Professor Marie Brennan

Adjunct Professor UniSA Education Futures

email Marie.Brennan@unisa.edu.au

Research Degree Supervisor

Research

Research focus

Specialist Studies in Education
Sociology
Curriculum and Pedagogy
Education
Education Systems

Research

Outputs

Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. Some long-standing staff members may have older outputs included. To see earlier years visit ORCID or Scopus

Open access indicates that an output is open access.

Books

Year	Output
2021	Green, B, Roberts, P & Brennan, M 2021, Curriculum challenges and opportunities in a changing world: transnational perspectives on curriculum inquiry, Palgrave Macmillan, Switzerland.
2010	Blackmore, J, Brennan, M & Zipin, L 2010, Re-positioning university governance and academic work, Sense Publishers, Rotterdam.
2009	Furlong, J, Cochrane-Smith, M & Brennan, M 2009, Policy and politics in teacher education: international perspectives, Routledge, UK.
2009	Groundwater-Smith, S, Brennan, M, Mitchell, J, McFadden, M & Munns, G 2009, Secondary schooling in a changing world, Cengage Learning Australia, Melbourne, Australia.

Chapters

Year	Output
2023	Zipin, L & Brennan, M 2023, 'Opening school walls to funds of knowledge: students researching problems that matter in Australian communities', in Moises Esteban-Guitart (ed.), Funds of Knowledge and Identity Pedagogies for Social Justice: International Perspectives and Praxis from communities, Classrooms, and Curriculum, Routledge, UK, ch. 3, pp. 41-56. Open access 3
2021	Green, B, Brennan, M & Roberts, P 2021, 'Transnational curriculum inquiry in a changing world: introduction to the edited book', in B Green, P Roberts & M Brennan (eds), Curriculum Challenges and Opportunities in a Changing World: Transnational Perspectives in Curriculum Inquiry, Palgrave Macmillan, Switzerland, ch. 1, pp. 1-21. Open access 3
2020	Brennan, M 2020, 'An agenda for reinventing teacher education in South Africa: next steps for deliberation.', in C America, N Edwards & M Robinson (eds), Teacher Education for Transformative Agency: Critical perspectives on design, content and pedagogy, Sun Press, South Africa, ch. 9, pp. 169-181.
2020	Brennan, M 2020, 'Community-oriented pre-service teachers: the limits of activism', in L Beckett (ed.), Research-Informed Teacher Learning: Critical Perspectives on Theory, Research and Practice, Routledge, UK, ch. 2 , pp. 12-24. Open access
2018	Brennan, M & Zipin, L 2018, 'Curriculum for all? Exploring the potentials for (in)justice in the Australian curriculum', in A Reid & D Price (eds), The Australian curriculum: promises, problems and possibilities, Australian Curriculum Studies Association, Australia, ch. 14, pp. 179-187.
2018	Zipin, L & Brennan, M 2018, 'Transforming the curriculum frame: working knowledge around problems that matter', in S Gannon, R Hattam & W Sawyer (eds), Resisting educational inequality : reframing policy and practice in schools serving vulnerable communities, Routledge, New York, ch. 22, pp. 245-256. Open access
2015	Brennan, M, Zipin, L & Sellar, S 2015, 'Negotiating with the neighbours: balancing different accountabilities across a cluster of regional schools', in B Lingard, G Thompson & S Sellar (eds), National Testing in Schools: An Australian Assessment, Routledge, UK, ch.15, pp. 199-211. 13
2011	Hodgetts, K & Brennan, M 2011, 'Senior secondary study as a part-time phenomenon? Implications for policy and practice', in T Stehlik & J Patterson (eds), Changing the Paradigm: Education as the key to a socially inclusive future, Post Pressed, Queensland, ch. 4, pp. 62-75.
2010	Blackmore, J, Brennan, M & Zipin, L 2010, 'Repositioning university governance and academic work: an overview', in J Blackmore (ed.), Re-positioning university governance and academic work, Sense Publishers, Netherlands, ch. 1, pp. 1-16.
2010	Brennan, M 2010, 'Dividing the university: perspectives from the middle', in J Blackmore (ed.), Re-positioning university governance and academic work, Sense Publishers, Netherlands, ch. 8, pp. 115-132.
2010	Zipin, L, Brennan, M & Semmens, BD 2010, 'The RPiN challenge for principals', in B Prosser (ed.), Connecting lives and learning: renewing pedagogy in the middle years, Wakefield Press, Adelaide, Australia, ch. 9, pp. 157-174.
2009	Brennan, M & Noffke, S 2009, 'Social-political theory in working with teachers for social justice schooling', in SE Noffke (ed.), The SAGE handbook of educational action research, SAGE, London, ch. 35, pp. 432-441.
2009	Brennan, M & Reid, A 2009, 'Education, equity and the Hawke government', in G Bloustein (ed.), The Hawke legacy, Wakefield Press, Australia, ch. 5, pp. 57-69.
2009	Brennan, M 2009, 'A school system takes on exhibitions through teacher action research', in SE Noffke (ed.), The SAGE handbook of educational action research, SAGE Publishing, UK, ch. 16, pp. 202-212.
2009	Brennan, M, Ramsay, EM, Mackinnon, AG & Hodgetts, KS 2009, 'Part-time schooling', in K Te Riele (ed.), Making schools different : alternative approaches to educating young people, SAGE, UK, ch. 13, pp. 116-125.
2009	Zipin, L & Brennan, M 2009, 'Analysing secondary school strategies in changing times : the insights and gaps of a governmentality lens', in MA Peters (ed.), Governmentality studies in education, Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, ch. 18, pp. 341-354.
2008	Brennan, M & Zipin, L 2008, 'Neo-colonization of cultural struggles for justice in Australian education and teacher education', in Ann M Phelan & Jennifer Sumison, Critical readings in teacher education: provoking absences, Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, pp. 99-114.

Journal Articles

Year	Output
2022	Brennan, M 2022, 'Teachers and students as researchers: rebuilding curriculum inquiry for the future', Curriculum Perspectives, vol. 42, no. 1, pp. 85-89. Open access 9
2022	Brennan, M, Mayes, E & Zipin, L 2022, 'The contemporary challenge of activism as curriculum work', Journal of Educational Administration and History, vol. 54, no. 3, pp. 319-333. Open access 25 18
2021	Zipin, L, Brennan, M & Sellar, S 2021, 'Young people pursuing futures: making identity labors curricular', Mind, Culture, and Activity: An International Journal, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 152-168. Open access 10 5 1
2021	Zipin, L, Brennan, M & Trevorrow, D 2021, 'Aggravating students' structural vulnerabilities: cruel miseries of selection for 'success' in schools with power-marginalised intake', Journal of Applied Youth Studies, vol. 4, pp. 401-420. Open access 2
2020	Brennan, M & Widdop Quinton, H 2020, 'An ethical re-framing of curriculum for sustainability education', Curriculum Perspectives, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 105-110. Open access 5
2020	Zipin, L & Brennan, M 2020, 'Introduction - knowledge-and-ethics: strong curriculum values both, together', Curriculum Perspectives, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 83-86. Open access 3
2019	Brennan, M 2019, 'Changing teaching and teacher education in the 'Anthropocene'', On Education: Journal for Research and Debate, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 1-6. Open access
2018	Brennan, M 2018, 'Conditions for broad-based curriculum scholarship: reflections on Victorian infrastructure for supporting curriculum workers in the 1970s and 1980s', Curriculum Perspectives, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 69-72. 3
2015	Zipin, L, Sellar, S, Brennan, M & Gale, T 2015, 'Educating for futures in marginalized regions: a sociological framework for rethinking and researching aspirations', Educational Philosophy and Theory, vol. 47. no. 3, pp. 227-246. 220 173 6
2012	Bunda, T, Zipin, L & Brennan, M 2012, 'Negotiating university 'equity' from Indigenous standpoints: a shaky bridge', International Journal of Inclusive Education, vol. 16, no. 9, pp. 941-957. 55 42
2010	Luk-Fong, P & Brennan, M 2010, 'Teachers' Experience of Secondary Education Reform in Hong Kong', International Journal of Educational Reform, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 128-153.
2010	Luk-Fong, YYP & Brennan, M 2010, 'Women teachers in Hong Kong: stories of changing gendered identities', Asia Pacific Journal of Education, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 213-229. 6 4
2009	Brennan, M 2009, 'Steering teachers: Working to control the feminized profession of education', Journal of Sociology, vol. 45, no. 4, pp. 339-359. 32 29
2009	Hattam, R, Brennan, M, Zipin, L & Comber, BM 2009, 'Researching for social justice: contextual, conceptual and methodological challenges', Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 303-316. 54 48
2009	Lee, A, Brennan, M & Green, B 2009, 'Re-imagining doctoral education: Professional doctorates and beyond', Higher Education Research and Development, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 275-287. 69 52
2008	Brennan, M, Furlong, J & Cochrane-Smith, M 2008, 'Editorial', Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 265-269.
2008	Willis, S & Brennan, M 2008, 'Sites of contestation over teacher education in Australia', Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 295-306. Open access 29

Reports

Year	Output
2020	Zipin, L, Brennan, M, Rogers, B, Woods, A, Chapman, A, Rudolph, S & Barron, R 2020, The growing urgency of attending to the state of education research in Australian higher education, Australian Association for Research in Education, Australia. Open access
2010	Cormack, P, Comber, BM, Wilkinson, L, Bills, DF, Barnett, JA, Brennan, M, Chartres, MT, Hattam, RJ, Jorgensen, R, Kerkham, LJ, Reid, A & Sullivan, P 2010, 2009 futureSACE school to work innovation program : literacy and numeracy project final report, UniSA, South Australia. Open access
2009	Cormack, P, Comber, B, Wilkinson, L, Hattam, RJ, Brennan, M, Kerin, RJ, Kerkham, L, Reid, A & Walsh, J 2009, 2008 futureSACE School to Work Innovation Program: literacy project final report, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia. Open access

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

Organisation	Country
Boston University	UNITED STATES
Catholic Education Office	AUSTRALIA
Charles Sturt University	AUSTRALIA
Deakin University	AUSTRALIA
Department of Education and Children's Services	AUSTRALIA
Department of the Premier & Cabinet - SA	AUSTRALIA
Ernabella Anangu School	AUSTRALIA
Flinders University	AUSTRALIA
Griffith University	AUSTRALIA
Hong Kong Institute of Education	HONG KONG
Manchester Metropolitan University	UNITED KINGDOM
Monash University	AUSTRALIA
Senior Secondary Assessment Board of South Australia	AUSTRALIA
University of Adelaide	AUSTRALIA
University of Canberra	AUSTRALIA
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	UNITED STATES
University of Oxford	UNITED KINGDOM
University of Queensland	AUSTRALIA
University of South Australia	AUSTRALIA
University of Sydney	AUSTRALIA
University of Technology Sydney	AUSTRALIA
VicSRC: Empowering students across Victoria	AUSTRALIA
Victoria University	AUSTRALIA
Western Sydney University	AUSTRALIA

Teaching & student supervision

Research degree supervision

Supervisions from 2010 shown

Thesis title	Student status
A gender regime of contemporary Vietnamese universities as evident in women's leadership practices	Completed
Bridging transactional distances in distance education: implications for student persistence, quality assurance and national policy development in Mauritius	Completed
Challenging lives: young women managing family, school, work and welfare	Completed
Education policy as responsibility in the Dawkins and Nelson eras	Completed
Educational leadership: cultivating plurality in a dialogic teacher 'public space'	Completed
Exploring the conceptualisation, development and implementation of the University of South Australia's pre-service teacher education programs with a middle years component: case studies with lessons concerning change	Completed
Indigenous and western knowledges: transforming educational practices in native Alaska	Completed
Learner autonomy among Thai university undergraduates in contexts of English as a foreign language	Completed
Learning a second language: a case study of a Korean ESL child in Australia	Completed
Managing curriculum change: project-based learning with Thai undergraduate English learners	Completed
Participation patterns and factors in professional development for ICT in Thai university foreign language teaching	Completed
Practice-as-complexity: a critical-collagic perspective on management education in the South Australian public sector	Completed
Problematising knowledge and practices of Occupational Health and Safety in a small factory	Completed
So few, so slow: a contemporary investigation of the immutability of women's under-representation at senior levels in Australian organisations	Completed
Student engagement and retention: looking for pathways forward	Completed
The ethics of care and justice in senior secondary education	Completed
The relationship between indigenous peoples and the university: solid or what?	Completed
Value Guided Practice: the ethics of care and justice in early childhood education and care	Completed

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Professor Marie Brennan

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