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LEADERSHIP REPORTS
These Leadership Reports draw on our peer-reviewed research and repurpose it for an audience of teachers, school leaders, interested professionals, and policy makers.
The reports were released at Public Policy Forums in 2021 and 2022. The buttons below will take you to the Flinders University Research Outputs, where you can access the files.
It’s Time to Act
On the 21st Anniversary of the South Australian watershed report “Listen to me I’m Leaving” and as a follow up to the 2019 “Those Who Disappear” national report, this industry paper considers the issues of school disengagement and detachment from a South Australian perspective. In this report we draw together our experiences and research in school disengagement and detachment as former teachers and school leaders in the South Australian public education system. Our recent research has taken us into the Catholic and Independent sectors. In this report, our experience and research make clear a road map for more inclusive education provision for all students involving all sectors, all areas of government, NGOs, and young people – Acting Together.
It’s Time to Reflect
This second Industry paper considers what Pasi Sahlberg (2012) has called the Global Education Reform Movement (GERM) which has changed the nature of the educational landscape across Australia to the cost of young people and the community at large. The fundamental aspects of GERM are Competition, Standardisation, School Choice and Test-Based Accountability which run parallel to what has been described as a diminishing of the public purposes of schooling (Reid, 2019). To date, our politicians, educational bureaucrats and policy makers rarely question how GERM policy and practice is impacting our schools, our teachers and our students. Rather, they are turning the GERM screws tighter to better serve the needs of a systems obsession with numerical measurement.