Neil MacNeill

Curtin University · School of Education

A nudge is an intervention that maintains freedom of choice but steers people in a particular direction. Generally, nudging is a study in less-directive leadership, and variations slide along the hard power-soft power continuum. Dr Melinda Harris and Dr Neil MacNeill MAY 3, 2024 A leadership strategy that school leaders and teachers use both overtl...

The term aporophobia was coined by the Spanish professor, Adela Cortina, in her analyses of people’s attitudetoward the poor, which she saw as a systemic rejection towards poverty and people without resources.In schools,we need a concerted Australian effort to banish aporophobia, to break the poverty cycle, and to give every child afair go. This ch...

The military employs systematic direct instruction for all skills and knowledge that may be a factor in life and death situations. The instructors cannot tolerate failure. With this in mind, it is interesting to examine the strategies used by instructors that result in "No Failure Learning".

The Broken Window Theory is used in police trains to show recruits that by attending to small issues (broken window) it generates a long-term more law abiding community. This has implications for teaching and learning because it reminds teachers to address the small issue such as "Be ready for learning!"

In many jurisdictions school leaders are being placed under increased accountability and stress, which then affects their ability to address the real issue of education − improving students’ learning. Flow Theory, developed by the Hungarian−American psychologist Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi, has a high degree of relevance to the issue of the way modern...

Paper submitted for presentation at the 2003 Annual conference for the Australian Association for Research in Education: Auckland 2 PRINCIPAL LEADERSHIP AND SCHOOL RENEWAL Introduction The study upon which this paper is based solicited information on school renewal from a purposive sample of principals initially identified using quantitative profil...

This paper critiques instructional leadership and the notion of pedagogic leadership is proposed as an alternative, broader conception of the principalship. Pedagogy concerns enabling the learning and intellectual growth of students in contrast to instruction that treats students as the object of curriculum implementation. Successful classroom peda...

Aboriginal education, long considered the poor relation in education, is currently in a stage of development akin to a Renaissance. The success of the one-best-method of education is seriously being questioned, as are the twin constraints of the hidden curriculum - tradition and conformity. The first major breakthrough in Aboriginal education came...

This summary of a literature review is the first stage of research on the topic of principals' pedagogic obsolescence, and it examines the dearth of material that is available on this important topic. In the last 50 years the role of the school principal has changed from being mainly a teaching role to that of a full-time administrator in most larg...