Griffith University

Research interests

• Indigenous education
• Educational leadership and management
• Social Justice and Productive Pedagogies
• The work of Michel Foucault

Publications

Books

• Niesche, R. (Forthcoming). Foucault and Educational Leadership: Disciplining the Principal. Routledge: London.

Book chapters

• Niesche, R. (2005). Disengaging leadership: educational administration and management as a field of scientific knowledge. In J. Yamanashi and I. Milojevic (Eds.), Researching Identity, Diversity & Education: Surpassing the Norm. Teneriffe: Post Pressed.

Journal articles

• Niesche, R. & Jorgensen, R. (Forthcoming). Challenges for educational leadership: Reforming curriculum in remote areas. Journal of Educational Administration.
• Jorgensen, R., Grootenboer, P., Niesche, R. & Lerman, S. (Forthcoming). Challenges for teacher education: the mismatch between beliefs and practice in remote Indigenous contexts. Asia Pacific Journal of Teacher Education.
• Zevenbergen, R., Walsh, L. & Niesche, R. (2009). Reforming schools: a case study of New Basics in a primary school. International Journal of Leadership in Education, 12(2), pp. 115-133.
• Jorgenson, R. & Niesche, R. (2008). Equity, mathematics and classroom practice: developing rich mathematical experiences for disadvantaged students. Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 13 (4), pp. 21-27.
• Zevenbergen, R., Sullivan, P., Lerman, S., Boaler, J., Grootenboer, P. & Niesche, R. (2008). Reforming pedagogy in remote Indigenous contexts. Curriculum Leadership, 36 (4).
• Niesche, R. (2003). Power and homosexuality in the teaching workplace. Social Alternatives, 22(2), 44-47.

Other publications

• Zevenbergen, R. & Niesche, R. (2008). Reforming mathematics classrooms: a case of remote Indigenous education. Working Paper No. 2, Brisbane, Qld: Griffith Institute for Educational Research, Griffith University.
• Zevenbergen, R., Delaforce, R. & Niesche, R. (2008). Evaluation of the Bound for Success Curriculum Document and ILP Toolkit 2007. Research Consultancy Report to Education Queensland, Griffith Institute for Educational Research: Griffith University.
• Collard, J. & Reynolds, C. (2005). Leadership, Gender and Culture in Education: Male and Female Perspectives. Open University Press. Book Review for The Australian Educational Researcher, 35 (1), April 2008.

Refereed conference papers

• Niesche, R. (2009). The Use of Home Language in the Mathematics Classroom, in the Symposium, Reforming Mathematical Pedagogy in Remote Indigenous Contexts, MERGA Annual Conference.
• Jorgensen, R., Grootenboer, P. & Niesche, R. (2009). Insights into the beliefs and practices of teachers in a remote Indigenous context. MERGA Annual Conference.
• Zevenbergen, R., Niesche, R., Grootenboer, P., & Boaler, J. (2008). Creating equitable practice in diverse classrooms: developing a tool to evaluate pedagogy. In M. Goos, R. Brown & K. Makar (Eds) Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (MERGA).

Non-refereed conference papers

• Jorgensen, R., Grootenboer, P. & Niesche, R. (2009). Reforming practice in remote contexts: challenges for teacher education. Paper presented at the Australian Association for research in Education Conference, Canberra, ACT.
• Niesche, R. (2009). A genealogy of educational leadership. Paper presented at the Australian Association for research in Education Conference, Canberra, ACT.
• Niesche, R. (2008). Complexities of implementation: Introducing curriculum change in Cape York and the Torres Strait. Paper presented at the Australian Association for Research in Education Conference, November, QUT, Brisbane.
• Niesche, R. (2007). ?Disciplining the principal?: exploring two white female principals? subjectivities in Indigenous schools. Paper presented at the Australian Association for Research in Education Conference, Notre Dame University, Fremantle.

Material submitted for publication currently under review

• Niesche, R. Discipline through documentation: Grant applications as a form of governmentality for school principals.
• Niesche, R. A genealogy of leadership.
• Niesche, R. & Haase, M. Emotions and Ethics: A Foucauldian framework for becoming an ethical educator.

Seminars and presentations

• Niesche, R. (2009). A Genealogy of educational leadership: opening lines of inquiry. Presented at the School of Education, UQ, 14th May.
• Niesche, R. (2009). Polishing the Thesis. Seminar presented at the Griffith Institute for Educational Research RHD Forum, 21st August.
• Sullivan, P., Lerman, S., Zevenbergen, R. & Niesche, R. (2008). Mourning and reforming education: Changing practice to create sustainable learning environments. Symposium conducted at the Griffith Institute for Educational Research, 20th October.