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Direct linkMacDonald, Katrina; Keddie, Amanda; Blackmore, Jill; Mahoney, Caroline; Wilkinson, Jane; Gobby, Brad; Niesche, Richard; Eacott, Scott – Australian Educational Researcher, 2023
This paper provides an overview of the policies of school autonomy in Australian public education from the Karmel report in 1973 to the present day. The key focus is on the social justice implications of this reform. It tracks the tensions between policy moves to both grant schools greater autonomy and rein in this autonomy with the increasing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Education, Institutional Autonomy, Educational Policy
Eacott, Scott; Niesche, Richard; Keddie, Amanda; Blackmore, Jill; Wilkinson, Jane; Gobby, Brad; MacDonald, Katrina – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2023
A persuasive solution for governments and systemic authorities seeking to improve the quality and equity of outcomes for students has been the localized management of schools. Believed to provide opportunities for context-sensitive decision-making, what remains unclear is how does shifting increasing management to the school-level generate the…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Outcomes of Education, Educational Improvement, Educational Change
Niesche, 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
Buchanan, Rachel Anne; Forster, Daniella Jasmin; Douglas, Samuel; Nakar, Sonal; Boon, Helen J.; Heath, Treesa; Heyward, Paul; D'Olimpio, Laura; Ailwood, Joanne; Eacott, Scott; Smith, Sharon; Peters, Michael; Tesar, Marek – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2022
Within the rough ground that is the field of education there is a complex web of ethical obligations: to prepare our students for their future work; to be ethical as educators in our conduct and teaching; to the ethical principles embedded in the contexts in which we work; and given the Southern context of this work, the ethical obligations we…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Ethical Instruction, Ethics, Preservice Teacher Education
Keddie, Amanda; MacDonald, Katrina; Blackmore, Jill; Wilkinson, Jane; Gobby, Brad; Niesche, Richard; Eacott, Scott; Mahoney, Caroline – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2022
School autonomy policies have circulated through various modes of educational governance internationally, endorsing the view that more autonomy will improve schools and their systems. When subject to the discourses and practices of marketization, however, school 'autonomy' has been mobilized in ways that generate injustice. These injustices are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Institutional Autonomy, Public Education, Educational Change
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
