School Autonomy Reform and Social Justice in Australian Public Education
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School Autonomy Reform and Social Justice in Australian Public Education
About this book
This book explores the social justice implications of school autonomy reform within the context of public education in Australia. It is situated within and framed by global concerns about how public schools are navigating their 'autonomy' within increasingly marketised education systems.
Drawing on extensive interviews with stakeholders and five in-depth case study schools, the book calls attention to the ways in which the intentions of school autonomy reform to offer schools more freedom to make their own decisions and manage their own responsibilities have become increasingly contained by the market imperatives of economic efficiency, competition and public accountability driving state and national education systems. We build on and enrich existing research in this area that highlights how market imperatives continue to exacerbate inequality within and between schools and their systems.
An essential read for researchers, policy makers, principals and teachers worldwide, the book provides insight into how education systems can better support public schools to mobilise their autonomy in socially just ways.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Endorsements
- Half-Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Tables
- Series Editors’ Introduction
- About the authors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: School autonomy reform and social justice in Australian public education
- 2 School autonomy reform in Australia: A policy history
- 3 School autonomy, marketisation and social justice: The plight of principals and schools
- 4 ‘It’s like we’re in two different schools’: Contrasting stories of teacher and leader autonomy within a distributed approach to leadership
- 5 Teacher professional autonomy in an atypical government school: Matters of relationality and context
- 6 Competition, enterprising leadership and the effect on schools
- 7 Educational leadership and the contradictions of care in performative education systems
- 8 ‘Does distance trump autonomy?’: A case study of school autonomy in a mining town
- 9 Devolving labour relations, work conditions and employment standards: A focus on school services staff
- 10 Election or selection?: School autonomy reform, governance and the politics of school councils
- 11 The systemic effects of school autonomy on social justice
- 12 The constitution of school autonomy in Australian public education: Areas of paradox for social justice
- 13 Responses from across the globe
- 14 Where to from here?: Putting the public back into education
- Index