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Backgrounding Advocacy

Research Informing Advocacy Models

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The advocacy project emerged from a particular understanding of the process of learning and teaching. It is an understanding which, unfortunately, has never been seriously supported by the politicians and bureaucrats who control the delivery of what they like to call the “provision” of education. Nevertheless, it is central to the way that many teachers understand their task.

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  1. Adjunct Professor La Trobe University, Australia

    Bernie Neville

  2. Co-Ordinator, Bachelor of Holistic Counselling, Phoenix Institute of Australia, Australia

    Bernie Neville

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    Kirsten Hutchison

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    Tricia McCann

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Neville, B. (2015). Backgrounding Advocacy. In: Hutchison, K., McCann, T. (eds) Somebody Knows, Somebody Cares. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-133-5_2

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