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Delphine, Tim – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2023
Teaching English literacy in First Nations Australian communities is bound up with the policy aim of improving the social and economic outcomes of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and the desire to acknowledge, recognise and respect their unique cultural identities, languages and knowledges. But for English literacy teachers working…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Foreign Countries, Literacy Education, Teacher Attitudes
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Molla, Tebeje; Gale, Trevor – Journal of Education Policy, 2019
This paper claims a central role for school leaders (principals or head-teachers) in the enactment of social justice policy in schools, who act as key agents or 'gate keepers' for what counts as social justice in their contexts of practice. Social justice means different things in different contexts depending on where leaders -- who use policy as…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Instructional Leadership, Leadership Role, Principals
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Rose, Judy; Low-Choy, Samantha; Singh, Parlo; Vasco, Daniela – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2020
In 2018 NAPLAN (National Assessment Program -- Literacy and Numeracy) reached a 10-year milestone. Introduced in 2008 by the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), NAPLAN assesses student literacy and numeracy in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9. As a key education reform in Australia, NAPLAN has provoked critical debate across…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, National Competency Tests, Literacy, Numeracy
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Dadvand, Babak; Cuervo, Hernán – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2019
With schools coming under pressure to perform and produce outcomes, the caring practices of the institution have been increasingly framed around issues of achievement, excellence and outcomes. In this article, we examine how the performativity-driven practices of care impact on the possibilities of social inclusion for marginalised students.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inclusion, Public Schools, Secondary School Students