Professor John Smyth
Emeritus Professor
Campus
- Publications
From 'Jurassic Management' to a Flourishing Revival of Critical Studies of Educational Leadership: Some Reflections on the Contribution of Helen Gunter and Some Encounters with Her Along the Way
- Book Chapters
- DOI reference: 10.1007/978-3-031-36801-1_11
Critical social science as a research methodology in universities in times of crisis
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1108/QRJ-05-2020-0044
A Socially Critical Approach to Community and Parental Engagement: A Matter of Professional Ethics
- Book Chapters
- DOI reference: 10.1007/978-981-32-9401-1_12
Education and Social Class: How Did We Get to This and What Needs to Change?
- Book Chapters
- DOI reference: 10.1007/978-3-319-90671-3_10
Where is class in the analysis of working-class education?
- Book Chapters
- DOI reference: 10.1007/978-3-319-90671-3_1
Preface
- Book Chapters
- DOI reference: 10.1007/978-3-319-90671-3
Education and Working-Class Youth: Reshaping the Politics of Inclusion
- Book
- DOI reference: 10.1007/978-3-319-90671-3
When students 'speak back': challenging elite approaches to teaching, learning and education policy
- Book Chapters
- DOI reference: 10.2307/j.ctt1t89d32.20
The 'hidden transcripts' of digital natives in the peri-urban jungle: young people making sense of their use of social/digital media.
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.7459/ept/37.1.02
Beyond the divide: individual institutional and community capacity building in a Western Australian regional context
Social capital and the 'socially just school'
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1080/0142569032000155917
Policy research and 'damaged teachers': Towards an epistemologically respectful paradigm
Taking flight: School reform through actively listening to the voices of early school leavers (and their teachers)
Policy research and "damaged teachers": Towards an epistemologically respectful paradigm
An argument for new understandings and explanations of early school leaving that go beyond the conventional
Modernizing the Australian education workplace: A case of failure to deliver for teachers of young disadvantaged adolescents
School leadership that is informed by students' and teachers' voices of hope: Reclaiming our lost ways from an Australian perspective
Critical ethnography for school and community renewal around social class differences affecting learning
Schools and communities put at a disadvantage: Relational power, resistance, boundary work and capacity building in educational identity formation
Researching teachers working with young adolescents: Implications for ethnographic research
'When students have power': student engagement, student voice, and the possibilities for school reform around 'dropping out' of school
The politics of reform of teachers' work and the consequences for schools: Some implications for teacher education
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1080/13598660600927208
Introduction to themed issue new pedagogies for school and community 'capacity building' in disadvantaged schools and communities
Tackling school leaving at its source: a case of reform in the middle years of schooling
A high school teacher's experience of local school management: A case of the 'system behaving badly towards teachers'
Engaging the education sector: A policy orientation to stop damaging our schools
'Being leaned on': Social justice and the particular instance of researching teachers' work in the 'self managing school'
"Living on the edge": A case of school reform working for disadvantaged adolescents
Climbing over the rocks in the road to student engagement and learning in a challenging high school in Australia
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1080/00131880701550565
Teacher development against the policy reform grain: An argument for recapturing relationships in teaching and learning
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1080/13664530701414837
Pedagogy, school culture and teacher learning: Towards more durable and resistant approaches to secondary school literacy
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.2167/le802.0
Literacy research methodology that is up to the challenge
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.2167/le798.0
Addressing literacy in secondary schools: Introduction
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.2167/le796.0
Teachers in the middle: Reclaiming the wasteland of the adolescent years of schooling
Toward the pedagogically engaged school: Listening to student voice as a positive response to disengagement and 'dropping out'?
Australia's great disengagement with public education and social justice in educational leadership
The Iraq War, 'Sound Science,' and 'Evidence-Based' Educational Reform: How the Bush Administration Uses Deception, Manipulation, and Subterfuge to Advance its Chosen Ideology
Listening to Student Voice in the Democratisation of Schooling
- Book Chapters
- DOI reference: 10.4324/9780203928677
Activist and Socially Critical School and Community Renewal: Social Justice in Exploitative Times
Debating New Labour education policy
- Book Chapters
- DOI reference: 10.4324/9780203884119
Coming to critical engagement in disadvantaged contexts: an editorial introduction
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1080/17508480802526611
Critically engaged community capacity building and the 'community organizing' approach in disadvantaged contexts
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1080/17508480802526629
'Hanging in with Kids' in Tough Times: Engagement in Contexts of Educational Disadvantage in the Relational School
The Politics of Derision, Distrust and Deficit: The Damaging Consequences for Youth and Communities Put at a Disadvantage
- Book Chapters
- DOI reference: 10.4324/9780203852415
Inclusive School Leadership Strategies in Disadvantaged Schools Based on Student and Community Voice: Implications for Australian Educational Policy
- Book Chapters
- DOI reference: 10.4324/9780203860335
Speaking back to educational policy: why social inclusion will not work for disadvantaged Australian schools
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1080/17508481003742320
Geographies of trust: A politics of resistance for an alternative education
- Book Chapters
- DOI reference: 10.1057/978-1-137-41291-1_25
A Dialogic Encounter with Joe Kincheloe's "Meet Me Behind the Curtain": Catalyst for an envolving contemporary critical theory of teachers' work
'Coming to a place near you?' The politics and possibilities of a critical pedagogy of place-based education
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1080/1359866X.2010.540894
The Deakin Experience: Discovery Crafting and Finessing a Critical Perspective with which to Speak Back
Critical Civic Engagement from Inside an Australian School and Its Community Put at a Disadvantage
The socially just school and critical pedagogies in communities put at a disadvantage
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1080/17508487.2012.635671
From Silent Witnesses to Active Agents: Student Voice in Re-engaging with Learning
Teachers as Classed Cultural Workers Speaking Back Through Critical Reflection
Introduction: From Critique to New Scripts and Possibilities in Teacher Education
Doing research on student voice in Australia
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1177/0892020612445695
'Getting a job': vocationalism, identity formation, and critical ethnographic inquiry
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1080/00220620.2012.683391
Sculpting a 'social space' for re-engaging disengaged 'disadvantaged' young people with learning
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1080/00220620.2012.683390
Editorial: Policy activism: An animating idea with/for young people
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1080/00220620.2012.683396
'You're no-one if you're not a netball girl': rural and regional adolescent girls' negotiation of physically active identities
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1080/11745398.2012.670961
Linking Physical Education With Community Sport and Recreation: A Program for Adolescent Girls
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1177/1524839912464229
Making 'space': young people put at a disadvantage re-engaging with learning
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1080/01425692.2012.744735
Whose side are you on? Advocacy ethnography: some methodological aspects of narrative portraits of disadvantaged young people, in socially critical research
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1080/09518398.2011.604649
Pushed out, shut out: Addressing unjust geographies of schooling and work
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.18546/IJSD.09.2.02
Student Engagement for Equity and Social Justice: Creating Space for Student Voice
Losing our way? Challenging the direction of teacher education in Australia by reframing it around the Socially Just School
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1080/1359866X.2012.753990
Re-engagement to where? Low SES students in alternative-education programmes on the path to low-status destinations?
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1080/13596748.2013.755862
Blurring the boundaries: from relational learning towards a critical pedagogy of engagement for disengaged disadvantaged young people
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1080/14681366.2012.759136
Crisis of youth or youth in crisis? Education, employment and legitimation crisis
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1080/02601370.2016.1164470
How Did We Get to This Situation? The Immiseration of the Modern University in a Globalizing Context
Vulnerable, 'at risk', 'disengaged'. Regional young people.
- Book Chapters
- DOI reference: 10.1007/978-94-6300-121-2_11
It's our turn - young people 'tilting' the neoliberal turn
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1080/13676261.2013.830705
'Ordinary kids' navigating geographies of educational opportunity in the context of an Australian 'place-based intervention'
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1080/02680939.2013.794304
When students "speak back" Student Engagement Towards a Socially Just Society"
'I want to get a piece of paper that says I can do stuff': youth narratives of educational opportunities and constraints in low socio-economic neighbourhoods
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1080/17457823.2013.873349
The disaster of the 'self-managing school' - genesis, trajectory, undisclosed agenda, and effects
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1080/00220620.2011.560253
Rural young people in late modernity: Place, globalisation and the spatial contours of identity
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1177/0011392114538959
Emplacing young people in an Australian rural community: an extraverted sense of place in times of change
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1080/13676261.2014.901495
Improving schools in poor areas: It's not about the organisation, structures and privatisation, stupid!
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1177/1365480214556418
Where has class gone? The pervasiveness of class in girls' physical activity in a rural town
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1080/13573322.2011.619525
'Give me air not shelter': critical tales of a policy case of student re-engagement from beyond school
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1080/02680939.2014.945965
Thinking Past Educational Disadvantage, and Theories of Reproduction
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1177/0038038514540578
What it means to be studying against the grain of neoliberalism in a community-based university programme in a 'disadvantaged area'
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1080/00220620.2015.996862
Critical voices from adolescent 'shape shifters' - accessing portraits in 'Becoming Educated'
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1080/14733285.2014.964664
Affective Topologies of Rural Youth Embodiment
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1111/soru.12077
'Power, regulation and physically active identities': the experiences of rural and regional living adolescent girls
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1080/09540253.2015.1093098
Moral distinctions and structural inequality: homeless youth salvaging the self
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1111/1467-954X.12252
Critical perspectives on educational leadership in the context of the march of neoliberalism
- Book Chapters
- DOI reference: 10.4324/9781315661155-10
Education reform makes no sense without social class
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1080/01425692.2014.952074
The profound effect and reach of Joe Kincheloe to the antipodes: His work, his ideas, and his influence as a person
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1177/1532708610374818
