Professor Marie Brennan

Marie Brennan is a Professor of Education at the University of South Australia, where she completed a five year term as Dean of Education and Head of School from 2002-2007. Her previous academic jobs were at the University of Canberra, Central Queensland and Deakin Universities. Prior to being an academic, Marie worked for almost twenty years in the Victorian Education Department in a range of positions. Marie is active nationally in promoting the education sector, as well as conducting research, supervising doctoral students and providing leadership in the School of Education. Her research interests cover all sectors of education, with a particular focus on injustice.

• education policy, public sector administration, curriculum and education contexts, research methodology.
• I co-coordinate the Education Doctorate (EdD) with Dr Lew Zipin.

Action Research Issues Association

Australian Association for Research in Education

American Educational Research Association

Association of Women Educators

Australian Curriculum Studies Association

Registered Teacher, Queensland

1993 PhD in Curriculum and Instruction, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Thesis: "The individual-society dualism in educational action"

1982 Graduate Diploma, "Language and Learning in Curriculum" Victoria College, Rusden

1974 Diploma of Education, Melbourne University

1973. B.A (Hons), Melbourne University, majoring in English Language and English Literature.

• Public sector policy and administration, especially in education, sociology of curriculum and school reform, ethics and equity in education, student participation, action research
• I have also sponsored, provided briefings and been on research reference committees for a large number of research, evaluation and community related projects, including action research projects, social justice consultations, youth at risk, girls and science, poverty and educational disadvantage, salinity in agricultural areas, community development, youth research and represented the Victorian Ministry of Education on sponsored research project steering committees such as the evaluation of the Victorian Disadvantaged Schools Program.

BOOKS

Groundwater Smith, S., Brennan, M., McFadden, M. & Mitchell, J. 2001, Secondary Schooling in a Changing World. Sydney & Fort Worth: Harcourt. Revised Edition 2008: Thomson.

Popkewitz, T., & Brennan, M. (1998) Eds. Foucault's Challenge: Discourse, Knowledge and Power in Education New York: Teachers College Press.

Rowan, L. & Brennan, M. 1998, (eds) Cultural Transformation: Essays in Culture and Change. Central Queensland University Press.

Brennan, M. & Sachs, J. 1998, (eds) Integrated Curriculum for the Middle Years: Classroom Materials. Canberra: Australian Curriculum Studies Association.

REFEREED JOURNALS AND BOOK CHAPTERS

Brennan, Marie (2005) Education under Howard: Divisive, politicised and quick-fix”. In Chris Aulich and Roger Wettenhall (eds) Howard’s Second and Third Governments: Australian Commonwealth Administration 1998-2004. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, pp117-134.

Noffke, Susan E. and Brennan, Marie (2005) The Dimensions of Reflection: A Conceptual and Contextual Analysis. International Journal of Progressive Education, Volume 1 Number 3, pp 1-32.

Noffke, Susan E., & Brennan, Marie. (2004). Doormats and feminists: Who is the “community” in action research? In: Mary Brydon-Miller, Patricia Maguire, & Alice McIntyre (Eds.), Travelling companions: Feminisms and participatory action research. Greenwood Press.

Luk-Fong, Yuk Yee Pattie & Brennan, Marie (2004) In search of a guidance curriculum for Hong Kong schools. Journal of Educational Enquiry, Vol. 5, 1, 2004, pp 55-84.

Zipin, L. & Brennan, M. (2004) Managerial governmentality and the suppression of ethics. In M. Walker and J. Nixon (Eds), Reclaiming Universities from a Runaway World. Buckingham: Open University Press, Society for Research in Higher Education.

Zipin, L. & Brennan, M. (2003) The suppression of ethical dispositions through managerial governmentality: A habitus crisis in Australian higher education. International Journal of Leadership in Education, 6(4): 349-368.

Brennan, M. 2001, “The futures we have to have or the futures we might stand up for?” Keynote address to the biennial Home Economics Institute of Australia conference, Canberra.

Brennan, M. (2003) The challenge of justice and caring for the organization of the school. In P. Bishop, C. Connors & C. Sampford (Eds.) Organisation, Management, and Ethics in the Public Sector. Ashgate Publishing.

Brennan, M., Kenway, J., Thomson, P. & Zipin, L. (2002). Uneasy alliances: University, workplace, industry and profession in the Education Doctorate. The Australian Educational Researcher, 29(3): 63-83.

Brennan, M. & Sachs, J. 1998, (eds) Integrated Curriculum for the Middle Years: Classroom Materials. Canberra: Australian Curriculum Studies Association.

Luk-Fong, Yuk-Yee Pattie, & Brennan, Marie (2001) “Hybrid Curriculum – implementation of a USA guidance curriculum in Hong Kong.” In R. Nata (ed) Progress in Education, Vol 5. New York: Nova Science Publishers. Pp. 83-113.

Brennan, M., & Noffke, S.E. (2000) Social Change and the individual: Changing patterns of community and the challenge for schooling. in J. Elliott & H. Altrichter (eds) Images of Educational Change.: A book dedicated to Barry Macdonald and Peter Posch. Buckingham: Open University Press

Woodrow, C. & Brennan, M. (2000) "Critical and ethical perspectives on images of childhood". Chapter in J. Jipson and R. Johnston (eds) Resistance and Representation. New York: Peter Lang Publishers.

Woodrow, C. & Brennan, M. 1999, "Marketised positioning for Early Childhood in Queensland, Australia: New contexts for curriculum and professional development" Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood 1, 1. On-line refereed journal: www.triangle.co.uk/ciec

Brennan, M. 1999, "Theorising from action research projects in a regional university." Change: Transformations in Education, 2, 1, May, 53

Brennan, M. (1998), "Struggles over the definition and practice of the Educational Doctorate in Australia" Australian Educational Researcher 25,1, 71-89.

Brennan, M. & Sachs, J. (Eds) 1998, Integrated Curriculum for the Middle Years: Classroom Materials Canberra: Australian Curriculum Studies Association.

Popkewitz, T. & Brennan, M., 1997, "Restructuring of social and political theory in education: Foucault and a social epistemology of school practices" Educational Theory 47, 3, Summer pp 287-313.

Brennan, M., 1997, "Researching in Adult, Community and Further Education: A troubled task" Literacy and Numeracy Studies: International Journal in the Education and Training of Adults 7, 1, 25-45

Brennan, M., 1997, "The difficulties of addressing systematic sexism in Educational Management Discourse: Studies in the cultural politics of education 18, 2, 311-317.

Brennan, M. & Noffke, S E (1997) Uses of data in action research In Terrance R. Carson and Dennis Sumara (eds) Action research as a living practice (pp. 23-43). New York: Peter Lang.

Noffke, S. & Brennan, M., 1997, Reconstructing the politics of action in Action Research. in S. Hollingsworth (ed)International Action Research: A Casebook of Educational Reform Washington DC: Falmer Press.

Brennan, M., 1996, "Imagining new technologies and CQ schools" in D. Cryle, G. Griffin & D. Stehlik, eds, Futures for Central Queensland Rockhampton: CQU Press.

Johnston, R,. & Brennan, M., (1996) "Planning or organising: the implications of theories of activity for management of operations" Omega: Journal of Management Science v 38

Brennan, M., 1996, "Multiple professionalisms for Australian teachers in the information age?" in H. Simola and T Popkewitz (eds) Teacher Professionalization University of Helsinki Research Report 169

Brennan, M., 1995, "Sustaining new forms of school life: A response to Stuart MacIntyre" in Australian Curriculum Studies Association

Brennan, M., 1995, "Educational Doctorates: reconstructing professional partnerships around research" The Australian Universities Review 38, 2, 1995, pp. 20-22. And Republished as Chapter 6 in A. Lee and Bill Green 1998 (eds) Postgraduate Studies, Postgraduate Pedagogy. Centre for Language and Literacy, UTS, Sydney.

Thomas S. Popkewitz and Marie Brennan, 1994, "Certification to credentialling: Reconstituting control mechanisms in teacher education" in Kathryn Borman and Nancy P Greenman (eds) Changing American Education: Recapturing the past or Inventing the Future? Albany: State University of New York Press.

R. B. Johnston, and Marie Brennan 1994, "Operations management and theories of activity" in Business Systems Research edited by Flitman A., and Jenney, B. W., Department of Business Systems, Monash University.

Brennan, Marie and Rob Walker, 1994, August-September, "Educational research in the workplace: Developing a professional doctorate" Zeitschrift Fuer Hochschuldidaktik 1/94, (August-September) pp78-91.

Brennan, Marie, 1993, "Reinventing square wheels: Planning for schools to ignore realities" in John Smyth (ed) A Socially Critical View of the Self-Managing School Falmer Press.

Brennan, Marie "School Improvement Again: A Tale worth retelling" in Unicorn June 1992

Susan E Noffke and Marie Brennan, 1991, "Student Teachers Use Action Research" in Kenneth Zeichner and Robert Tabachnik, editors, Issues and practices in inquiry-oriented teacher education London and Philadelphia: Falmer Press. (50%)

Brennan, Marie, and Meryl Hyde, 1982, "Real Evaluation" English in Australia. 59, Mar, i-xv.

Brennan, Marie, 1982, "Small Groups in the Classroom" Study of Society 13,1.

Brennan, Marie, 1982, "Do-It-Yourself In-Service: A New look at Staff Meetings or Action Research for Staff Meetings" Idiom: The Journal of the Victorian Association for the Teaching of English Autumn.

Brennan, Marie, 1980, "Writing and Learning" Study of Society,, 11, 2, August, [reprinted in News and Views 2, 2-3, November 1980, Curriculum and Learning Unit, Wattle Park Teachers Centre, Education Department of South Australia; also reprinted in Teaching Secondary English: Principles and Practice Secondary English Committee for Secondary Schools Division, Education Department of Victoria, 1981, reprinted 1982.]

I am able to provide media comment in the following areas of expertise:

Discipline: Education

• Policy
• Education Reform
• Student Participation
• Action Research
• Teacher education
• Higher education sector, specifically education issues
• Educational disadvantage