Dr John Lowe

John Lowe is an Associate Professor in the School of Education at UNNC. He has taught, researched and carried out various other educational tasks in over twenty countries worldwide. His broad research interest is in the role of education in social change, and vice-versa. Most recently his focus has been on Higher Education in the context of globalization and – most recently of all – de-globalization. He is currently the coordinator of a Master’s program on International Higher Education, as well as supervising doctoral students studying this and related topics. He has long had an interest in the role of social theory in educational research and is interested in the (im)possibilities of cross-cultural transfer of social theory. Drawing on a lifelong interest in theoretical physics, he is also trying to explore how developments in quantum theory might give us new ideas for the study of social phenomena.