Jan Currie
Biographic Data
| ID | 3701346 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jan Currie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jan |
| FAMILY NAME | Currie |
| SIGNATURE | CURRIE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Murdoch University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 72 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Desiring machines and nomad spaces: Neoliberalism, Performativity and Becoming in Senior Secondary Drama Classrooms
This paper explores Deleuze and Guattari's schizoanalysis in relation to student and teacher becomings and the way these are actualised within the neoliberal and heterosexually striated spaces of the secondary school assemblage. Deleuze and Guattari considered a narrow approach to education problematic and called for creativity as a site of ‘resistance’. Drama is one subject rich with potentiality for students to strengthen their creativity and ‘…
Embodiment and becoming in secondary drama classrooms: The effects of neoliberal education cultures on performances of self and of drama texts
This article explores the effects of neoliberalism and performative educational cultures on secondary school drama classrooms. We consider the ways Deleuze and Guattari’s schizoanalysis and Butler’s concept of gender performance enable us to chart the embodied, relational, spatial and affective energies that inhabit the often neoliberal and heterosexually striated space of the drama classroom. These post-humanist analyses are useful methodologica…
Data-Driven Performativity: Neoliberalism's Impact on Drama Education in Western Australian Secondary Schools
The much touted “difficult economic times” we live in have in recent years resulted in a drastic reduction in arts and education funding in western capitalist nations (Fowles 2014; Henwood and Featherstone 2013; Murray and Erridge 2012; Smith 2013). For example, in Australia, the 2013 landslide victory of the conservative Abbott government resulted in an almost immediate slashing of funding for education (A$1.1 b) and the arts (A$87.1 m) (Riddle …
Gendered Universities and the Wage Gap: Case Study of a Pay Equity Audit in an Australian University
Governance and trust in higher education
The adoption of more corporate models of governance is a contemporary trend in higher education. In the early 2000s, the Australian Government legislated national governance protocols for universities, using the policy lever of financial sanctions. These more corporate‐style governance protocols followed similar changes in the UK, consistent with a historical pattern of Australia borrowing policy ‘on trust’ from its former colonial ruler. However…
Changing accountabilities in higher education as China ‘opens up’ to globalisation
This paper focuses on changing accountability policies/practices in higher education as China rapidly ‘opens up’ to the global knowledge economy. It reports empirical findings from two case study universities, using respondents’ voices, and then raises issues for critical reflection. Increasingly prescriptive and punitive neo‐liberal accountabilities have come to prevail in Chinese higher education, although ‘new’ accountability mechanisms have n…
Sacrifices in Greedy Universities: Are they gendered
In 1995-97, a research team interviewed a cross-section of staff in two Australian public universities about the sacrifices they had to make to pursue their careers. This article discusses the responses of the staff who participated in this study. It uses Coser's concept of the 'greedy institution' to describe the hold which universities have over their staff and details the range of personal and professional sacrifices which staff made in order …
Privatization and competition policies for Australian universities
Universities and Globalization: Critical Perspectives
Success, Gender and Academic Voices. Consuming Passion or Selling the Soul
In 1995 a research team interviewed a cross-section of academics and senior managers in an Australian public university about their perception of the attributes of success. A number of different views emerged. Respondents who felt the system was reasonable saw the successful academic as someone who was productive, hard-working, strategic and able to adopt a university-wide perspective. Those who saw the system as flawed, identified success in neg…
Religion and feminism
Award Restructuring for Academics: The Negotiating Process
Since 1983 the Accord agreements between the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) and the Labor government have provided for a significant and historific shift in Australian economic policy and industrial relations (ACTU. 1989; Ewer et al., 1991)
An Enriched Mathematical Program for Young Aboriginal Children
This paper provides some early results on a project designed to improve Aboriginal children's performance in mathematics, starting from their earliest introduction to number work. It explores the use of an enriched mathematics environment that minimally conflicts with traditional Aboriginal learning styles. The study is concerned with evaluating the effectiveness of a program intervention in remote Aboriginal schools, based on the results of pre-…
Sacrifices in Greedy Universities: Are they gendered
In 1995-97, a research team interviewed a cross-section of staff in two Australian public universities about the sacrifices they had to make to pursue their careers. This article discusses the responses of the staff who participated in this study. It uses Coser's concept of the 'greedy institution' to describe the hold which universities have over their staff and details the range of personal and professional sacrifices which staff made in order …
Changing accountabilities in higher education as China ‘opens up’ to globalisation
This paper focuses on changing accountability policies/practices in higher education as China rapidly ‘opens up’ to the global knowledge economy. It reports empirical findings from two case study universities, using respondents’ voices, and then raises issues for critical reflection. Increasingly prescriptive and punitive neo‐liberal accountabilities have come to prevail in Chinese higher education, although ‘new’ accountability mechanisms have n…
Success, Gender and Academic Voices. Consuming Passion or Selling the Soul
In 1995 a research team interviewed a cross-section of academics and senior managers in an Australian public university about their perception of the attributes of success. A number of different views emerged. Respondents who felt the system was reasonable saw the successful academic as someone who was productive, hard-working, strategic and able to adopt a university-wide perspective. Those who saw the system as flawed, identified success in neg…
Gendered Universities and the Wage Gap: Case Study of a Pay Equity Audit in an Australian University
Desiring machines and nomad spaces: Neoliberalism, Performativity and Becoming in Senior Secondary Drama Classrooms
This paper explores Deleuze and Guattari's schizoanalysis in relation to student and teacher becomings and the way these are actualised within the neoliberal and heterosexually striated spaces of the secondary school assemblage. Deleuze and Guattari considered a narrow approach to education problematic and called for creativity as a site of ‘resistance’. Drama is one subject rich with potentiality for students to strengthen their creativity and ‘…
Governance and trust in higher education
The adoption of more corporate models of governance is a contemporary trend in higher education. In the early 2000s, the Australian Government legislated national governance protocols for universities, using the policy lever of financial sanctions. These more corporate‐style governance protocols followed similar changes in the UK, consistent with a historical pattern of Australia borrowing policy ‘on trust’ from its former colonial ruler. However…
Privatization and competition policies for Australian universities
Data-Driven Performativity: Neoliberalism's Impact on Drama Education in Western Australian Secondary Schools
The much touted “difficult economic times” we live in have in recent years resulted in a drastic reduction in arts and education funding in western capitalist nations (Fowles 2014; Henwood and Featherstone 2013; Murray and Erridge 2012; Smith 2013). For example, in Australia, the 2013 landslide victory of the conservative Abbott government resulted in an almost immediate slashing of funding for education (A$1.1 b) and the arts (A$87.1 m) (Riddle …
Religion and feminism
An Enriched Mathematical Program for Young Aboriginal Children
This paper provides some early results on a project designed to improve Aboriginal children's performance in mathematics, starting from their earliest introduction to number work. It explores the use of an enriched mathematics environment that minimally conflicts with traditional Aboriginal learning styles. The study is concerned with evaluating the effectiveness of a program intervention in remote Aboriginal schools, based on the results of pre-…
Religion and feminism
Award Restructuring for Academics: The Negotiating Process
Since 1983 the Accord agreements between the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) and the Labor government have provided for a significant and historific shift in Australian economic policy and industrial relations (ACTU. 1989; Ewer et al., 1991)
Success, Gender and Academic Voices. Consuming Passion or Selling the Soul
In 1995 a research team interviewed a cross-section of academics and senior managers in an Australian public university about their perception of the attributes of success. A number of different views emerged. Respondents who felt the system was reasonable saw the successful academic as someone who was productive, hard-working, strategic and able to adopt a university-wide perspective. Those who saw the system as flawed, identified success in neg…
Sacrifices in Greedy Universities: Are they gendered
In 1995-97, a research team interviewed a cross-section of staff in two Australian public universities about the sacrifices they had to make to pursue their careers. This article discusses the responses of the staff who participated in this study. It uses Coser's concept of the 'greedy institution' to describe the hold which universities have over their staff and details the range of personal and professional sacrifices which staff made in order …
Privatization and competition policies for Australian universities
Universities and Globalization: Critical Perspectives
Changing accountabilities in higher education as China ‘opens up’ to globalisation
This paper focuses on changing accountability policies/practices in higher education as China rapidly ‘opens up’ to the global knowledge economy. It reports empirical findings from two case study universities, using respondents’ voices, and then raises issues for critical reflection. Increasingly prescriptive and punitive neo‐liberal accountabilities have come to prevail in Chinese higher education, although ‘new’ accountability mechanisms have n…
Governance and trust in higher education
The adoption of more corporate models of governance is a contemporary trend in higher education. In the early 2000s, the Australian Government legislated national governance protocols for universities, using the policy lever of financial sanctions. These more corporate‐style governance protocols followed similar changes in the UK, consistent with a historical pattern of Australia borrowing policy ‘on trust’ from its former colonial ruler. However…
Gendered Universities and the Wage Gap: Case Study of a Pay Equity Audit in an Australian University
Data-Driven Performativity: Neoliberalism's Impact on Drama Education in Western Australian Secondary Schools
The much touted “difficult economic times” we live in have in recent years resulted in a drastic reduction in arts and education funding in western capitalist nations (Fowles 2014; Henwood and Featherstone 2013; Murray and Erridge 2012; Smith 2013). For example, in Australia, the 2013 landslide victory of the conservative Abbott government resulted in an almost immediate slashing of funding for education (A$1.1 b) and the arts (A$87.1 m) (Riddle …
Embodiment and becoming in secondary drama classrooms: The effects of neoliberal education cultures on performances of self and of drama texts
This article explores the effects of neoliberalism and performative educational cultures on secondary school drama classrooms. We consider the ways Deleuze and Guattari’s schizoanalysis and Butler’s concept of gender performance enable us to chart the embodied, relational, spatial and affective energies that inhabit the often neoliberal and heterosexually striated space of the drama classroom. These post-humanist analyses are useful methodologica…
Desiring machines and nomad spaces: Neoliberalism, Performativity and Becoming in Senior Secondary Drama Classrooms
This paper explores Deleuze and Guattari's schizoanalysis in relation to student and teacher becomings and the way these are actualised within the neoliberal and heterosexually striated spaces of the secondary school assemblage. Deleuze and Guattari considered a narrow approach to education problematic and called for creativity as a site of ‘resistance’. Drama is one subject rich with potentiality for students to strengthen their creativity and ‘…
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Higher education (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works)