Knowledge Building in Schooling and Higher Education: Policy Strategies and Effects

Interdisciplinary curriculum reform in the changing university

Victoria Millar

2019-12-18

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

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

L 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..

‘Powerful knowledge’ curriculum theories and the case of physics

L Yates, V Millar

2016-07-02

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

Interdisciplinary curriculum reform in the changing university

V 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..

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

P Woelert, L 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

P 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

P 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

K O’Connor

2014-10-16

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

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

K O'Connor, L Yates

2014-01-13

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

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

LS Yates, K O'Connor

2014-01-01

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

P 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

P Woelert, V 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

P 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

L Yates

2013-02-26

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

P 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?

L 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..