This book confronts one of the most enduring and controversial issues in education--the nexus between poverty and underachievement. The topic has become a key contemporary battleground in the struggle to raise standards. "Living on the Edge" maps and compares a number of competing explanations, critiques inadequate and deficit accounts,…

This paper is primarily interested in opening up a strategy to counter the increasing silencing of perspectives resulting from the press towards "evidence-based" forms of research. We argue that all researchers have interests, declared or otherwise. What we advance in the paper is an approach to ethnography that is inclusive of the lives,…

Reflects on issues that have brought Australia's teacher education to a precarious position, speculating on their effect on the reshaping process. The paper highlights economic, political, and social forces, emphasizing the need for a clear sense of the bigger picture before understanding the direction Australian teacher education is taking. (SM)