Jessica Gerrard

Activist women, schooling and the rise of the grassroots Christian conservatism

Jessica Gerrard, Helen Proctor

Journal article  |  2021  |  AUSTRALIAN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCHER

This paper argues for the need to better understand the role of mothers and schooling in shaping modern conservative cultural poli..

Ethics in neoliberalism? Parental responsibility and education policy in Chile and Australia

Juan de Dios Oyarzun, Jessica Gerrard, Glenn Savage

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY

This article questions the diverse and, in some cases, contradictory ethical forms present in contemporary neoliberal policy frame..

The Productivity of Unemployment and the Temporality of Employment-to-Come: Older Disadvantaged Job Seekers

Jessica Gerrard, Juliet Watson

Journal article  |  2021  |  SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH ONLINE

This article demonstrates how unemployment is made productive through workfare activities for older disadvantaged job seekers. We ..

The politics of critical policy sociology: mobilities, moorings and elite networks

Glenn C Savage, Jessica Gerrard, Trevor Gale, Tebeje Molla

Journal article  |  2021  |  CRITICAL STUDIES IN EDUCATION

This article reflects on what doing critical policy sociology means in shifting theoretical, empirical and methodological contexts..

The governing parent-citizen: dividing and valorising parent labour through school governance

Jessica Gerrard, Glenn C Savage

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF EDUCATION POLICY

Internationally, major policy reforms seek to deepen parent and community engagement in schools. Whilst pervasive in policy docume..

Class, affective labour and exploitation: Unemployment and the creation of work on the margins

Jessica Gerrard, David Farrugia

Journal article  |  2020  |  SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW

This article examines the articulation of class and affective labour in the creation of work for the unemployed. Bringing together..

The quarantine archives: educators in "social isolation"

Ligia Licho Lopez Lopez, Christopher T McCaw, Rhonda Di Biase, Amy McKernan, Sophie Rudolph, Aristidis Galatis, Nicky Dulfer, Jessica Gerrard, Elizabeth McKinley, Julie McLeod, Fazal Rizvi

Journal article  |  2020  |  HISTORY OF EDUCATION REVIEW

Purpose: The archives gathered in this collection engage in the current COVID-19 moment. They do so in order to attempt to underst..

Introduction

Jessica Gerrard, Arathi Sriprakash

Book Chapter  |  2020

Knowledge and racial violence

Sophie Rudolph, Arathi Sriprakash, Jessica Gerrard

Book Chapter  |  2020

Boys in Dresses: Same-sex Marriage, Children and the Politics of Equivalence

Jessica Gerrard

Journal article  |  2020  |  AUSTRALIAN FEMINIST STUDIES

This reflective article considers the ways in which children were symbolically deployed to configure the politics in both the ‘Yes..