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Books
2022, Education, Change and Society
,2020, The Business of Teaching Becoming a Teacher in a Market of Schools, Springer Nature
,Book Chapters
2024, 'Deficit discourses and teachers’ work: the case of an early career teacher in a remote Indigenous school', in Critical Studies and the International Field of Indigenous Education Research, Routledge
,2024, 'Analysing education policy: an introduction', in Stacey M; Mockler N (ed.), Analysing Education Policy: Theory and Method, Routledge, London, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003353379-2
,2024, 'Analysing education policy: now and into the future', in Stacey M; Mockler N (ed.), Analysing Education Policy: Theory and Method, Routledge, London, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003353379-21
,2024, 'Document and text analysis in critical education policy studies', in Stacey M; Mockler N (ed.), Analysing education policy: theory and method, Routledge, London, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003353379-4
,2024, 'Participant analysis in critical education policy studies', in Stacey M; Mockler N (ed.), Analysing Education Policy: Theory and Method, Routledge, London, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003353379-12
,2024, 'The time poor teacher: Understanding the intensity of decision‑making', in Teaching and time poverty, pp. 179 - 196, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003457527-12
,2023, 'Teachers, fixed-term contracts and school leadership: toeing the line and jumping through hoops', in Educational Leadership and Policy in a Time of Precarity, Routledge, pp. 54 - 68, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003451617-5
,2023, 'Introduction', in ‘The Village and the World’, Routledge, pp. 1 - 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003380306-1
,2023, 'Teachers' orientations to educational research and data in England and Australia: implications for teacher professionalism', in ‘The Village and the World’, Routledge, pp. 77 - 98, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003380306-6
,2023, 'Purposes of education: freedom of the individual or ‘collective good’?', in Policy Foundations of Education, Bloomsbury, pp. 33 - 58
,2022, 'Teachers' work amid global education reform: “the greatest challenge”?', in International Encyclopedia of Education: Fourth Edition, pp. 29 - 38, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-818630-5.04015-X
,2021, 'Teacher workload in Australia: National reports of intensification and its threats to democracy', in Riddle S; Heffernan A; Bright D (ed.), New Perspectives on Education for Democracy: Creative Responses to Local and Global Challenges, Routledge, London, pp. 110 - 123, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003145806
,2020, 'Strategy and policy: the 'professionalisation' of teaching and the work of an Australian teachers' union', in Lansbury RD; Johnson A; van den Broek D (ed.), Contemporary issues in work and organisations: actors and institutions, Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 110 - 126, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429439919
,2019, 'Strategy and policy', in Contemporary Issues in Work and Organisations, Routledge, pp. 110 - 126, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429439919-12
,2018, 'Ethnographies in education: Misunderstandings and new developments', in Gannon S; Hattam R; Sawyer W (ed.), Resisting Educational Inequality Reframing Policy and Practice in Schools Serving Vulnerable Communities, pp. 203 - 213
,2017, 'A most poisonous debate: Legitimizing support for Australian private schools', in Koinzer T; Nikolai R; Waldow F (ed.), Private Schools and School Choice in Compulsory Education Global Change and National Challenge, Springer, pp. 49 - 66
,Edited Books
Stacey M; Mockler N, (ed.), 2024, Analysing education policy: theory and method, Routledge
Mills M; Mockler N; Stacey M; Taylor B, (eds.), 2023, ‘The Village and the World’ Research with, for and by Teachers in an Age of Data, Routledge
Journal articles
2024, 'Researching teachers’ time use: Complexity, challenges and a possible way forward', Australian Educational Researcher, 51, pp. 1647 - 1670, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13384-023-00657-1
,2024, 'Fairness perceptions of income-based educational inequality: The impact of social class and ideological orientations', Australian Journal of Social Issues, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajs4.321
,2024, 'Pre-service teachers’ views of schools as workplaces in a system of social, cultural and religious division: to be “selfish” or to be a “hero”?', Educational Review, 76, pp. 259 - 276, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00131911.2022.2027347
,2024, 'Recruiting the ‘quality teacher’: equity, faith, and passion', Discourse, 45, pp. 1 - 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2023.2216648
,2024, 'Reducing teachers’ workload or deskilling ‘core’ work? Analysis of a policy response to teacher workload demands', Discourse, 45, pp. 187 - 199, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2023.2271856
,2024, 'Outsourced curriculum planning to reduce teacher workload: tracing the evolution of a policy solution', Curriculum Perspectives, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s41297-024-00280-9
,2023, 'Teacher attributions of workload increase in public sector schools: Reflections on change and policy development', Journal of Educational Change, 24, pp. 971 - 993, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10833-022-09476-0
,2023, 'What needs to happen for school autonomy to be mobilised to create more equitable public schools and systems of education?', Australian Educational Researcher, 50, pp. 1571 - 1597, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13384-022-00573-w
,2023, 'Enacting autonomy reform in schools: The re-shaping of roles and relationships under Local Schools, Local Decisions', Journal of Educational Change, 24, pp. 501 - 523, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10833-022-09455-5
,2023, 'Fairness perceptions of educational inequality: the effects of self-interest and neoliberal orientations', The Australian Educational Researcher, 51, pp. 1215 - 1237, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13384-023-00636-6
,2023, 'Attributions for underachievement among students experiencing disadvantage and support for public assistance to them', Australian Journal of Social Issues, 58, pp. 573 - 591, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajs4.266
,2023, 'Exploring students’ metaphors for learning in Western Sydney schools', Critical Studies in Education, 64, pp. 1 - 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2021.1943476
,2023, 'Workload, work intensification and time poverty for teachers and school leaders: a systematic research synthesis', Educational Review, ahead-of-print, pp. 1 - 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00131911.2023.2196607
,2022, 'Collaborating for policy impact: Academic-practitioner collaboration in industrial relations research', Journal of Industrial Relations, 64, pp. 759 - 784, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00221856221094887
,2022, 'Women’s participation in teacher unions: Implications of a ‘triple burden’ for union gender equality strategies', Economic and Industrial Democracy, 43, pp. 830 - 852, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0143831X20958481
,2022, 'Deficit discourses and teachers’ work: the case of an early career teacher in a remote Indigenous school', Critical Studies in Education, 63, pp. 64 - 79, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2019.1650383
,2022, 'Labour Commodification in the Employment Heartland: Union Responses to Teachers’ Temporary Work', Work, Employment and Society, 37, pp. 1165 - 1185, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/09500170211069854
,2022, 'Teachers and Educational Policy: Markets, Populism, and Im/Possibilities for Resistance', Education Policy Analysis Archives, 30, http://dx.doi.org/10.14507/EPAA.30.7407
,2022, 'Teachers, fixed-term contracts and school leadership: toeing the line and jumping through hoops', Journal of Educational Administration and History, 54, pp. 54 - 68, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00220620.2021.1906633
,2021, 'Evidence of teaching practice in an age of accountability: when what can be counted isn’t all that counts', Oxford Review of Education, 47, pp. 170 - 188, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03054985.2020.1822794
,2021, 'Teachers’ orientations to educational research and data in England and Australia: implications for teacher professionalism', Teaching Education, 32, pp. 77 - 98, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10476210.2020.1843617
,2021, '‘The village and the world’: research with, for and by teachers in an age of data', Teaching Education, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10476210.2020.1868141
,2020, 'The development of an Australian teacher performance assessment: lessons from the international literature', Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 48, pp. 508 - 519, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1359866X.2019.1669137
,2020, 'Triage in teaching: the nature and impact of workload in schools', Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 42, pp. 1 - 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02188791.2020.1777938
,2020, 'Governance reform in context: Welfare sector professionals’ working and employment conditions', Current Sociology, 69, pp. 001139212090985 - 001139212090985, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0011392120909859
,2019, 'Principals’ support for teachers’ working conditions in devolved school settings: Insights from two Australian States', Educational Management Administration and Leadership, 47, pp. 590 - 605, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1741143217745879
,2019, '‘If you’re wrong for the place you just don’t survive’: examining the work of early career teachers in context', Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 25, pp. 404 - 417, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13540602.2019.1621828
,2018, 'Devolution, market dynamics and the Independent Public School initiative in Western Australia: ‘winning back’ what has been lost?', Journal of Education Policy, 33, pp. 662 - 681, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02680939.2017.1412502
,2018, 'Intensification of teachers’ work under devolution: A ‘tsunami’ of paperwork', Journal of Industrial Relations, 61, pp. 613 - 636, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022185618801396
,2017, 'Teachers, school choice and competition: Lock-in effects within and between sectors', Policy Futures in Education, 15, pp. 113 - 128, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1478210316688355
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