It's Time to Reflect: What is the cost of the South Australian Education Department's pursuit of becoming a "World Class" Education System by 2028?

Andrew Bills; Nigel Howard

It's Time to Reflect: What is the cost of the South Australian Education Department's pursuit of becoming a "World Class" Education System by 2028?

Andrew Bills
, Nigel Howard

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Abstract

This second Industry paper considers what Pasi Sahlberg (2012) has called the Global Education Reform Movement (GERM) which has changed the nature of the educational landscape across Australia to the cost of young people and the community at large. The fundamental aspects of GERM are Competition, Standardisation, School Choice and Test-Based Accountability which run parallel to what has been described as a diminishing of the public purposes of schooling (Reid, 2019). To date, our politicians, educational bureaucrats and policy makers rarely question how GERM policy and practice is impacting our schools, our teachers and our students. Rather, they are turning the GERM screws tighter to better serve the needs of a systems obsession with numerical measurement. With the GERM in play, this report seeks to answer two fundamental SA Public Education questions:
Two Key Questions
How did we catch the GERM?
[considering the antecedents to the Education Department’s pursuit of becoming a World Class Education System by 2028].
Discussed in Section 1.
What can the Education Department, Principals and teachers do differently to enable better schooling outcomes for all young people?
Discussed in Section 2.

Original language	English
Place of Publication	Adelaide, SA
Publisher	Flinders University
Commissioning body	Flinders University
Number of pages	19
ISBN (Electronic)	9781925562705
ISBN (Print)	9781925562712
Publication status	Published - Mar 2022
Event	CEPSW, CCYP and ACE Youth Policy Forum Series: What are the characteristics of a World Class education system that works for ALL young people? - U City Franklin Street, Adelaide, Australia Duration: 8 Mar 2022 → 8 Mar 2022 Conference number: 3

Publication series

Name	CEPSW Educational Leadership Industry Report
Publisher	Flinders University
No.	2

Bibliographical note

Andrew Bills and Nigel Howard have been working all of their careers pondering the question: Who’s in, Who’s Out and taking steps in schools and in policy terms to do something about it. They both share a background in special education and inclusive school innovation within public mainstream school settings, struggling to affirm the right of all to access, participation and success in schooling. This report seeks to explain and open these issues as they present across SA public education in current times.

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 4 Quality Education
SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities

Keywords

policy analysis
education systems
Educational leadership

NTRO Type of Output

Minor

Access to Document

Final published versionFinal published version, 3.03 MBLicence: CC BY

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Growing NGUTU
Bills, A. (Chief Investigator (Project Lead)), Howard, N. (Associate Investigator) & Velardo, S. (Associate Investigator)
1/10/21 → 1/10/24
Project: Research

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3 Article
2 Featured article
1 Book
1 Commissioned report

How the roadmap to 'world class' failed
Bills, A. & Howard, N., Apr 2023, Australian Education Union Journal- SA Branch, 55, 2 2 p.
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

Open Access
Parents have just started their own school in Sydney – this is part of a long tradition in Australia
Howard, N. & Bills, A., 5 Jul 2023, The Conversation, p. 1-2 2 p.
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Featured article

Open Access
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School attendance rates are dropping. We need to ask students why
Bills, A. & Howard, N., 27 Feb 2023, The Conversation, 27 February 2023 4 p.
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Featured article

Open Access
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Abstract

Publication series

Bibliographical note

UN SDGs

Keywords

NTRO Type of Output

Access to Document

Fingerprint

Projects

Growing NGUTU

Research output

How the roadmap to 'world class' failed

Parents have just started their own school in Sydney – this is part of a long tradition in Australia

School attendance rates are dropping. We need to ask students why

Cite this