DrShaun Rawolle

Education policy sociology
Policy implementation
The social contract of education
Mediatization and education
Bourdieu and education studies

Projects
Principal led school improvement and teacher capacity building in the Barwon
South Network
Dr Shaun Rawolle, Prof Russell Tytler, Dr Louise Paatsch, Dr Carol Campbell,
Dr Muriel Wells
DEECD (Barwon South Network) funding 2011, 2012
Project Summary: The research involves a study of a short term School
Improvement Cycle model being adopted across 23 schools in the Barwon South
Network, focussing on the links between the web of decision making processes
around each individual school improvement plan, and classroom practices. The
research is designed to contribute to the network, to the broader public and
to the researchers in specific and strategic ways. First, the research focuses
on the process of school improvement as it is happening in the regional
network. The network and principals will be better placed to understand how
well these change processes are functioning and will have data and advice to
inform future school improvement cycles. This is increasingly important in
light of high stakes testing and comparisons between schools. For the broader
public the research will produce benefits in providing a research model to
support data-driven changes in classroom practice linked to school
improvement, which will impact on the learning of students in schools. The
ultimate benefits will therefore be research that enhances improvements in
network and school performance based on student learning.