Amanda Heffernan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4897127 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amanda Heffernan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amanda |
| FAMILY NAME | Heffernan |
| SIGNATURE | HEFFERNAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Monash University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5100-2581 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Una mujer embarazada necesita el sol
The US immigration detention and deportation system is a vector for state violence against criminalized, racialized populations, in service to racial capitalism. The immigration policies of both Democrats and Republicans are designed to extract profit from migrants, disciplining them as a deportable underclass of workers while minimizing and externalizing the costs of social reproduction. The detention of pregnant women presents the immigration e…
Bridging the Policy Gap
Executive Summary Unlike refugees, most asylum-seekers receive scant attention from US government and non-profit agencies. A loose network of individuals and organizations aims to bridge this gap in policy and services through the practice of asylum accompaniment. This article, by two scholar-activists with a combined 10 years of experience accompanying asylum-seekers, aims to: • Explore the praxis of asylum accompaniment via critical autoethnogr…
System leadership in China? Conceptualising “Education Collectives” as formal school partnerships through the dragon boat metaphor
System leadership is increasingly and normatively used to describe administrative practices across education institutions. However, we argue that what is spreading are policy conditions encouraging multiple institutions to share governance arrangements. This requires new forms of leadership, which summons and reifies the researchable, but malleable category of “system leadership”. In this article, we analyse interview data from the constituent Pr…
What needs to happen for school autonomy to be mobilised to create more equitable public schools and systems of education
The series of responses in this article were gathered as part of an online mini conference held in September 2021 that sought to explore different ideas and articulations of school autonomy reform across the world (Australia, Canada, England, Ireland, the USA, Norway, Sweden and New Zealand). It centred upon an important question: what needs to happen for school autonomy to be mobilised to create more equitable public schools and systems of educa…
Mixed Messages
‘I cannot sustain the workload and the emotional toll’
Concerns are mounting about the attraction and retention of teachers in Australian schools. This study draws upon a questionnaire of 2444 Australian primary and secondary school teachers, which revealed that only 41% of respondents intended to remain in the profession. Through a thematic analysis of the qualitative data within the questionnaire, we use employee turnover theory to enable an understanding of the reasons 1446 of the respondents desc…
Pregnancy in United States immigration detention
This article argues that the detention and inhumane treatment of pregnant migrants by the United States (US) immigration authorities forms part of a continuum of gendered necropolitical violence that frames migrants’ lives before, during, and after crossing the US–Mexico border. In this context, pregnancy – a uniquely gendered and embodied experience – is a rich site of analysis, a place where reproductive oppression is enacted on individual bodi…
Retaining Australia’s school leaders in ‘challenging’ contexts
Introduction to rapid response papers’ special issue
We are delighted to introduce the first in our occasional series of rapid response papers on the highly topical issue of school leadership and the Covid 19 pandemic. We warmly thank the contributor
Engage for Equity
We developed a set of four community-based participatory research (CBPR) partnership tools aimed at supporting community–academic research partnerships in strengthening their research processes, with the ultimate goal of improving research outcomes. The aim of this article is to describe the tools we developed to accomplish this goal: (1) the River of Life Exercise; (2) a Partnership Visioning Exercise; (3) a personalized Partnership Data Report …
Educational leadership and policy in 2020
In our last editorial in May 2020 (Vol. 52, Issue 2), we reflected on the COVID-19 pandemic that was affecting communities around the world. Now, at the end of 2020, we could never have predicted t
Educational leadership and policy on rapidly shifting ground
Education and democracy for complex contemporary childhoods
Looking back to understand the present and future
Pregnancy in United States immigration detention
This article argues that the detention and inhumane treatment of pregnant migrants by the United States (US) immigration authorities forms part of a continuum of gendered necropolitical violence that frames migrants’ lives before, during, and after crossing the US–Mexico border. In this context, pregnancy – a uniquely gendered and embodied experience – is a rich site of analysis, a place where reproductive oppression is enacted on individual bodi…
Education and democracy for complex contemporary childhoods
Education and democracy for complex contemporary childhoods
Looking back to understand the present and future
Engage for Equity
We developed a set of four community-based participatory research (CBPR) partnership tools aimed at supporting community–academic research partnerships in strengthening their research processes, with the ultimate goal of improving research outcomes. The aim of this article is to describe the tools we developed to accomplish this goal: (1) the River of Life Exercise; (2) a Partnership Visioning Exercise; (3) a personalized Partnership Data Report …
Educational leadership and policy in 2020
In our last editorial in May 2020 (Vol. 52, Issue 2), we reflected on the COVID-19 pandemic that was affecting communities around the world. Now, at the end of 2020, we could never have predicted t
Educational leadership and policy on rapidly shifting ground
Retaining Australia’s school leaders in ‘challenging’ contexts
Introduction to rapid response papers’ special issue
We are delighted to introduce the first in our occasional series of rapid response papers on the highly topical issue of school leadership and the Covid 19 pandemic. We warmly thank the contributor
‘I cannot sustain the workload and the emotional toll’
Concerns are mounting about the attraction and retention of teachers in Australian schools. This study draws upon a questionnaire of 2444 Australian primary and secondary school teachers, which revealed that only 41% of respondents intended to remain in the profession. Through a thematic analysis of the qualitative data within the questionnaire, we use employee turnover theory to enable an understanding of the reasons 1446 of the respondents desc…
Pregnancy in United States immigration detention
This article argues that the detention and inhumane treatment of pregnant migrants by the United States (US) immigration authorities forms part of a continuum of gendered necropolitical violence that frames migrants’ lives before, during, and after crossing the US–Mexico border. In this context, pregnancy – a uniquely gendered and embodied experience – is a rich site of analysis, a place where reproductive oppression is enacted on individual bodi…
System leadership in China? Conceptualising “Education Collectives” as formal school partnerships through the dragon boat metaphor
System leadership is increasingly and normatively used to describe administrative practices across education institutions. However, we argue that what is spreading are policy conditions encouraging multiple institutions to share governance arrangements. This requires new forms of leadership, which summons and reifies the researchable, but malleable category of “system leadership”. In this article, we analyse interview data from the constituent Pr…
What needs to happen for school autonomy to be mobilised to create more equitable public schools and systems of education
The series of responses in this article were gathered as part of an online mini conference held in September 2021 that sought to explore different ideas and articulations of school autonomy reform across the world (Australia, Canada, England, Ireland, the USA, Norway, Sweden and New Zealand). It centred upon an important question: what needs to happen for school autonomy to be mobilised to create more equitable public schools and systems of educa…
Mixed Messages
Bridging the Policy Gap
Executive Summary Unlike refugees, most asylum-seekers receive scant attention from US government and non-profit agencies. A loose network of individuals and organizations aims to bridge this gap in policy and services through the practice of asylum accompaniment. This article, by two scholar-activists with a combined 10 years of experience accompanying asylum-seekers, aims to: • Explore the praxis of asylum accompaniment via critical autoethnogr…
Una mujer embarazada necesita el sol
The US immigration detention and deportation system is a vector for state violence against criminalized, racialized populations, in service to racial capitalism. The immigration policies of both Democrats and Republicans are designed to extract profit from migrants, disciplining them as a deportable underclass of workers while minimizing and externalizing the costs of social reproduction. The detention of pregnant women presents the immigration e…
Political science (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Pedagogy (7 works) · Public relations (7 works) · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (5 works) · Educational leadership (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Management (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Psychology (4 works)