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Full-Text Articles in Education
The Far Left In Australia, Rowan Cahill
The Far Left In Australia, Rowan Cahill
Rowan Cahill
A Brush With Weimar Germany.Docx, Rowan Cahill
A Brush With Weimar Germany.Docx, Rowan Cahill
Rowan Cahill
Radical Academia: Beyond The Audit Culture Treadmill, Rowan Cahill, Terry Irving
Radical Academia: Beyond The Audit Culture Treadmill, Rowan Cahill, Terry Irving
Rowan Cahill
The pathos of radical academia: notes on the impact of neo-liberalism on the universities, especially the audit culture, the production-model, casualization, academic scholarship, academic writing, peer reviewing, and open access. The authors suggest ways scholars can be radical within, and outside, of neoliberal academia. Part I, 'Missing in Action' appeared as an Academia.edu session in May 2015, where it attracted many comments. Part II, 'What Can Be Done?' is the authors' response to these comments. The whole piece was posted on the Cahill/Irving blog 'Radical Sydney/Radical History' on 22 October 2015.
A Living Tradition, Rowan Cahill
A Living Tradition, Rowan Cahill
Rowan Cahill
Discussion of the seminal work by R. W. Connell and T. H. Irving 'Class Structure in Australian History' (Longman Cheshire, 1980, 1992), and of the tradition of Marxist and class analysis in Australian intellectual life.
Words For Pam, Rowan Cahill
Words For Pam, Rowan Cahill
Rowan Cahill
Words spoken by Rowan Cahill at the funeral of his wife, Pam Cahill, 24 June 2015.
Missing In Action?, Rowan Cahill, Terry Irving
Missing In Action?, Rowan Cahill, Terry Irving
Rowan Cahill
The changing character of intellectual production: how university radicals have become vassals of global billion-dollar scholarly publishing empires; the necessity for radical scholars to break from this model; and the possibility of connecting with activism outside the university as one way of doing this.
The Radical History Of Sydney University: Student Activism In The 60s, Rowan Cahill
The Radical History Of Sydney University: Student Activism In The 60s, Rowan Cahill
Rowan Cahill
A personal account of radical activism at Sydney University during the 1960s by two activist/participants, Rowan Cahill and Terry Irving. The talk was part of the campaign by Sydney University students to mobilise for the National Rally for Education Rights held on 26 March 2014.
Behind The Rhetoric, Rowan Cahill
Behind The Rhetoric, Rowan Cahill
Rowan Cahill
A contemporary critical account of changes taking place in the NSW state education system in the late 1990s-2001 under the leadership of Dr. Ken Boston, Director-General of Education and Training in NSW. The author argues that Boston's 'devolution' rhetoric masks a determined conservative and Rightist push to politically and ideologically centralise the education system and in the process emasculate teacher initiative, imagination, and enterprise.
October: An Education Journal, Rowan Cahill
October: An Education Journal, Rowan Cahill
Rowan Cahill
This 8-page pamphlet/zine is written in the form of a diary for the month of October, 1997, and was published by Bull Ant Press, Bowral (1997). In it the author comments widely on contemporary education issues, in particular the modern trend towards the corporatisation of education, a process he sees as devaluing independent and critical thought in favour of wall-to-wall assessments and examining, utility, bureaucratisation, and education reflecting "corporate and market place ideologies and practices".
Swilling At Mcideas, Rowan Cahill
Swilling At Mcideas, Rowan Cahill
Rowan Cahill
A personal/autobiographical contribution to a series 'What does it mean to be radical?' in which a number of activists working in a varitety of contexts reflected on being radical educators in the 1990s.
Synthesis And Hope, Rowan Cahill
Synthesis And Hope, Rowan Cahill
Rowan Cahill
A collection of the author's articles on school teaching and education, previously published in non-academic journals during the 1980s and early 1990s, and mainly drawing on the author's extensive classroom experience.
Charles Birch: Synthesis And Hope, Rowan Cahill
Charles Birch: Synthesis And Hope, Rowan Cahill
Rowan Cahill
View From The Classroom, Rowan Cahill
View From The Classroom, Rowan Cahill
Rowan Cahill
Edited version of a speech given by Rowan Cahill to the Australian Education Network's 'Vision for the Future' Conference, Sydney, 18 October 1991.
The Education System I'D Like To See, Rowan Cahill
The Education System I'D Like To See, Rowan Cahill
Rowan Cahill
Written and published in 1989, this is an Australian classroom teacher's view of the sort of education system he would like to see, a view at odds in many ways with then prevailing practices. The article was commissioned by the editor of 'Education', journal of the NSW Teachers Federation, the author a frequent contributor to the journal and a well known activist.
Abracadabra, Rowan Cahill
Abracadabra, Rowan Cahill
Rowan Cahill
An account of, and warning about, the increasing strength of Creationism in Australia, and its possible threat to the future teaching of Science in Australian schools.
Transed: Fraser's Frankenstein, Rowan Cahill
Transed: Fraser's Frankenstein, Rowan Cahill
Rowan Cahill
Of historical interest:- A contemporary (1981) critique of the developing trend in Australia to make schools more responsive to utilitarian economic imperatives and to downplay and/or abandon broader cultural and intellectual concerns.
Teachers And Writing, Rowan Cahill
Teachers And Writing, Rowan Cahill
Rowan Cahill
Of historical interest:- Written at a time (1980) when the 'writing process' was interesting Australian school curriculum developers, the author argues that school teachers should be encouraged to write and to publish on education issues, and those delegated to actually teach students about 'writing' should themselves be active 'writers'.
The Decline Of History, Rowan Cahill
The Decline Of History, Rowan Cahill
Rowan Cahill
The author addresses the contemporary (1970s) loss of confidence, and interest, in history as a subject amongst Australian secondary school students and educational administrators. He mounts a defence of the teaching of the subject in schools, and argues for its complexities. Strategies to increase the appeal of the subject and its perceived relevance are suggested.
The Student Mood: Sydney University, Rowan Cahill, Terry Irving
The Student Mood: Sydney University, Rowan Cahill, Terry Irving
Rowan Cahill
A discussion published in 1968 by Cahill and Irving about student unrest in the universities of Australia, with specific reference to the situation existing at the time in Sydney University. At the time, Cahill was a prominent student radical completing his BA (Honours) degree and Irving was an activist-academic.