Program Calendar – SP3 2022
Week Essential Readings Topic
1. Dinham, S. (2014). The worst of both worlds: How the US and UK are influencing education in Australia. 2014 Walter Neal Oration. Australian Neoliberalism and its
College of Educators. Perth. 28th October 2014 effects
Savage, G. (2017). Neoliberalism, education and curriculum. In B. Gobby & R. Walker (Eds). Powers of curriculum: Sociological perspectives
on education (pp. 142-165). Oxford University Press.
2. Howell, A. (2016). Exploring children's lived experiences of NAPLAN. In B. Lingard, G. Thompson, & S. Sellar. (2016). National testing in Accountability and
Schools: An Australian Assessment. (pp. 164-180). Routledge. Performativity
Stroud, G. .J. (2016). Teaching Australia: Fight or flight? Griffith review, 51(1), 228-237.
Walker, R. & Gobby, B. (2017). Testing times for assessment and pedagogy. In B. Gobby & R. Walker (Eds). Powers of curriculum: Sociological
perspectives on education (pp. 322-349). Oxford University Press.
3. Proctor, H. & Sriprakash, A. (2013). School systems and school choice. In Connell, R. Welch, A. Vickers, M. & Foley. D. (Eds.), Education, Markets and school
change and society (pp. 213-233). Oxford University Press. choice
Teese, R. (2010). Is growth of private schooling good for raising standard for all children? Dissent, 33, 30-33.
4. Graham, L., Proctor, H., & Dixon, R. (2016). How schools avoid enrolling children with disabilities. The Competition and
Conversation : [Link] reforming school
practices
Rowe, E. & Lubienski, C. (2017). Shopping for schools or shopping for peers: public schools and catchment area segregation. Journal of
education policy, 23(3), 340-356).
5. Bottrell, D. (2014). Schools and communities fit for purpose. In Proctor, H., Brownless, P., & Freebody, P. (eds). Controversies in education: Responsibilisation:
orthodoxy and heresy in policy and practice (27-38). Springer. reforming parents and
communities
Rowe, E. & Perry, L.B. (2020). Inequalities in the private funding of public schools: parent financial contributions and school socioeconomic
status. Journal of Educational Administration and History, 52(1), 42-59.
6. Gobby, B. & Karnovsky, S. (2017). Questioning how and what we know: new concepts to approach education. In B. Gobby & R. Walker Critical pedagogies for
(Eds). Powers of curriculum: Sociological perspectives on education (pp. 60-85). Oxford University Press. educational justice
Smyth, J., Down, B., & McInerney, P. (2014). Socially critical pedagogy of teaching. In Smyth, J., Down, B & McInerney, P. (Eds). The Socially
Just School. (pp. 93-110). Springer.
7. Connell, R. (2013). Growing up. In Connell, R. Welch, A. Vickers, M., & Foley, D. (Eds.), Education, change and society (pp. 16-31). Oxford Unpacking childhood and
University Press. growing up
Gobby, B. & Millei, Z. (2017). Schooling, its history and power. In B. Gobby & R. Walker (Eds). Powers of curriculum: Sociological perspectives
of education (pp. 36-59). Oxford University Press
Millei, Z. & Bendix Petersen, E. (2017). Psychology, psychiatry and neuroscience in education. In B. Gobby & R. Walker (Eds). Powers of
curriculum: Sociological perspectives on education (pp. 217-242). Oxford University Press
8. Pearce, J. (2012). Unsettling class: standpoint pedagogies, knowledge and privilege. In Down, B., & Smyth, J. (Eds.) Critical voices in teacher Poverty, class and
education (pp. 99-110). Dordrecht: Springer. achievement
Sriprakash, A, & Proctor, H. (2013). Understanding the relationship between schooling and social class. In Connell, R. Welch, A. Vickers, M., &
Foley. D. (Eds.), Education, change and society (pp. 79-98). Oxford University Press.
Riddle, S., Howell, A., Mcgregor, G. & Mills, M. (2021). Student engagement in schools serving marginalised
commmunities. International journal of inclusive education, Online First.
9. Meyer, E. (2010). Introduction: Why learn about gender and sexual diversity in schools? In Meyer, E. (Ed). Gender and sexual diversity in Gender, sexuality and
schools (pp. 3-26). Springer. binary thinking
Taylor, A. (2007). Innocent children, dangerous families and homophobic panic. In S. Poynting (Ed.), Outrageous!: moral panics in
Australia (pp. 210-222). ACYS
10. Keddie, A. (2017). Rethinking Australia's cultural diversity. In B. Gobby & R. Walker (eds). Powers of curriculum: Sociological Religious and Cultural
Diversity
perspectives on education. (pp. 267-287). Oxford University Press. (Chapter 11)
Tait, G. (2012). Making sense of mass education. Cambridge Books. Read Race/Ethnicity (pp. 54-78).
11. Byrnes, M & Munns, G. (2012). From the big picture to the individual student: the importance of the classroom relationship (pp. 305- Indigenous
334). Q. Beresford, G. Partington, & G. Gower (eds). Reform and resistance in Aboriginal Education. UWA Publishing. Educational Justice
Rahman, K. (2013). Belonging and learning to belong in school: the implications of the hidden curriculum for indigenous
students. Discourse: Studies in the cultural politics of education, 4(5), 660-672.
Presentation | A conversation with Professor Cheryl Kickett-Tucker | Refer to the BlackBoardIn this recorded
conversation, Cheryl Kickett-Tucker shares with Brad Gobby her personal story growing up and going to school, and they discuss how
educators might work with Aboriginal young people in positive and productive ways.
12 & 13. Unit review and reflection
