Terri Seddon
Biographic Data
| ID | 3701341 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Terri Seddon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Terri |
| FAMILY NAME | Seddon |
| SIGNATURE | SEDDON T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Monash University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6554-8347 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 83 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Landscapes of lifelong learning policies across Europe: Comparative case studies
Comparative education concepts, methods and practices in the emerging anthropocene educational space: From ‘measuring the other’ to ‘supporting the other’
Climate change threatens human well-being and planetary health but is hardly addressed in education. Comparative education research has advised governments about education reforms since the nineteenth century, so what must change to sustain a liveable earth? I use the concept of ‘educational space’ to understand how comparative knowledge building has steered education. Then I re-read three volumes of the World Yearbook of Education (WYB) to show …
Australian school–university partnerships: The (dis)integrated work of teacher educators
The Australian government now mandates initial teacher education (ITE) providers to form partnerships with schools in order to maintain accreditation. The emphasis on partnerships as the crucial means of improving ITE is not new, and a body of literature from the Australian context describes a vast number of partnerships that have been enacted over the past few decades. In this literature, however, the specific work arrangements and practices of …
Examining the formation and evolution of university and school partnerships across four case studies
Current research suggests partnerships between universities and schools create learning advantages for pre-service and beginning teachers while opening new research avenues and school relationships for academics and universities. This paper argues that these findings are often based on a business-orientated definition of ‘partnership’ and originate from studies that examine partnerships which are frequently based in North America and Europe. Thus…
Sustainable development and social learning: Re-contextualising the space of orientation
Educational work: The educational boundary politics of making ‘citizens’
Contemporary global transitions are remaking education as a social institution and re-positioning educators in a lifelong learning political order. In this paper, I reflect on a research project that investigated the teaching occupation in learning societies in order to explain the concept of ‘educational work’: the form of labour that makes, orients and enacts spaces, which yield learning and build citizen capabilities. I report on a case study …
Understanding educational work: Exploring the analytic borderlands around the labour that enables learning
This special issue documents and theorises ‘educational work’ that examines the ways in which adult learners, educators and policy-makers are remaking education as they navigate ‘hot spots’ created by the intersection of national institutional trajectories and globalising processes. Our aim in compiling this special issue is to address the question, how best to conceptualise, to document and to analyse – in other words, to make visible – the new …
Making educational spaces through boundary work: Territorialisation and ‘boundarying’
Globalising processes are shifting the established nation-building project of twentieth-century national education systems. This historic axis between education and territorialised state power is being re-spatialised and remade as a globally networked, lifelong learning educational order. Political sociology of education theorises these de- and re-territorialising trajectories; yet the practical processes of remaking educational spaces are less w…
Globalization and Academic’s Workplace Learning: A Case Study in China
Globalization is the major confronting challenge of higher education worldwide. And internationalization has become a response of higher education to meet the demands and challenges of globalization. In the recent decades, Chinese government has developed different policies to steer education reforms in order to achieve the aim of internationalization. The internationalizing process has produced contradictory changes in academic workplaces. This …
Competing time orders in human service work: Towards a politics of time
Human service work is being reconfigured by welfare state reforms driven by neo-liberal globalization. Sectors are being merged, 'hybrid' occupations formed and occupational boundaries renegotiated. Yet time is rarely considered in the study of such boundary work. This article conceptualizes time as generated by human action, in different orders that may operate in tension with one another. Three case studies of reform in educational work, from F…
Learning and Work and the Politics of Working Life: Global Transformations and Collective Identities in Teaching, Nursing and Social Work
Introduction- Disturbing work and transforming politics, Terri Seddon, Lea Henriksson and Beatrix Niemeyer 1. Disturbing Academic Work: Theorising a global book project Terri Seddon, Lea Henriksson and Beatrix Niemeyer Part 1 - Reconfiguring occupational orders 2. Human Service Labour Force in the Making: Spotlight on Finnish practical nurses Lea Henriksson 3. Disputing Managerial Architecture in Educational Work: Irony as a liberating strategy f…
Decentred education: Suggestions for framing a socio‐spatial research agenda
This paper explores the trend towards a decentred social organization of learning that has become evident over the last 30–40 years. This is illustrated by the shifting imagery of education, from the red brick school to dispersed learning networks, or ‘learning bubbles’, that constitute new learning spaces. In the context of our large funded research project that aims to assess new learning spaces, we problematize this decentring of education and…
Collaborative working and contested practices: Forming, developing and sustaining social partnerships in education
Despite a lack of applied research, social partnerships are increasingly being adopted by both government and non‐government agencies to meet localised needs in education and other fields. This article discusses the findings of an investigation of how social partnerships can best be formed, developed and sustained over time. Earlier work identified partnerships arising from community concerns, governmental enactment and negotiation between commun…
Coda: Europe, Social Space and the Politics of Knowledge
Navigating social partnerships: Central agencies–local networks
This paper considers the way social partnerships tend to be represented as either horizontal localised networks or neo‐liberal policy instruments. Building on two empirical studies of partnerships, we argue that partnerships cannot be understood in either/or ways but are negotiated at the interface between central agencies and local networks. They are mediated by networks operating through the partnership and through government and community, and…
Politics of social partnerships: A framework for theorizing
This paper considers the politics of neo‐liberal reform of education and training in the specific context of social partnerships. Social partnerships are hybrid social spaces formed when a range of interests/partners work together for mutual benefit. Partnerships are one of a series of hybridized social spaces which have been formed as a consequence of the trend to neo‐liberal governance. The paper begins by situating the study of social partners…
Framing justice: Challenges for research
This paper raises questions about the apparent research commonsense that has developed in much English and Australian policy sociology in relation to neo-liberal or ‘post-welfarist’, education reform. These questions arise out of an interrogation of two evaluations of social justice in neo-liberal education contexts: Gewirtz's social justice audit which is reported in The Managerial School and an analysis of social justice in the context of train…
Steering futures: Practices and possibilities of institutional redesign in Australian education and training
This paper reports findings from an enthographic study of educational restructuring in an Institute of Technical and Further Education (TAFE) in Victoria Australia. Educational restructuring is analysed as a process of institutional redesign and theorized in relation to recent debates in institutional theory concerning the nature of institutional change. The review distinguishes between hyperrational approaches to institutional redesign based upo…
Markets and the English: Rethinking educational restructuring as institutional design
This paper analyses the concerns, parameters and silences emerging in the field of English research on contemporary educational restructuring. The research effort oriented to the investigation of Thatcherism and the marketisation of education is documented. Its strong emphasis on markets and processes of marketisation and its neglect of alternatives to Thatcherism is noted. This pattern of emphases and silences in research seems to have arisen as…
Seeking ‘a Better State of Things’: Theorising educators’ work and politics in the conservative 1990s
The principle of choice in policy research
This paper contributes to the debate about conceptualising policy research by considering Howell's (1990) call that researchers reveal the ‘principle of choice’ which guides the selection of topics, strategies and resources in research. Specifically, it addresses the question of what information must be made available to other researchers so that there can be productive continuing conversations’ (Ball 1994:174) about policy research and its conce…
Defining the real: Context and beyond
This paper draws attention to the trend to consider context in educational discourse. It documents the increasing use of “context” in everyday educational talk and in educational research and begins to consider the implications of this trend for the theory and practice of education. The paper considers different ways that context is used and suggests that over the last 5‐10 years conceptions of context have shifted. As well as being understood sp…
Context and beyond: Reframing the Theory and Practice of Education
Part 1 Questioning context: introducing context the ambiguities of context trends in contextualist research trends in conceptualizing context. Part 2 Reframing education: interlude 1 - beyond context to a reframing education the formation of liberal metitocratic education education in the depression the discursive politics of education 1929-32 education reform 1929-32 interlude 2 - towards a social analysis of education. Part 3 Context and beyond…
Teachers' Work and the Politics of Redundancy in Victoria
Assessing the Institutional Context of Decentralised School Management: Schools of the Future in Victoria
(1994). ASSESSING THE INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT OF DECENTRALISED SCHOOL MANAGEMENT: SCHOOLS OF THE FUTURE IN VICTORIA. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education: Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 1-15
Competing time orders in human service work: Towards a politics of time
Human service work is being reconfigured by welfare state reforms driven by neo-liberal globalization. Sectors are being merged, 'hybrid' occupations formed and occupational boundaries renegotiated. Yet time is rarely considered in the study of such boundary work. This article conceptualizes time as generated by human action, in different orders that may operate in tension with one another. Three case studies of reform in educational work, from F…
Politics of social partnerships: A framework for theorizing
This paper considers the politics of neo‐liberal reform of education and training in the specific context of social partnerships. Social partnerships are hybrid social spaces formed when a range of interests/partners work together for mutual benefit. Partnerships are one of a series of hybridized social spaces which have been formed as a consequence of the trend to neo‐liberal governance. The paper begins by situating the study of social partners…
Collaborative working and contested practices: Forming, developing and sustaining social partnerships in education
Despite a lack of applied research, social partnerships are increasingly being adopted by both government and non‐government agencies to meet localised needs in education and other fields. This article discusses the findings of an investigation of how social partnerships can best be formed, developed and sustained over time. Earlier work identified partnerships arising from community concerns, governmental enactment and negotiation between commun…
Context and beyond: Reframing the Theory and Practice of Education
Part 1 Questioning context: introducing context the ambiguities of context trends in contextualist research trends in conceptualizing context. Part 2 Reframing education: interlude 1 - beyond context to a reframing education the formation of liberal metitocratic education education in the depression the discursive politics of education 1929-32 education reform 1929-32 interlude 2 - towards a social analysis of education. Part 3 Context and beyond…
Assessing the Institutional Context of Decentralised School Management: Schools of the Future in Victoria
(1994). ASSESSING THE INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT OF DECENTRALISED SCHOOL MANAGEMENT: SCHOOLS OF THE FUTURE IN VICTORIA. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education: Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 1-15
Defining the real: Context and beyond
This paper draws attention to the trend to consider context in educational discourse. It documents the increasing use of “context” in everyday educational talk and in educational research and begins to consider the implications of this trend for the theory and practice of education. The paper considers different ways that context is used and suggests that over the last 5‐10 years conceptions of context have shifted. As well as being understood sp…
Understanding educational work: Exploring the analytic borderlands around the labour that enables learning
This special issue documents and theorises ‘educational work’ that examines the ways in which adult learners, educators and policy-makers are remaking education as they navigate ‘hot spots’ created by the intersection of national institutional trajectories and globalising processes. Our aim in compiling this special issue is to address the question, how best to conceptualise, to document and to analyse – in other words, to make visible – the new …
Making educational spaces through boundary work: Territorialisation and ‘boundarying’
Globalising processes are shifting the established nation-building project of twentieth-century national education systems. This historic axis between education and territorialised state power is being re-spatialised and remade as a globally networked, lifelong learning educational order. Political sociology of education theorises these de- and re-territorialising trajectories; yet the practical processes of remaking educational spaces are less w…
Decentred education: Suggestions for framing a socio‐spatial research agenda
This paper explores the trend towards a decentred social organization of learning that has become evident over the last 30–40 years. This is illustrated by the shifting imagery of education, from the red brick school to dispersed learning networks, or ‘learning bubbles’, that constitute new learning spaces. In the context of our large funded research project that aims to assess new learning spaces, we problematize this decentring of education and…
Markets and the English: Rethinking educational restructuring as institutional design
This paper analyses the concerns, parameters and silences emerging in the field of English research on contemporary educational restructuring. The research effort oriented to the investigation of Thatcherism and the marketisation of education is documented. Its strong emphasis on markets and processes of marketisation and its neglect of alternatives to Thatcherism is noted. This pattern of emphases and silences in research seems to have arisen as…
Comparative education concepts, methods and practices in the emerging anthropocene educational space: From ‘measuring the other’ to ‘supporting the other’
Climate change threatens human well-being and planetary health but is hardly addressed in education. Comparative education research has advised governments about education reforms since the nineteenth century, so what must change to sustain a liveable earth? I use the concept of ‘educational space’ to understand how comparative knowledge building has steered education. Then I re-read three volumes of the World Yearbook of Education (WYB) to show …
Navigating social partnerships: Central agencies–local networks
This paper considers the way social partnerships tend to be represented as either horizontal localised networks or neo‐liberal policy instruments. Building on two empirical studies of partnerships, we argue that partnerships cannot be understood in either/or ways but are negotiated at the interface between central agencies and local networks. They are mediated by networks operating through the partnership and through government and community, and…
Contradictions in the Australian teacher debate: Implications for policy and practice
(1991). Contradictions in the Australian teacher debate: implications for policy and practice. Journal of Education Policy: Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 359-369
Politics and Curriculum: A case study of the Japanese history textbook dispute, 1982
This paper presents a case study of an international controversy which erupted in 1982 over state authorised changes to Japanese history textbooks. The dispute is analysed in terms of four convergent political, economic and social dynamics. These are the crucial nature of the Japanese state and its educational arm in Japan, the roots and focuses of post‐1945 political struggle, the pattern of Japanese postwar development, and the impact of recess…
Sustainable development and social learning: Re-contextualising the space of orientation
Educational work: The educational boundary politics of making ‘citizens’
Contemporary global transitions are remaking education as a social institution and re-positioning educators in a lifelong learning political order. In this paper, I reflect on a research project that investigated the teaching occupation in learning societies in order to explain the concept of ‘educational work’: the form of labour that makes, orients and enacts spaces, which yield learning and build citizen capabilities. I report on a case study …
Globalization and Academic’s Workplace Learning: A Case Study in China
Globalization is the major confronting challenge of higher education worldwide. And internationalization has become a response of higher education to meet the demands and challenges of globalization. In the recent decades, Chinese government has developed different policies to steer education reforms in order to achieve the aim of internationalization. The internationalizing process has produced contradictory changes in academic workplaces. This …
Steering futures: Practices and possibilities of institutional redesign in Australian education and training
This paper reports findings from an enthographic study of educational restructuring in an Institute of Technical and Further Education (TAFE) in Victoria Australia. Educational restructuring is analysed as a process of institutional redesign and theorized in relation to recent debates in institutional theory concerning the nature of institutional change. The review distinguishes between hyperrational approaches to institutional redesign based upo…
The principle of choice in policy research
This paper contributes to the debate about conceptualising policy research by considering Howell's (1990) call that researchers reveal the ‘principle of choice’ which guides the selection of topics, strategies and resources in research. Specifically, it addresses the question of what information must be made available to other researchers so that there can be productive continuing conversations’ (Ball 1994:174) about policy research and its conce…
Restructuring Teachers and Teaching: Current Australian Developments and Future Prospects
Social Justice in Hard Times: From 'Equality of Opportunity' to 'Fairness and Efficiency
Coherence in the Changing Form of Schooling, State and Society: An analysis of Australian educational reform, 1901‐07
This paper queries the appropriateness of notions of 'relative autonomy'. It argues that rather than autonomy, historical analyses show considerable coherence in both the qualitative character and rhythm of development of different facets of social life. The argument is developed through an examination of the relationship of schooling, state and society. A theoretical framework for conceptualising the relationship of schooling, state and society …
Politics and Curriculum: A case study of the Japanese history textbook dispute, 1982
This paper presents a case study of an international controversy which erupted in 1982 over state authorised changes to Japanese history textbooks. The dispute is analysed in terms of four convergent political, economic and social dynamics. These are the crucial nature of the Japanese state and its educational arm in Japan, the roots and focuses of post‐1945 political struggle, the pattern of Japanese postwar development, and the impact of recess…
Coherence in the Changing Form of Schooling, State and Society: An analysis of Australian educational reform, 1901‐07
This paper queries the appropriateness of notions of 'relative autonomy'. It argues that rather than autonomy, historical analyses show considerable coherence in both the qualitative character and rhythm of development of different facets of social life. The argument is developed through an examination of the relationship of schooling, state and society. A theoretical framework for conceptualising the relationship of schooling, state and society …
Social Justice in Hard Times: From 'Equality of Opportunity' to 'Fairness and Efficiency
Contradictions in the Australian teacher debate: Implications for policy and practice
(1991). Contradictions in the Australian teacher debate: implications for policy and practice. Journal of Education Policy: Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 359-369
Restructuring Teachers and Teaching: Current Australian Developments and Future Prospects
Teachers' Work and the Politics of Redundancy in Victoria
Assessing the Institutional Context of Decentralised School Management: Schools of the Future in Victoria
(1994). ASSESSING THE INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT OF DECENTRALISED SCHOOL MANAGEMENT: SCHOOLS OF THE FUTURE IN VICTORIA. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education: Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 1-15
Defining the real: Context and beyond
This paper draws attention to the trend to consider context in educational discourse. It documents the increasing use of “context” in everyday educational talk and in educational research and begins to consider the implications of this trend for the theory and practice of education. The paper considers different ways that context is used and suggests that over the last 5‐10 years conceptions of context have shifted. As well as being understood sp…
Context and beyond: Reframing the Theory and Practice of Education
Part 1 Questioning context: introducing context the ambiguities of context trends in contextualist research trends in conceptualizing context. Part 2 Reframing education: interlude 1 - beyond context to a reframing education the formation of liberal metitocratic education education in the depression the discursive politics of education 1929-32 education reform 1929-32 interlude 2 - towards a social analysis of education. Part 3 Context and beyond…
Seeking ‘a Better State of Things’: Theorising educators’ work and politics in the conservative 1990s
The principle of choice in policy research
This paper contributes to the debate about conceptualising policy research by considering Howell's (1990) call that researchers reveal the ‘principle of choice’ which guides the selection of topics, strategies and resources in research. Specifically, it addresses the question of what information must be made available to other researchers so that there can be productive continuing conversations’ (Ball 1994:174) about policy research and its conce…
Markets and the English: Rethinking educational restructuring as institutional design
This paper analyses the concerns, parameters and silences emerging in the field of English research on contemporary educational restructuring. The research effort oriented to the investigation of Thatcherism and the marketisation of education is documented. Its strong emphasis on markets and processes of marketisation and its neglect of alternatives to Thatcherism is noted. This pattern of emphases and silences in research seems to have arisen as…
Steering futures: Practices and possibilities of institutional redesign in Australian education and training
This paper reports findings from an enthographic study of educational restructuring in an Institute of Technical and Further Education (TAFE) in Victoria Australia. Educational restructuring is analysed as a process of institutional redesign and theorized in relation to recent debates in institutional theory concerning the nature of institutional change. The review distinguishes between hyperrational approaches to institutional redesign based upo…
Framing justice: Challenges for research
This paper raises questions about the apparent research commonsense that has developed in much English and Australian policy sociology in relation to neo-liberal or ‘post-welfarist’, education reform. These questions arise out of an interrogation of two evaluations of social justice in neo-liberal education contexts: Gewirtz's social justice audit which is reported in The Managerial School and an analysis of social justice in the context of train…
Politics of social partnerships: A framework for theorizing
This paper considers the politics of neo‐liberal reform of education and training in the specific context of social partnerships. Social partnerships are hybrid social spaces formed when a range of interests/partners work together for mutual benefit. Partnerships are one of a series of hybridized social spaces which have been formed as a consequence of the trend to neo‐liberal governance. The paper begins by situating the study of social partners…
Coda: Europe, Social Space and the Politics of Knowledge
Navigating social partnerships: Central agencies–local networks
This paper considers the way social partnerships tend to be represented as either horizontal localised networks or neo‐liberal policy instruments. Building on two empirical studies of partnerships, we argue that partnerships cannot be understood in either/or ways but are negotiated at the interface between central agencies and local networks. They are mediated by networks operating through the partnership and through government and community, and…
Decentred education: Suggestions for framing a socio‐spatial research agenda
This paper explores the trend towards a decentred social organization of learning that has become evident over the last 30–40 years. This is illustrated by the shifting imagery of education, from the red brick school to dispersed learning networks, or ‘learning bubbles’, that constitute new learning spaces. In the context of our large funded research project that aims to assess new learning spaces, we problematize this decentring of education and…
Collaborative working and contested practices: Forming, developing and sustaining social partnerships in education
Despite a lack of applied research, social partnerships are increasingly being adopted by both government and non‐government agencies to meet localised needs in education and other fields. This article discusses the findings of an investigation of how social partnerships can best be formed, developed and sustained over time. Earlier work identified partnerships arising from community concerns, governmental enactment and negotiation between commun…
Learning and Work and the Politics of Working Life: Global Transformations and Collective Identities in Teaching, Nursing and Social Work
Introduction- Disturbing work and transforming politics, Terri Seddon, Lea Henriksson and Beatrix Niemeyer 1. Disturbing Academic Work: Theorising a global book project Terri Seddon, Lea Henriksson and Beatrix Niemeyer Part 1 - Reconfiguring occupational orders 2. Human Service Labour Force in the Making: Spotlight on Finnish practical nurses Lea Henriksson 3. Disputing Managerial Architecture in Educational Work: Irony as a liberating strategy f…
Competing time orders in human service work: Towards a politics of time
Human service work is being reconfigured by welfare state reforms driven by neo-liberal globalization. Sectors are being merged, 'hybrid' occupations formed and occupational boundaries renegotiated. Yet time is rarely considered in the study of such boundary work. This article conceptualizes time as generated by human action, in different orders that may operate in tension with one another. Three case studies of reform in educational work, from F…
Educational work: The educational boundary politics of making ‘citizens’
Contemporary global transitions are remaking education as a social institution and re-positioning educators in a lifelong learning political order. In this paper, I reflect on a research project that investigated the teaching occupation in learning societies in order to explain the concept of ‘educational work’: the form of labour that makes, orients and enacts spaces, which yield learning and build citizen capabilities. I report on a case study …
Understanding educational work: Exploring the analytic borderlands around the labour that enables learning
This special issue documents and theorises ‘educational work’ that examines the ways in which adult learners, educators and policy-makers are remaking education as they navigate ‘hot spots’ created by the intersection of national institutional trajectories and globalising processes. Our aim in compiling this special issue is to address the question, how best to conceptualise, to document and to analyse – in other words, to make visible – the new …
Making educational spaces through boundary work: Territorialisation and ‘boundarying’
Globalising processes are shifting the established nation-building project of twentieth-century national education systems. This historic axis between education and territorialised state power is being re-spatialised and remade as a globally networked, lifelong learning educational order. Political sociology of education theorises these de- and re-territorialising trajectories; yet the practical processes of remaking educational spaces are less w…
Globalization and Academic’s Workplace Learning: A Case Study in China
Globalization is the major confronting challenge of higher education worldwide. And internationalization has become a response of higher education to meet the demands and challenges of globalization. In the recent decades, Chinese government has developed different policies to steer education reforms in order to achieve the aim of internationalization. The internationalizing process has produced contradictory changes in academic workplaces. This …
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