Education
Cole studied at the University of Liverpool, Bath Spa University and the University of Warwick.
Cole studied at the University of Liverpool, Bath Spa University and the University of Warwick.
He is currently employed by the University of Western Sydney as Associate Professor in Literacies, English and English as Second Language in the Centre for Educational as the Globalisation theme leader. He started working in Australia in teacher education at the University of Tasmania (2004-2007) and lectured at the University of Technology, Sydney (2008-2011). Cole"s approach is to treat educational phenomena as a form of material analysis.
In so doing, he applies concepts derived from the work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari to the in-depth study of educational processes that simultaneously works on the micro and macro levels.
He has recently been using "immanent materialism" in this context and been developing a new approach to educational methodology since 1996. Traffic Jams: Analysing Everyday Life Through the Immanent Materialism of Deleuze & Guattari, Punctum Books (2013).