Policy, politics and education futures
What education futures are possible and desirable in the 21st century?
Education futures are policy effects open to contestation and change. We examine historical and contemporary political and social contexts of policy, including formal and informal settings, from the local to the global.
Education systems, their histories and futures, are interwoven with policy and politics in complex ways. Our established and emerging research programs undertake national and international collaborations, drawing on a range of fields and disciplines including history, politics, geography, Science and Technology Studies, sociology and philosophy.
We are interested in conceptual experimentation, expanding our methodological repertoires - that span qualitative, quantitative, mixed methods, and participatory methodologies.
We are interested in the ontological and epistemological dimensions of education policies and practices, and the historical, political and cultural formations that underpin contemporary policy.
Our current areas of focus include:
exclusionary policy processes and practices
links between schooling and inequitable outcomes for some groups of students
teachers’ and school leaders’ work
policy, media and teachers’ work
- governance and new technologies, methods and knowledge from the life and computing sciences
- issues of agency and the identification of constraints in role of education leaders.
Our projects
Our people
- Professor Helen Proctor (acting)
- Professor Tim Allender
- Dr Deb Brosseuk
- Dr Nikki Brunker
- Dr Kellie Burns
- Dr Yeow-Tong Chia
- Associate Professor Wayne Cotton
- Dr Daniel Couch
- Professor Ken Cruickshank
- Dr Claire Golledge
- Dr Christine Grice
- Professor Kalervo Gulson
- Professor Deb Hayes
- Dr Taghreed Jamal Al-deen
- Dr Remy Low
- Dr Alexandra McCormick
- Professor Nicole Mockler
- Dr Ying Neoh
- Dr Janica Nordstrom
- Associate Professor Ruth Phillips
- Professor Murray Print
- Dr Susan Poetsch
- Professor Alyson Simpson
- Associate Professor Ilektra Spandagou
- Dr Teresa Swist
- Dr Deb Talbot
- Professor Jim Tognolini
- Dr Lorraine Towers
- Rachel White
- Dr Ben Zunica