Dr Max Antony-Newman PhD
Lecturer
Summary
As an educational researcher, I am working from a critical sociological perspective to uncover the hidden curriculum in education and show how the identities of culturally and linguistically diverse students, teachers and parents together with social institutions shape the process of education.
About
I am an educational researcher focusing on parental engagement, immigrant students, and linguistic minorities. My PHD research undertaken at the University of Toronto focused on the parental engagement of Eastern European immigrant parents in Canadian elementary schools through the Bourdieusian lens. This project aimed to explore how social and cultural capital of immigrant parents affects patterns of their engagement with children’s education and learning in the host country, and how the engagement of immigrant parents matches the expectations of their teachers and narratives expressed in policy documents. My work has been published in the British Journal of Sociology of Education, Curriculum Journal, School Community Journal, and Educational Review.
My teaching expertise is in the sociology of education with special emphasis on social justice, immigration, and social inequality. I worked with undergraduate and postgraduate students at the University of Toronto in 2017-2021 before coming to Sheffield Hallam University in 2022. Prior to joining academia, I taught ESL to linguistically and culturally diverse students in Canada and Europe for more than a decade and worked in language assessment and writing support in Toronto, Canada.
Teaching
Department of Education, Childhood and Inclusion
College of Social Sciences and Arts
Subject area:
- Education Studies
Courses:
- Education with Psychology and Counselling
Modules:
- Social In/Exclusion in Educational Contexts
Research
Parental engagement and family-school relationships in the COVID and post-COVID world, University of Toronto (2020-2022).
Dr. Sarfaroz Niyozov, University of Toronto
Publications
Journal articles
Antony-Newman, M. (2023). Teachers and School Leaders’ Readiness for Parental Engagement: Critical Policy Analysis of Canadian Standards. Journal of Teacher Education, 75 (3), 321-333. http://doi.org/10.1177/00224871231199365
Antony-Newman, M. (2023). Questioning Equity and Excellence in Ontario and Scotland: Critical Policy Analysis of Parent Inclusion for Reducing Educational Inequality. Comparative and International Education, 52 (1), 73-86. http://doi.org/10.5206/cie-eci.v52i1.15365
Antony-Newman, M., & Niyozov, S. (2023). Barriers and Facilitators for Academic Success and Social Integration of Refugee Students in Canadian and US K–12 Schools: A Meta-Synthesis. Canadian Journal of Education/Revue canadienne de l'éducation. http://doi.org/10.53967/cje-rce.5859
Antony-Newman, M. (2022). The role of plurilingual parenting in parental engagement of immigrant families. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. http://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2022.2097686
Masson, M., Antony-Newman, M., & Antony-Newman, M. (2022). The immigrant perspective: Eastern-European parental discourses about the value of French, plurilingualism and plurilingual literacy practices. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. http://doi.org/10.1080/13670050.2022.2079372
Antony‐Newman, M. (2020). Curriculum orientations and their role in parental involvement among immigrant parents. The Curriculum Journal, 31 (3), 340-356. http://doi.org/10.1002/curj.10
Antony-Newman, M. (2020). Parental involvement of Eastern European immigrant parents in Canada: whose involvement has capital? British Journal of Sociology of Education, 41 (1), 111-126. http://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2019.1668748
Antony-Newman, M. (2019). Parental involvement of immigrant parents: a meta-synthesis. Educational Review, 71 (3), 362-381. http://doi.org/10.1080/00131911.2017.1423278
Antony-Newman, M. (2019). Parental Involvement Policies in Ontario: A Critical Analysis. School Community Journal, 29 (1), 143-170. https://www.schoolcommunitynetwork.org/SCJ.aspx
Antony-Newman, M. (2017). UKRAINIAN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN CANADA: CULTURAL CAPITAL AND EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES. The Modern Higher Education Review, (2). http://doi.org/10.28925/2518-7635.2017.2.11
Antony-Newman, M., Niyozov, S., & Pashchenko, K. (n.d.). Middle-class parental engagement in pandemic times: developing strategies and mobilizing capitals. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 1-17. http://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2023.2294687
Antony-Newman, M. (n.d.). Preparing teachers for parent engagement: role of teacher educators in Canada. Educational Review, 1-17. http://doi.org/10.1080/00131911.2024.2324154
Other activities
In 2017, I organized the Bourdieu and Social Sciences Conference, which brought together an interdisciplinary group of students from a number of departments at the University of Toronto, York University and McGill University who apply Pierre Bourdieu's conceptual tools in their research.