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Alternative education sites and marginalised young people: 'I wish there were more schools like this one' by McGregor, Glenda, Mills, Martin

“…This paper reports on research conducted in alternative schools/flexible learning centres 1 designed to support young people marginalised from mainstream…”
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Curricular justice and contemporary schooling : Towards a rich, common curriculum for all students by Riddle, Stewart, Mills, Martin, McGregor, Glenda

“…Despite the commitment by governments and educational leaders to high-quality and high-equity systems, the defining features of contemporary schooling in…”
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Student voice and the community forum: finding ways of 'being heard' at an alternative school for disenfranchised young people by Baroutsis, Aspa, Mills, Martin, McGregor, Glenda, te Riele, Kitty, Hayes, Debra

“…Opportunities for students to speak and to be heard are important elements of democratic schooling processes but research into student voice has shown that a…”
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Schools as damaging organisations: instigating a dialogue concerning alternative models of schooling by Francis, Becky, Mills, Martin

“…Various injurious effects of schooling have been documented in the literature over the years, leading some authors to characterise schooling as violence. In…”
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School reform and the emotional demands of principals: Lorna's story by Mills, Martin, Niesche, Richard

“…The issue of emotions in school leadership is one that has received increasing attention in recent years. In this paper we present a case study of the…”
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The opposite of witchcraft: Evans-Pritchard and the problem of the person by Mills, Martin A.

“…The principal legacy of Evans-Pritchard's 1937 ethnography Witchcraft, oracles and magic among the Azande has been to associate debates over the rationality of…”
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Alternative education and social justice: considering issues of affective and contributive justice by Mills, Martin, McGregor, Glenda, Baroutsis, Aspa, Te Riele, Kitty, Hayes, Debra

“…This article considers the ways in which three alternative education sites in Australia support socially just education for their students and how injustice is…”
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International Perspectives on Alternative Education. Policy and Practice by Mills, Martin, Ed, McCluskey, Gillean, Ed

“…'Alternative education' encompasses a diversity of schooling types and organizations. "International Perspectives on Alternative Education" explores…”
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“A strange modernity”: On the contradictions of the neoliberal university by Mills, Martin A.

“…While many commentators see neoliberalism as a monolithic force changing universities into businesses, in reality its shared veneer of rhetorical vocabulary…”
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What would a socially just education system look like? by Francis, Becky, Mills, Martin

“…This article introduces this special issues of Journal of Education Policy, which has as its theme 'What would a socially just education system look like?' The…”
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A Historical Atlas of Tibet by Mills, Martin A

“…Inevitably, the Allas is organized primarily into historical epochs, using the now almost canonical division of the Tibetan Plateau's political history: the…”
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Evans-Pritchard and human agency by Mills, Martin A.

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Fabricating an identity in neo-liberal times: performing schooling as 'number one' by Keddie, Amanda, Mills, Martin, Pendergast, Donna

“…This paper presents interview data from a case study of 'Lemontyne College'; a large government school situated in a 'master planned community' (MPC) in…”
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Religious Relationships with the Environment in a Tibetan Rural Community: Interactions and Contrasts with Popular Notions of Indigenous Environmentalism by Woodhouse, Emily, Mills, Martin A., McGowan, Philip J. K., Milner-Gulland, E. J.

“…Representations of Green Tibetans connected to Buddhism and indigenous wisdom have been deployed by a variety of actors and persist in popular consciousness…”
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ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION: PROVIDING SUPPORT TO THE DISENFRANCHISED by Mills, Martin, McGregor, Glenda

“…This paper is concerned with “what works” in alternative schools, also known as flexible learning centres, in the state of Queensland, Australia. Generally,…”
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Re-Imagining Schooling for Education: Socially Just Alternatives by McGregor, G, Mills, M, te Riele, K, Baroutsis, A, Hayes, D

“…This book provokes a conversation about what supportive schooling contexts for both students and teachers might look like, and considers how schooling can…”
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Cultural reductionism and the media: polarising discourses around schools, violence and masculinity in an age of terror by Mills, Martin, Keddie, Amanda

“…This paper provides a media analysis of three interrelated sets of newspaper articles dealing with youth, schooling and violence. Understanding the media as a…”
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Gender justice and education: constructions of boys within discourses of resentment, neo-liberalism and security by Mills, Martin, Keddie, Amanda

“…This paper examines the impact of a politics of resentment, neo-liberal policies, and security concerns on issues of gender justice in schools in various…”
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Ritual as History in Tibetan Divine Kingship: Notes on the Myth of the Khotanese Monks by Mills, Martin A.

“…The study of divine kingship in Tibet has a long but somewhat interrupted history, one in which intellectual trends in Buddhist studies and anthropology…”
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Pseudoaneurysm of the internal iliac artery following vaginal hysterectomy by Sen, Sanchita, Mills, Martin S, Andrews, Heather S

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