Simon Goodwin
Biographic Data
| ID | 298387 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simon Goodwin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simon |
| FAMILY NAME | Goodwin |
| SIGNATURE | GOODWIN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6238-8798 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Participatory politics and education policy reform: Publics and Histories
In this theoretical article, we respond to a common education policy discourse that represents community participation in educational policy-making as an essentially rational solution to policy problems and as inherently progressive and democratic.We propose that conceptualising participatory politics as 'publics' challenges this discourse and provides new openings for understanding community participation in education policy reform as modes of w…
Working with and against the bureaucratic state: Histories of grassroots organising for public education reform, 1970s–1980s
The article introduces an international Special Issue that addresses the significant question of how and why people organise to engage with policy making in the public sphere of education, from a historical perspective. Focusing on the phenomenon of ‘grassroots' community organising during the key formation period of the 1970s and 1980s, the issue collects articles from Australia, Canada, Chile, South Korea, Spain (Catalonia) and the United State…
Making commissioning work: The relational gap between intent and implementation in the transition to ‘commissioning’ community services in New South Wales
The question of impact is at the heart of human service design, with governments searching perennially for the right approach to meeting citizen need while responsibly acquitting public funds. In this area, ‘commissioning’ has become a popularised approach, most recently in Australia. Although in theory commissioning is a strategic and relational practice offering to put communities at the heart of decision‐making, commissioning in practice has p…
Poststructural Policy Analysis: A Guide to Practice
This Appendix introduces a new poststructural approach to interview analysis. It outlines seven closely related processes that address the following questions:\n•\tprecisely what is said in the interview?\n•\thow was it or is it possible to say those things?\n•\twhich networks of relations (discursive practices) are relevant to the interview topic?\n•\twhat do the selected “things said” produce as “subjects”, “objects” and “places”?\n•\thow do th…
Third Sector Social Policy Research in Australia: New Actors, New Politics
Human service NGOs have become central actors in contemporary welfare states. The broadening of the role of NGOs in Australia as both providers of the human services that are an integral part of the welfare state and as lobbyists or advocates and agents of social change has been widely acknowledged; however, this paper focuses on a recent deepening of the role of human service NGOs in the Australian welfare state by exploring an additional dimens…
Ensuring Children and Young People Have a Voice in Neighbourhood Community Development
Encouraging participation and agency are fundamental elements of social work practice using a community development approach that emphasises community identification of needs and strengths, and community involvement in social change. Ensuring children have a voice is also a cornerstone of social work practice. This paper reports on a project being undertaken in two social housing neighbourhoods in Sydney that began with an exploration of communit…
Framing microfinance in Australia – gender neutral or gender blind
In Australia, microfinance is gaining visibility as a distinct poverty alleviation strategy. Within the Australian microfinance policy and program discourses, the microfinance sector is framed as targeting both men and women equally. Yet at the practice level, the majority of loan recipients are women. Such a gender neutral framing is in stark contrast to microfinance policy and practices developed elsewhere. This paper explores how gender is rep…
Masculinised jobs, feminised jobs and men's 'gender capital' experiences: Understanding occupational segregation in Australia
Australia features a highly segregated workforce where certain occupational spaces appear to privilege particular gendered dispositions. While research on gender and work highlights the association between occupational segregation and gender inequality, conventional explanations of why men and women continue to be concentrated in different occupations, and in different roles within occupations, can be considered problematic. This article argues t…
Gender Politics and Public Policy Making: Prospects for Advancing Gender Equality
The purpose of this paper is to stimulate a re-envisioning of gender politics in public policy making by applying a new approach to understanding them. Our approach is based on, and illustrated by, a study of gender dynamics in policy-making processes in the NSW public sector in Australia. The study draws on theoretical developments in the sociological study of gender arrangements in large organisations. Central to the analysis is the concept of …
Independence, Risk and Compulsion: Conflicts In Mental Health Policy
During the second half of the 20th century the mental hospital population in England and Wales has fallen by some two‐thirds. This dramatic shift in mental health policy has been based, in part, upon a policy assumption concerning the therapeutic benefits of hospital discharge for mental patients. Yet, in recent years, concern has grown about the risks posed to the health and safety of patients and to the safety of other members of the community …
Rhetoric and nihilism in mental health policy: A response to Pilgrim (CSP Issue 34)
A new deal for the mentally ill: Progress or propaganda
Since the late 1950s, successive British government's have embraced the philosophy of caring for dependent groups in the community in prefer ence to institutions. Yet through this period it has become commonplace for social policy analysts to deride the gap between political and profes sional rhetoric, and the lived experiences of the users of services and informal carers.The policy has become characterised as by the communority, and not care in …
Community Care for the Mentally Ill in England and Wales: Myths, Assumptions and Reality
It is widely recognised that there are many problems with the community care policy for the mentally ill which has been in operation in England and Wales since the late 1950s. However, many existing accounts of the development of the policy rest upon a variety of erroneous assumptions about how it has evolved, and which in turn affect our understanding of how it might be changed. Some of these assumptions are examined, and it is argued that frequ…
Masculinised jobs, feminised jobs and men's 'gender capital' experiences: Understanding occupational segregation in Australia
Australia features a highly segregated workforce where certain occupational spaces appear to privilege particular gendered dispositions. While research on gender and work highlights the association between occupational segregation and gender inequality, conventional explanations of why men and women continue to be concentrated in different occupations, and in different roles within occupations, can be considered problematic. This article argues t…
Gender Politics and Public Policy Making: Prospects for Advancing Gender Equality
The purpose of this paper is to stimulate a re-envisioning of gender politics in public policy making by applying a new approach to understanding them. Our approach is based on, and illustrated by, a study of gender dynamics in policy-making processes in the NSW public sector in Australia. The study draws on theoretical developments in the sociological study of gender arrangements in large organisations. Central to the analysis is the concept of …
Ensuring Children and Young People Have a Voice in Neighbourhood Community Development
Encouraging participation and agency are fundamental elements of social work practice using a community development approach that emphasises community identification of needs and strengths, and community involvement in social change. Ensuring children have a voice is also a cornerstone of social work practice. This paper reports on a project being undertaken in two social housing neighbourhoods in Sydney that began with an exploration of communit…
Community Care for the Mentally Ill in England and Wales: Myths, Assumptions and Reality
It is widely recognised that there are many problems with the community care policy for the mentally ill which has been in operation in England and Wales since the late 1950s. However, many existing accounts of the development of the policy rest upon a variety of erroneous assumptions about how it has evolved, and which in turn affect our understanding of how it might be changed. Some of these assumptions are examined, and it is argued that frequ…
Participatory politics and education policy reform: Publics and Histories
In this theoretical article, we respond to a common education policy discourse that represents community participation in educational policy-making as an essentially rational solution to policy problems and as inherently progressive and democratic.We propose that conceptualising participatory politics as 'publics' challenges this discourse and provides new openings for understanding community participation in education policy reform as modes of w…
Third Sector Social Policy Research in Australia: New Actors, New Politics
Human service NGOs have become central actors in contemporary welfare states. The broadening of the role of NGOs in Australia as both providers of the human services that are an integral part of the welfare state and as lobbyists or advocates and agents of social change has been widely acknowledged; however, this paper focuses on a recent deepening of the role of human service NGOs in the Australian welfare state by exploring an additional dimens…
Making commissioning work: The relational gap between intent and implementation in the transition to ‘commissioning’ community services in New South Wales
The question of impact is at the heart of human service design, with governments searching perennially for the right approach to meeting citizen need while responsibly acquitting public funds. In this area, ‘commissioning’ has become a popularised approach, most recently in Australia. Although in theory commissioning is a strategic and relational practice offering to put communities at the heart of decision‐making, commissioning in practice has p…
Rhetoric and nihilism in mental health policy: A response to Pilgrim (CSP Issue 34)
Community Care for the Mentally Ill in England and Wales: Myths, Assumptions and Reality
It is widely recognised that there are many problems with the community care policy for the mentally ill which has been in operation in England and Wales since the late 1950s. However, many existing accounts of the development of the policy rest upon a variety of erroneous assumptions about how it has evolved, and which in turn affect our understanding of how it might be changed. Some of these assumptions are examined, and it is argued that frequ…
A new deal for the mentally ill: Progress or propaganda
Since the late 1950s, successive British government's have embraced the philosophy of caring for dependent groups in the community in prefer ence to institutions. Yet through this period it has become commonplace for social policy analysts to deride the gap between political and profes sional rhetoric, and the lived experiences of the users of services and informal carers.The policy has become characterised as by the communority, and not care in …
Rhetoric and nihilism in mental health policy: A response to Pilgrim (CSP Issue 34)
Independence, Risk and Compulsion: Conflicts In Mental Health Policy
During the second half of the 20th century the mental hospital population in England and Wales has fallen by some two‐thirds. This dramatic shift in mental health policy has been based, in part, upon a policy assumption concerning the therapeutic benefits of hospital discharge for mental patients. Yet, in recent years, concern has grown about the risks posed to the health and safety of patients and to the safety of other members of the community …
Gender Politics and Public Policy Making: Prospects for Advancing Gender Equality
The purpose of this paper is to stimulate a re-envisioning of gender politics in public policy making by applying a new approach to understanding them. Our approach is based on, and illustrated by, a study of gender dynamics in policy-making processes in the NSW public sector in Australia. The study draws on theoretical developments in the sociological study of gender arrangements in large organisations. Central to the analysis is the concept of …
Third Sector Social Policy Research in Australia: New Actors, New Politics
Human service NGOs have become central actors in contemporary welfare states. The broadening of the role of NGOs in Australia as both providers of the human services that are an integral part of the welfare state and as lobbyists or advocates and agents of social change has been widely acknowledged; however, this paper focuses on a recent deepening of the role of human service NGOs in the Australian welfare state by exploring an additional dimens…
Ensuring Children and Young People Have a Voice in Neighbourhood Community Development
Encouraging participation and agency are fundamental elements of social work practice using a community development approach that emphasises community identification of needs and strengths, and community involvement in social change. Ensuring children have a voice is also a cornerstone of social work practice. This paper reports on a project being undertaken in two social housing neighbourhoods in Sydney that began with an exploration of communit…
Framing microfinance in Australia – gender neutral or gender blind
In Australia, microfinance is gaining visibility as a distinct poverty alleviation strategy. Within the Australian microfinance policy and program discourses, the microfinance sector is framed as targeting both men and women equally. Yet at the practice level, the majority of loan recipients are women. Such a gender neutral framing is in stark contrast to microfinance policy and practices developed elsewhere. This paper explores how gender is rep…
Masculinised jobs, feminised jobs and men's 'gender capital' experiences: Understanding occupational segregation in Australia
Australia features a highly segregated workforce where certain occupational spaces appear to privilege particular gendered dispositions. While research on gender and work highlights the association between occupational segregation and gender inequality, conventional explanations of why men and women continue to be concentrated in different occupations, and in different roles within occupations, can be considered problematic. This article argues t…
Poststructural Policy Analysis: A Guide to Practice
This Appendix introduces a new poststructural approach to interview analysis. It outlines seven closely related processes that address the following questions:\n•\tprecisely what is said in the interview?\n•\thow was it or is it possible to say those things?\n•\twhich networks of relations (discursive practices) are relevant to the interview topic?\n•\twhat do the selected “things said” produce as “subjects”, “objects” and “places”?\n•\thow do th…
Making commissioning work: The relational gap between intent and implementation in the transition to ‘commissioning’ community services in New South Wales
The question of impact is at the heart of human service design, with governments searching perennially for the right approach to meeting citizen need while responsibly acquitting public funds. In this area, ‘commissioning’ has become a popularised approach, most recently in Australia. Although in theory commissioning is a strategic and relational practice offering to put communities at the heart of decision‐making, commissioning in practice has p…
Working with and against the bureaucratic state: Histories of grassroots organising for public education reform, 1970s–1980s
The article introduces an international Special Issue that addresses the significant question of how and why people organise to engage with policy making in the public sphere of education, from a historical perspective. Focusing on the phenomenon of ‘grassroots' community organising during the key formation period of the 1970s and 1980s, the issue collects articles from Australia, Canada, Chile, South Korea, Spain (Catalonia) and the United State…
Participatory politics and education policy reform: Publics and Histories
In this theoretical article, we respond to a common education policy discourse that represents community participation in educational policy-making as an essentially rational solution to policy problems and as inherently progressive and democratic.We propose that conceptualising participatory politics as 'publics' challenges this discourse and provides new openings for understanding community participation in education policy reform as modes of w…
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