project with Tisha Dejmanee and Ien Ang titled: Asian Australian Cultural Politics in Education: Local and global perspectives on Asian racialisation and anti-Asian racism (Routledge).

Research Career


  • Curriculum And Pedagogy ( 390100 )
  • Specialist Studies In Education ( 390400 )
  • Education Policy ( 390200 )
  • Sociology Of Education ( 390203 )
  • Curriculum And Pedagogy not elsewhere classified ( 390199 )
  • Specialist Studies In Education not elsewhere classified ( 390499 )

Race, (Asian) racialisation, (anti-Asian) racism; Masculinities; Critical Pedagogies; Settler/post-coloniality; Qualitative Methodologies


Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE)
Critical Race Studies in Education Association (CRSEA)
Queensland College of Teachers (QCT)


Business Educators' Association of Queensland (BEAQ)


  • Centre for Heritage and Culture (CHC)

Teaching


10 Years