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dc.contributor.authorGavin, Mihajla
dc.contributor.authorMcGrath-Champ, Susan
dc.contributor.authorWilson, Rachel
dc.contributor.authorFitzgerald, Scott
dc.contributor.authorStacey, Meghan
dc.contributor.editorRiddle, Stewart
dc.contributor.editorHeffernan, Amanda
dc.contributor.editorBright, David
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-30T04:30:56Z
dc.date.available2021-06-30T04:30:56Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/84266
dc.description.abstract

The recent reforms of education, driven by neoliberal logics of choice, competition and autonomy, have fundamentally challenged the importance of education and schooling as core to the healthy functioning of socio-democratic societies. Little attention has been paid, however, to how the de-democratisation of education is affecting the work of teachers as educators. Drawing on data from a series of systematic and comparable large-scale surveys (N=48,000), we draw attention to the stark reality of teachers’ work today in the context of Australia. The most prominent finding is the documentation of the universal intensification of teachers’ work and explosion of teachers’ working hours driven by instruments of compliance, datafication and diminution of time to get on with the core job of teaching. We reflect upon how intensification of teachers’ work threatens the democratic purposes of schooling, and argue for system-level monitoring and evaluation to inform policy-making to challenge de-democratising practices.

dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.relation.urihttps://www.routledge.com/New-Perspectives-on-Education-for-Democracy-Creative-Responses-to-Local/Riddle-Heffernan-Bright/p/book/9780367703448
dc.subjectworkload
dc.subjectwork intensification
dc.subjectAustralia
dc.subjectneoliberal
dc.subjectdemocracy
dc.subject1503 - Business and Management
dc.subject1301 - Education Systems
dc.subject1608 - Sociology
dc.titleTeacher workload in Australia: National reports of intensification and its threats to democracy
dc.typeBook Chapter
dcterms.source.titleNew Perspectives on Education for Democracy: Creative Responses to Local and Global Challenges
dcterms.source.isbn9780367703431
dcterms.source.placeAbingdon
dcterms.source.chapter9
dc.date.updated2021-06-30T04:30:55Z
curtin.departmentSchool of Management and Marketing
curtin.accessStatusOpen access
curtin.facultyFaculty of Business and Law
curtin.contributor.orcidFitzgerald, Scott [0000-0001-9043-9727]
curtin.contributor.scopusauthoridFitzgerald, Scott [56478331400]


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