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Stacey, Meghan; Fitzgerald, Scott; Wilson, Rachel; McGrath-Champ, Susan; Gavin, Mihajla – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2022
Fixed-term contracts are a relatively recent, yet growing category of employment for teachers in the public school system in New South Wales (NSW), Australia. In this article, we draw on quantitative and qualitative data from a large state-wide survey (N = 18,234) of members of the public-school teacher union, the NSW Teachers' Federation, in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Contracts, Teacher Employment, Public School Teachers
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Bush, Timothy Mark – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
This paper will consider how short-term contracts function as a technology for governing a new generation of teachers in Australia. It will proceed from Foucault's understanding that neoliberal modes of power seek to 'guide' or shape the conduct of the governed. In particular, the paper will consider how the short-term contracts implicate…
Descriptors: Job Security, Contracts, Teacher Employment, Foreign Countries
Shah, Chandra – 2000
Data on the work force in Technical and Further Education (TAFE) institutes in Victoria, Australia, for 1993-1998 reveal a number of structural changes. First, the number of women staff increased from 46% to 53%, although men still constitute 54% of the teaching staff. As full-time staff employment dropped an average of 1.1% annually, part-time…
Descriptors: Economic Change, Employed Women, Employment Patterns, Foreign Countries