Nicole Mockler
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 765355 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Nicole Mockler |
| NOMBRES | Nicole |
| APELLIDO | Mockler |
| FIRMA | MOCKLER N |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0617-3506 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 69 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2007 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Gendered time poverty
Teaching is often framed as a ‘family-friendly’ profession, aligned with women's caring roles. This paper challenges that assumption by examining how contemporary teaching produces gendered forms of time poverty. Drawing on 43 interviews, we develop a theoretically informed analysis that brings together Rosa's concept of social acceleration and Wajcman's account of time pressure. We argue that shifts in workload and work intensity which produce t…
The ‘problem’ of teacher professional development in Australia
Early career teachers’ curriculum realities
Ongoing performativity agendas are narrowing the scope of teachers’ curriculum decision-making, challenging notions of curriculum as a process dependent on teachers’ professional judgement. As such, curriculum is positioned as a product, and teachers’ curriculum work merely as a routine, standardized practice. In this paper, we explore Australian early career primary teachers’ curriculum-making experiences within this educational landscape, focus…
What (and whose) evidence counts? Interrogating shifting conceptualisations of ‘evidence-based’ education in public discourse in Australia
Emphasis on ‘evidence-based’ practice in education has intensified in Australia over the past three decades. This article charts this rise by presenting a corpus-assisted discourse analysis of a purpose-built corpus of over 1,600 articles published in Australian national and capital city daily newspapers between 1988 and 2024. Using the conceptual lens of ‘media logic’ (Altheide, 2013), we explore four phases of ‘evidence-based’ practice linked t…
The standing stones of Stenhouse
Introduction to the special issue
While different forms of privatisation and commercialisation of education have existed since at least the 1990s, the global COVID-19 pandemic of 2020-2022 created opportunities for the integration of private and commercial interests in public education to be turbo-charged. In this introduction to the special issue, we place its articles featuring country case studies from Italy, Brazil, and the United Kingdom in context, providing some historical…
Framing teachers’ curriculum work in the Australian print media
Questions about teacher knowledge and expertise are longstanding internationally. This tension has intensified in Australia in recent years, with discussions of a ‘lesson lottery’ experienced by Australian students by virtue of teachers’ varied approaches to curriculum planning. In this article, we present an analysis of how teachers’ curriculum work has been framed in the Australian print media over the past five years, and who has framed the pr…
Accounting for teachers
The work of teachers, as representative of a significant area of social policy, occupies many column inches in newspapers internationally every year. This paper takes a close, systematic look at the education coverage of one national Australian newspaper, over a 30-year period from 1993 to 2022. Focusing on representations of school teachers in the Australian Financial Review (AFR), one of two Australian national daily newspapers, it presents a c…
Perverse impacts of competitive funding
Perverse impacts of competitive funding: public school principals as revenue generators in the grant economy
Workload, work intensification and time poverty for teachers and school leaders
This paper presents a synthesis of research literature concerned with teachers’ and school leaders’ experiences of workload and work intensification. Forty papers met the inclusion criteria for the research synthesis. From the analysis, we drew out both definitional and experiential accounts. Firstly, while we mostly found a conflation of the concepts of workload and work intensification, there is a distinction between the two that was apparent i…
Researching teachers’ time use
In the context of global concerns about teacher workload and the relationship between workload and attrition, understanding the nature, quantity and intensity of teachers’ work is an essential first step in formulating robust solutions to this significant problem. Understanding teachers’ work, however, is a complex undertaking, and prior attempts have largely been focused on the quantity rather than the intensity or quality of work required and u…
Recruiting the 'quality teacher
The figure of the teacher is becoming increasingly significant in schooling systems around the globe. In this article, we consider how the market-oriented system of schooling in the Australian state of New South Wales may be reflecting and (re)shaping understandings of who teachers are and should be. To do this, we present a corpus-assisted analysis of advertisements for teaching positions gathered across the public, Catholic and independent scho…
Marketing Australian public schools
Marketization is the development of quasi-markets on the systemic level, which promote choice, competition, accountability, and devolution in public schooling. Marketing is a strategy that individual school leaders employ to respond to these logics. This paper argues that education marketization has led to an increase in school-based marketing within the Australian public school system. The eight public school principals we report on here, percei…
Australian teacher educators responding to policy discourses of quality
If you can’t beat them, join them’
Marketisation and competition within public schooling systems impact the work of principals in varying ways. Previous work on the marketisation of schooling and school autonomy has drawn attention to the ‘entrepreneurial principal’ as an effect of marketisation. In this paper we explore principals’ engagements with marketisation based on 21 interviews with public school principals across two Australian states. Using the work of Christiaens (Citat…
Amplifying organisational discourses to the public
Alternative teacher education programmes have emerged in many countries as a new approach to recruiting, educating and placing teachers in underperforming schools. The media plays an important role in framing perceptions of these programmes and their teachers, including in Australia, but this has not been the subject of significant research to date. This study examines how one alternative teacher education programme—Teach For Australia (TFAus)—ha…
What is the ‘public’ in public education? Mapping past, present and future educational imaginaries of Europe and beyond
This special issue explores past, present and potential future imaginaries of ‘public’ education in Europe and beyond. The special issue is located in a contemporary context of political turmoil, in which one in four European voters allegedly supports populist political parties, with the largest support for far-right forms of populism; it is also set against a historical background of several decades of significant change in the social, political…
Making work private
This paper explores perceptions of work intensification around the world. Underpinning this analysis is C. Wright Mills’ (1959) argument that many personal troubles are public issues, and the notion that a significant dimension of the privatisation of public education, a concern of public education advocates worldwide, is the ways in which school work has become a private issue. One hundred and thirty interviews were conducted with education stak…
Signing off
Evidence of teaching practice in an age of accountability
Cultures of performative accountability in education have been on the rise globally since the 1980s. Accordingly, teachers have increasingly been encouraged to understand their work in relation to particular forms of ‘evidence’. All evidence, however, is not regarded as equal, and sources of evidence privileged within cultures of performative accountability are typically narrowly rendered, apparently ‘objective’, externally generated and largely …
Romancing the public school
In Anglophone countries, narratives of public schooling tend to emphasise generic hopes about schooling as central to the idea of a public good, including fostering community, delivering equality and protecting broad notions of democracy. However, as public systems become more open to privatised logics, these hopes sit alongside fears for the future of ‘publicness’. Through analysis of participant interviews in four education systems in Canada, E…
Ten years of print media coverage of Naplan
The National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) has been a key tenet of Australian education policy since its launch over a decade ago. Print media coverage of NAPLAN and myschool.edu.au , 1 which displays and compares NAPLAN results across Australia, has played a role in both reporting and shaping this aspect of education policy. This paper uses a corpus-assisted approach to map print media representations of NAPLAN over the fir…
Anxiety state
This paper uses Anderson’s notion of ‘imagined community’ to argue that how people think about the publicness of their school system provides insight into the functioning and flourishing of communities, societies and nations. We focus on the privatisation of public schooling in Alberta, Canada and Northern England to highlight tensions between the provision of public schooling today and a romanticised, historical imagining of the public school pr…
Discourses of teacher quality in the Australian print media 2014-2017
Discourses of ‘teacher quality’ have been on the rise in Australia since at least the standards-focused policy reforms of the 1990s. This paper uses a corpus-assisted analysis to explore recent deployments of ‘teacher quality’ and ‘teaching quality’ in the Australian print media, drawing on 432 articles collected from the 12 Australian national and capital city daily newspapers over the four-year period from January 2014 to December 2017. The ana…
New and alternative metaphors for school leadership
Metaphors are devices that help us connect new information and experiences to that which is already known to us (Lakoff and Johnson 1980). Research suggests that metaphors are an important aspect o
Reporting the ‘education revolution
Launched in January 2010, the MySchool.edu.au website, which ranks and compares schools on the basis of standardised literacy and numeracy tests, has been the subject of intense media coverage. This article examines 34 editorials focused on MySchool, published from October 2009 to August 2010, and identifies three key narratives in operation, those of distrust, choice and performance. It argues that these narratives work together to reinforce and…
Workload, work intensification and time poverty for teachers and school leaders
This paper presents a synthesis of research literature concerned with teachers’ and school leaders’ experiences of workload and work intensification. Forty papers met the inclusion criteria for the research synthesis. From the analysis, we drew out both definitional and experiential accounts. Firstly, while we mostly found a conflation of the concepts of workload and work intensification, there is a distinction between the two that was apparent i…
Early career teachers in Australia
Amid the growing ‘teacher quality’ discourse, early career teachers have increasingly been positioned as problematic in Australian education policy discourses over the past decade. This paper uses a critical policy historiography approach to compare representations of early career teachers in two key education policy documents, from the late 1990s and mid-2010s. Starting with the Government response to A Class Act: Inquiry into the Status of the …
Principals of audit
Historically, school leaders have occupied a somewhat ambiguous position within networks of power. On the one hand, they appear to be celebrated as what Ball (2003 Ball, S., 2003. The teacher's soul and the terrors of performativity. Journal of education policy, 18 (2), 215–228.[Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) has termed the ‘new hero of educational reform'; on the other, they are often ‘held to account’ through t…
Discourses of teacher quality in the Australian print media 2014-2017
Discourses of ‘teacher quality’ have been on the rise in Australia since at least the standards-focused policy reforms of the 1990s. This paper uses a corpus-assisted analysis to explore recent deployments of ‘teacher quality’ and ‘teaching quality’ in the Australian print media, drawing on 432 articles collected from the 12 Australian national and capital city daily newspapers over the four-year period from January 2014 to December 2017. The ana…
Romancing the public school
In Anglophone countries, narratives of public schooling tend to emphasise generic hopes about schooling as central to the idea of a public good, including fostering community, delivering equality and protecting broad notions of democracy. However, as public systems become more open to privatised logics, these hopes sit alongside fears for the future of ‘publicness’. Through analysis of participant interviews in four education systems in Canada, E…
Recruiting the 'quality teacher
The figure of the teacher is becoming increasingly significant in schooling systems around the globe. In this article, we consider how the market-oriented system of schooling in the Australian state of New South Wales may be reflecting and (re)shaping understandings of who teachers are and should be. To do this, we present a corpus-assisted analysis of advertisements for teaching positions gathered across the public, Catholic and independent scho…
Ethics in practitioner research
This contribution is set in the context of the burgeoning of practitioner inquiry in Australia, taking account also of various European and North American initiatives, against the background of the notion of action research as an emancipatory project. Practitioner inquiry, under these conditions, requires that the work move beyond a utilitarian function, important as that may be in terms of enhancing practice, and that it develops a greater capac…
If you can’t beat them, join them’
Marketisation and competition within public schooling systems impact the work of principals in varying ways. Previous work on the marketisation of schooling and school autonomy has drawn attention to the ‘entrepreneurial principal’ as an effect of marketisation. In this paper we explore principals’ engagements with marketisation based on 21 interviews with public school principals across two Australian states. Using the work of Christiaens (Citat…
New and alternative metaphors for school leadership
Metaphors are devices that help us connect new information and experiences to that which is already known to us (Lakoff and Johnson 1980). Research suggests that metaphors are an important aspect o
Ethics in practitioner research
This contribution is set in the context of the burgeoning of practitioner inquiry in Australia, taking account also of various European and North American initiatives, against the background of the notion of action research as an emancipatory project. Practitioner inquiry, under these conditions, requires that the work move beyond a utilitarian function, important as that may be in terms of enhancing practice, and that it develops a greater capac…
Connecting classrooms in rural communities through interactive whiteboards
This paper reports on the uses of interactive whiteboards in 'connected classrooms' in rural New South Wales, Australia. The research specifically focuses on the e 2 program, a senior school initiative among five schools that seeks to extend the range of curriculum options available for students by connecting classrooms using video conference and interactive whiteboard technology. Teachers working in these environments have created specific sets …
Beyond ‘what works’
Drawing on previous research that focused upon the formation and mediation of teacher professional identity, this paper develops a model for conceptualising teacher professional identity. Increasingly, technical-rational understandings of teachers’ work and ‘role’ are privileged in policy and public discourse over more nuanced and holistic approaches that seek to understand teacher professional identity – what it is to ‘be’ a teacher. This articl…
Reporting the ‘education revolution
Launched in January 2010, the MySchool.edu.au website, which ranks and compares schools on the basis of standardised literacy and numeracy tests, has been the subject of intense media coverage. This article examines 34 editorials focused on MySchool, published from October 2009 to August 2010, and identifies three key narratives in operation, those of distrust, choice and performance. It argues that these narratives work together to reinforce and…
Naplan and the Problem Frame
This chapter examines depictions of National Assessment Plan Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) in Australian print media, contrasting representations from both 2010 and 2013. Taking a selection of articles by six key journalists/commentators over the course of each of these two years, it maps the dominant frames in use around NAPLAN over this period. Differences in the resonance of the various articulations in authors work were also detected between…
Principals of audit
Historically, school leaders have occupied a somewhat ambiguous position within networks of power. On the one hand, they appear to be celebrated as what Ball (2003 Ball, S., 2003. The teacher's soul and the terrors of performativity. Journal of education policy, 18 (2), 215–228.[Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) has termed the ‘new hero of educational reform'; on the other, they are often ‘held to account’ through t…
Thank you to Reviewers 2015
Early career teachers in Australia
Amid the growing ‘teacher quality’ discourse, early career teachers have increasingly been positioned as problematic in Australian education policy discourses over the past decade. This paper uses a critical policy historiography approach to compare representations of early career teachers in two key education policy documents, from the late 1990s and mid-2010s. Starting with the Government response to A Class Act: Inquiry into the Status of the …
New and alternative metaphors for school leadership
Metaphors are devices that help us connect new information and experiences to that which is already known to us (Lakoff and Johnson 1980). Research suggests that metaphors are an important aspect o
Ten years of print media coverage of Naplan
The National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) has been a key tenet of Australian education policy since its launch over a decade ago. Print media coverage of NAPLAN and myschool.edu.au , 1 which displays and compares NAPLAN results across Australia, has played a role in both reporting and shaping this aspect of education policy. This paper uses a corpus-assisted approach to map print media representations of NAPLAN over the fir…
Anxiety state
This paper uses Anderson’s notion of ‘imagined community’ to argue that how people think about the publicness of their school system provides insight into the functioning and flourishing of communities, societies and nations. We focus on the privatisation of public schooling in Alberta, Canada and Northern England to highlight tensions between the provision of public schooling today and a romanticised, historical imagining of the public school pr…
Discourses of teacher quality in the Australian print media 2014-2017
Discourses of ‘teacher quality’ have been on the rise in Australia since at least the standards-focused policy reforms of the 1990s. This paper uses a corpus-assisted analysis to explore recent deployments of ‘teacher quality’ and ‘teaching quality’ in the Australian print media, drawing on 432 articles collected from the 12 Australian national and capital city daily newspapers over the four-year period from January 2014 to December 2017. The ana…
Evidence of teaching practice in an age of accountability
Cultures of performative accountability in education have been on the rise globally since the 1980s. Accordingly, teachers have increasingly been encouraged to understand their work in relation to particular forms of ‘evidence’. All evidence, however, is not regarded as equal, and sources of evidence privileged within cultures of performative accountability are typically narrowly rendered, apparently ‘objective’, externally generated and largely …
Romancing the public school
In Anglophone countries, narratives of public schooling tend to emphasise generic hopes about schooling as central to the idea of a public good, including fostering community, delivering equality and protecting broad notions of democracy. However, as public systems become more open to privatised logics, these hopes sit alongside fears for the future of ‘publicness’. Through analysis of participant interviews in four education systems in Canada, E…
What is the ‘public’ in public education? Mapping past, present and future educational imaginaries of Europe and beyond
This special issue explores past, present and potential future imaginaries of ‘public’ education in Europe and beyond. The special issue is located in a contemporary context of political turmoil, in which one in four European voters allegedly supports populist political parties, with the largest support for far-right forms of populism; it is also set against a historical background of several decades of significant change in the social, political…
Making work private
This paper explores perceptions of work intensification around the world. Underpinning this analysis is C. Wright Mills’ (1959) argument that many personal troubles are public issues, and the notion that a significant dimension of the privatisation of public education, a concern of public education advocates worldwide, is the ways in which school work has become a private issue. One hundred and thirty interviews were conducted with education stak…
Signing off
Marketing Australian public schools
Marketization is the development of quasi-markets on the systemic level, which promote choice, competition, accountability, and devolution in public schooling. Marketing is a strategy that individual school leaders employ to respond to these logics. This paper argues that education marketization has led to an increase in school-based marketing within the Australian public school system. The eight public school principals we report on here, percei…
Australian teacher educators responding to policy discourses of quality
If you can’t beat them, join them’
Marketisation and competition within public schooling systems impact the work of principals in varying ways. Previous work on the marketisation of schooling and school autonomy has drawn attention to the ‘entrepreneurial principal’ as an effect of marketisation. In this paper we explore principals’ engagements with marketisation based on 21 interviews with public school principals across two Australian states. Using the work of Christiaens (Citat…
Amplifying organisational discourses to the public
Alternative teacher education programmes have emerged in many countries as a new approach to recruiting, educating and placing teachers in underperforming schools. The media plays an important role in framing perceptions of these programmes and their teachers, including in Australia, but this has not been the subject of significant research to date. This study examines how one alternative teacher education programme—Teach For Australia (TFAus)—ha…
Researching teachers’ time use
In the context of global concerns about teacher workload and the relationship between workload and attrition, understanding the nature, quantity and intensity of teachers’ work is an essential first step in formulating robust solutions to this significant problem. Understanding teachers’ work, however, is a complex undertaking, and prior attempts have largely been focused on the quantity rather than the intensity or quality of work required and u…
Recruiting the 'quality teacher
The figure of the teacher is becoming increasingly significant in schooling systems around the globe. In this article, we consider how the market-oriented system of schooling in the Australian state of New South Wales may be reflecting and (re)shaping understandings of who teachers are and should be. To do this, we present a corpus-assisted analysis of advertisements for teaching positions gathered across the public, Catholic and independent scho…
Introduction to the special issue
While different forms of privatisation and commercialisation of education have existed since at least the 1990s, the global COVID-19 pandemic of 2020-2022 created opportunities for the integration of private and commercial interests in public education to be turbo-charged. In this introduction to the special issue, we place its articles featuring country case studies from Italy, Brazil, and the United Kingdom in context, providing some historical…
Framing teachers’ curriculum work in the Australian print media
Questions about teacher knowledge and expertise are longstanding internationally. This tension has intensified in Australia in recent years, with discussions of a ‘lesson lottery’ experienced by Australian students by virtue of teachers’ varied approaches to curriculum planning. In this article, we present an analysis of how teachers’ curriculum work has been framed in the Australian print media over the past five years, and who has framed the pr…
Sociology (21 obras) · Political science (20 obras) · Pedagogy (16 obras) · Public relations (16 obras) · Global Educational Policies and Reforms (15 obras) · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (15 obras) · Psychology (13 obras) · Law (11 obras) · Mathematics education (8 obras) · Computer Science (7 obras)