The focus of this paper is the re-articulation of the concept of social justice as equity in
contemporary schooling policy through the creation of national and global testing and data …

This paper explores the repositioning of state curriculum agencies in response to the
establishment of the Australian Curriculum and the key national policy organisation …

The conjunction of equity and market logics in contemporary education has created new and
different conditions of possibility for equity, both as conceived in policy discourses and as a …

Australian schools have been through many changes over the years, but how much of this
amounts to progress is open to question. No doubt there are schools that have made huge …

This paper contributes to conversations about school, post-compulsory and further
education policy by reporting findings from a three-year study with disaffected students who …

This article seeks to provide a school perspective on the nature and quality of the
partnerships which schools form with businesses in order to deliver work placements and …

In this paper, we seek to operationalize Amartya Sen's concept of human capability to guide
a scholarly investigation of student career choice capability. We begin by outlining factors …

The re-shaping of the Australian senior secondary landscape in recent years and the
emergence of a new space for vocational knowledge within Australian senior secondary …

In recent decades, important changes have taken place in terms of how governments
debate, manage, and allocate funding for schools. These changes have been strongly …

This article reports findings from an empirical study examining the influence of student
background and educational experiences on the development of career choice capability …