It is no coincidence, that disengagement from school by young adolescents has intensified at precisely the same time as there has been a hardening of educational policy regimes that have made schools less hospitable places for students and teachers. There can be little doubt from research evidence that as conditions conducive of learning in…

Helen Gunter's "Rethinking Education: the Consequences of Jurassic Management" (1997) tackles the relevance of fashionable school management practices. Educational management has become a huge, lucrative multimedia enterprise that promotes management language and culture at the expense of pedagogy, professional collegiality, and scrutiny of…

Teachers have not figured prominently in school restructuring, but exercise important pedagogical leadership through shaping, enacting, and living their schools' vision and culture. An Australian school's experience illustrates how teachers can create "radical spaces" for debate whereby the "entitlement to speak" against increasing managerialism…