Publications: Down, Barry

Journal Article

Robinson, J.ORCID: 0000-0003-0958-4973, Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 and Smyth, J. (2018) 'Shaking up' neoliberal policy in schools: Looking for democratic alternatives in Jacinta's satchel. Global Studies of Childhood, 8 (4). pp. 392-403.

Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563, Smyth, J. and Robinson, J.ORCID: 0000-0003-0958-4973 (2017) Problematising vocational education and training in schools: Using student narratives to interrupt neoliberal ideology. Critical Studies in Education, 60 (4). pp. 443-461.

Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 and Choules, K. (2017) Towards a pedagogy of personalisation: What can we learn from students? Curriculum perspectives, 37 (2). pp. 135-145.

Brand, G., Morrison, P.ORCID: 0000-0002-3389-8393 and Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 (2015) "You don't know half the story": Deepening the dialogue with young mothers in Australia. Journal of Research in Nursing, 20 (5). pp. 353-369.

Brand, G., Morrison, P.ORCID: 0000-0002-3389-8393 and Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 (2014) How do health professionals support pregnant and young mothers in the community? A selective review of the research literature. Women and Birth, 27 (3). pp. 174-178.

Johnson, B., Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563, Le Cornu, R., Peters, J., Sullivan, A., Pearce, J. and Hunter, J. (2014) Promoting early career teacher resilience: A framework for understanding and acting. Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 20 (5). pp. 530-546.

Brand, G., Morrison, P.ORCID: 0000-0002-3389-8393, Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 and WestBrook, B. (2014) Scaffolding young Australian women's journey to motherhood: A narrative understanding. Health & Social Care in the Community, 22 (5). pp. 497-505.

Wright, P.ORCID: 0000-0002-6433-3889, Davies, C., Haseman, B., Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563, White, M. and Rankin, S. (2013) Arts practice and disconnected youth in Australia: Impact and domains of change. Arts & Health, 5 (3). pp. 190-203.

Johnson, B. and Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 (2012) Critically re-conceptualising early career teacher resilience. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 34 (5). pp. 703-715.

Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 and Smyth, J. (2012) 'Getting a job': Vocationalism, identity formation, and critical ethnographic inquiry. Journal of Educational Administration and History, 44 (3). pp. 203-219.

Robinson, J.ORCID: 0000-0003-0958-4973, Smyth, J., Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 and McInerney, P. (2012) Pushed out, shut out: Addressing unjust geographies of schooling and work. International Journal on School Disaffection, 9 (2). pp. 7-24.

McInerney, P., Smyth, J. and Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 (2011) 'Coming to a place near you?' The politics and possibilities of a critical pedagogy of place-based education. Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 39 (1). pp. 3-16.

Pearce, J. and Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 (2011) Relational pedagogy for student engagement and success at university. The Australian Educational Researcher, 38 (4). pp. 483-494.

Smyth, J., Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 and McInerney, P. (2010) Hanging in with kids in tough times: Engagement in contexts of educational disadvantage in the relational school. Inside Teaching: The professional journal of the Australasian Teacher Regulatory Authorities, 1 (2). pp. 36-41.

Pearce, J., Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 and Moore, E. (2010) Working-class heroes. Professional Educator, 9 (4). pp. 18-21.

Pearce, J., Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563, Aveling, N. and Price, A.ORCID: 0000-0002-5925-1133 (2009) 'Critically' reinvigorating teacher education: Issues and dilemmas. New Community Quarterly, 7 (4). pp. 6-9.

Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 (2009) Schooling, productivity and the enterprising self: beyond market values. Critical Studies in Education, 50 (1). pp. 51-64.

Pearce, J., Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 and Moore, E. (2008) Social class, identity and the good student: Negotiating university culture. Australian Journal of Education, 52 (3). pp. 257-271.

Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563, Ditchburn, G. and Lee, L.ORCID: 0000-0002-9699-7508 (2008) Teachers' ideological discourses and the enactment of citizenship education. Curriculum perspectives, 28 (2). pp. 1-25.

Smyth, J., Angus, L., Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 and McInerney, P. (2006) Critical ethnography for school and community renewal around social class differences affecting learning. Learning Communities: international journal of adult and vocational learning, 3 . pp. 121-152.

Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 (2006) Educational science, mental testing, and the ideology of intelligence. Melbourne Studies in Education, 47 (1/2). p. 333.

Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 (2006) A critical pedagogy of vocational education and training in schools and communities struggling with shifts in the global economy. Learning communities: international journal of learning in social contexts (3). pp. 94-120.

Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 and Wooltorton, S. (2004) Beginning teaching in rural-remote schools: implications for critical teacher development. Change: Transformations in Education, 71 (1). pp. 31-46.

Smyth, J. and Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 (2004) Beyond the divide: individual, institutional and community capacity building in a Western Australian regional context. Education in Rural Australia, 14 (2). pp. 54-68.

Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 (2004) From patriotism to critical democracy: shifting discourses of citizenship in social studies. History of Education Review, 33 (1). pp. 14-27.

O'Brien, P. and Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 (2002) What are teachers saying about new managerialism? Journal of Educational Enquiry, 3 (1). pp. 111-133.

Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 and Hogan, C. (2001) Critical reflective practice and workplace learning: Impediments and possibilities in teacher education. Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 25 (2). pp. 14-23.

Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 (2001) Educational science, mental testing, and the ideology of intelligence. Melbourne Studies in Education, 42 (1). pp. 1-23.

O'Sullivan, D. and Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 (2001) Policy decision-making models in practice: A case study of the Western Australian "Sentencing Acts". Policy Studies Journal, 29 (1). pp. 56-70.

Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563, Chadbourne, R. and Hogan, C. (2000) How are teachers managing performance management? Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 28 (3). pp. 213-223.

Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 (2000) State secondary schooling for all. Education Research Perspectives, 27 (1). pp. 57-80.

Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563, Hogan, C. and Chadbourne, R. (1999) Making sense of performance management: Official rhetoric and teachers' reality. Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 27 (1). pp. 11-24.

Hogan, C. and Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 (1996) Interrupting the institutional, narrative on teacher training: The potential of school-based teacher education. Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 21 (1). pp. 23-33.

Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 (1994) Human capital theory and secondary education. Unicorn, 20 (3). pp. 54-61.

Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 (1994) Marxist history and schooling: Beyond economism. Issues in Educational Research, 4 (1). pp. 1-17.

Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 (1994) A different more practical education: Aboriginal education in Western Australian secondary schools after the second world war. Education Research Perspectives, 21 (2). pp. 47-68.

Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 (1993) Restructuring secondary education: Pathways in WA. Education Australia (24). pp. 21-24.

Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 (1990) Education reform in context. Unicorn, 16 (1). pp. 15-17.

Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 (1990) Oral history, critical theory and politics: Rethinking first impressions. Oral History Association of Australia Journal (12). pp. 76-83.

Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 (1990) The state and educational reform: A case study of the Beazley and better school reports in Western Australia. Critical Pedagogy Networker, 3 (3). pp. 1-5.

Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 Book Review: The Toxic University: Zombie Leadership, Academic Rock Stars, and Neoliberal Ideology by John Smyth ISBN 978-1-137-54976-1, London, UK, Palgrave MacMillan, 235 pp., 2017. Australian Universities Review, 59 (2). pp. 94-95.

Conference Paper

Johnson, B., Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563, Le Cornu, R., Peters, J., Sullivan, A., Pearce, J. and Hunter, J. (2010) Conditions that support early career teacher resilience. In: Australian Teacher Education Association Conference (ATEA) 2010, 4 - 7 July 2010, Townsville, Queensland

Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 (2007) 'Troubling' vocational education and training in disadvantaged schools. In: Addressing Inequalities through Community, 20 June 2007, University of Ballarat

Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 (2006) Developing critically reflective teachers in 'wacky' times. In: Making teaching public: Reforms in teacher education. Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference, Australian Teacher Education Conference, 5-8 July 2006, Fremantle, Western Australia. pp. 84-95.

Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 (2006) Re-imagining teachers' work for the 21st century. In: 2006 Conference of the Australian Association for Environmental Education, 3 - 6 October 2006, Bunbury, Western Australia pp. 37-52.

Conference Item

Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 (2013) 'You can't be neutral on a moving train': Why critical educational research matters in 'dark times'. In: Western Australian Institute for Educational Research 28th Annual Research Forum, 10 August 2013, University of Notre Dame, Fremantle, Western Australia.

Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 (2012) Hope required when growing roses in concrete: Rethinking student engagement for learning. In: South East Education Community (SEEC) and Discover Conference, 30 January 2012, Murdoch University, Murdoch.

Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 (2012) Talkin' bout their generation: Empowered youth in an era of chaos and indecision. In: Inaugural International Youth Studies Congress, 11 April 2012, University of Calgary, Canada.

Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 (2011) Research in Big Picture schools. In: Big Picture Education Conference Workshop 2011, 19 - 21 October 2011, Newport, VIC.

Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 (2010) Community listening forum. In: Critical friend at the Addressing Disadvantage and Inequality in Education and Health Annual Conference, 29 October 2010, University of Ballarat, VIC.

Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 (2010) Utilising the school research framework (SRF). In: Big Picture Education Conference, 1 December 2010, Cannington, Perth.

Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 (2009) Reinvigorating student learning in the middle years. In: Kolbe Catholic College, 29 January 2009, Rockingham, W.A.

Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 (2007) Doing critical educational research. In: School of Education. Research Seminar Series, 2007, Murdoch University, Murdoch, W.A.

Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 (2007) Student engagement and connecting to young lives. In: Rockingham Senior High School, 28 January 2007, Rockingham, W.A.

Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 (2007) Supervisors as provocateurs. In: Supervision Seminar Series, 2007, Murdoch University, Murdoch, W.A.

Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 (2007) The middle years of schooling: Taking action. In: Workshop for 20 Teachers and Academic Colleagues, 26 April 2007, Murdoch University, Murdoch, W.A.

Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 (2006) Draft profile of conditions supporting school retention and student engagement. In: Research Project Workshop for 28 teachers and principles, 30 May 2006, City of Rockingham, Rockingham.

Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 (2006) Middle schooling: What's the research saying? In: Kwinana Education Precinct Public Forum, 2006, Town of Kwinana Performing Arts Centre, Kwinana.

Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 (2006) Participative writing workshop on school retention and student engagement modules. In: ARC Research Project Workshop for 14 teachers and principles, 3 July 2006, Murdoch University, Murdoch, W.A.

Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 (2006) Values education good practice schools project. In: Faculty of Education. University of Western Australia, 2006, Perth, W.A..

Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 (2005) Enhancing school retention and student engagement. In: School of Education. Research Seminar Series, 2005, Murdoch University, Murdoch, W.A.

Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 and Ditchburn, G. (2005) Teachers' ideological discourses and the enactment of citizenship education. In: School of Education. Research Seminar Series, 2005, Murdoch University, Murdoch, W.A.

Book Chapter

Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 and Sullivan, A. (2019) "Classroom-Ready Teachers". In: Sullivan, A., Johnson, B. and Simons, M., (eds.) Attracting and Keeping the Best Teachers. Springer, Singapore, pp. 39-61.

Robinson, J.ORCID: 0000-0003-0958-4973, Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 and Smyth, J. (2019) Jacinta's story. In: Riddle, S. and Apple, M.W., (eds.) Re-imagining Education for Democracy. Routledge, pp. 156-173.

Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 (2018) Moving beyond the academic and vocational divide in Australian schools. In: Gannon, S., Hattam, R. and Sawyer, W., (eds.) Resisting Educational Inequality. Routledge as part of the Taylor and Francis group, pp. 41-50.

Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 (2017) Critically reflective practice: What is it and why is it needed now? In: Gobby, B. and Walker, R., (eds.) Powers of Curriculum: Sociological Perspectives on Education. Oxford University Press, South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, pp. 119-141.

Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 (2016) Rethinking Mis/Behaviour in Schools: From 'Youth as a Problem' to the 'Relational School'. In: Sullivan, A., Johnson, B. and Lucas, B., (eds.) Challenging Dominant Views on Student Behaviour at School. Springer Singapore, pp. 77-95.

Smyth, J., Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 and McInerney, P. (2015) The socially just school speaks back to neoliberalism. In: Abendroth, M. and Porfilio, B.J., (eds.) Understanding Neoliberal Rule in K-12 Schools: Educational Fronts for Local and Global Justice. Information Age Publishing, Charlotte, NC, Ch 14.

Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 and Smyth, J. (2012) Introduction: From critique to new scripts and possibilities in teacher education. In: Down, B. and Smyth, J., (eds.) Critical Voices in Teacher Education. Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands, pp. 1-9.

Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 (2012) Reconceptualising teacher standards: Authentic, critical and creative. In: Down, B. and Smyth, J., (eds.) Critical Voices in Teacher Education. Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands, pp. 63-80.

Netherwood, K., Buchanan, J., Palmer, D., Stocker, L. and Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 (2009) Valuing diversity in children's voice: a case study of children, stewardship and mapping care of special places in the Western Australian Community. In: Lovat, T. and Toomey, R., (eds.) Values Education and Quality Teaching: The Double Helix Effect. Springer, New York, pp. 83-103.

Hogan, C. and Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 (1998) Acknowledging professional lives: A case study in rethinking teacher education. In: Down, B., Hogan, C. and Swan, P., (eds.) Reclaiming Professional Knowledge: New ways of Thinking about Teachers' Learning. Murdoch University. Centre for Learning Change and Development, Murdoch University, W.A., pp. 51-59.

Hogan, C. and Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 (1998) Rethinking the way we teach teachers in a regional community. In: Hogan, C. and Strickland, L., (eds.) Learning Journeys: Working together for school change: Case studies from the Innovative Links Project. Murdoch University. Centre for Learning Change and Development, Murdoch University, W.A., pp. 64-66.

Palmer, M. and Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 (1995) Privatising public health care: Community resistance in Bunbury. In: Spoehr, J. and Broomhill, R., (eds.) Altered states: The impact of free market policies on the Australian states. University of Adelaide. Centre for Labour Studies/Social Justice Research Foundation, Adelaide, S.A., pp. 162-181.

Book

Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563, Smyth, J. and Robinson, J.ORCID: 0000-0003-0958-4973 (2018) Rethinking School-to-Work Transitions in Australia: Young People Have Something to Say. Springer International Publishing.

Johnson, B., Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563, Le Cornu, R., Peters, J., Sullivan, A., Pearce, J. and Hunter, J. (2016) Promoting Early Career Teacher Resilience: A socio-cultural and critical guide to action. Routledge, London ; New York.

Johnson, B., Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563, Le Cornu, R., Peters, J., Sullivan, A., Pearce, J. and Hunter, J. (2015) Early Career Teachers: Stories of Resilience. Springer, Singapore.

Smyth, J., Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563, McInerney, P. and Hattam, R. (2014) Doing Critical Educational Research: A Conversation with the Research of John Smyth. Peter Lang, New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien.

Smyth, J., Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 and McInerney, P. (2014) The Socially Just School: Making Space for Youth to Speak Back. Springer Netherlands.

Down, B. (Ed)ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 and Smyth, J. (2012) Critical Voices in Teacher Education: Teaching for Social Justice in Conservative Times. Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands.

Smyth, J., Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 and McInerney, P. (2010) 'Hanging in with Kids' in Tough Times: Engagement in Contexts of Educational Disadvantage in the Relational School. Peter Lang, New York.

Smyth, J., Lawrence, A., Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 and McInerney, P. (2009) Activist and Socially Critical School and Community Renewal: Social Justice in Exploitative Times. Sense Publishers, Rotterdam.

Smyth, J., Lawrence, A., Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 and McInerney, P. (2008) Critically Engaged Learning: Connecting to Young Lives. Peter Lang, New York.

Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563, Swann, P. and Hogan, C. (1998) Reclaiming Professional Knowledge: New Ways of Thinking About Teachers' Learning. Murdoch University. Centre for Learning Change and Development, Murdoch University, W.A..

Thesis

Down, Barry F.R.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 (1993) Re-reading the history of Western Australian state secondary schooling after 1945. PhD thesis, Murdoch University.

Report

Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563, Choules, K., Hogan, J., Carr, D. and Stone, H. (2018) Promising practices: What students, parents and teachers say about learning in a Big Picture context. Murdoch University/Big Picture Education Australia

Wright, P.ORCID: 0000-0002-6433-3889, Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563, Rankin, S., Haseman, B., White, M. and Davies, C. (2016) BIG hART: Art, equity and community for people, place and policy. Australian Research Council/ Murdoch University, Murdoch, W.A.

Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563, Smyth, J., Robinson, J.ORCID: 0000-0003-0958-4973 and McInerney, P. (2014) Rethinking the conditions for young people 'getting a job': Kids have something to say. Australian Research Council/ Federation University Australia/Murdoch University, Murdoch, W.A.

Hayes, D., Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563, Talbot, D. and Choules, K. (2013) Big Picture Education Australia: Experiences of students, parents/carers & teachers. University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW.

Down, B.ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563 and Choules, K. (2011) The secondary engagement evaluation project in low SES schools. Murdoch University. Centre for Learning Change and Development, Murdoch University, W.A..