Kylie Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3592237 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kylie Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kylie |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH K |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9249-0355 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Leading Change in Academic Departments: An Analysis of Department Heads and Teaching Evaluation Reform Using Kotter’s Model
Desired reforms in undergraduate education require shifts in departmental practices. Department heads are positioned to be change agents, but often lack formal leadership training, and their approaches to change have received little scholarly attention. Research findings from disciplines like organizational management can offer relevant insights. We drew on Kotter’s 8-step model for leading change as a theoretical lens for examining the ideas and…
Dr. Nurse: Science, Politics, and the Transformation of American Nursing , Dominique A. Tobbell
Matching Potential with Promise: How Oklahoma’s Promise Shapes Academic Undermatch
A Clinic for the People: Toward an Antiracist Psychiatry at the Tuskegee Institute 1947–1965
From 1947 until 1963, a small group of psychiatrists from the Tuskegee Veterans Administration Hospital ran a Mental Hygiene Clinic designed to provide outpatient care and education to the Black residents of Macon County, Alabama. In an analysis of the clinic and the work of its Director, Dr. Prince Barker, we see the ways that Black psychiatrists tried to develop an antiracist approach to psychiatry and to develop their own autonomy in segregate…
(En)tangling anger and equity dreams: Rece promises and pantomimes
This response to the question about what we are angry about and what we dream of for young children reflects our work of over 30 years in Australasia. For Kylie in Australia and for Sonja in Aotearoa New Zealand and now also Australia. We direct the RECE common call, for an elevation of children’s rights, to a voice, to a ‘good’ education, and to a ‘good’ life, to the children, families, teachers, educators and communities with whom we live and w…
Conceptualising “the more-than-migrant child”
Purpose Using a feminist, post-structural and posthuman theoretical framing the paper argues for elevating the complexity of conceptions of migrant children’s engagements with and contributions to their own lives. Design/methodology/approach This conceptual paper responds to contemporary concerns with research involving migrant children and childhoods in an Australian context. With researchers and teachers’ attention being drawn to enhancing the …
Young children's right to be heard on the quality of their education: Addressing potential misunderstandings in the context of early childhood education
In early childhood education many researchers and professionals across the world have embraced the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child's requirement to include young children in decision‐making. In the context of ongoing discussion about young children's capacity to share their views and opinions about matters affecting them, there is often a focus on demonstrating ‘evidence’ that young children can participate in decision‐making…
Reflections on the use of patient records: Privacy, ethics, and reparations in the history of psychiatry
One of the most common questions we get asked as historians of psychiatry is "do you have access to patient records?" Why are people so fascinated with the psychiatric patient record? Do people assume they are or should be available? Does access to the patient record actually tell us anything new about the history of psychiatry? And if we did have them, what can, or should we do with them? In the push to both decolonize and personalize the histor…
Emoting up, emoting down: Status, authenticity and the emotional labour of STEM graduate students
Various studies have examined emotional labour’s positive and negative aspects, but the structural conditions under which people experience emotional labour as fulfilling vs. taxing are underexplored. In this study, I use interviews with graduate students – a group whose relative social status changes routinely – to illuminate the types of emotion work that occasion positive and negative feelings. I find that graduate students often felt positive…
Asylum Ways of Seeing: Psychiatric Patients, American Thought and Culture . By Heather Murray
In many ways, “Asylum Ways of Seeing” by Heather Murray, is an extended riff on the term “asylum”—what it meant for psychiatry and for patients, and how this meaning changed over time. To explore this change in meaning, Murray employs a “history of emotions” framework and takes an overtly cultural and intellectual history approach to center the experiences of patients themselves. In this way, she argues not only that we need to try and understand…
Using professional development resources to support the inclusion of gender equity in early childhood teaching and curriculum planning
Gender-based violence (GBV) is a global health issue that affects significant proportions of women and girls. Despite research showing that children understand and perform stereotypical gender norms from as young as 3 years, addressing gender with young children is controversial. Programs that aim to teach gender fairness and respectful relationships in early childhood settings are uncommon. This article reports on an evaluation of a trial of a w…
Working Within a System of Administrative Burden: How Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Role Perceptions Shape Access to the Promise of Higher Education
Utilizing a statewide survey and administrative data, we explore how state-imposed burdens are translated by street-level bureaucrats (SLBs) into frontline practices that may alleviate or exacerbate onerous experiences of the administrative state. First, we find that SLBs’ role perceptions shaped not only uses of discretionary power—as either a force of client empowerment or disentitlement—but also program access. Second, we find that the local a…
Reconceptualising and (re)forming early childhood professional identities: Ongoing transnational policy discussions
Problematic policy constructions of the purpose of education implicate professional identities and working conditions of professionals working with the youngest children. This paper builds on our earlier writing, to contest teacher professional identities in Australia, Ireland, Denmark and the United States of America, to illustrate the crucial importance of contextualised policy landscapes in early childhood education and care. It uses prevailin…
Practicing Democracy from Childhood: Democratic Praxis in Te Ao Māori
Democracy manifests itself in a range of ways and is an imperfect, dynamic struggle for collective decision-making. This article discusses the multifaceted processes of deliberative democratic praxis found in traditional Māori society. Central to decision-making in te ao Māori, hui provide formal and informal structures for deliberative democracy, precedent setting, learning, and transformation through consensus making, inclusive debate, and disc…
Just or Unjust? How Ideological Beliefs Shape Street‐Level Bureaucrats’ Perceptions of Administrative Burden
Existing research finds that increases in administrative burden reduce client access, political efficacy, and equity. However, extant literature has yet to investigate how administrative burden policies are interpreted by street‐level bureaucrats (SLB), whose values and beliefs structure uses of discretion and client experiences of programs. In this article, we utilize quantitative and qualitative data to examine SLB policy preferences regarding …
The Routledge International Handbook of Young Children’s Rights
"Marking the 30th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), this seminal handbook will provide an authoritative, critical overview of the diverse ways that the rights of children aged 0 - 8 are respected or neglected throughout the world, and will consider how policy, practice, and research might address the barriers to universal respect for children's rights. Drawing together original contributions from wor…
Reflections on design, country and community justice at the Neighbourhood Justice Centre
This paper is about Spaces of Justice and the role the Neighbourhood Justice Centre (Collingwood, Victoria) plays in providing a safe space for Community Justice to be carried out. It is based on the reflections the author provided at the Space of Justice symposium in Melbourne in July 2017, about access to justice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities who gather in the local government area of Yarra. The author relates her feelin…
Edu-capitalism and the governing of early childhood education and care in Australia, New Zealand and the United States
This article examines the effects of edu-capitalism and neoliberal education policies across Australia, New Zealand and United States to disrupt hegemonic policy logic based on neutral human capital. Current frameworks, standards and assessment tools govern and control how early childhood educators see and assess children and in turn develop and implement pedagogy. Issues of gender, class and ethnicity are invisible with the assumption that all c…
Surveillance, responsibility and control: An analysis of government and industry discourses about “problem” and “responsible” gambling
Background: Discussions of gambling have traditionally focused on ideas of “problem” and “responsible” gambling. However, few studies have examined how Institutions attempt to exert social control over gamblers in order to promote so-called “responsible” behaviour. In this study, we examine the way “problem” and “responsible” gambling are discussed by Australian governments and the gambling industry, using a theoretical framework based on the wor…
Measuring research 'impact' for academic promotion: Issues From the Literature
Around the world, governments and the higher education sector are being asked to become more accountable for the money they spend on research funding. Research quality measurement exercises, such as the Excellence in Research for Australia initiative, use a number of agreed indicators to measure, analyse and report on various institution and discipline-based research outputs. This emphasis on the outputs of research as opposed to its longer term …
The effect of point of sale promotions on the alcohol purchasing behaviour of young people in metropolitan, regional and rural Australia
This study, part of a larger project examining marketing and alcohol, looked specifically at the effects of point of sale (POS) promotions on young people, with a view to providing evidence which could be used to inform policy and regulation in this area. A series of focus groups were conducted in three different locations with young people aged 16–25 years, separated by age and gender, with a total of 85 participants. Participants were asked que…
Hegemony: Studies in Consensus and Coercion
1. Hegemony and the Operation of Consensus and Coercion Richard Howson and Kylie Smith 2. Hegemony in the Pre-Prison Context Richard Howson 3. Hegemony: Political and Linguistic Sources for Gramsci's Concept of Hegemony Derek Boothman 4. Hegemony and the Elaboration of the Process of Subalternity Hiroshi Matsuda and Koichi Ohara 5. Hegemony, Language and Popular Wisdom in the Asia-Pacific Alastair Davidson 6. Hegemony and Power in Gramsci Benedet…
Females and Harry Potter: Not all that empowering, by Ruth Mayes‐Elma
Oxford, Rowman and Littlefield, 2006, vii + 155 pp., $20.95 (paperback), ISBN 978‐074253‐7798 Females and Harry Potter introduces critical and feminist theories to deconstruct the representation of
Young Children's Rights and Public Policy: Practices and Possibilities for Citizenship in the Early Years
There is a growing belief that young children should be involved in decisions that affect them. This belief has its foundations in a new model of the young child, in a new concern with young children's rights as citizens and in new knowledge about the significance of young children's early experiences. This article examines the increasing interest in involving young children in policy‐making and its rationale. It then presents two case studies fr…
Subjectivity, Hegemony, and the Subaltern in Sydney, 1870–1900
Australian historiography traditionally has privileged the study of the organized working class. This established history ignores socially disruptive elements in late-nineteenth-century Sydney (the height of working-class organization), such as “larrikins,” who have been too simply categorized as an expression of antiauthoritarianism born out of convictism. This paper argues, rather, that larrikins can be understood as a form of resistance to a n…
Working Within a System of Administrative Burden: How Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Role Perceptions Shape Access to the Promise of Higher Education
Utilizing a statewide survey and administrative data, we explore how state-imposed burdens are translated by street-level bureaucrats (SLBs) into frontline practices that may alleviate or exacerbate onerous experiences of the administrative state. First, we find that SLBs’ role perceptions shaped not only uses of discretionary power—as either a force of client empowerment or disentitlement—but also program access. Second, we find that the local a…
Practicing Democracy from Childhood: Democratic Praxis in Te Ao Māori
Democracy manifests itself in a range of ways and is an imperfect, dynamic struggle for collective decision-making. This article discusses the multifaceted processes of deliberative democratic praxis found in traditional Māori society. Central to decision-making in te ao Māori, hui provide formal and informal structures for deliberative democracy, precedent setting, learning, and transformation through consensus making, inclusive debate, and disc…
Measuring research 'impact' for academic promotion: Issues From the Literature
Around the world, governments and the higher education sector are being asked to become more accountable for the money they spend on research funding. Research quality measurement exercises, such as the Excellence in Research for Australia initiative, use a number of agreed indicators to measure, analyse and report on various institution and discipline-based research outputs. This emphasis on the outputs of research as opposed to its longer term …
Edu-capitalism and the governing of early childhood education and care in Australia, New Zealand and the United States
This article examines the effects of edu-capitalism and neoliberal education policies across Australia, New Zealand and United States to disrupt hegemonic policy logic based on neutral human capital. Current frameworks, standards and assessment tools govern and control how early childhood educators see and assess children and in turn develop and implement pedagogy. Issues of gender, class and ethnicity are invisible with the assumption that all c…
Young children's right to be heard on the quality of their education: Addressing potential misunderstandings in the context of early childhood education
In early childhood education many researchers and professionals across the world have embraced the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child's requirement to include young children in decision‐making. In the context of ongoing discussion about young children's capacity to share their views and opinions about matters affecting them, there is often a focus on demonstrating ‘evidence’ that young children can participate in decision‐making…
Matching Potential with Promise: How Oklahoma’s Promise Shapes Academic Undermatch
Conceptualising “the more-than-migrant child”
Purpose Using a feminist, post-structural and posthuman theoretical framing the paper argues for elevating the complexity of conceptions of migrant children’s engagements with and contributions to their own lives. Design/methodology/approach This conceptual paper responds to contemporary concerns with research involving migrant children and childhoods in an Australian context. With researchers and teachers’ attention being drawn to enhancing the …
Using professional development resources to support the inclusion of gender equity in early childhood teaching and curriculum planning
Gender-based violence (GBV) is a global health issue that affects significant proportions of women and girls. Despite research showing that children understand and perform stereotypical gender norms from as young as 3 years, addressing gender with young children is controversial. Programs that aim to teach gender fairness and respectful relationships in early childhood settings are uncommon. This article reports on an evaluation of a trial of a w…
The effect of point of sale promotions on the alcohol purchasing behaviour of young people in metropolitan, regional and rural Australia
This study, part of a larger project examining marketing and alcohol, looked specifically at the effects of point of sale (POS) promotions on young people, with a view to providing evidence which could be used to inform policy and regulation in this area. A series of focus groups were conducted in three different locations with young people aged 16–25 years, separated by age and gender, with a total of 85 participants. Participants were asked que…
Subjectivity, Hegemony, and the Subaltern in Sydney, 1870–1900
Australian historiography traditionally has privileged the study of the organized working class. This established history ignores socially disruptive elements in late-nineteenth-century Sydney (the height of working-class organization), such as “larrikins,” who have been too simply categorized as an expression of antiauthoritarianism born out of convictism. This paper argues, rather, that larrikins can be understood as a form of resistance to a n…
Young Children's Rights and Public Policy: Practices and Possibilities for Citizenship in the Early Years
There is a growing belief that young children should be involved in decisions that affect them. This belief has its foundations in a new model of the young child, in a new concern with young children's rights as citizens and in new knowledge about the significance of young children's early experiences. This article examines the increasing interest in involving young children in policy‐making and its rationale. It then presents two case studies fr…
Subjectivity, Hegemony, and the Subaltern in Sydney, 1870–1900
Australian historiography traditionally has privileged the study of the organized working class. This established history ignores socially disruptive elements in late-nineteenth-century Sydney (the height of working-class organization), such as “larrikins,” who have been too simply categorized as an expression of antiauthoritarianism born out of convictism. This paper argues, rather, that larrikins can be understood as a form of resistance to a n…
Hegemony: Studies in Consensus and Coercion
1. Hegemony and the Operation of Consensus and Coercion Richard Howson and Kylie Smith 2. Hegemony in the Pre-Prison Context Richard Howson 3. Hegemony: Political and Linguistic Sources for Gramsci's Concept of Hegemony Derek Boothman 4. Hegemony and the Elaboration of the Process of Subalternity Hiroshi Matsuda and Koichi Ohara 5. Hegemony, Language and Popular Wisdom in the Asia-Pacific Alastair Davidson 6. Hegemony and Power in Gramsci Benedet…
Females and Harry Potter: Not all that empowering, by Ruth Mayes‐Elma
Oxford, Rowman and Littlefield, 2006, vii + 155 pp., $20.95 (paperback), ISBN 978‐074253‐7798 Females and Harry Potter introduces critical and feminist theories to deconstruct the representation of
The effect of point of sale promotions on the alcohol purchasing behaviour of young people in metropolitan, regional and rural Australia
This study, part of a larger project examining marketing and alcohol, looked specifically at the effects of point of sale (POS) promotions on young people, with a view to providing evidence which could be used to inform policy and regulation in this area. A series of focus groups were conducted in three different locations with young people aged 16–25 years, separated by age and gender, with a total of 85 participants. Participants were asked que…
Measuring research 'impact' for academic promotion: Issues From the Literature
Around the world, governments and the higher education sector are being asked to become more accountable for the money they spend on research funding. Research quality measurement exercises, such as the Excellence in Research for Australia initiative, use a number of agreed indicators to measure, analyse and report on various institution and discipline-based research outputs. This emphasis on the outputs of research as opposed to its longer term …
Surveillance, responsibility and control: An analysis of government and industry discourses about “problem” and “responsible” gambling
Background: Discussions of gambling have traditionally focused on ideas of “problem” and “responsible” gambling. However, few studies have examined how Institutions attempt to exert social control over gamblers in order to promote so-called “responsible” behaviour. In this study, we examine the way “problem” and “responsible” gambling are discussed by Australian governments and the gambling industry, using a theoretical framework based on the wor…
Edu-capitalism and the governing of early childhood education and care in Australia, New Zealand and the United States
This article examines the effects of edu-capitalism and neoliberal education policies across Australia, New Zealand and United States to disrupt hegemonic policy logic based on neutral human capital. Current frameworks, standards and assessment tools govern and control how early childhood educators see and assess children and in turn develop and implement pedagogy. Issues of gender, class and ethnicity are invisible with the assumption that all c…
Reflections on design, country and community justice at the Neighbourhood Justice Centre
This paper is about Spaces of Justice and the role the Neighbourhood Justice Centre (Collingwood, Victoria) plays in providing a safe space for Community Justice to be carried out. It is based on the reflections the author provided at the Space of Justice symposium in Melbourne in July 2017, about access to justice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities who gather in the local government area of Yarra. The author relates her feelin…
The Routledge International Handbook of Young Children’s Rights
"Marking the 30th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), this seminal handbook will provide an authoritative, critical overview of the diverse ways that the rights of children aged 0 - 8 are respected or neglected throughout the world, and will consider how policy, practice, and research might address the barriers to universal respect for children's rights. Drawing together original contributions from wor…
Just or Unjust? How Ideological Beliefs Shape Street‐Level Bureaucrats’ Perceptions of Administrative Burden
Existing research finds that increases in administrative burden reduce client access, political efficacy, and equity. However, extant literature has yet to investigate how administrative burden policies are interpreted by street‐level bureaucrats (SLB), whose values and beliefs structure uses of discretion and client experiences of programs. In this article, we utilize quantitative and qualitative data to examine SLB policy preferences regarding …
Reconceptualising and (re)forming early childhood professional identities: Ongoing transnational policy discussions
Problematic policy constructions of the purpose of education implicate professional identities and working conditions of professionals working with the youngest children. This paper builds on our earlier writing, to contest teacher professional identities in Australia, Ireland, Denmark and the United States of America, to illustrate the crucial importance of contextualised policy landscapes in early childhood education and care. It uses prevailin…
Practicing Democracy from Childhood: Democratic Praxis in Te Ao Māori
Democracy manifests itself in a range of ways and is an imperfect, dynamic struggle for collective decision-making. This article discusses the multifaceted processes of deliberative democratic praxis found in traditional Māori society. Central to decision-making in te ao Māori, hui provide formal and informal structures for deliberative democracy, precedent setting, learning, and transformation through consensus making, inclusive debate, and disc…
Using professional development resources to support the inclusion of gender equity in early childhood teaching and curriculum planning
Gender-based violence (GBV) is a global health issue that affects significant proportions of women and girls. Despite research showing that children understand and perform stereotypical gender norms from as young as 3 years, addressing gender with young children is controversial. Programs that aim to teach gender fairness and respectful relationships in early childhood settings are uncommon. This article reports on an evaluation of a trial of a w…
Working Within a System of Administrative Burden: How Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Role Perceptions Shape Access to the Promise of Higher Education
Utilizing a statewide survey and administrative data, we explore how state-imposed burdens are translated by street-level bureaucrats (SLBs) into frontline practices that may alleviate or exacerbate onerous experiences of the administrative state. First, we find that SLBs’ role perceptions shaped not only uses of discretionary power—as either a force of client empowerment or disentitlement—but also program access. Second, we find that the local a…
Emoting up, emoting down: Status, authenticity and the emotional labour of STEM graduate students
Various studies have examined emotional labour’s positive and negative aspects, but the structural conditions under which people experience emotional labour as fulfilling vs. taxing are underexplored. In this study, I use interviews with graduate students – a group whose relative social status changes routinely – to illuminate the types of emotion work that occasion positive and negative feelings. I find that graduate students often felt positive…
Asylum Ways of Seeing: Psychiatric Patients, American Thought and Culture . By Heather Murray
In many ways, “Asylum Ways of Seeing” by Heather Murray, is an extended riff on the term “asylum”—what it meant for psychiatry and for patients, and how this meaning changed over time. To explore this change in meaning, Murray employs a “history of emotions” framework and takes an overtly cultural and intellectual history approach to center the experiences of patients themselves. In this way, she argues not only that we need to try and understand…
A Clinic for the People: Toward an Antiracist Psychiatry at the Tuskegee Institute 1947–1965
From 1947 until 1963, a small group of psychiatrists from the Tuskegee Veterans Administration Hospital ran a Mental Hygiene Clinic designed to provide outpatient care and education to the Black residents of Macon County, Alabama. In an analysis of the clinic and the work of its Director, Dr. Prince Barker, we see the ways that Black psychiatrists tried to develop an antiracist approach to psychiatry and to develop their own autonomy in segregate…
(En)tangling anger and equity dreams: Rece promises and pantomimes
This response to the question about what we are angry about and what we dream of for young children reflects our work of over 30 years in Australasia. For Kylie in Australia and for Sonja in Aotearoa New Zealand and now also Australia. We direct the RECE common call, for an elevation of children’s rights, to a voice, to a ‘good’ education, and to a ‘good’ life, to the children, families, teachers, educators and communities with whom we live and w…
Conceptualising “the more-than-migrant child”
Purpose Using a feminist, post-structural and posthuman theoretical framing the paper argues for elevating the complexity of conceptions of migrant children’s engagements with and contributions to their own lives. Design/methodology/approach This conceptual paper responds to contemporary concerns with research involving migrant children and childhoods in an Australian context. With researchers and teachers’ attention being drawn to enhancing the …
Young children's right to be heard on the quality of their education: Addressing potential misunderstandings in the context of early childhood education
In early childhood education many researchers and professionals across the world have embraced the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child's requirement to include young children in decision‐making. In the context of ongoing discussion about young children's capacity to share their views and opinions about matters affecting them, there is often a focus on demonstrating ‘evidence’ that young children can participate in decision‐making…
Reflections on the use of patient records: Privacy, ethics, and reparations in the history of psychiatry
One of the most common questions we get asked as historians of psychiatry is "do you have access to patient records?" Why are people so fascinated with the psychiatric patient record? Do people assume they are or should be available? Does access to the patient record actually tell us anything new about the history of psychiatry? And if we did have them, what can, or should we do with them? In the push to both decolonize and personalize the histor…
Dr. Nurse: Science, Politics, and the Transformation of American Nursing , Dominique A. Tobbell
Matching Potential with Promise: How Oklahoma’s Promise Shapes Academic Undermatch
Leading Change in Academic Departments: An Analysis of Department Heads and Teaching Evaluation Reform Using Kotter’s Model
Desired reforms in undergraduate education require shifts in departmental practices. Department heads are positioned to be change agents, but often lack formal leadership training, and their approaches to change have received little scholarly attention. Research findings from disciplines like organizational management can offer relevant insights. We drew on Kotter’s 8-step model for leading change as a theoretical lens for examining the ideas and…
Political science (21 works) · Sociology (19 works) · Law (14 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Politics (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Public relations (8 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (5 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (5 works)