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ID3701126
NAMEMartin Mills
GIVEN NAMESMartin
FAMILY NAMEMills
SIGNATUREMILLS M
AFFILIATIONSThe University of Queensland
ORCID0000-0003-2168-3536
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS64
TOTAL CITATIONS248
AUTHOR COUNT64
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1996
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX10
  • Barriers to fair participation for career change teachers entering teaching

    Open Access•Terri Bourke, Reece Mills et al.•ARTICLE•The Australian Educational…•2026

  • Biographies, ontological security and the socio‐spatial politics shaping teachers' mobility in remote Australia

    Open Access•Matthew Readette, Reece Mills et al.•ARTICLE•British Educational Research…•2026

    The global teacher shortage continues to intensify, with disparate impacts across geographic and socio‐economic communities. In Queensland, Australia, where this study originates, post‐COVID teacher shortages have intensified workforce pressures, leaving several regional, rural and remote schools as some of the ‘hardest‐to‐staff’ in the country. Despite Queensland's mobility policy and high teacher mobility potential, encouraging teachers, especi…

  • Global schooling and social justice: Oscillations, tensions, and dilemmas

    Open Access•Monica Mincu, Martin Mills•ARTICLE•Prospects•2026

    This conceptual article identifies tensions and dilemmas that cut across global schooling and social justice, albeit in context-rooted and multifaceted ways. We pay particular attention to social justice dilemmas and tensions, and oscillations between them in school governance, curriculum, and identities. We argue that a global analytical tool for enhancing a socially just approach to schooling must include (1) a redistribution of resources, (2) …

  • Hard-, harder-, hardest-to-staff: Teacher shortages and spatial (in)justice in Queensland, Australia

    Open Access•Reece Mills, Simone White et al.•ARTICLE•Educational Review•2026

  • Career change teacher: Exploring perceptions from 23 Australian teacher educators

    Reece Mills, Terri Bourke et al.•ARTICLE•Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher…•2025

    Career change teachers (CCTs) are heralded in international education policies as key to addressing teacher shortages and increasing quality and diversity in the profession. Using a qualitative approach inspired by Ball’s discursive facet of policy enactment, interview responses from 23 Australian teacher educators were examined. The aim was to determine how these teacher educators spoke and thought about CCTs as well as how they discursively pos…

  • ‘I learn best when I am given a challenge’: Young people’s voices on learning in flexi schools in Australia

    Open Access•Marnee Shay, Jodie Miller et al.•ARTICLE•The Australian Educational…•2025

    It is well established through existing research that flexi schools effectively re-engage disenfranchised young people back into education. However, there is a gap in large-scale studies that privileges the voices of young people who attend flexi schools, particularly regarding their experiences and perspectives on teaching and learning at their schools. This paper shares some key findings from a large-scale national survey that outlines how youn…

  • Staffing rural and remote school communities: Right fit – right school, right teacher, right community

    Open Access•Lisa Van Leent, Martin Mills et al.•ARTICLE•Oxford Review of Education•2025

  • Career change teachers: Solving the teacher shortage

    Open Access•Simone White, Terri Bourke et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Teacher…•2025

    Teacher shortages are a global problem. One solution to this problem, offered in Australian policy, is the notion of the career change teacher (CCT). This study analyses the responses from 23 teacher educators who were asked what they themselves thought might enable and/or constrain this cohort entering teaching as well as those they saw for the pre-service teachers and the systems of both the university and the school. Data were analysed inducti…

  • (Re)considering ‘radical’ for the teaching profession: A Global North-South reflection on teachers and teaching

    Open Access•Haira E Gandolfi, Martin Mills•ARTICLE•Critical Studies in Education•2025•Cited by: 1•References: 12

  • Reconceptualising social (in)justice for research in rural South African schools: The roles of space, place and collective response

    Open Access•Rupert Higham, Martin Mills et al.•ARTICLE•Compare A Journal of Comparative…•2025•References: 10

  • How are teacher shortages in hardest-to-staff schools represented in (inter)national policy documents from England and Australia

    Open Access•Reece Mills, Terri Bourke et al.•ARTICLE•Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher…•2024

    ABSTARCTTeacher shortages are a significant global problem disproportionally affecting “hardest-to-staff” schools and subjects. To better understand (inter)national policy responses to teacher shortages, this paper uses a Bacchian-inspired approach to critically examine proposals suggested as solutions in policy documents from England and Australia, and thus how the problem is being thought about especially in relation to hardest-to-staff context…

  • Deconstructing gendered approaches in ‘single-sex’ flexi schools: Two Australian case studies

    Open Access•Glenda Mcgregor, Martin Mills•ARTICLE•The Australian Educational…•2024

    In Australia coeducation dominates government schooling, with single-sex institutions usually being the preserve of selective government schools and private, often elite, institutions. For marginalised young people who ‘drop out’ or are forced to leave the coeducational mainstream system, flexible and/or non-traditional schools provide alternative pathways. Such schools are primarily coeducational. This paper draws upon data from two flexible/non…

  • Developing environments for research engagement in English schools: Re-professionalising teachers’ work

    Open Access•Martin Mills, Haira E Gandolfi et al.•ARTICLE•Teaching and Teacher Education•2024•Cited by: 1•References: 4

    This paper examines teachers' research engagement and its relationship to teacher professionalism in the English context, drawing on qualitative semi-structured interviews with early career and experienced teachers, and with middle and senior leaders in three comparative case study sites: a school with designated teacher-researcher positions; a school sponsored by a university; and a loose network of schools where research engagement is coordinat…

  • Love, care, and solidarity: Understanding the emotional and affective labour of school leadership

    Andy Mckay, Martin Mills•ARTICLE•Cambridge Journal of Education•2023

    This paper explores the emotional work involved in leading schools in marginalised communities, through case studies of Australian and English government-school principals theorised through Lynch’s framework of affective justice and the embedded concepts of love, care and solidarity. Participants demonstrated solidarity in their choice of working in these particular schools, which brings with them a higher level of emotional complexity. Their wor…

  • Teachers for social justice: Exploring the lives and work of teachers committed to social justice in education

    Open Access•Haira E Gandolfi, Martin Mills•ARTICLE•Oxford Review of Education•2023

    Drawing on life history interviews, this paper seeks to explore the lives of a group of eight teachers, all with working experience in England, who self-identify as committed to a more socially just education system. Drawing on Levitas’ Utopia as method, this article examines these teachers’ perspectives on and practices around social justice in education, such as aiming to eradicate exclusion policies and processes, and organising with like-mind…

  • “We have never been public: ” Continuity and change in the policy production of “the public” in education in England

    Open Access•M Clarke, Martin Mills•ARTICLE•European Journal of Educational…•2022

    Recent educational reforms in England have sought to reshape public education by extending central government control of curriculum and assessment, while replacing local government control of schools with a quasi-private system of academies and multi academy trusts. In this paper, we resist reading this as the latest iteration of the debate between “traditional” and “progressive” education. Instead, we note how, despite the mobilisation of the rh…

  • What is the ‘public’ in public education? Mapping past, present and future educational imaginaries of Europe and beyond

    Open Access•M Clarke, Martin Mills et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Educational…•2022

    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…

  • Minoritised teachers’ experiences of multiple, intersectional racisms in the school system in England: ‘Carrying the Weight of Racism’

    Open Access•Alice Bradbury, Antonina Tereshchenko et al.•ARTICLE•Race Ethnicity and Education•2022•Cited by: 6•References: 17

    This paper recounts the experiences of 24 primary and secondary teachers from a number of minoritised groups in the education system in England, using interview data collected for a project exploring the retention of minority teachers. The teachers’ experiences of racism are discussed alongside other intersectional aspects of their identities–including gender, class, accent, and the subject they taught–to emphasise the variety of racisms experien…

  • Professionalism and teacher education in Australia and England

    Diane Mayer, Martin Mills•ARTICLE•European Journal of Teacher…•2021

    In the past decade, notions of teacher professionalism have been associated with increased accountability, standards, performance assessments, and teacher testing, and impacted by alternative pathways into the profession that downplays professional education and foreground subject content knowledge expertise and opportunity to learn on the job. This paper examines the relationship between teacher professionalism and teacher education in Australia…

  • Student engagement in schools serving marginalised communities

    Stewart Riddle, Angelique Howell et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2021•Cited by: 2•References: 3

    This paper shares findings from a project that examined how schools serving marginalised communities facilitated students’ substantive engagement. Through interviews with students, parents, teachers and school leaders, we determined that substantive engagement was supported by formal and informal strategies that enabled access to rich learning opportunities, the provision of welcoming school and classroom climates, and the enactment of pedagogies…

  • Towards an understanding of curricular justice and democratic schooling

    Martin Mills, Stewart Riddle et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Educational…•2021•Cited by: 3•References: 4

    Curricular justice, achieved through a counter-hegemonic curriculum that serves the needs of the least rather than most advantaged members of society, plays a central role in providing more equitable access to meaningful education for all young people. We contend that the defining features of the contemporary schooling context in many parts of the globe, including Australia, are growing inequality and increasing disparity between students who hav…

  • Autonomy, Accountability and Social Justice: Stories of English Schooling

    Amanda Keddie, Martin Mills•BOOK•Autonomy, Accountability and…•2019

    Autonomy, Accountability and Social Justice provides an account of recent developments in English state education, with a particular focus on the ‘academisation’ of schooling. It examines how head teachers, teachers and others working in diverse education settings navigate the current policy environment. The authors provide readers with insight into the complex decision-making processes that shape school responses to current educational agendas a…

  • The co-operative schools movement in England: Who, where and why

    Martin Mills, Ian Hextall•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2019•Cited by: 2•References: 2

    This paper is concerned with the recent growth of the co-operative schools movement (CSM) in education in England. It provides a detailed description of the demography and distribution of co-operative schools and the motivations for becoming a co-operative school. Based on data provided by the Co-operative College (2014) the paper will identify schools’ geographical distribution, the particular loadings in terms of primary and secondary instituti…

  • Towards social justice in education: Contradictions and dilemmas

    Becky Francis, Martin Mills et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Education Policy•2017•Cited by: 12•References: 52

    The article builds on prior arguments that research on issues of social justice in education has often lacked constructive engagement with education policy-making, and that this can be partly attributed to a lack of clarity about what a socially just education system might look like. Extending this analysis, this article argues that this lack of clarity is perpetuated by a series of contradictions and dilemmas underpinning ‘progressive’ debate in…

  • Alternative programmes, alternative schools and social justice

    Jodie Pennacchia, Patricia Thomson et al.•ARTICLE•Critical Studies in Education•2016•Cited by: 1•References: 3

    Alternative educational programmes and alternative schools have been a feature of the educational landscape for some 50 years or more. These alternatives cater for children and young people who have generally experienced a variety of forms of exclusion during their schooling (Arnold, Yeomans, & Simpson, 2009; Sparkes & Glennerster, 2002). In some jurisdictions, a common aim of alternative education programmes is to return students to ‘regular sch…

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  • Alternative education sites and marginalised young people: ‘I wish there were more schools like this one’

    Glenda Mcgregor, Martin Mills•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2011•Cited by: 26•References: 3

    This paper reports on research conducted in alternative schools/flexible learning centres 1 There was debate amongst participants as to the preferred term ‘school’ or ‘centre’. For the purpose of this paper, we have chosen to refer to these sites as alternative schools in order to foreground viability as equal pathways of choice within current educational offerings. designed to support young people marginalised from mainstream schooling in Austra…

  • Issues in boys' education: A question of teacher threshold knowledges

    Wayne Martino, Bob Lingard et al.•ARTICLE•Gender and Education•2004•Cited by: 26•References: 4

    This paper exploresthe effects of specific teacher threshold knowledges about boys and gender on the implementation of a so‐called ‘boy friendly’ curriculum at one junior secondary high school in Australia. Through semi‐structured interviews with selected staff at the school, it examines the normalizing assumptionsand ‘truth claims’ about boys, as gendered subjects, which drive the pedagogical impetus for such a curriculum initiative. This resear…

  • Attracting, recruiting and retaining male teachers: Policy issues in the male teacher debate

    Martin Mills, Wayne Martino et al.•ARTICLE•British Journal of Sociology of…•2004•Cited by: 21•References: 9

    Frequent calls for more male teachers are being made in English‐speaking countries. Many of these calls are based upon the fact that the teaching profession has become (even more) ‘feminized’ and the presumption that this has had negative effects for the education of boys. The employment of more male teachers is sometimes suggested as a way to re‐masculinize schools so they become more ‘boy‐friendly’ and thus contribute to improving boys' school …

  • Shaping the boys' agenda: The backlash blockbusters

    Martin Mills•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2003•Cited by: 21•References: 8

    The boys’ debate internationally is being fuelled by a range of texts on boys and masculinity. Many of the most popular texts are situated firmly within a backlash politics. These politics suggest that boys are the new ‘victims’ of schooling and that the girls’ agenda in schooling is a completed one. This paper will challenge the arguments contained within a number of the most recent of these ‘backlash blockbusters’. The paper will argue that, ra…

  • Pedagogies making a difference: Issues of social justice and inclusion

    Bob Lingard, Martin Mills•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2007•Cited by: 15•References: 11

    This paper provides an introduction and framing for this special issue of International Journal of Inclusive Education on pedagogies as an issue of social justice and inclusion. The paper works in the interstices between a sociologically sophisticated reproduction theory and a sociologically naïve school effectiveness framework in suggesting pedagogies can make a difference in terms of schooling as a good in and of itself and as a positional good…

  • Towards social justice in education: Contradictions and dilemmas

    Becky Francis, Martin Mills et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Education Policy•2017•Cited by: 12•References: 52

    The article builds on prior arguments that research on issues of social justice in education has often lacked constructive engagement with education policy-making, and that this can be partly attributed to a lack of clarity about what a socially just education system might look like. Extending this analysis, this article argues that this lack of clarity is perpetuated by a series of contradictions and dilemmas underpinning ‘progressive’ debate in…

  • Excluded from school: Getting a second chance at a ‘meaningful’ education

    Glenda Mcgregor, Martin Mills et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2014•Cited by: 11•References: 4

    In this paper, we draw upon the experiences of a group of young people who have been excluded from mainstream schools in two Australian states to provide an account of the ways in which they have found their way to education in educational sites that are variously referred to as ‘flexible learning centres', ‘second chance schools' and ‘alternative schools'. Whilst often clashing with school authorities in their original schools, these young peopl…

  • Education and the global rural: Feminist perspectives

    Barbara Pini, R Moletsane et al.•ARTICLE•Gender and Education•2014•Cited by: 11•References: 13

    AcknowledgementsWe would like to acknowledge the wonderful assistance we have been given by Helen Rowlands throughout all stages of putting this issue together

  • Getting boys’ education ‘right’: The Australian Government’s Parliamentary Inquiry Report as an exemplary instance of recuperative masculinity politics

    Martin Mills, Wayne Martino et al.•ARTICLE•British Journal of Sociology of…•2007•Cited by: 10•References: 15

    This paper focuses on the Australian federal Parliamentary Inquiry into Boys’ Education, Boys: Getting it Right, which is shown to be an exemplary instance of recuperative masculinity politics. The paper demonstrates how, through a variety of rhetorical strategies, its anti‐feminist politics are masked and how the report works with essentialised differences between boys and girls. The argument is demonstrated through a focus on a number of the re…

  • Issues in Implementing Boys’ Programme in Schools: Male teachers and empowerment

    Martin Mills•ARTICLE•Gender and Education•2000•Cited by: 10

    In recent times the neologism 'boyswork' has surfaced in Australian educational discourse. The term usually refers to programmes which are introduced into schools specifically for boys. Such programmes may represent either a backlash politics, which argues that schools no longer cater to the needs of boys, or a (pro)feminist politics, which contends that the creation of a more just society will entail boys acknowledging and acting to undermine th…

  • Alternative education and social justice: Considering issues of affective and contributive justice

    Martin Mills, Glenda Mcgregor et al.•ARTICLE•Critical Studies in Education•2015•Cited by: 8•References: 11

    This article considers the ways in which three alternative education sites in Australia support socially just education for their students and how injustice is addressed within these schools. The article begins with recognition of the importance of Nancy Fraser’s work to understandings of social justice. It then goes on to argue that her framework is insufficient for understanding the particularly complex set of injustices that are faced by many …

  • Interrogating recuperative masculinity politics in schooling

    Bob Lingard, Martin Mills et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2011•Cited by: 8•References: 9

    This article focuses on the continuing impact of recuperative masculinity politics in the schooling of economically advantaged boys (elite and middle class); yet, it also indicates resistance to this politics. An understanding that the gender order is unstable and that variants of hegemonic masculinity continue to morph in the context of globalisation is also exemplified. Two case studies are analysed, both focused on remaking masculinities: Balf…

  • Minoritised teachers’ experiences of multiple, intersectional racisms in the school system in England: ‘Carrying the Weight of Racism’

    Open Access•Alice Bradbury, Antonina Tereshchenko et al.•ARTICLE•Race Ethnicity and Education•2022•Cited by: 6•References: 17

    This paper recounts the experiences of 24 primary and secondary teachers from a number of minoritised groups in the education system in England, using interview data collected for a project exploring the retention of minority teachers. The teachers’ experiences of racism are discussed alongside other intersectional aspects of their identities–including gender, class, accent, and the subject they taught–to emphasise the variety of racisms experien…

  • Teaching boys and gender justice

    Martin Mills, Amanda Keddie•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2007•Cited by: 6•References: 11

    This paper explores issues in the teaching of boys within a gender just framework. It identifies the productive pedagogies model as an appropriate means by which the specifics of boys' education can be considered. It avoids essentialist accounts of boys' pedagogies to suggest that pedagogies directed towards boys have to foreground issues of gender justice and privilege. There is a recognition that schools do not meet the needs of some boys. Howe…

  • Student voice and the community forum: Finding ways of ‘being heard’ at an alternative school for disenfranchised young people

    Open Access•Aspa Baroutsis, Martin Mills et al.•ARTICLE•British Educational Research…•2016•Cited by: 5•References: 24

    Opportunities for students to speak and to be heard are important elements of democratic schooling processes but research into student voice has shown that a culture of silence is a more common feature of schooling. Efforts to re‐engage young people in learning often recognise the importance of schooling processes that provide them with opportunities to participate meaningfully in schooling dialogues. This paper describes attempts to provide such…

  • What would a socially just education system look like

    Becky Francis, Martin Mills•ARTICLE•Journal of Education Policy•2012•Cited by: 5•References: 6

    A socially just education system seems further away than ever, as we write. The financial crisis in Europe continues, with austerity measures meaning significant cuts to public services (including Education). In spite of the banking crisis of 2008, the austerity climate in many countries in the Global North means government attachment to neoliberal market solutions to public service challenges has not abated; rather, governments are more reliant …

  • Enabling and aligning assessment for learning: Some research and policy lessons from Queensland

    Bob Lingard, Martin Mills et al.•ARTICLE•International Studies in…•2006•Cited by: 5•References: 5

    Drawing on the Queensland School Reform Longitudinal Study (QSRLS), this paper documents the assessment practices of about 250 Queensland primary and secondary classrooms and the extent to which they align with those pedagogical practices described as ‘productive pedagogies’ in the research. In considering the extent of this alignment, the paper outlines in some detail the concept of ‘productive assessment’, which also developed out of the resear…

  • In search of allies and others: Troubling' Gender and Education

    Open Access•Joanne Dillabough, Jo-Anne Dillabough et al.•ARTICLE•Discourse Studies in the Cultural…•2008•Cited by: 4•References: 6

  • Sacrificial girls: A case study of the impact of streaming and setting on gender reform

    Open Access•Emma Charlton, Martin Mills et al.•ARTICLE•British Educational Research…•2007•Cited by: 4•References: 26

    This article reports on research funded by the Australian Research Council to investigate school responses to gender equity. It addresses the efforts of a disadvantaged school to tackle what they perceived to be gender inequalities, but in the process of constructing a top‐set and bottom‐set/stream class they are developing new forms of old inequalities and new forms of inequalities. This research indicates that despite popular assertions that gi…

  • Towards an understanding of curricular justice and democratic schooling

    Martin Mills, Stewart Riddle et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Educational…•2021•Cited by: 3•References: 4

    Curricular justice, achieved through a counter-hegemonic curriculum that serves the needs of the least rather than most advantaged members of society, plays a central role in providing more equitable access to meaningful education for all young people. We contend that the defining features of the contemporary schooling context in many parts of the globe, including Australia, are growing inequality and increasing disparity between students who hav…

  • After exclusion what

    Martin Mills, Sheila Riddell et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2014•Cited by: 3•References: 9

    This special issue grew out of a symposium held at the University of Gothenburg in March 2013 and builds on a collaboration between the Schools of Education at the University of Edinburgh and the U

  • Teaching in the ‘margins’: Rekindling a passion for teaching

    Glenda Mcgregor, Martin Mills•ARTICLE•British Journal of Sociology of…•2014•Cited by: 3•References: 17

    The data for this paper are drawn from a qualitative research project involving a number of alternative education sites in Australia and the United Kingdom. In this paper, we focus only on the motives and teaching philosophies of a sample of teachers who have chosen to work in alternative education sites despite, for some, the prospect of uncertain employment conditions and lower salaries. A thematic approach is used with the data so as to struct…

  • Towards a disruptive pedagogy: Creating spaces for student and teacher resistance to social injustice

    Martin Mills•ARTICLE•International Studies in…•1997•Cited by: 3•References: 3

    The impetus for this paper lies in a desire to identify students and teachers as active agents who can and do make a difference in challenging socially unjust practices within their schools. This paper examines the politicised disruptive activity of students in one Australian state secondary school. These students sought to implement social justice processes within their school. Their actions were facilitated by the existing political context in …

  • Student engagement in schools serving marginalised communities

    Stewart Riddle, Angelique Howell et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2021•Cited by: 2•References: 3

    This paper shares findings from a project that examined how schools serving marginalised communities facilitated students’ substantive engagement. Through interviews with students, parents, teachers and school leaders, we determined that substantive engagement was supported by formal and informal strategies that enabled access to rich learning opportunities, the provision of welcoming school and classroom climates, and the enactment of pedagogies…

  • The co-operative schools movement in England: Who, where and why

    Martin Mills, Ian Hextall•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2019•Cited by: 2•References: 2

    This paper is concerned with the recent growth of the co-operative schools movement (CSM) in education in England. It provides a detailed description of the demography and distribution of co-operative schools and the motivations for becoming a co-operative school. Based on data provided by the Co-operative College (2014) the paper will identify schools’ geographical distribution, the particular loadings in terms of primary and secondary instituti…

  • Homophobia Kills’: A disruptive moment in the educational politics of legitimation

    Martin Mills•ARTICLE•British Journal of Sociology of…•1996•Cited by: 2•References: 1

    This paper explores how students and, to a lesser extent teachers, have engaged with their school's politics of legitimation to participate in a disruptive moment in sex/sexual/gender relations within their school. Over a period of 3 years students have, with the support of some teachers, actively sought to make homophobia an issue of concern within their school. Their activities have served to disrupt the legitimacy of the heterosexist hegemony …

  • Towards a disruptive pedagogy: Creating spaces for student and teacher resistance to social injustice

    Martin Mills•ARTICLE•International Studies in…•1997•Cited by: 3•References: 3

    The impetus for this paper lies in a desire to identify students and teachers as active agents who can and do make a difference in challenging socially unjust practices within their schools. This paper examines the politicised disruptive activity of students in one Australian state secondary school. These students sought to implement social justice processes within their school. Their actions were facilitated by the existing political context in …

  • Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet: Religious Revival and Cultural Identity

    Martin A Mills, Martin Mills et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of the Royal Anthropologica…•1999•Cited by: 2

  • Issues in Implementing Boys’ Programme in Schools: Male teachers and empowerment

    Martin Mills•ARTICLE•Gender and Education•2000•Cited by: 10

    In recent times the neologism 'boyswork' has surfaced in Australian educational discourse. The term usually refers to programmes which are introduced into schools specifically for boys. Such programmes may represent either a backlash politics, which argues that schools no longer cater to the needs of boys, or a (pro)feminist politics, which contends that the creation of a more just society will entail boys acknowledging and acting to undermine th…

  • Troubling the 'Failing Boys' Discourse

    Open Access•Martin Mills•ARTICLE•Discourse Studies in the Cultural…•2000•Cited by: 2•References: 6

    (2000). Troubling the 'Failing Boys' Discourse. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education: Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 237-246

  • Educating the Right Way, Markets, Standards, God and Inequality (Michael W. Apple)

    Gill Crozier, Clive Harber et al.•ARTICLE•British Journal of Sociology of…•2002

    (2002). Educating the Right Way, Markets, Standards, God and Inequality (Michael W. Apple) British Journal of Sociology of Education: Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 483-496

  • Shaping the boys' agenda: The backlash blockbusters

    Martin Mills•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2003•Cited by: 21•References: 8

    The boys’ debate internationally is being fuelled by a range of texts on boys and masculinity. Many of the most popular texts are situated firmly within a backlash politics. These politics suggest that boys are the new ‘victims’ of schooling and that the girls’ agenda in schooling is a completed one. This paper will challenge the arguments contained within a number of the most recent of these ‘backlash blockbusters’. The paper will argue that, ra…

  • Issues in boys' education: A question of teacher threshold knowledges

    Wayne Martino, Bob Lingard et al.•ARTICLE•Gender and Education•2004•Cited by: 26•References: 4

    This paper exploresthe effects of specific teacher threshold knowledges about boys and gender on the implementation of a so‐called ‘boy friendly’ curriculum at one junior secondary high school in Australia. Through semi‐structured interviews with selected staff at the school, it examines the normalizing assumptionsand ‘truth claims’ about boys, as gendered subjects, which drive the pedagogical impetus for such a curriculum initiative. This resear…

  • The media, marketing, and single sex schooling

    Martin Mills•ARTICLE•Journal of Education Policy•2004•Cited by: 1•References: 31

    The Australian media’s interest in education, as in many Anglophone countries, is frequently dominated by concerns about boys in schools. In 2002, in a country region of the Australian State of Queensland, this concern was evident in a debate on the merits of single sex schooling that took place in a small local newspaper. The debate was fuelled by the inclusion in this newspaper of an advertising brochure for an elite private girls’ school. The …

  • Attracting, recruiting and retaining male teachers: Policy issues in the male teacher debate

    Martin Mills, Wayne Martino et al.•ARTICLE•British Journal of Sociology of…•2004•Cited by: 21•References: 9

    Frequent calls for more male teachers are being made in English‐speaking countries. Many of these calls are based upon the fact that the teaching profession has become (even more) ‘feminized’ and the presumption that this has had negative effects for the education of boys. The employment of more male teachers is sometimes suggested as a way to re‐masculinize schools so they become more ‘boy‐friendly’ and thus contribute to improving boys' school …

  • Dr Carolyn Baker, 26 May 1946-12 July 2003

    Open Access•Bob Lingard, Martin Mills et al.•ARTICLE•Discourse Studies in the Cultural…•2004

    "Dr Carolyn Baker, 26 May 1946–12 July 2003." Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 25(2), p. 131

  • Enabling and aligning assessment for learning: Some research and policy lessons from Queensland

    Bob Lingard, Martin Mills et al.•ARTICLE•International Studies in…•2006•Cited by: 5•References: 5

    Drawing on the Queensland School Reform Longitudinal Study (QSRLS), this paper documents the assessment practices of about 250 Queensland primary and secondary classrooms and the extent to which they align with those pedagogical practices described as ‘productive pedagogies’ in the research. In considering the extent of this alignment, the paper outlines in some detail the concept of ‘productive assessment’, which also developed out of the resear…

  • Pedagogies making a difference: Issues of social justice and inclusion

    Bob Lingard, Martin Mills•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2007•Cited by: 15•References: 11

    This paper provides an introduction and framing for this special issue of International Journal of Inclusive Education on pedagogies as an issue of social justice and inclusion. The paper works in the interstices between a sociologically sophisticated reproduction theory and a sociologically naïve school effectiveness framework in suggesting pedagogies can make a difference in terms of schooling as a good in and of itself and as a positional good…

  • Teaching boys and gender justice

    Martin Mills, Amanda Keddie•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2007•Cited by: 6•References: 11

    This paper explores issues in the teaching of boys within a gender just framework. It identifies the productive pedagogies model as an appropriate means by which the specifics of boys' education can be considered. It avoids essentialist accounts of boys' pedagogies to suggest that pedagogies directed towards boys have to foreground issues of gender justice and privilege. There is a recognition that schools do not meet the needs of some boys. Howe…

  • Getting boys’ education ‘right’: The Australian Government’s Parliamentary Inquiry Report as an exemplary instance of recuperative masculinity politics

    Martin Mills, Wayne Martino et al.•ARTICLE•British Journal of Sociology of…•2007•Cited by: 10•References: 15

    This paper focuses on the Australian federal Parliamentary Inquiry into Boys’ Education, Boys: Getting it Right, which is shown to be an exemplary instance of recuperative masculinity politics. The paper demonstrates how, through a variety of rhetorical strategies, its anti‐feminist politics are masked and how the report works with essentialised differences between boys and girls. The argument is demonstrated through a focus on a number of the re…

  • Sacrificial girls: A case study of the impact of streaming and setting on gender reform

    Open Access•Emma Charlton, Martin Mills et al.•ARTICLE•British Educational Research…•2007•Cited by: 4•References: 26

    This article reports on research funded by the Australian Research Council to investigate school responses to gender equity. It addresses the efforts of a disadvantaged school to tackle what they perceived to be gender inequalities, but in the process of constructing a top‐set and bottom‐set/stream class they are developing new forms of old inequalities and new forms of inequalities. This research indicates that despite popular assertions that gi…

  • Lhasa: Streets with memories - By Robert Barnett

    Open Access•Martin A Mills, Martin Mills•ARTICLE•Journal of the Royal Anthropologica…•2007

  • In search of allies and others: Troubling' Gender and Education

    Open Access•Joanne Dillabough, Jo-Anne Dillabough et al.•ARTICLE•Discourse Studies in the Cultural…•2008•Cited by: 4•References: 6

  • The Tibetans - Matthew T Kapstein

    Open Access•Martin A Mills, Martin Mills•ARTICLE•Journal of the Royal Anthropologica…•2008

  • Disrupting masculinised spaces: Teachers working for gender justice

    Amanda Keddie, Martin Mills•ARTICLE•Research Papers in Education•2009•Cited by: 1•References: 27

    This article rejects the notion that schools have become excessively feminised spaces that are failing to adequately provide for the educational needs of boys. This construction of schools as feminised has provided the impetus for the development of what have become known as ‘boy‐friendly’ pedagogies. Unfortunately such pedagogies work with essentialist assumptions about masculinity and as such have the potential to reinscribe and valorise those …

  • Alternative education sites and marginalised young people: ‘I wish there were more schools like this one’

    Glenda Mcgregor, Martin Mills•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2011•Cited by: 26•References: 3

    This paper reports on research conducted in alternative schools/flexible learning centres 1 There was debate amongst participants as to the preferred term ‘school’ or ‘centre’. For the purpose of this paper, we have chosen to refer to these sites as alternative schools in order to foreground viability as equal pathways of choice within current educational offerings. designed to support young people marginalised from mainstream schooling in Austra…

  • Interrogating recuperative masculinity politics in schooling

    Bob Lingard, Martin Mills et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2011•Cited by: 8•References: 9

    This article focuses on the continuing impact of recuperative masculinity politics in the schooling of economically advantaged boys (elite and middle class); yet, it also indicates resistance to this politics. An understanding that the gender order is unstable and that variants of hegemonic masculinity continue to morph in the context of globalisation is also exemplified. Two case studies are analysed, both focused on remaking masculinities: Balf…

  • Medicine between science and religion. Explorations on Tibetan grounds edited by Adams, Vincanne, Mona Schrempf and Sienna R. Craig

    Open Access•Martin Mills•ARTICLE•Social Anthropology•2012

  • Anthropology and Religious Studies

    Martin A Mills, Martin Mills•CHAPTER•The Sage Handbook of Social…•2012

  • What would a socially just education system look like

    Becky Francis, Martin Mills•ARTICLE•Journal of Education Policy•2012•Cited by: 5•References: 6

    A socially just education system seems further away than ever, as we write. The financial crisis in Europe continues, with austerity measures meaning significant cuts to public services (including Education). In spite of the banking crisis of 2008, the austerity climate in many countries in the Global North means government attachment to neoliberal market solutions to public service challenges has not abated; rather, governments are more reliant …

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