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View article: Overcoming hesitancy in delivering Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures in Australian schools
Overcoming hesitancy in delivering Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures in Australian schools Open
Over the past decade, Australian schools have been directed to positively engage with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures and put in place strategies to enhance the success of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander …
View article: Marketising disability: public school principals competing for inclusion funding
Marketising disability: public school principals competing for inclusion funding Open
In this paper, we examine disability funding in the context of a schooling market. By drawing on interviews with public school principals, we consider their experiences in competing for disability and inclusion funding in public schools. P…
View article: Teaching in Racially Diverse Schools: Towards a Racial Competency Framework
Teaching in Racially Diverse Schools: Towards a Racial Competency Framework Open
Safe learning environments foster the wellbeing, engagement, and educational outcomes of students. To develop resources that enable schools to create safe learning environments, we conducted focus group discussions with teachers and Africa…
View article: Teacher education students’ experiences navigating inherent requirements within their courses of study
Teacher education students’ experiences navigating inherent requirements within their courses of study Open
Inherent requirements define core competencies that all students must demonstrate to be accepted, progress, and successfully complete professionally accredited programmes such as teaching. This paper presents research that examines how stu…
View article: Making Inherent Requirements Coherent: Anticipating a Means to Inclusive Education
Making Inherent Requirements Coherent: Anticipating a Means to Inclusive Education Open
Inherent requirements (Australia), competence standards (UK), or essential functions (US) are often tied to notions of higher education academic integrity and linked to professional standards in practice-based professions like teaching. Th…
View article: Normative power in higher education: the ghost of inherent requirements
Normative power in higher education: the ghost of inherent requirements Open
This paper presents an analysis of two surveys that were conducted in an Australian university’s School of Education, investigating how students and staff understood the inherent requirements of their courses. The survey results highlight …
View article: Employability for inclusion: the urgent need for a biopsychosocial model perspective
Employability for inclusion: the urgent need for a biopsychosocial model perspective Open
Definitions of disability are changing, shifting from a narrow medical diagnosis to a biopsychosocial model of disability, where disability is conceptualised as a series of relational conditions that can potentially disadvantage individual…
View article: From dialogics to ecologics: when the how is the what
From dialogics to ecologics: when the how is the what Open
Mental health has traditionally been explained via medical knowledge, positioning biological pathology and pharmacological treatments as key in addressing psychiatric and psychological ailments. This article introduces the prospect of ecol…
View article: Critical psychology & education: Opportunities outside silos
Critical psychology & education: Opportunities outside silos Open
Many psychologists working in schools acknowledge how their work contributes to the reproduction and mitigation of societal injustices. While professionals engaged in education systems and classrooms may hope to achieve the latter, discipl…
View article: Higher Education and Inherent Requirements: Beyond Inherency to Coherency
Higher Education and Inherent Requirements: Beyond Inherency to Coherency Open
This paper examines how inherency, established in statements universities produce asserting the core abilities necessary to enter and qualify for their degrees, connects with employment in accredited professions, creating barriers for peop…
View article: Improving the outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students within Catholic Education Tasmania: literature review
Improving the outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students within Catholic Education Tasmania: literature review Open
Improving the Outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Students Within Catholic Education Tasmania: Literature review.
View article: Educational Transition from Custody: Final Report
Educational Transition from Custody: Final Report Open
Overview: Children and young people within the criminal justice system, especially those who have been sentenced or remanded into custody, face particular challenges in relation to accessing education. Research has established a strong lin…
View article: Psychosocial justice for students in custody
Psychosocial justice for students in custody Open
Availability to quality education is significantly beneficial to the life prospects of young people. In particular, for young people caught up in the justice system, it is argued that involvement in education reduces risk of further crimin…
View article: Disability Studies in Education – Building Platforms to Reclaim Disability and Recognise Disablement
Disability Studies in Education – Building Platforms to Reclaim Disability and Recognise Disablement Open
This paper provides the historical and theoretical foundations for the emergent field of Disability Studies in Education. Disability Studies in Education proceeds from the trans-disciplinary work we find in the continuing development of Di…