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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
Jill Duncan; Renee Punch; Mark Gauntlett; Ruth Talbot-Stokes – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2024
It is unlawful under the "Disability Discrimination Act 1992" (Cth) for Australian schools to discriminate against students based on disability. Yet discrimination against students with disability is on the increase in Australian schools, and so is the decentralisation and autonomy of schools. This scoping review set out to determine…
Descriptors: Institutional Autonomy, Disability Discrimination, Students with Disabilities, Elementary School Students
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
Amanda Keddie; Jill Blackmore; Katrina MacDonald – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2024
The articulation of school autonomy into practice nationally, regionally and locally is highly situated in terms of what it enables or impedes with regard to the professional autonomy of principals and teachers. Principal autonomy does not necessarily mean greater teacher professional autonomy. In this paper, we draw on a three-year qualitative…
Descriptors: Professional Autonomy, Institutional Autonomy, Leadership Styles, Participative Decision Making
Download full textNatalie Irmert; Jan Bietenbeck; Linn Mattisson; Felix Weinhardt – Centre for Economic Performance, 2023
We study whether autonomous schools, which are publicly funded but can operate more independently than government-run schools, affect student achievement and school segregation across 15 countries over 16 years. Our triple-differences regressions exploit between-grade variation in the share of students attending autonomous schools within a given…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Institutional Autonomy, Academic Achievement, School Segregation
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
Mockler, Nicole; Thompson, Greg; Hogan, Anna – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2023
Marketisation and competition within public schooling systems impact the work of principals in varying ways. Previous work on the marketisation of schooling and school autonomy has drawn attention to the 'entrepreneurial principal' as an effect of marketisation. In this paper we explore principals' engagements with marketisation based on 21…
Descriptors: Marketing, Public Schools, Principals, Entrepreneurship
Coombe, Leanne – Teaching in Higher Education, 2023
The COVID-19 global pandemic is one example of emergencies that highlight the need for a well-educated public health workforce. Educating specialist public health practitioners poses several challenges for educators, especially when low student, or appropriately qualified staff, numbers threaten viability of courses within individual universities.…
Descriptors: Intercollegiate Cooperation, Public Health, Allied Health Occupations Education, Sustainability
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
Stacey, Meghan; McGrath-Champ, Susan; Wilson, Rachel – Journal of Educational Change, 2023
In education systems around the globe influenced by neoliberalism, teachers commonly experience reforms which emphasise local responsibility and accountability. Teachers additionally work within what has been described as an era of social acceleration and associated "fast policy", with a perceived increase in the pace of reform. In this…
Descriptors: Faculty Workload, Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Institutional Autonomy
Gavin, Mihajla; Stacey, Meghan – Journal of Educational Change, 2023
"Local Schools, Local Decisions" (LSLD) was a package of school autonomy reforms operating in the state of New South Wales, Australia from 2012 to 2020. The set of reforms centred on the devolution of additional powers and responsibilities to school principals, namely enhanced capacity to manage staffing and financial functions in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Institutional Autonomy, Educational Change, Educational Development
Creagh, Sue; Hogan, Anna; Lingard, Bob; Choi, Taehee – Journal of Education Policy, 2023
The paper explores the policy logics of privatisation through service provision for students with English as an Additional language or dialect (EAL/D) in the state education system of Queensland, Australia. In the context of EAL/D, specifically targeted policy has been subsumed by a broader umbrella or meta-policy of inclusion, whilst at the same…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Educational Policy
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
Andrew Wilkins; Brad Gobby – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2024
Across the globe school autonomy reforms have been criticised for opening up public assets to various dangers or risks, from misappropriation of public monies by private sponsors to secretive governance structures maintained by homophilic groups. While these risks are not the exclusive product of school autonomy reforms, they are an endemic…
Descriptors: Governance, School Administration, Institutional Autonomy, Educational Change
Reynold J. S. Macpherson – Journal of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, 2024
This paper reviews an educative leadership model for reorganizing educational systems and institutions that was proposed in Australia during the 1990s. It compares this model to contemporary and international research findings. The analysis acknowledges the complexity of reorganization, considering the dynamics of systems and societies that impose…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Practices, Social Change, Social Influences
