Dr Janean Robinson

Dr Janean Robinson

School of Education

College of Education, Behavioural and Social Sciences

Janean is an Adjunct Research Fellow with the University of South Australia and a member of CRESI. She is a member of UniSA’s School Exclusions Study research team and has worked closely in educational research for many years with Professors Barry Down and John Smyth. Before her time at UniSA Janean was a lecturer, tutor, and researcher at Murdoch University and a secondary school teacher in government schools throughout Western Australia. Janean is an advocate for social justice and her activist research work is centred on sharing the narrative voices of teachers and students.

Date Institution name Country Title
2011 Murdoch University Australia Phd

Year Citation
2024 Down, B., Sullivan, A., Tippett, N., Johnson, B., Manolev, J., & Robinson, J. (2024). What is missing in policy discourses about school exclusions?. Critical Studies in Education, 65(5), 494-512.
DOI Scopus8 WoS5
2022 Hickey, A., Riddle, S., Robinson, J., Down, B., Hattam, R., & Wrench, A. (2022). Relational pedagogy and the policy failure of contemporary Australian schooling: activist teaching and pedagogically driven reform. Journal of Educational Administration and History, 54(3), 291-305.
DOI Scopus37 WoS30
2018 Robinson, J., Down, B., & Smyth, J. (2018). 'Shaking up' neoliberal policy in schools: looking for democratic alternatives in Jacinta's satchel. Global Studies of Childhood, 8(4), 392-403.
DOI Scopus5
2017 Down, B., Smyth, J., & Robinson, J. (2017). Problematising vocational education and training in schools: using student narratives to interrupt neoliberal ideology. Critical Studies in Education, 60(4), 443-461.
DOI Scopus28 WoS23
2016 Robinson, J., & Smyth, J. (2016). 'Sent out' and stepping back in: stories from young people 'placed at risk'. Ethnography and Education, 11(2), 222-236.
DOI Scopus12 WoS9
2015 Smyth, J., & Robinson, J. (2015). ‘Give me air not shelter’: critical tales of a policy case of student re-engagement from beyond school. Journal of Education Policy, 30(2), 220-236.
DOI Scopus20 WoS17
2014 Robinson, J. V. (2014). Dilemmas and deliberations in reflexive ethnographic research. Ethnography and Education, 9(2), 196-209.
DOI Scopus2 WoS2
2014 Smyth, J., Robinson, J., & McInerney, P. (2014). It's our turn - young people 'tilting' the neoliberal turn. Journal of Youth Studies, 17(4), 492-509.
DOI Scopus14 WoS10

Year Citation
2025 Robinson, J. (2025). The "trouble" with school behavior and discipline policies in neoliberal times /. US: Peter Lang Group AG.
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2018 Down, B., Smyth, J., & Robinson, J. (2018). Rethinking School-to-Work Transitions in Australia: Young People Have Something to Say (Vol. 6). SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG.
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