Michael O'Malley Texas State University, USA
Michael P. O’Malley, Ed.D. is the Chair and a Professor in the Department of Counseling, Leadership, Adult Education, and School Psychology. He served as a Fulbright Scholar in Chile from August 2012 – January 2013. Dr. O’Malley teaches in both the Ph.D. in Education-School Improvement and M.Ed./M.A. in Educational & Community Leadership programs at Texas State University. His research interests include leadership for educational equity, public pedagogy, curriculum studies, and internationalization and education. Working within intersections of critical and post structural frameworks, Dr. O’Malley’s recent research projects have involved social justice frameworks in K-12 principal preparation programs nationally, leadership effects on a national school improvement initiative in Chile, pedagogies of social transformation in Chile via institutions and social movements, and rethinking qualitative methodologies for critical participatory research with youth. He directs Project LEARN-Chile, a transnational research and learning collaboration across doctoral programs in education at Texas State, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, and Universidad Diego Portales. This project was funded by 100,000 Strong in the Americas, President Obama’s signature educational initiative in the Western Hemisphere, and the U.S. Embassy in Santiago. Dr. O’Malley serves as Associate Director of Publications for the University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA).
