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Tuesday, April 11 • 2:30pm - 3:30pm
School Leaders and Commercialisation: Different Stories from Canada and Australia

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This presentation will focus on research conducted in Australia on behalf of the New South Wales Teachers Federation (NSWTF) that will be matched with research conducted by the by the Canadian Association of Principals in collaboration with the Alberta Teachers’ Association (ATA). The aim of the research was to explore teacher and school leader concerns regarding the scale and impact of the commercialisation they saw in their public schools. The data presented will tell very different stories about what is seen to be happening in Australia and NSW on the one hand, and Canada and Alberta on the other. Participants will be asked to contribute their experiences and advance possible hypotheses for how Canadian school leaders understand and approach commercialisation in public education.
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Greg Thompson

Associate Professor of Education Research, Queensland University of Technology
Greg Thompson is Associate Professor of Education Research at Queensland University of Technology (QUT). Prior to becoming an academic, he worked as a high school teacher in Western Australia for 13 years. Thompson’s research focuses on educational theory, education policy, and the philosophy/sociology of education assessment and measurement with a particular emphasis on large-scale testing. Recent research projects include reconceptualising... Read More →

Tuesday April 11, 2017 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Ivor Petrak Room
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