IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Lectures and seminars in higher education, teacher training and in in-service teacher education (2002– )

BA level

Informal Education, Social Sensitivity Training

MA level

Teaching Methods of Religion and Ethics (2002–2006), General Pedagogy, Theory of Education, Philosophy of Education, Sociology of Education, Cultural Anthropology, Human Rights and Holocaust Education, Masculinities, Cyberspace Pedagogy, Human Rights and Minorities in Schools, Gender and Sexuality in Schools, Youth Subcultures and Education, Teachers Educational Tasks in School

PhD level

Qualitative Research Methodologies, Classroom research, Philosophy of Education, Systematic Pedagogy and Anthropology

International Relations and Mass Communication (as a guest professor at The Pavlodar State University, Kazakhstan in October 2013)

Sociology of Journalism, Ethics of Journalism (as a guest professor at The Pavlodar State University, Kazakhstan in October 2014)

IN SECONDARY EDUCATION

Teacher of Ethics and Religion (1998–2006)

Awareness raising classes for secondary and high school students (2006–2016)

Theatre Education projects with teachers and students (2013–)

Inclusion4Schools - School-Community Partnership for Reversing Inequality and Exclusion: Transformative Practises of Segregated Schools (Funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme)

Research fellow in collaboration with John Wesley Theological College

September 2017 – November 2020 Towards Gender Sensitive Education (Funded by the European Union Erasmus+ Program). Leading researcher at ELTE

September 2018 – 2019 Anthropologies: Collaborative Theory-building with Teachers (Funded by the Hungarian National Excellence Program), Leading researcher

September 2017 – 2021 Citizenship, Anthropologies and Identity. A Comparative School Ethnography (Funded by the Bolyai Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Leading researcher

September 2015 – Critical Citizenship and Citizenship Education – Research Project of the Pedagogical Anthropology Research Group, Leading researcher

August 2014 – December 2014 “Freeschool” Participatory Ethnographic Research of an Awareness Raising Program among High School Students from a Disadvantaged Region in Hungary (led by Krétakör Theatre, financed by the Goethe Institute, Budapest), Co-leader of the project;

September 2014 – 2015 Innovation of the Teacher Training Curriculum (financed by the European Commission; curriculum design connected to the new Teacher Education program), Research fellow;

February 2013 – 2015 Teachers’ Support and Coaching, research and development project for the innovation of the Hungarian system of professional support and couching for teachers (financed by the European Commission), Part-time research fellow;

March 2013 – 2014 Development and redesigning of the Pedagogy BA and the Education Science MA degree at the Eötvös Loránd University According to the Learning Outcomes Expectations of the New National Standards (financed by the European Commission; curriculum design and fostering collaborative work in the Institute of Education as a learning community), Project leader;

May 2010 – November 2010 “Progress” LGBT Training Project (elaborating a training course and training materials for school leaders and policy makers in the field of education), Leader of the “Education” team;

October 2010 – October 2011 Interprofessional Development of Youth Counsellor Training: Social diversity and interculturalism course and book (financed by the European Commission), Research fellow

February 2009 – October 2011 Diversity in Europe: A Four-Nation Study on Homophobia and Fundamental Rights, (sponsored by the Fundamental Rights and Citizenship program of the European Commission), Research fellow

June 2009 – December 2011 Developing an Adaptive and Inclusive School Concept (financed by the European Commission; theoretical study and case studies of schools), Co-leader of the project as a part time research fellow

July 2009 – October 2011 Teachers’ Competencies and Professional Development (financed by the European Commission; elaboration of Teacher Education standard competencies), Researcher

September 2006 – May 2010 Introduction of the Pedagogy Bachelor Degree (action research, curriculum development), Researcher

Neumann, Eszter – Mészáros, György (2019): From Public Education to National Public Upbringing. In: Kenneth, Jones – Anna, Traianou (szerk.): Austerity and the Remaking of European Education. London, Bloomsbury, 117–146.

Mészáros, György (2018): The position of an educational researcher in a semi-peripheral region. In: Lotar, Rasinski – Dave, Hill – Kostas, Skordoulis (szerk.): Marxism and Education: International Perspectives on Theory and Action. New York, Routledge, 89–100.

Tóth, Tamás – Mészáros, György – Marton, András (2018): We should’ve made a revolution. Policy Futures in Education, 16(4), 465–481.

Mészáros, György (2015): The “Gay Eye” of a Researcher and a Student in a Hungarian School. In: Paul, Smeyers – David, Bridges – Nicholas, C. Burbules – Morwenna, Griffiths (szerk.): International Handbook of Interpretation in Educational Research. Dordrecht, Springer, 705–726.

Takács, Judit – Dombos, Tamás – Mészáros, György – P. Tóth Tamás (2012): Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Don’t Bother. In: Trappolin; L. – Gasparini; A. – Wintemute, R. (szerk.):  Confronting Homophobia in Europe. Oxford, Hart Publishing, 79–105.

MTMT

2019

The role of theories and collaborative theory building based on educational philosophy in ethnographic and participatory research; Rethinking Educational Ethnography 2019, Ethnography in Higher Education, 6–7 June 2019, Graz;

The Political Economy and Pedagogy of LGBT+ Identities and Activism in The Semi-Periphery; IX. International Conference on Critical Education, Resistance and Praxis against Populism, Sexism and Racism, 3–6 July, University of Naples Federico II & Accademia di Belle Arti, Naples, Italy;

Habitus and schooling: the making of the middleclass/underclass in the semi-periphery; Ethnography and Education Conference, 8–10 September 2019, Oxford, UK;

2018

Returning to reality: critical ontology for anti-capitalist research and activism in post-socialist semi-periphery; VIII. International Conference on Critical Education, Critical Education and Activism Against Neoliberalism/ Authoritarian Neoconservatism in Education, State and Society, 25–28 July 2018, University of East London, Stratford, London, UK;

Citizenship and schooling: a comparative school ethnography; Ethnography and Education Conference, 18–20 September 2018, Oxford, UK;

„Transmitting” theory through collaborative ethnographic research in a second chance school; ATEE Annual Conference , A future for all – teaching for a sustainable society, 20th – 22nd August 2018, University of Gävle, Gävle, Sweden;

2017

Beyond identity: the theoretical background of a critical social awareness training; VII. International Conference on Critical Education, Rethinking Alternatives to Neoliberalism in Education, 28th June – 2nd July, 2017, Marasleios Pedagogical Academy of Athens, Greece;

Democracy and teacher education in the era of neoliberalism and populism; ATEE Annual Conference, Changing perspectives and approaches in contemporary teaching, 23-25 October 2017, Hotel Dubrovnik Palace, Dubrovnik, Croatia;

2016

Power relations and educational research. Ontology, epistemology and methodology; ATEE Annual Conference, Educating the Best Teachers: a Challenge for Teacher Education, 22-24 August 2016, Eindhoven, The Netherlands;

Critical pedagogues in a post-socialist country. Collaborative autoethnography of two academic selves in the Hungarian neoliberal context; VI. International Conference on Critical Education, Dialogue, Solidarity and Resistance against Neo-liberalism and Neo-conservatism in Education, 10-13 August 2016, Middlesex University London, UK;

Power relations and inertia in initial teacher education. Reflections from Hungary; WFATE (World Federation of Teacher Education Associations ) Fourth Biennial International Conference, Innovation in Teacher Education within a Global Context. 21-23. April 2016. Barcelona, Spain;

Possibilities and boundaries of ethnographic research on the pedagogy of a psytrance festival event; Rethinking Educational Ethnography: Transparency in Ethnographic Epistemologies. 1-2 July 2016. Klaipeda, Lithuania;

2015

Performance, performativity and critical pedagogy in a theatre education project with marginalized students; Ethnography and Education Conference, 21–23 September, Oxford, UK;

The position of educational researchers in a semi-peripheric region and the rise of neoliberal policies in the academia: the case of Hungary; V. International Conference on Critical Education Analyze, Educate, Organize. Critical Education for Social and Economic Justice, 15-18. June 2015 University of Lower Silesia, Wrocław, Poland;

The role and impact of professional communities on the development of initial teacher education curriculum, concerning particularly the teaching practice; Power relations, collaboration and construction of a learning community through participatory research in a teacher education curriculum development project; ATEE Annual Conference, 23-25 August 2015. Glasgow, UK;

Perfomance, initation and social awareness in a short theatre education project of marginalized Hungarian students; ECER Conference, 9-11. September 2015., Budapest;

2014

Critical Analysis of Liberal, Neo-liberal and Neo-conservative Reforms and Policies in the Hungarian Educational System; IV International Conference on Critical Education, 23–26 June 2014, Thessaloniki, Greece;

Teachers’ identity, coaching and social justice issues in the expectations of Hungarian stakeholders towards the new coaching system for teachers’ professional development; Transitions in Teacher Education and Professional Identities, 39th Annual Conference of the Association for Teacher Education in Europe (ATEE), 24–27 August, Braga, Portugal

Masculinity, social class and enfleshment in sport: autoethnographic study of the embodied subject; Ethnography and Education Conference, 15–17 September, Oxford, UK;

2013

Participatory research among LGBQ students in a Facebook group; Ethnography and Education Conference, 16–18 September, Oxford, UK;

Challenges for the future of teacher education: lesbian, gay and bisexual students’ voice; Educating for the Future, 38th Annual Conference of ATEE, 22–25 August, Halden, Norway;

2012

The „gay eye” of a researcher and a student in a Hungarian school; Ethnography and Education Conference, 10–12 September, Oxford, UK;

Adaptivity, interpretation and reinterpretation: the development of a theoretical concept as a collaborative research and learning process (together with: Nóra Rapós, Krisztina Gaskó and Orsoly Kálmán); Teacher Education Policies and Professionalization, 37th Annual Conference of ATEE, 25–29 August, Eskişehir, Turkey;

Being a critical pedagogue in post-socialist country: Leftist discourses on schooling in Hungary;  II International Conference on Critical Education, 10–14 July, Athens, Greece;

2011  

Combating homophobia: teacher trainees’ and LGBT people’s views on LGBT issues in education; Teacher Life-cycle from Initial Teacher Education to Experienced Professional, 36th Annual Conference of ATEE, 24 – 28 August, Riga, Latvia;

2010  

Constructing border identities through „subcultural pedagogy”: some findings of a Hungarian school ethnography; Bordering, Re-Bordering and New Possibilities in Education and Society, XIV World Congress of Comparative Education Societies, 14–18 June, Istanbul, Turkey;

Narrative, critical ethnography: some epistemological and methodological considerations from a research experience; The continuous professional development of teachers and researchers for an adaptive and inclusive school (together with: Nóra Rapós, Krisztina Gaskó and Orsoly Kálmán); Responsibility, Challenge and Support in Teachers' Life-long Professional Development, 35th Annual Conference of ATEE, 26–30 August, Budapest, Hungary.

Member of the Editorial Board of the Ethnography and Education Journal

Member of the Sociological Research Group “Helyzet”

Member of the Administrative Council of ATEE (Association for Teacher Education in Europe) from 2012 to 2018; Chair of the Education for Social Justice, Equity and Diversity RDC (Research and Development Community) of ATEE

Member of “Szimpozion” Association for LGBT Youth