Knowledge Building in schooling and higher education: policy strategies and effects

Schools, universities and history in the world of twenty-first century skills "The end of knowledge as we know it"?

Lyn Yates

2017-01-01

Purpose: This paper was originally presented as a keynote presentation to the annual conference of the ANZHES whose theme was “kno..

Interdisciplinary curriculum reform in the changing university

Victoria Millar

2016-05-18

In response to the current demands and trends within education, the disciplines as one of the core long-standing organizing struct..

'Powerful knowledge' curriculum theories and the case of physics

Lyn Yates, Victoria Millar

2016-01-01

A stream of debate (including a previous special issue of this journal (25(1) 2014)) has made claims not just for ‘bringing knowle..

Too little and too much trust: performance measurement in Australian higher education

Peter Woelert, Lyn Yates

2015-05-04

A striking feature of contemporary Australian higher education governance is the strong emphasis on centralized, template style, m..

Governing Knowledge: The Formalization Dilemma in the Governance of the Public Sciences

Peter Woelert

2015-03-01

This paper offers a conceptually novel contribution to the understanding of the distinctive governance challenges arising from the..

The 'logic of escalation' in performance measurement: An analysis of the dynamics of a research evaluation system

Peter Woelert

2015-03-01

This paper makes a conceptual contribution to the understanding of the 'alternative logics' (Pollitt) occurring in performance mea..

MOOCs, institutional policy and change dynamics in higher education

Kate O'Connor

2014-11-01

The last couple of years have witnessed a growing debate about online learning in higher education, notably in response to the glo..

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

LS Yates, K O'Connor

2014-01-01

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

Kate O'Connor, Lyn Yates

2014-01-01

This paper analyses shifts in the representation of history and physics as named organisational units on Australian university web..

Technology, knowledge, governance: The political relevance of Husserl's critique of the epistemic effects of formalization

Peter Woelert

2013-12-01

This paper explores the political import of Husserl's critical discussion of the epistemic effects of the formalization of rationa..

The 'paradox of interdisciplinarity' in Australian research governance

Peter Woelert, Victoria Millar

2013-12-01

This paper identifies what can be called the 'paradox of interdisciplinarity' (Weingart 2000) in Australian higher education resea..

The 'Economy of Memory': Publications, Citations, and the Paradox of Effective Research Governance

Peter Woelert

2013-09-01

More recent advancements in digital technologies have significantly alleviated the dissemination of new scientific ideas as well a..

Revisiting curriculum, the numbers game and the inequality problem

Lyn Yates

2013-02-01

This essay reflects on Daniel Tanner's 'Race to the top and leave the children behind' by attention to the way our particular nati..

Idealization and external symbolic storage: the epistemic and technical dimensions of theoretic cognition

Peter Woelert

2012-09-01

This paper explores some of the constructive dimensions and specifics of human theoretic cognition, combining perspectives from (H..

My School, My University, My Country, My World, My Google, Myself ... What is education for now?

Lyn Yates

2012-08-01

Education is today in question, both in its institutional forms and in its conceptual remit. The sense of a knowledge explosion an..