{"title":"Debra Hayes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDebra Hayes\u003c\/strong\u003e offers insightful works at the intersection of education and personal narrative. Her books explore the complexities of educational policy, literacy, and leadership, providing thoughtful analysis grounded in real-world contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders interested in the evolving challenges of education will find her writing both accessible and authoritative. Her approach blends detailed research with engaging biography, illuminating the human stories behind educational change.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"jean-blackburn-by-debra-hayes-9781925835274","title":"Jean Blackburn","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the maelstrom of the Depression and World War II, from Communist Party membership in the 1930s-1950s, and early attachment to feminism and peace, Jean Blackburn emerged as a significant public intellectual. Her life's work was the attachment of education policy to the causes of social equality and opportunity. She worked with Peter Karmel on the most significant government report framing school policy in the twentieth century, the blueprint for the Australian Schools Commission.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBlackburn was the architect of the Disadvantaged Schools Program, which revolutionised the way that public and Catholic schools delivered education to families marked by many disadvantages, including poverty. She was an architect of the \u003ci\u003eGirls, School and Society\u003c\/i\u003e report of 1976. Jean Blackburn possessed a charismatic presence, never more in evidence than as she worked on senior secondary school reform in Victoria in the 1980s. As a feminist, Blackburn bridged the generations. 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Situating the cases of England and Australia within broader global policy trends, \u003ci\u003eGreat Mistakes in Education Policy\u003c\/i\u003e critically analyses what has gone wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe authors draw on extensive research in education to review the impact of multiple policies on students, teachers, and schools, with a focus on communities where children and young people need education most. They issue a fundamental challenge to the policy orthodoxies of recent decades and set out a blueprint for making education both better and fairer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596503531756,"sku":"9781447352457","price":71.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781447352457-great-mistakes-in-education-policy.jpg?v=1777928529"},{"product_id":"literacy-leading-and-learning-by-pat-thomson-9781138893436","title":"Literacy, Leading and Learning","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHow might educational leaders and teachers improve literacy achievement in schools serving communities experiencing high levels of poverty? This question is the focus of \u003cem\u003eLiteracy, Leading and Learning\u003c\/em\u003e. Drawing on long-term case studies of four primary schools located in these communities, this book describes the difference between what is commonly practised and those practices that have a greater chance of supporting young people’s literacy learning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this multi-layered analysis of the effects of policy on practice, the authors: discuss global concerns with literacy policy and testing in view of the growing gaps between rich and poor; examine the effects of the intensification of inequality and entrenched poverty, and the implications for schools; illustrate how deficit discourses pertaining to communities living in poverty are contested in schools; and describe the complexities of sustaining pedagogical and curriculum change to address the problem of unequal educational outcomes in literacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book grapples with some of the most debated questions regarding educational disadvantage, school change, leadership and literacy pedagogy that face educational researchers, policy-makers and practitioners internationally. As well as providing a critique of the risks of current policy rationales, it conveys some hopeful accounts of practice that provide leads for further development.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47606403760364,"sku":"9781138893436","price":341.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781138893436-literacy-leading-and-learning.jpg?v=1778153493"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/debra-hayes.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}