Allan Luke
After the marketplace: Evidence, social science and educational research
Nanyang Technological University
paper essay state australian education frames new directions educational research outlines three challenges faced australian educators highly spatialised poverty particularly strong mediating effects primary school education need intellectual critical depth pedagogy focus upper primary middle years need reinvent senior schooling address emergent pathways school work civic life offers narrative description dynamics policy making australia north america argues evidencebased approach social educational policy one quite unlike current test marketbased approaches instead argues multidisciplinary approach broad range empirical casebased evidence subjects critical hermeneutic social sciences approach would join educational policy educational research broader social community governmental action aim reorganising redistributing material cultural social resources