Courses Taught
Research Interests
Publications

Courses Taught

EDST314 Social issues in education
EDST577 The social context of education policy
EADM553A Society, Culture and Politics in Education Capstone

Research Interests

• Education markets and sustainable cities
• Sustainable cities, methodology and the social sciences
• Critical education policy research in urban settings (the interplay of urban renewal, globalisation and neoliberalism)
• Theories of space and place and their application in policy research
• Issues of social and educational inequality (with a focus on ‘race’)

Publications

Edited Books

Gulson, K.N. & Symes, C. (Eds.) (2007). Education and the spatial turn: policy and geography matters. New York: Routledge.

Book Chapters
Gulson, K. N. (2007). Mobilizing space discourses: politics and educational policy change. In K. N. Gulson & C. Symes (Eds.), Education and the spatial turn: policy and geography matters. New York: Routledge.

Gulson, K.N. (forthcoming). Space, cultural politics and education. In Z. Leonardo (Ed.), Handbook of Cultural Politics and Education. Rotterdam: SensePublishers.

Gulson, K.N. (forthcoming). Deferring dystopia: the sustainable city, urban policy and education markets. In B. Lingard, J. Nixon and S. Ranson (Eds.), Transforming Learning in Schools and Communities. London: Continuum.

Refereed Journal Papers

Gulson, K.N. & Parkes, R.J. (in press). In the shadows of the mission: education policy, urban space and the ‘colonial present’ in Sydney. In Race, Ethnicity and Education.

Gulson, K. N. (2008). Urban accommodations: policy, education and a politics of place. Journal of Education Policy, 23(2), 153-163.

Symes, C. & Gulson, K.N. (2008). Faith in education: the politics of state funding and the new Christian schooling in Australia. Educational Policy, 22(2), 231-249.

Gulson, K.N. (2007). Repositioning schooling in inner Sydney: urban renewal, an education market and the ‘ absent presence’ of the ‘middle classes’. Urban Studies, 44(7), 1377-1391.

Gulson, K.N. (2007). With permission: education policy, space and everyday globalisation in London’s East End. In Globalisation, Societies and Education. 5(2), 219-237.

Gulson, K.N. (2007). ‘Neoliberal spatial technologies’: on the practices of education policy. Critical Studies in Education, 48(2): 179-195.

Gulson, K.N. & Symes, C. (2007). Knowing one’s place: space, theory, education. Critical Studies in Education, 48(1): 97-110.

Gulson, K.N. (2006). A white veneer: educational policy, space and ‘race’ in the inner city. In Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 27(2): 251-66.

Gulson, K.N. (2005). Renovating educational identities: policy, space and urban renewal. Journal of Education Policy 20(2), 141-158.

Symes, C & Gulson, K.N. (2005). Crucifying education: the rise and rise of new Christian schooling in Australia. Social Alternatives, 24 (4): 19-24.