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Add  'Power, regulation and physically active identities' : the experiences of rural and regional living adolescent girls
Authors: Casey, Meghan | Mooney, Amanda | Smyth, John | Payne, Warren
Date: 2016
Subject: 1303 Specialist Studies In Education | 1608 Sociology | Gender | Physical education | Sport | Physical activity | Power relations | Techniques of power | Foucault
Type: Text
Identifier: http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/100726
Description: Drawing on interpretations of Foucault's techniques of power, we explored the discourses and power relations operative between groups of girls that appeared to influence their participation in Physica... More
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Add  Geographies of trust : A politics of resistance for an alternative education
Authors: Smyth, John
Date: 2016
Subject: Educational policy | Trust | Alternative education | Student resistance
Type: Text
Identifier: http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/154301
Description: This state-of-the-art, comprehensive Handbook fully explores the field of alternative education on an international scale. Alternatives to mainstream schooling and education are becoming increasingly ... More
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Add  'Give me air not shelter': critical tales of a policy case of student re-engagement from beyond school
Authors: Smyth, John | Robinson, Janean
Date: 2015
Subject: 1303 Specialist Studies In Education | 1605 Policy and Administration | Equity/social justice | Inclusion
Type: Text
Identifier: http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/76475
Description: This paper tackles what is arguably one of the most pressing and intractable educational issues confronting western democracies and the disengagement and disconnection from schooling of alarming numbe... More
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Add  Critical voices from adolescent shape shifters- accessing portraits in 'Becoming Educated'
Authors: Smyth, John | Hewitson, Robyn
Date: 2015
Subject: 1604 Human Geography | Critical practice | Identity | Qualitative research | Social control | Youth activists
Type: Journal article
Identifier: http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/99065
Description: What young people have to say about schooling can be most revealing, particularly when they expose and challenge the injustices and logic of school policies and practices. This paper captures voices f... More
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Add  Thinking Past Educational Disadvantage, and Theories of Reproduction
Authors: Hattam, Robert | Smyth, John
Date: 2015
Subject: 1608 Sociology | Bourdieu | Critical sociology | Educational disadvantage | Rancière | Reproduction
Type: Text
Identifier: http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/76932
Description: This article proposes a critique of critical sociology of education as a means of thinking past theories of reproduction which are the doxa for our field. The article problematizes key words such as '... More
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Add  What it means to be studying against the grain of neoliberalism in a community-based university programme in a 'disadvantaged area'
Authors: Smyth, John | Harrison, Tim
Date: 2015
Subject: 1303 Specialist Studies In Education | 2103 Historical Studies | 2202 History and Philosophy Of Specific Fields | Aspirations | Class | Community-based education | Disadvantage | Participation in higher education
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Identifier: http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/76964
Description: Australia is indicative of a country that is deeply confused and conflicted around a policy discourse of inclusion that is sutured within an existential context heavily committed to the tenets of neol... More
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Add  'I want to get a piece of paper that says I can do stuff': youth narratives of educational opportunities and constraints in low socio-economic neighbourhoods
Authors: McInerney, Peter | Smyth, John
Date: 2014
Subject: Educational disadvantage | Funds of knowledge | Narrative portrait | Opportunity structures | 1303 Specialist Studies In Education
Type: Text
Identifier: http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/53815
Description: The persistent failure of contemporary policies to improve school retention rates and close the achievement gap between students from low and high socio-economic (SES) backgrounds should be a matter o... More
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Add  'Ordinary kids' navigating geographies of educational opportunity in the context of an Australian 'place-based intervention'
Authors: Smyth, John | McInerney, Peter
Date: 2014
Subject: 1303 Specialist Studies In Education | 1605 Policy and Administration | Critical analysis | Equity/social justice
Type: Text
Identifier: http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/31796
Description: This paper addresses the vexed educational policy aspects of area-based interventions (ABIs) in neighbourhoods designated as 'disadvantaged' in an Australian context. We find that the way in which the... More
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Add  Becoming educated: Young people's narratives of disadvantage, class, place, and identity
Authors: Smyth, John | McInerney, Peter
Date: 2014
Type: Text
Identifier: http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/58030
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Add  Education reform makes no sense without social class
Authors: Smyth, John
Date: 2014
Subject: 1303 Specialist Studies In Education | 1608 Sociology | 1399 Other Education | Identity | Culture
Type: Text
Identifier: http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/92580
Description: In enlightened and civilised societies we like to think that the blatantly racist eugenics movement that involved social selection based upon genetic traits is a disgraceful notion relegated to the pa... More
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Add  Improving schools in poor areas: It's not about the organisation, structures and privatisation, stupid!
Authors: Smyth, John
Date: 2014
Subject: 1301 Education Systems | Adolescents | Community engagement | Critical pedagogy | Dropping out | Poverty
Type: Text
Identifier: http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/76459
Description: In this article, the author presents a review of his extended research engagement with disadvantaged young people and their education. He challenges the dominant neoliberal model of school reform base... More
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Add  It need not have been this way: School reform around the socially just school in Australia and lessons from the Finnish educational miracle
Authors: Smyth, John
Date: 2014
Type: Text
Identifier: http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/37232
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Add  It's our turn - young people 'tilting' the neoliberal turn
Authors: Smyth, John | Robinson, Janean | McInerney, Peter
Date: 2014
Subject: Exclusion | Identity | NEET | Schooling | Self-esteem
Type: Text
Identifier: http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/32059
Description: Education is an important and defining element in young people's lives. When conceived properly, it has the potential to transform opportunities and life chances. It hardly comes as news that in recen... More
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Add  Rural young people in late modernity : Place, globalisation and the spatial contours of identity
Authors: Farrugia, David | Smyth, John | Harrison, Tim
Date: 2014
Subject: 1608 Sociology | Globalisation | Place | Reflexivity | Rural | Youth
Type: Text
Identifier: http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/155431
Description: This article draws together arguments for an interdisciplinary ‘spatial turn’ within sociology to analyse the subjectivities and biographical imaginings of Australian rural youth. It draws on a theore... More
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Add  Where has class gone? The pervasiveness of class in girls' physical activity in a rural town
Authors: Smyth, John | Mooney, Amanda | Casey, Meghan
Date: 2014
Subject: 1302 Curriculum and Pedagogy | 1303 Specialist Studies In Education
Type: Text
Identifier: http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/40238
Description: This paper seeks to animate discussion around how social class operates with adolescent girls from low socio-economic status backgrounds to shape and inform their decisions about participation in phys... More
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