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ProfessorHelen Proctor

Professor

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

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  • Professor
    Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Research projects & supervision summary

 

----------Current Research Projects----------

  • (2015-2019) Parent and community relations in Australian schooling, 1940s-2010s: expertise and authority, reform and crisis (ARC Future Fellowship)
  • Proctor, H., Gerrard, J. & Goodwin S. (2020-2026). Community organising in Australian education policy, 1970s-1980s (ARC Discovery Project)

RESEARCH PROJECTS & ACTIVITIES

  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    'Poor but able': the politics of knowledge and the educable child in NSW curriculum reform
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Achievement inequity, students’ participation and curriculum offerings in mathematics and science Higher School Certificate (HSC) courses within a segregated school system in New South Wales, Australia
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    An Exploration of Factors Enabling and Constraining the Adoption of Disruptive Humanistic Innovations in Australian Schools
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    From School Reform to Private Tutoring: Legitimacy‑Building and Capital Conversion in a “Composite Field” of Junior Secondary STEM Education — A Multi‑sited Ethnography with a Comparative Counterpart
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    How are comprehensive public schools represented in the media and how do their principals frame success?
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Investigating the Philosophical Potentialities in the New South Wales Higher School Certificate English Advanced Course
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Living in the Limelight: Space and Everyday Life of Childhood in Hong Kong, 1921-1941
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Observations of Capitalist Spirituality and its Relationship to 'Cultural Tourism' in Bali's Wellness Tourism Industry
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Play for Health or Wealth: Social class and adolescent baseball participation in elite and extracurricular settings in Taiwan
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Religion, Politics and Education in Afghanistan, 1950s -1980s: The Case of Habibia High School
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    School choice for gender and sexuality diverse families
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    The Body as Territory under Construction: Historicising Health in Chilean School
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    The impact of school gender make up on heterosocial competencies in first year university students
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Third-generation German Perceptions of the Holocaust
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Using an historical lens to explore the mediatisation of beginning reading instruction in NSW and the ACT (2006-2025)
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Whose Problem Analysing Problematisation and Justice in Australia’s Early Childhood Education and Care Workforce Strategy