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    From marketising to empowering: Evaluating union responses to devolutionary policies in education

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    Authors
    Gavin, Mihajla
    Fitzgerald, Scott
    McGrath-Champ, Susan
    Date
    2021
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Gavin, M. and Fitzgerald, S. and McGrath-Champ, S. 2021. From marketising to empowering: Evaluating union responses to devolutionary policies in education. Economic and Labour Relations Review. 32 (4).
    Source Title
    Economic and Labour Relations Review
    Additional URLs
    https://journals.sagepub.com/home/elr
    ISSN
    1035-3046
    Faculty
    Faculty of Business and Law
    School
    School of Management and Marketing
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/86065
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    Major reforms in education, globally, have focused on increased accountability and devolution of responsibility to the local school level to improve the efficiency and quality of education. While emerging research is considering implications of these changed governance arrangements at both a school and system level, little attention has been afforded to teacher union responses to devolutionary reform, despite teaching being a highly union-organised profession and the endurance of decentralising-style reforms in education for over 40 years. Drawing upon a power resources approach, this article examines union responses in cases of devolutionary reform in a populous Australian state. Through analysing evolving policy discourse, from anti-bureaucratic, managerialising rhetoric to a ‘post-bureaucratic, empowerment’ agenda, this article contributes to understandings of union power for resisting decentralising, neoliberal policy agendas by exposing the limits of public sector unions mobilising traditional power resources and arguing for strengthening of discursive and symbolic power.

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