Kate O'Connor

Ethics, archives and data sharing in qualitative research

Julie McLeod, K O’Connor

Book Chapter  |  2022

Unbundling the University Curriculum

Kate O'Connor

Book  |  2022

Imagining the constructivist student online: Actively engaged learner or vulnerable student in need?

K O’Connor

Book Chapter  |  2021

In recent times, arguments for moving university teaching away from a so-called ‘instructivist’, lecture-centred mode towards a mo..

Ethics, archives and data sharing in qualitative research

Julie McLeod, Kate O'Connor

Journal article  |  2020  |  EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY AND THEORY

This article investigates dilemmas in the archiving and sharing of qualitative data in educational research, critically engaging w..

Constructivism, curriculum and the knowledge question: tensions and challenges for higher education

Kate O'Connor

Journal article  |  2020  |  STUDIES IN HIGHER EDUCATION

In recent times, there has been a strong focus on moving university teaching away from a so-called ‘instructivist’, lecture-centre..

What's the problem with 'policy alignment'? The complexities of national reform in Australia's federal system

Glenn C Savage, Kate O'Connor

Journal article  |  2019  |  JOURNAL OF EDUCATION POLICY

This article problematises contemporary debates in favour of ‘policy alignment’ by considering the complexities emerging from atte..

The curriculum question in higher education

K O’Connor

Journal article  |  2018  |  Curriculum Perspectives

From Disciplinary Excellence to Interdisciplinary Collaboration: How Australian Academics Negotiate Competing Knowledge Agendas

Lyn Yates, Peter Woelert, Victoria Millar, Kate O'Connor

Book Chapter  |  2018  |  Higher Education Dynamics

This chapter draws on research with historians and physicists to elucidate a bottom-up perspective on two knowledge agendas within..

MOOC-ing the Discipline: Tensions in the Development and Enactment of a Massive Open Online Course

Kate O'Connor

Book Chapter  |  2018  |  Higher Education Dynamics

In the current university context, academics are required to respond to multiple and competing demands which orient both away from..

Searching for the public: school funding and shifting meanings of "the public' in Australian education

Jessica Gerrard, Glenn C Savage, Kate O'Connor

Journal article  |  2017  |  JOURNAL OF EDUCATION POLICY

School funding is a principal site of policy reform and contestation in the context of broad global shifts towards private- and ma..