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Jessica Gerrard

Associate Professor
Melbourne Graduate School of Education
social sciences
education & educational research
4 quality education
sociology
education
education policy
neoliberalism
politics
policy
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Melbourne Graduate School of Education
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Jessica Gerrard's research groups

  • Social Transformations & Education Academic Group

    The Social Transformations and Education Academic Group addresses questions about educational purposes, policies and practices in light of social transformations. Our work explores new formations of knowledge, identities, social relations and cultural diversity, and how these are shaping and are shaped by education.

Projects

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Community organising in Australian education policy, 1970s-1980s

2020 - 2023
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SCHOOL AUTONOMY AND PARENT ENGAGEMENT IN DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES

2019 - 2022
Completed
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How do public schools create and engage communities?: a trans-national investigation into contemporary policy and practice

2018 - 2018
Completed
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TO LABOUR ON `THE BIG ISSUE?: EXAMINING THE CONSTRUCTION OF WORK AND EDUCATION FOR THE HOMELESS

2012 - 2015
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Internal Research Grant

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Scholarly Works

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The educational dynamics of populism: schooling, teacher expertise and popular claims to knowledge

Jessica Gerrard

Journal article  |  2022  |  DISCOURSE-STUDIES IN THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF EDUCATION

In response to the contemporary problematic of populism and associated reactionary right-wing politics, this paper argues for a gr..

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Learning Whiteness

Arathi Sriprakash, Sophie Rudolph, Jessica Gerrard

Book  |  2022

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Philanthropy, marketing disadvantage and the enterprising public school

Anna Hogan, Jessica Gerrard, Elisa Di Gregorio

Journal article  |  2022  |  AUSTRALIAN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCHER

Disadvantage in schooling is often constructed as a crisis in need of fixing. Global policy reforms tend to emphasise that solutio..

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Post-secular affective labours of teaching: contemplative practices and the 'belaboured self'

Christopher T McCaw, Jessica Gerrard

Journal article  |  2022  |  CRITICAL STUDIES IN EDUCATION

This paper examines the complex interweaving of the ‘personal’ and ‘professional’ in the affective labour of teachers. In line wit..

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Class in Australia

Jessica Gerrard, Steven Threadgold

Book  |  2022

Class is an enduring problematic, both as a descriptor, heuristic device or theoretical framework. This collection aptly responds ..

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

GC Savage, J Gerrard, T Gale, T Molla

Journal article  |  2022  |  Praxis Educativa

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

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Teach For America Influence on Non-TFA Teachers in Schools

Ashlee B Anderson, Matthew AM Thomas, T Jameson Brewer, Meghan Stacey, Mihajla Gavin, Jessica Gerrard, Anna Hogan, Jessica Holloway

Journal article  |  2022  |  EDUCATION POLICY ANALYSIS ARCHIVES

Teach For America (TFA) has left an indelible mark on education in the United States and worldwide through its expansion via Teach..

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Policy translations of citizen participation and new public governance: the case of school governing bodies

J Gerrard, GC Savage

Journal article  |  2022  |  Critical Policy Studies

This paper considers the policy problematic of state–citizen relationships, reflecting on renewed calls for citizen collaboration ..

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Teachers and Educational Policy: Markets, Populism, and Im/Possibilities for Resistance

Meghan Stacey, Mihajla Gavin, Jessica Gerrard, Anna Hogan, Jessica Holloway

Journal article  |  2022  |  EDUCATION POLICY ANALYSIS ARCHIVES

This double special issue, “Teachers and educational policy: markets, populism, and im/possibilities for resistance” explores the ..

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The Post-Truth Tyrannies of an Evidence-Based Hegemony

Stephanie Wescott, Meghan Stacey, Mihajla Gavin, Jessica Gerrard, Anna Hogan, Jessica Holloway

Journal article  |  2022  |  EDUCATION POLICY ANALYSIS ARCHIVES

A trend towards evidence-based practice has developed in policy and practice in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Austral..

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Keyword Analysis

Education Policy, Sociology and Philosophy
Schools and Learning Environments
Specialist Studies in Education
Sociology
Expanding Knowledge
Curriculum and Pedagogy
Education Systems
Learner and Learning
Other Education and Training
Community Services

News

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The concept of class is often avoided in public debate, but it's essential for understanding inequality

Jessica Gerrard, Steven Threadgold

In Australian news, opinion and popular culture, the figures of the hipster and the bogan are everywhere. These figures are proxies for cul..

November 21, 2022
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Flying the flag for change?

Sophie Rudolph, Jessica Gerrard

Flags are powerful cultural symbols of collective belonging. In a settler colonial context like Australia, official flags have political r..

October 19, 2022
pursuit Article
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More money for private schools won't make Australia's education fairer, no matter how you split it

Jessica Gerrard, Helen Proctor

In recent days the federal government announced a new funding formula for non-government schools. Called the Direct Measure of Income, the ..

March 5, 2020
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This is what the lives of Big Issue sellers tell us about working and being homeless

Jessica Gerrard

The “homelessness crisis”, particularly in Melbourne and Sydney, has attracted renewed attention in recent months. While there are higher r..

September 21, 2017
conversation Article
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Explainer: how does funding work in the Catholic school system?

Jessica Gerrard

Gonski 2.0 has provoked substantial debate about how much money schools get, who gets too much, and how the money will be distributed. C..

June 1, 2017
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Is there a crisis in public education?

Jessica Gerrard

In this series we’ll explore how to improve schools in Australia. Some of the most prominent experts in the sector tackle key questions, in..

February 12, 2017
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Credentials

Positions

Associate Professor

Melbourne Graduate School of Education

Education

History of Education & Social Theory

University of Cambridge

Politics, Democracy & Education

University of Cambridge

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