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Keddie, Amanda; Gobby, Brad; Wilkins, Chris – School Leadership & Management, 2018
This paper examines conceptions of governance and freedom embedded within a new school autonomy policy in Queensland (Australia). Drawing on interview data from case study research, it foregrounds the practices of two school leaders from a secondary school in regional Queensland. It considers how such conceptions foster an entrepreneurial…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Institutional Autonomy, Educational Change, Governance
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Gobby, Brad; Keddie, Amanda; Blackmore, Jill – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2018
Discourses promoting the benefits of school autonomy have floated freely internationally since moves in the 1980s to greater devolution in the UK, New Zealand, the USA, Australia and Sweden. The most recent Australian version, Independent Public Schools (IPS), grants school leaders more latitude over aspects of their work. But this autonomy is…
Descriptors: Institutional Autonomy, Educational Change, Entrepreneurship, Competition
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Walsh, Lucas; Keddie, Amanda; Wilkinson, Jane; Howie, Luke – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2020
As sites of human social activity, schools must engage in challenging conversations between staff, students and their communities about social disharmonies. This paper presents interview data from a case study of Eucalyptus High School (not its real name), a large multicultural school located in a middle-class area in suburban Victoria…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Social Justice, Middle Class, Cultural Pluralism