Controversies in Education

Introduction: Heresies and orthodoxies in contemporary schooling: Helen Proctor, Peter Free body and Patrick Brownlee.- Schools not fit for purpose: New approaches for the times: Johanna Wyn.- Schools and communities fit for purpose: Dorothy Bottrell.- Testing times: Data and their (mis-)use in schools: Peter Reimann.- Are these testing times or is it a time to test? Reconsidering the place of tests in students' academic development: Andrew J. Martin.- Evidence-Based Policy: Epistemologically specious, ideologically unsound: Anthony Welch.- Neglecting the evidence: Are we expecting too much from quality teaching? Margaret Vickers.- Public diversity; private disadvantage: schooling and ethnicity: Carol Reid.- Building new social movements: The politics of responsibility and accountability in school-community relationships: Kelly Free body.- Does the new doxa of integrationism make multicultural education a contemporary heresy? Georgina Tsolidis.- Multicultural education: Contemporary heresy or simply another doxa: Megan Watkins.- Why global policies fail disengaged young people at the local level: Susan Groundwater-Smith & Nicole Mockler.- Education policy 'at risk': Kitty te Riele.- 'Money made us': A short history of government funds for Australian schools Geoffrey Sherington and John P. Hughes.- Beyond modernity? A sociological engagement with 'A short history of government funding for Australian schools': Martin Forsey.- Markets all around: defending education in a neoliberal time: Raewyn Connell.-Markets made out of love: parents, schools and communities before neoliberalism: Helen Proctor.- Who are the heretics? Patrick Brownlee and Peter Free body.