Publications: Down, Barry

Journal Article

Robinson, J., Down, B. 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., Smyth, J. and Robinson, J. (2017) Problematising vocational education and training in schools: using student narratives to interrupt neoliberal ideology. Critical Studies in Education . In Press.

Down, B. 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. and Down, B. (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. and Down, B. (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., 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., Down, B. 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., Davies, C., Haseman, B., Down, B., 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. (2012) Critically re-conceptualising early career teacher resilience. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 34 (5). pp. 703-715.

Down, B. 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., Smyth, J., Down, B. 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. (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. (2011) Relational pedagogy for student engagement and success at university. The Australian Educational Researcher, 38 (4). pp. 483-494.

Smyth, J., Down, B. 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. and Moore, E. (2010) Working-class heroes. Professional Educator, 9 (4). pp. 18-21.

Pearce, J., Down, B., Aveling, N. and Price, A. (2009) 'Critically' reinvigorating teacher education: Issues and dilemmas. New Community Quarterly, 7 (4). pp. 6-9.

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

Pearce, J., Down, B. 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., Ditchburn, G. and Lee, L. (2008) Teachers’ ideological discourses and the enactment of citizenship education. Curriculum perspectives, 28 (2). pp. 1-27.

Smyth, J., Angus, L., Down, B. 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. (2006) Educational science, mental testing, and the ideology of intelligence. Melbourne Studies in Education, 47 (1/2). p. 333.

Down, B. (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. 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. (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. (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. (2002) What are teachers saying about new managerialism? Journal of Educational Enquiry, 3 (1). pp. 111-133.

Down, B. 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. (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. (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., 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. (2000) State secondary schooling for all. Education Research Perspectives, 27 (1). pp. 57-80.

Down, B., 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. (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. (1994) Human capital theory and secondary education. Unicorn, 20 (3). pp. 54-61.

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

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

Down, B. (1990) Education reform in context. Unicorn, 16 (1). pp. 15-17.

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

Down, B. (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. 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., 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. (2007) ‘Troubling’ vocational education and training in disadvantaged schools. In: Addressing Inequalities through Community, 20 June 2007, University of Ballarat

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

Conference Item

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

Down, B. (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. (2010) Utilising the school research framework (SRF). In: Big Picture Education Conference, 1 December 2010, Cannington, Perth.

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

Down, B. (2007) Doing critical educational research. In: School of Education. Research Seminar Series, 2007, Murdoch University, Murdoch, W.A.

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

Down, B. (2007) Supervisors as provocateurs. In: Supervision Seminar Series, 2007, Murdoch University, Murdoch, W.A.

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

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

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

Down, B. 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. (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. (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.

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

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

Down, B. (Ed) and Smyth, J. (2012) Critical voices in teacher education: Teaching for social justice in conservative times. Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands.

Johnson, B., Down, B., Le Cornu, R., Peters, J., Sullivan, A., Pearce, J. and Hunter, J. (2012) Early career teachers: Stories of resilience. Australian Government. Australian Research Council/Early Career Teacher Resilience, Adelaide, S.A..

Smyth, J., Down, B. 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. 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. and McInerney, P. (2008) Critically engaged learning: connecting to young lives. Peter Lang, New York.

Down, B., 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. (1993) Re-reading the history of Western Australian state secondary schooling after 1945. PhD thesis, Murdoch University.

Report

Down, B., 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., Down, B., 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., Smyth, J., Robinson, J. 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.

Down, B. 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..