Enacting the Prevent Duty in Early Childhood Education Settings

This chapter examines the implementation of the Prevent Duty in early childhood education (ECE) provision in England. Findings from a small-scale empirical study suggest that ECE practitioners simultaneously performed, resisted and embodied the requirements of the Prevent Duty in practice. ECE practitioners were performative in their response to the requirement to promote fundamental British values (FBVs) as they evidenced compliance within an environment of regulation. However, ECE practitioners simultaneously operated a pedagogy rich in values education in which children were positioned as constructors of values. The layering of counter-terrorism within safeguarding policy led to a repositioning of practices of surveillance of children and families, which resonates with some critical readings of counter-terrorism policy in ECE

Perspectives on global leadership and the Covid-19 crisis

As the world struggled to come to grips with the Covid-19 pandemic, over twenty scholars, practitioners, and global leaders wrote brief essays for this curated chapter on the role of global leadership in this extreme example of a global crisis. Their thoughts span helpful theoretical breakthroughs to essential, pragmatic adaptations by companies

Understanding the importance and context of vilification

This paper looks at the context with which the research for the collection came out of. It draws on recent examples in the media and football and connects that up to the examples in the past particularly the incidents in the AFL that involved Nicky Winmar in 1993 and Michael Long in 1995 and the introduction of Rule 35. This paper sets the scene from which the rest of the collection positions itself

Pauline Hanson, One Nation (PHON) and Right-Wing Protective Popular Nationalism: Monocultural Tendencies at the Expense of Social Cohesion

This chapter offers a new conceptualisation of popular nationalism in Australia, termed right-wing protective popular nationalism (RWPPN). Taken from theoretical underpinnings which suggest that the rise of popular nationalism in Australia links with the Hanson phenomenon, RWPPN concerns a desire to protect and preserve the national culture and way of life. It associates strongly with a sense of national identity which is defined, at least in part, by opposition to multiculturalism and prejudice to non-white/Anglo ethnic groups. To understand the interplay between RWPPN and twelve other psychological profiling variables (which we argue are related to Hansonism and a broader discourse of ethnic inclusion and exclusion), we present a cluster analysis. Cluster analysis is commonly used in audience segmentation studies to show how the population divides naturally into different groups. The analysis revealed three clear segments in participants’ level of RWPPN sentiment and responses to ethnic groups in Australia, which we labelled “inclusive” (low RWPPN), “guarded” (med RWPPN), and “exclusive” (high RWPPN). The “exclusive” group is strongly emotive and quite large, but is nonetheless outnumbered by the “inclusive” group. Based on these results, we conclude that RWPPN relates to monocultural tendencies and that it does so at the expense of social cohesion