Education + Training: Volume 56 Issue 7

Sustainability of community engagement – in the hands of stakeholders?

Anubama Ramachandra, Nur Naha Abu Mansor

The current gap in the field of community engagement is evaluation and measurement of the impacts on the stakeholders, mainly the community being engaged with. The paper aims to…

Net/working: higher education in the age of neoliberalism, crisis and social media

Maryam H. El-Shall

The purpose of this paper is to examines the history and goals of online instruction in higher education by linking them to the neoliberal agenda emerging at the end of the 1980s…

A fresh approach to indigenous business education

Christopher Bajada, Rowan Trayler

The social and economic disadvantages confronted by many Indigenous Australians are well known. A close look at Indigenous employment highlights that Indigenous Australians are…

Higher Education and student engagement: implications for a new economic era

Juliet Millican

The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of rising fees and the increasing privatisation of higher education on the expectations of its students. It compares experiences…

A critical investigation of the relationship between masculinity, social justice, religious education and the neo-liberal discourse

Francis Farrell

– The purpose of this paper is to critically investigate a group of year 11 boys’ relationship to RE in response to debates about boys’ underachievement in RE.

Accountability and the rise of “play safe” pedagogical practices

Gillian Bailey

The purpose of this paper is to examine how the culture of teacher accountability has been intensified in further education (FE) under neo-liberalist policy, with the result that…

Guest editorial

Vicky Duckworth, Jonathan Tummons