Peer-reviewed Papers by Deborah Netolicky
The concept of heroism is embedded in the theorization of leadership. In this chapter, qualitativ... more The concept of heroism is embedded in the theorization of leadership. In this chapter, qualitative interviews with 11 school leaders from one Australian school add rich empirical data to the literature around heroic school leadership, highlighting leadership that is deliberately subtle or behind the scenes. Introducing holonomy as a lens through which to view heroism and leadership, this chapter reveals the internal dialogues in which leaders place themselves on a continuum from visible autonomous hero who receives all the recognition, to unsung invisible hero working as interdependent participant within an organization. The chapter proposes the visible-invisible leader as an alternative metaphor for leadership within the context of schools.
KOME, 2017
This paper fashions a lens through which to view scholarly identity and the experience of academi... more This paper fashions a lens through which to view scholarly identity and the experience of academic writing. The lens of inquiry I apply is the metaphor of Season 1 of sci-fi HBO television show Westworld and its characters, especially its cyborg protagonist Dolores. Thrumming like electric currents through this lens of inquiry are Haraway's theorization of the cyborg, the fictional worlds of science fiction and Wonderland, my own lived experience, and Deleuze and Guattari's desiring-machines and bodies without organs. I engage in the cyborgic technology of writing in order to playfully explore what it means to be a cyborg academic operating in intersecting machinic worlds. I ask: Can we listen to our internal voices and write our own stories? Can we burn the world clean with our scholarship and the ways in which we interrogate ingrained and expected practices?
Qualitative education research is an inherently complex landscape, presenting the qualitative res... more Qualitative education research is an inherently complex landscape, presenting the qualitative researcher with constant ethical and reasoned decision-making. Presented as a narrative dialogic, this paper traces and juxtaposes the method stories of two qualitative researchers who focused their work around education phenomena, but in different contexts and in different ways. One researcher’s narrative study of phenomena via interviews is juxtaposed with the other’s phenomenographical investigation utilizing Facebook status updates. Seeing researcher thinking side-by-side provides a comparison that teases out the ways in which researchers might consciously grapple with thinking around method. These twin method stories offer ways for other qualitative researchers to think about their own decision-making as they address the challenges of balancing subjectivity and rigour, authenticity of reported data, and protection of participants. This dialogic partnership points to the malleability of method. It also encourages further exploration of the complexities of qualitative education research in which the researcher is often insider–outsider or outsider–insider.
PhD Thesis by Deborah Netolicky
This study takes researcher and reader down the rabbit hole of story with its unique approach to ... more This study takes researcher and reader down the rabbit hole of story with its unique approach to the phenomena of professional identity, professional learning, and school change. It examines the perspectives of 14 educators: a range of teachers and leaders in one independent Australian school and in the context of a teacher growth intervention. Extended literary metaphor and known literary characters operate as a symbolic and structural frame. The findings have implications for the theorisation of identities, and the research and implementation of professional learning and school change.
Conference Papers by Deborah Netolicky
Books by Deborah Netolicky
Chaptern 34 in L. Rycroft-Smith, J.-L. Dutaut, & K. Sowter (Eds.) Flip the System UK: A Teachers'... more Chaptern 34 in L. Rycroft-Smith, J.-L. Dutaut, & K. Sowter (Eds.) Flip the System UK: A Teachers' Manifesto. Routledge.
Papers by Deborah Netolicky
Flip the System Australia, 2018
Flip the System Australia, 2018
Flipping the system is not as simple as upending the current decision-making tower in education; ... more Flipping the system is not as simple as upending the current decision-making tower in education; it is about eking out, listening to, and elevating the voices of those on the ground in our schools. Often, the subjective voices and intricate identities of teachers and school leaders are absent, marginalised, or simplified in educational research, practice, and policymaking. This chapter analyses interview data from an empirical study of one Australian school in order to interrogate the nexus between teacher, school leadership, and school as organisation, from the perspective of those working in classrooms and schools. The chapter advocates for considering the identities, voices, and professional autonomy of teachers, and also considering the complex, unpredictable work of school leaders as they navigate fluid and multiple identities, and competing pressures. It argues that the system has the potential to be an inclusive and collaborative crucible in which those working in schools are given platforms to speak, in which teacher and school leader experience and professionalism is trusted, and in which we seek to understand and grow, rather than to blame
Netolicky, D. <https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/view/author/Netolicky, Deborah.html>ORCID: 0000-0002-5258-0890 <http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5258-0890> (2016) Impacts and challenges of coaching in Australian education contexts: A panel discussion. In: researchED, 21 May 2016, Melbourne, VIC., 2016
Transformational Professional Learning, 2019
Flip the System Australia, 2018
Transformational Professional Learning, 2019
Transformational Professional Learning, 2019
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Peer-reviewed Papers by Deborah Netolicky
PhD Thesis by Deborah Netolicky
Conference Papers by Deborah Netolicky
Books by Deborah Netolicky
Papers by Deborah Netolicky