Learning How We Are Led at the Edge of the Day

ISBN-13: 9783838382616 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 432 str.

Barbara Garrick

Opis

Neoliberalism is the subject matter of this thesis, and is investigated through the implementation of neoliberal reform in schools in Victoria at the turn of the twenty first century. The neoliberal policy studied is the Schools of the Future: Preliminary Paper (1993). This was a policy of major change to schools during the era of the Kennett government. Neoliberalism is also studied through the implementation in Queensland of Leading Schools: Partnerships for Excellence. The pilot program (1998). This policy was a carbon copy of Schools of the Future: Preliminary paper (1993) and my experience with the reform coloured my reaction to neoliberalism and to my retrospective analysis of Schools of the Future: Preliminary paper (1993).The thesis investigates neoliberalism and neoliberal policy using different research lenses to research previously undertaken by Feeney (1997), Daniels (2001), and Thomas (1994-1997). This thesis investigates neoliberal reform from the point of view of emotions, which become clearer and perhaps more exaggerated during periods of sharp edged and unrelenting reform. These emotions consider women in a restructuring and reconstituting world, especially from my personal point of view as an aging woman in the workforce.

O autorze

Dr Barbara Garrick has had over 38 years of classroom experience and has taught in secondary schools in Queensland Australia. She was awarded an Excellence in Teaching Award from the Australian College of Educators and has won several university awards for her teaching. Barbara is currently a lecturer in the School of Education and Professional Studies at Griffith University.