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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
Keddie, Amanda; MacDonald, Katrina; Blackmore, Jill; Boyask, Ruth; Fitzgerald, Scott; Gavin, Mihajla; Heffernan, Amanda; Hursh, David; McGrath-Champ, Susan; Møller, Jorunn; O'Neill, John; Parding, Karolina; Salokangas, Maija; Skerritt, Craig; Stacey, Meghan; Thomson, Pat; Wilkins, Andrew; Wilson, Rachel; Wylie, Cathy; Yoon, Ee-Seul – Australian Educational Researcher, 2023
The series of responses in this article were gathered as part of an online mini conference held in September 2021 that sought to explore different ideas and articulations of school autonomy reform across the world (Australia, Canada, England, Ireland, the USA, Norway, Sweden and New Zealand). It centred upon an important question: what needs to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Institutional Autonomy, School District Autonomy
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
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
Keddie, Amanda; Holloway, Jessica – School Leadership & Management, 2020
This paper explores issues of social justice in relation to the practice of two principals from two Australian public schools. The stories of these principals are set against a policy backdrop in Australia that has seen renewed emphasis on school autonomy reform, on the one hand, and heightened external accountability and compliance, on the other.…
Descriptors: Institutional Autonomy, School Administration, Centralization, Accountability
Competing Locals in an Autonomous Schooling System: The Fracturing of the 'Social' in Social Justice
Holloway, Jessica; Keddie, Amanda – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2020
This paper troubles notions of 'social justice' as being compromised and fractured by the autonomous school agenda. Drawing on interviews with 13 autonomous school principals in Australia, it demonstrates how the devolution of schooling simultaneously rips the seams of the 'social' fabric that makes "collective" justice possible. The…
Descriptors: School Districts, Social Justice, Administrative Organization, Public Education
Keddie, Amanda; Gobby, Brad; Wilkins, Chris – School Leadership & Management, 2018
This paper examines conceptions of governance and freedom embedded within a new school autonomy policy in Queensland (Australia). Drawing on interview data from case study research, it foregrounds the practices of two school leaders from a secondary school in regional Queensland. It considers how such conceptions foster an entrepreneurial…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Institutional Autonomy, Educational Change, Governance
Holloway, Jessica; Keddie, Amanda – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2019
Using the stories of two autonomous public schools in Australia, this paper demonstrates how commercialisation can simultaneously position schools as both consumer and for-profit producer. Drawing on Foucault's articulation of discourse as that which constitutes and makes available what is possible to be said, done and imagined, the paper…
Descriptors: Institutional Autonomy, Commercialization, Public Schools, Educational Resources
Keddie, Amanda; MacDonald, Katrina Claire; Blackmore, Jill; Eacott, Scott; Gobby, Brad; Mahoney, Caroline; Niesche, Richard; Wilkinson, Jane – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2020
There remains strong political support for school autonomy reform within Australian public education despite evidence linking this reform to exacerbating school and systemic inequities. This paper presents interview data from key education stakeholders gathered from a broader study that is investigating the social justice implications of school…
Descriptors: Institutional Autonomy, Commercialization, Social Justice, Equal Education
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
Gobby, Brad; Keddie, Amanda; Blackmore, Jill – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2018
Discourses promoting the benefits of school autonomy have floated freely internationally since moves in the 1980s to greater devolution in the UK, New Zealand, the USA, Australia and Sweden. The most recent Australian version, Independent Public Schools (IPS), grants school leaders more latitude over aspects of their work. But this autonomy is…
Descriptors: Institutional Autonomy, Educational Change, Entrepreneurship, Competition
Keddie, Amanda – Australian Educational Researcher, 2017
The renewed commitment to school autonomy reform in Australia is based on the view that it will drive up academic standards. There remains, however, little conclusive evidence to support this view. Simply instating the structural changes to bring about greater autonomy for schools within public education systems across the world has not led…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Justice, Institutional Autonomy, Public Education
Keddie, Amanda – School Leadership & Management, 2016
This paper presents data from a study of five English primary schools. It examines some of the challenges associated with school autonomy and collaboration for state primary schools amid the uncertainty and complexity of governance in the present English education context. The paper features the voices of six leaders gathered from interviews that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Institutional Cooperation, Institutional Autonomy, Interviews
Keddie, Amanda – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2016
This paper presents interview data from research conducted in two public high schools in the state of Queensland, Australia. The research was concerned with exploring issues of equity and diversity. Both schools had recently converted to "independent" status within a new state policy reform--the Independent Public Schools initiative.…
Descriptors: Institutional Autonomy, Accountability, Educational Change, Educational Policy
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