(RE) Presenting Education Custom Book: Students, Teachers, Schools and the Public Imagination

Situating representation and the politics of the image as central features of the contemporary social milieu, this work explores the nature of the image and its relationship to lived experiences of education. The way the image of education is constructed and consumed in the contemporary social milieu holds significant implications for the way we conceive of and interact with those education environments we experience directly. Drawing on a range of contemporary theories, Hickey and Austin present a reading of the image and the real that actively critiques the contradictions between constricted images of education and those drawn from first-hand experience.

Foreword
Introduction
SECTION 1: THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS AND KEY CONCEPTS
Introduction: Culture, Power and (Re)Presentation
Chapter 1: Culture
Chapter 2: Power
Chapter 3: (Re)Presentation
Chapter 4: Developing a Critical Practice
Further Reading
SECTION 2: STUDENTS, TEACHERS AND SCHOOLS
Introduction: Situating Lived Experience within the Public Imagination
Chapter 5: Students
Chapter 6: Teachers
Chapter 7: Schools
Conclusion
Notes on the Authors

Andrew Hickey is Lecturer in Cultural Studies and Social Theory with the
Faculty of Education at the University of Southern Queensland. He has a
background in Information Management and is currently pursuing
interests in ‘representation politics’ and notions of community identities.
His doctoral work is currently examining relationships between the
individual and the community and the function of community in
contemporary urban spaces.

Jon Austin is a long–term member of the academic staff of the Faculty of
Education at the University of Southern Queensland. Coming from an
early childhood teaching background, his doctorate was in the area of
whiteness and white ethnicity. Jon is currently pursuing research interests
in Autoethnography and new approaches in qualitative research
methodologies. He is editor of Culture and Identity 2e (available via Pearson
Education Australia).