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Assoc Prof Leesa Wheelahan

Research Report
Wheelahan, L., Leahy, M., Fredman, N., Moodie, G., Arkoudis, S. and Bexley, E., 2012. Missing links: the fragmented relation between tertiary education and jobs. Adelaide: NCVER.
Research Report
Wheelahan, L., Moodie, G. and Buchanan, J. Revitalising the 'vocational' in flows of learning and labour. Adelaide: NCVER.
Research Report
Wheelahan, L., Arkoudis, S., Moodie, G., Fredman, N. and Bexley, E., 2011. Shaken not stirred? The development of one tertiary education sector in Australia. Adelaide: National Centre for Vocational Education Research
Research Report
Buchanan, J, Yu, S, Wheelahan, L, Keating, J & Marginson, S 2010, ‘Impact Analysis of the proposed strengthened Australian Qualifications Framework Conducted for the Australian Qualifications Framework Council (AQFC)’, Workplace Research Centre, University of Sydney, Sydney
Chapter
Wheelahan, L 2010, 'Tertiary Education as Insurance Against Risk – What are the Outcomes? For whom?' In G Marston, J Moss & J Quiggin (eds.), Risk, Responsibility and the Welfare State, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne.
Media
Wheelahan, L 2010, 'Coherence or Confusion?' Campus Review, 15 February, p. 11.
Chapter
Wheelahan, L 2010, 'Competency-based Training, Powerful Knowledge and the Working Class', in K Maton & R Moore (eds.), Social Realism Knowledge and the Sociology of Education: Coalitions of the Mind, Continuum International Publishing Group, London.
Chapter
Wheelahan, L 2010, 'The Structure of Pedagogic Discourse as a Relay for Power: the Case of Competency-based Training', in P Singh, A Sadovnik & S Semel (eds.), Toolkits, Translation Devices, Conceptual Tyrannies: Essays on Basil Bernstein's Sociology of Knowledge, Peter Lang, New York.
Media
Wheelahan, L 2010, 'Where do the Dual-Sectors Fit in?' Campus Review, 8 June, p. 11.
Refereed Conference Paper
Wheelahan, L 2010, 'Rethinking Equity in Tertiary Education – Why we Need to Think as One sector and Not Two', VET research: Leading and Responding in Turbulent Times, AVETRA 2010, 13th Annual Conference, Gold Coast, QLD.
Book
Wheelahan, L 2010, Why Knowledge Matters in Curriculum: a Social Realist Argument, Routledge, London.
Research Report
Wheelahan, L & Moodie, G 2010 ‘The quality of teaching in VET: Options paper’, Quality of Teaching in VET project, Australian College of Educators.
Research Report
Wheelahan, L & Curtin, E 2010, ‘The quality of teaching in VET: Overview’, Quality of Teaching in VET project, Australian College of Educators.
Research Report
Wheelahan, L 2010, ‘The quality of teaching in VET: Literature review’, Quality of Teaching in VET project, Australian College of Educators.
Research Report
Wheelahan, L & Moodie, G 2010 ‘The quality of teaching in VET: Final Report and Recommendations', Australian College of Educators.
Other
Wheelahan, L 2010, 'Overcoming the democratic deficit in VET: why VET needs its own Bradley Review', Professional Educator, vol. 9, issue 4.
Other
Wheelahan, L 2010, 'Options for the future of VET teaching qualifications and continuing professional development,' Australian TAFE Teacher, vol. 44, issue 3.
Media
Wheelahan, L 2010, 'TAFE: big and bold but unloved’, The Age, 7 September, p. 13.
Research Report
Buchanan, J, Yu, S, Marginson, S & Wheelahan, L 2009, 'Education, Work and Economic Renewal: an Issues Paper Prepared for the Australian Education Union', Workplace Research Centre, University of Sydney.
Refereed Conference Paper
Kelly A, Wheelahan L & Billett S 2009, 'Betwixt and Between: Higher Education Teachers in TAFE', Aligning Participants, Policy and Pedagogy: Traction and Tensions in VET Research, 12th Annual AVETRA Conference, Sydney, April 16-17.
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