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Bronwyn A. Sutton – Qualitative Research Journal, 2024
Purpose: School climate strikes are opening spaces of appearance, becoming differently active forms of public pedagogy where new and previously unthought collective climate action is possible. This inquiry contributes to understanding school climate strikes as important forms of climate justice activism by exploring how they work as public…
Descriptors: Climate, Strikes, Activism, Environmental Education
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Alexander, Nita; Petray, Theresa; McDowall, Ailie – Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 2022
The School Strike for Climate campaign led to public discussion about children's political participation. Children are generally excluded from formal political systems, however this campaign challenges mainstream attitudes that children are not sufficiently competent to participate in politics. This paper presents an analysis of Australian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Activism, Climate, Children
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George Variyan; Brad Gobby – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2024
News coverage of the Thunberg-inspired student climate strikes in Australia in 2019 and 2020 framed school leaders 'in conversation' with politicians, education system spokespeople, political pundits, the public and student activists. While previous scholarly interest has mainly focused on the student protestors, we examine the intertextual…
Descriptors: Strikes, Climate, Foreign Countries, Activism
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Tattersall, Amanda; Hinchliffe, Jean; Yajman, Varsha – Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 2022
Since November 2018, Australian high school climate strikers have become leaders in the movement for climate action, giving rise to a new generation of young people who have learnt how to lead change. This article focuses on the question of leadership across social movements and in global youth movements. It then investigates the different forms…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Strikes, Activism
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P. J. White; E. Mayes; B. Sutton; J. P. Ferguson; M. Green – Teaching Education, 2024
Teachers are working in disturbing and challenging times, characterised by coterminous crises, the COVID-19 pandemic and human induced climate change; these are transforming our working conditions and the lives of students and teachers. In this research, we looked to our own pedagogical practices as teacher educators to collaboratively explore…
Descriptors: Crisis Management, COVID-19, Pandemics, Climate
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Catanzaro, Michelle; Collin, Philippa – Educational Review, 2023
Since 2018, school students around the world have gone on strike from school to call on leaders to take decisive action on climate change. Prominent in the resultant rallies are placards created by participants -- from small children to their adult allies. This paper explores how students in the movement enact and activate visual approaches to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Climate, Environmental Education, Activism
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Heffernan, Troy A. – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2021
Vice-chancellor salaries have been a topic of media interest and scholarly research for decades. In recent years, however, the media's interest and criticism of vice-chancellors' salaries has escalated, as negativity surrounding university performance and administration has led to a significant increase in articles concerning these matters. This…
Descriptors: Salaries, Cross Cultural Studies, College Administration, Educational Quality
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Hazou, Rand – Research in Drama Education, 2008
This paper focuses on issues of embodiment specific to the experiences of an asylum seeker represented in the play "Refugitive" (2003). The play was written and performed by Shahin Shafaei, an Iranian asylum seeker who spent a period of 22 months in an Australian detention centre. The narrative of the play emerges through a conversation…
Descriptors: Strikes, Activism, Mental Disorders, Hunger
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Laffer, Kingsley – Monthly Labor Review, 1972
Shows that compulsory arbitration does not prevent strikes, even when nine out of ten workers are covered. (BH)
Descriptors: Arbitration, Collective Bargaining, Foreign Countries, Grievance Procedures
Taskunas, A. P. – Journal of Tertiary Educational Administration, 1981
The steady state in Australian higher education has encouraged faculty and nonfaculty unionization. In the former case, if the university is truly a self-governing collegium, there is a question as to faculty simultaneously being employees and employers. Active unionism may have negative and positive consequences. (MSE)
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, College Faculty, Employees, Employer Employee Relationship