While the impact of global COVID-19 pandemic upon higher education institutions has been well documented, less is known about how academics themselves responded to these rapid changes. This paper analyses experiences teacher from Australia and New Zealand (n = 13) who were interviewed during lengthy lockdowns. Whilst rarely using language resistance, participants revealed multiple ways they navigated seemingly totalising forces neoliberalism through working maintain quality education,...

Background: This paper approaches evidence-informed practice from the perspective of policy-making. Using findings a recent study evidence-use by educational policy-makers to raise questions about practitioners, it seeks explore what such might tell us how understand and improve practitioners.Purpose: The aims, therefore, identify potential connections, shared insights common issues between in policy practice. It does this focusing on two specific areas: nature evidence (i.e. is used) use...

This paper examines the use of new media in 2007 election. election is commonly seen as a breakthrough for Internet electoral campaigning due to high profile channels 'Kevin 07' campaign and its association with change Government. The impact technology on presentation political messages campaign. In this election, played more visible role both centralised party individual candidate strategies. concludes that while some innovation occurred, overall application was modest, which parties...

This report draws on quantitative findings from the Q Project’s first survey of educators, which was administered online to teachers and school leaders between March - September, 2020. In total, 492 educators 414 schools across four Australian states completed survey: New South Wales (NSW), Australia (SA), Victoria (VIC), Queensland (QLD). The is technical in nature, outlining all findings, as well research rationale, design approach gathering analysing data. An accompanying summary focused...

Background There are growing expectations internationally that schools and systems will use research evidence to inform their improvement efforts. Such developments raise important questions about what it means well in education.Purpose To date, there has been wide-ranging debate counts as quality evidence, but very little dialogue use. In response, this article presents a conceptual framework define elaborate of might mean relation education.Method The is informed by cross-sector systematic...

Peer review is an essential part of academic publishing, yet many authors, reviewers, and editors have reportedly encountered problems with the process. Some scholars view peer-review as a necessary process for advancement science, while other argue that publishers journals, both authors reviewers are being exploited. The aim this commentary two-fold. First, to provide narrative current perspectives available research on date, second, summarise potential solutions elicited from Twitter. A...

Digital citizenship and cyber safety are often used interchangeably in the context of young people's internet use, depicting person as passive, vulnerable need adult intervention to navigate an unsafe online environment perpetuating reductive deterministic initiatives that rarely respond own perspectives experiences. This discussion maps recent definitions debates about digital safety. It draws from 41 stories Australians aged 12–18 think within wider their lived citizenship. Reflecting...

Drawing from a study of young university students in Australia, France and the U.K., homo promptus represents authors' effort to trace how people are positioned within discourses higher education employment provide conceptual shape emergent characteristics their otherwise diverse lives. We suggest that is: entrepreneurial strategic; plans adaptively for future while living life short-term; not tethered single place; permanently 'situational' mode lives waithood. also argue overlaying figure...

In 2020, the Q Project surveyed and interviewed nearly 500 Australian educators to understand what is involved in using research evidence well schools. This a topic that has been investigated surprisingly little, both Australia and internationally. Discussion Paper offers unique practitioner perspective on quality use. It presents educators' views on terms of key characteristics connections Quality Use Research Evidence Framework. also outlines considerations for teachers, school leaders,...

Workforce insecurity has significant implications for the role of school leaders and teachers preparing students changing worlds work. For educators to better prepare enter an increasingly casualised labour workforce, there first needs be acknowledgement how perceive themselves in relation post-school life. Drawing on a study approximately 2500 secondary Australian state Victoria, figure homo promptus is presented as youth understand real imagined characteristics workers-in-the-making. Homo...

Mass media representations foster a view that the "War on Terror" is taking place both everywhere and nowhere, presenting Western governments with an opportunity to mobilize public support in new ubiquitous ways. Starting Virilio's critique of technology, speed, de-territorialization, this article discusses ways which mass mobilized by state conventional pursuit geopolitical objectives. Drawing contemporary international relations theory, authors introduce concept "securitization" discuss...