Browsing Research Publications and Outputs by subject "1608 Sociology"
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Chapter 4, Challenging the myth that ‘the parents don’t care’: Family teachings about education for ‘educationally disengaged’ young people,
Published 2016-01-01This chapter focuses on families as sites of pedagogical work. We take up a focus on the pedagogical work of families in relation to formal education and educational exclusion. When describing families' pedagogical work ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Good teachers and counter conduct
Published 2022Research on policy enactment has explored tensions created by accountability approaches associated with new forms of management under neoliberalism. These approaches generate particular discursive constructs of the ‘good ...Open AccessArticle -
On Settler Notions of Social Justice: The Importance of Disrupting and Displacing Colonising Narratives
Published 2019-01-01Universities have a unique responsibility to social justice with Aboriginal peoples. Yet settler privilege is evident in how teaching standards and research funding are determined predominantly by government, delivered and ...Open AccessBook chapter -
The Politics of Widening Participation and University Access for Young People Making educational futures
Published 2016-01-01Young people with tenuous relationships to schooling and education are an enduring challenge when it comes to addressing social inclusion, yet their experiences remain overlooked in efforts to widen participation in higher ...Open AccessBook -
Power, Knowledge and Palpatine
Published 2021In this chapter, I look at the way Star Wars can help us to understand Michel Foucault’s concepts of power/knowledge and governmentality. Foucault argued that power and knowledge interact and produce each other, and this ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Saying NO to Niceness: Innovative, progressive and transformative inclusive education with Australian Aboriginal students
Published 2019-01-01This chapter contributes to the examination of inclusion and diversity in this Handbook by critiquing the enactment of niceness with Australian Aboriginal students. We draw upon Angelina Castagno who tells us that a nice ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Visible pedagogic work: Parenting, private tutoring and educational advantage in Australia.
Published 2016-01-01This article explores parents’ use of private tutoring services for their primary school children in Sydney, Australia’s largest city. Using Bernstein’s theories of invisible and visible pedagogies, we look, through the ...Open AccessArticle