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Dr

Kate O'Connor

Research Fellow
social sciences
education & educational research
policy
federalism
national reform
education
higher-education
knowledge
moocs
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Dr

Kate O'Connor

 
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Melbourne Graduate School Of Education
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Dr

Kate O'Connor

 

Kate O’Connor is a Research Fellow in the Social Transformations and Education Research Hub at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education. Her research interests are in curriculum policy and practice in schools and universities, sociology of education, educational technology and digital scholarship.



Kate’s PhD, “Remaking the university curriculum: what counts as knowledge in the new forms of online learning”, took up one of the most notable developments in higher education today, the burgeoning of online learning, and brought to it an original set of questions and theoretical perspectives drawn from curriculum theory: what is happening to knowledge? It was awarded the 2019 University of Melbourne Chancellor’s Prize for Excellence in the PhD Thesis, the 2019 Melbourne Graduate School of Education Doctoral Research Prize and the 2018 AARE Ray Debus Award for Doctoral Research in Education Special Commendation.
Kate is currently undertaking research within an ARC-funded program of work, Youth Identity and Educational Change, led by Professor Julie McLeod.

Projects

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Transforming Research Communities: Data Archiving, Sharing And Reuse In Qualitative Social Sciences

2019 - 2019
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Scholarly Works

Displaying the 18 most recent scholarly works by Kate O'Connor.

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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

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The curriculum question in higher education

Kate O’Connor

Journal article  |  2018  |  Curriculum Perspectives

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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

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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

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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

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Knowledge at the Crossroads? Physics and History in the Changing World of Schools and Universities

L Yates, P Woelert, V Millar, K O'Connor

Book  |  2017

This book is based on a major 4-year research study of history and physics in the changing environment of schools and universities..

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National agendas in global times: curriculum reforms in Australia and the USA since the 1980s

Glenn C Savage, Kate O'Connor

Journal article  |  2015  |  Journal of Education Policy

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MOOCs, institutional policy and change dynamics in higher education

Kate O'Connor

Journal article  |  2014  |  Higher Education

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Disciplinary representation on institutional websites: changing knowledge, changing power?

K O'Connor, L Yates

Journal article  |  2014  |  Journal of Educational Administration and History

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Standards or Curriculum? Policy Constructions of the What and How of Schooling

Kate O’Connor

Journal article  |  2014  |  Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy

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The Virtues of Openness: Education, science and scholarship in the digital age

Kate O'Connor

Journal article  |  2014  |  Educational Philosophy and Theory

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Developing a New National History Curriculum in Australia: The Public Authority, the Teachers, the Discipline

LS Yates, K O'Connor

Conference Proceedings  |  2014  |  American Educational Research Association General Meeting 2014: Constructing a Common Curriculum: System, Discipline, School, and Classroom

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Curriculum, Pedagogy, and the "Unbundling" of Higher Education

K O'Connor

Conference Proceedings  |  2014  |  American Educational Research Association General Meeting 2014: Case Study Approaches to Understanding Higher Education Culture

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Common core state standards: Implications for curriculum, equality and policy

GC Savage, K O’Connor, J Brass

Journal article  |  2014  |  Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy

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Disciplines and the digital: The curricular implications of changes to knowledge online

K O'Connor

Journal article  |  2013  |  Ubiquitous Learning

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Australian curriculum making

LS Yates, CW Collins, K O'Connor

Book Chapter  |  2011

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Curriculum in Australia: The challanges, the past and the future

LS Yates, CW Collins, K O'Connor

Book Chapter  |  2011

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Classifying Curriculum Scholarship in Australia: A Review of Postgraduate Theses 1975-2005

Kate O'Connor, Lyn Yates

Journal article  |  2010  |  Australian Educational Researcher

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Keyword Analysis

Specialist Studies in Education
Education and Training Systems
Curriculum
Education Systems
Curriculum and Pedagogy
Policy and Administration
School/institution
Other Education and Training
Sociology
Teaching and Instruction

Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2019

University of Melbourne Chancellor’s Prize for Excellence in the PhD Thesis 2019
2019

Melbourne Graduate School of Education Doctoral Research Prize 2019
2018

Ray Debus Award for Doctoral Research in Education - Special Commendation 2018

Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE)

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Credentials

Positions

Casual

Melbourne Graduate School Of Education

Casual

Melbourne Graduate School Of Education

Research Fellow

Melbourne Graduate School Of Education

Society For Research Into Higher Education (Srhe) Member

SOCIETY FOR RESEARCH INTO HIGHER EDUCATION

Australian Association For Research In Education (Aare) Member

AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH IN EDUCATION (AARE)

Education

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (EDUCATION)

University of Melbourne

BACHELOR OF PUBLIC POLICY AND MANAGEMENT (HONOURS)

University of Melbourne

BACHELOR OF ARTS (MEDIA & COMMUNICATIONS)

University of Melbourne

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