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Direct linkNiesche, Richard; Eacott, Scott; Keddie, Amanda; Gobby, Brad; MacDonald, Katrina; Wilkinson, Jane; Blackmore, Jill – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2023
This paper examines principals' perceptions of school autonomy and leadership as part of a 3-year research project looking at the implications of school autonomy on social justice across four states of Australia (Victoria, New South Wales, Western Australia and Queensland). Drawing on interviews with principals and representatives from principal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Instructional Leadership, Institutional Autonomy
Keddie, Amanda; Holloway, Jessica – School Leadership & Management, 2020
This paper explores issues of social justice in relation to the practice of two principals from two Australian public schools. The stories of these principals are set against a policy backdrop in Australia that has seen renewed emphasis on school autonomy reform, on the one hand, and heightened external accountability and compliance, on the other.…
Descriptors: Institutional Autonomy, School Administration, Centralization, Accountability
Competing Locals in an Autonomous Schooling System: The Fracturing of the 'Social' in Social Justice
Holloway, Jessica; Keddie, Amanda – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2020
This paper troubles notions of 'social justice' as being compromised and fractured by the autonomous school agenda. Drawing on interviews with 13 autonomous school principals in Australia, it demonstrates how the devolution of schooling simultaneously rips the seams of the 'social' fabric that makes "collective" justice possible. The…
Descriptors: School Districts, Social Justice, Administrative Organization, Public Education
Keddie, Amanda; MacDonald, Katrina Claire; Blackmore, Jill; Eacott, Scott; Gobby, Brad; Mahoney, Caroline; Niesche, Richard; Wilkinson, Jane – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2020
There remains strong political support for school autonomy reform within Australian public education despite evidence linking this reform to exacerbating school and systemic inequities. This paper presents interview data from key education stakeholders gathered from a broader study that is investigating the social justice implications of school…
Descriptors: Institutional Autonomy, Commercialization, Social Justice, Equal Education
Blackmore, Jill; MacDonald, Katrina; Keddie, Amanda; Gobby, Brad; Wilkinson, Jane; Eacott, Scott; Niesche, Richard – Journal of Education Policy, 2023
Neoliberal policies promoting school autonomy reform in Australia and internationally have, over three decades, appropriated earlier social democratic discourses of parental participation and partnership in school governance. Recent school autonomy reforms have repositioned school council/boards within a narrow frame of accountability and…
Descriptors: Governance, Educational Change, Social Justice, Advisory Committees
Keddie, Amanda; Niesche, Richard – Critical Studies in Education, 2012
Drawing on a broader study that focused on examining principal leadership for equity and diversity, this paper presents the leadership experiences of "Jane", a White, middle-class principal of a rural Indigenous school. The paper highlights how Jane's leadership is inextricably shaped by her assumptions about race and the political dynamics and…
Descriptors: Race, Indigenous Populations, Racial Relations, School Personnel
