{"title":"‘I'm your new teacher’: The impact of teacher mobility on educational opportunities for marginalised students","authors":"Carmen Mills, T. Gale","doi":"10.1080/17508487.2004.9558616","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2004.9558616","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article provides an alternative perspective on what it means to ‘do school’ in a disadvantaged community, particularly in the way that disadvantage is reproduced for marginalised students. It explores the mobility of teachers (temporarily) working in a small secondary school located in an economically depressed regional community in Australia, characterised by high levels of unemployment, high welfare dependency and a significant indigenous population. Like many disadvantaged schools, the school has difficulty attracting and retaining high ability teachers, instead relying on a high turnover of often‐reluctant staff who are sent to (or feel compelled to) fill positions unable to be resourced through teacher choice procedures. Drawing on parent, student, and teacher interviews, we ask: how does teacher mobility in this context influence the educational opportunities of students who are ‘on the margins’ of school success and of the socio‐economic structure? Specifically, we explore the ways that teacher mobility can reproduce disadvantage by limiting students’ access to the dominant cultural capital. We argue that educational policies and politics that reward teacher mobility for moving out of these communities, work to disadvantage students. What is needed is a transformation in policies governing staff placements to establish alternatives that redefine the reward system for teachers in ways that permit these students to succeed.","PeriodicalId":347655,"journal":{"name":"Melbourne Studies in Education","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133877215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Three pedagogies of mobility for Australian show people: Teaching about, through and towards the questioning of sedentarism","authors":"P. Danaher, B. Moriarty, Geoff Danaher","doi":"10.1080/17508487.2004.9558615","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2004.9558615","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Questions concerning the education of mobile groups help to highlight the lived experiences of people otherwise rendered invisible by policy actors. This includes the diverse communities of occupational Travellers—those people who regularly move in order to earn their livelihood. While the category ‘occupational Travellers’ encompasses groups as varied as defence force personnel, specialist teachers and seasonal fruit pickers, the focus here is on the people who travel the agricultural show circuits of Australia to provide the entertainment of ‘sideshow alley’. Drawing on qualitative research with the Australian show people since 1992, this article deploys the concept of ‘sedentarism’ to highlight the ambivalently valorised lived experiences and educational opportunities of the show people. In particular, the article explores the pedagogical and policy implications of efForts to disrupt and transform the marginalising impact of sedentarism, which constructs mobility as the other in relation to fixed residence.","PeriodicalId":347655,"journal":{"name":"Melbourne Studies in Education","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122797150","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Markets and mobilities: Dilemmas facing the comprehensive neighbourhood high school","authors":"M. Vickers","doi":"10.1080/17508487.2004.9558613","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2004.9558613","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article explores issues of mobility in education in terms of the neo‐liberal and neo‐conservative agendas which, it is argued, are absenting the state from its democratic obligation to educate an Australian public. The neo‐liberal orientation to education legitimates ‘market forces’, placing school choice as a major driver of educational provision, while the neo‐conservative agenda supports the rationing of education so that even families of modest means can set themselves apart from those who are poor or poorly educated (Lewis, Gewirtz & Clarke 2000, Gewirtz, Ball & Bowe 1995). These new agendas represent substantial shifts from the normative commitments of the past. From their creation in the late nineteenth century, Australia's public education systems offered a free education for all, and sought to establish a common civic culture funded by the state. Most importantly, they were intended to constitute the quality, character and virtues of the democratic nation‐state. Yet the settlements that underpinned these systems contained unfortunate contradictions, setting up tensions that are still unresolved.","PeriodicalId":347655,"journal":{"name":"Melbourne Studies in Education","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128956015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Teacher shortages, bilingual teachers and the mobility of transnational knowledge workers","authors":"Jinghe Han","doi":"10.1080/17508487.2004.9558618","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2004.9558618","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The Australian teaching workforce is being transformed by transnational flows of bilingual teachers, itself an expression of and response to the complex phenomena named ‘globalisation’. In this context, this article challenges policy scenarios about Australia's prospective teacher shortages, by raising issues concerning the increasing presence of bilingual teachers in Australian schools. Constructions of teacher shortages are explored in terms of the role that bilingual teachers play within the context of arguments over transnational labour mobility.","PeriodicalId":347655,"journal":{"name":"Melbourne Studies in Education","volume":"16 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120966152","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Neo‐conservative globalism and the internationalisation of education: Insights from the trans‐national mobility of young Edward said","authors":"Michael Singh","doi":"10.1080/17508487.2004.9558619","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2004.9558619","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this article Said's (1999) autiography, his strategically constructed contextualisation of his youthful world, is read for possibilities for interrupting the confrontional model for international education promoted under neo‐conservative globalism. As a work of active interpretation this article explores the international education of Said, the life he chooses to publicly display in his autobioghraphy. This includes the Arab world where he was born and spent the early years of his international education (1941–51) as well as his life in the USA where he also went to school and university. Throughout his life Saud took part in the US/America and Arab Palestinian cultures which neo‐conservative globalism promotes as being ‘at odds with each other, viewed as mutually exclusive, presented in terms of Self versus the Other (Ghazoul 1992:158).","PeriodicalId":347655,"journal":{"name":"Melbourne Studies in Education","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131144974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review","authors":"Richard Bates","doi":"10.1080/17508487.2004.9558620","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2004.9558620","url":null,"abstract":"Consortia: International Networking Alliances of Universities David Teather (ed) (2004). Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, pp. 261 ISBN 0522850960 (pbk) $44.95","PeriodicalId":347655,"journal":{"name":"Melbourne Studies in Education","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133486543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Notes on contributors","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/17508487.2004.9558621","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2004.9558621","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":347655,"journal":{"name":"Melbourne Studies in Education","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129389549","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mobility and highly effective teachers: Re‐visiting beliefs about ‘over‐stayers’","authors":"S. Dinham, W. Sawyer","doi":"10.1080/17508487.2004.9558617","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2004.9558617","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract There is a long held belief in the teaching profession—a belief approximating the status of folklore—that when a teacher stays in a school for an extended amount of time, the enthusiasm for the job wanes and becomes less effective, turning into the ‘living dead’, awaiting retirement. In this folklore, then, teacher mobility is positioned as desirable—with positive outcomes for the profession and for students. Two recent studies and faculties in NSW government schools, however, suggest to us a need to problematise the notion of teacher mobility as an automatically desirable aspect of the profession. We think these studies suggest a greater degree of complexity around the issue of teacher mobility than simply viewing the ‘over stayer’ as a cynical quasi‐retiree or ‘shell back’. In fact, these studies of teachers who achieve outstanding outcomes in the NSW Higher School Certificate (HSC) and of faculties and programs achieving outstanding outcomes in years 7–10, suggest that length of time in a school may be directly correlated with outstanding outcomes (by underpinning a range of other factors probably more directly causative of those outcomes).","PeriodicalId":347655,"journal":{"name":"Melbourne Studies in Education","volume":"4317 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125807012","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Virtual online environments creating an external social presence — MOO","authors":"L. Harris","doi":"10.1080/17508487.2004.9558604","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2004.9558604","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract After five years of significant growth in the use of the online‐medium to deliver courses by Australian universities, questions are still being asked about the overall quality of the experience provided to students studying in these online environments. This article explores the experience of community for a group of undergraduate students studying an online course designed and offered in a virtual environment. This research confirms the significance and value of community for students studying courses online and suggests that virtual online environments such as MOO's, that provide students with a sense of place and the possibility of creating an extended social presence, create a unique virtual space which facilitates the development of learning support networks or learning communities.","PeriodicalId":347655,"journal":{"name":"Melbourne Studies in Education","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127894667","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Allyson Holbrook, S. Bourke, Terry Lovat, K. Dally
{"title":"PhD theses at the margin: Examiner comment on re‐examined theses","authors":"Allyson Holbrook, S. Bourke, Terry Lovat, K. Dally","doi":"10.1080/17508487.2004.9558608","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2004.9558608","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract It is rare for a PhD candidate who submits a thesis for examination to fail outright. If a thesis exhibits significant flaws the candidate may be required to make major revisions and re‐submit the work for re‐examination. The written comments of examiners before and after resubmission can provide important insights into the process of examination and the qualities examiners identify in a marginal thesis. Drawing on 101 of the most recent, completed theses across fields in one Australian university, this article investigates the differences in examiner comment on the qualities of theses by the same candidates before and after major revision and re‐submission (N = 6), and between these theses and those that were ‘passed’ at the first examination (N=95). Critical comments about the literature review and the degree to which the examiner moved into a supervisory role were found to be strong indicators of theses at the margin’.","PeriodicalId":347655,"journal":{"name":"Melbourne Studies in Education","volume":"90 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132977044","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}