Grant began his working life as an unskilled labourer in the New South Wales timber industry. He has been a school principal and university academic. Fascinated by history, particularly in an educational policy context, he has taken five PhDs from Australian universities, in areas as diverse as history, education and English literature. Either the author or co-author of nineteen internationally published scholarly non-fiction works, he also has published six novels and a memoir—the first of a trilogy of memoirs. He is now retired and living in the New South Wales Hunter Valley.
Grant’s enduring passion is working in schools and universities with academics, student teachers, teachers and school communities in disseminating his cutting-edge research, more recently in respect to the role of memoirs as pedagogical tools and the political influences on educational policy. His research is supported by over 60 internationally published and peer-reviewed journal articles, the most recent being research on dog-whistling journalism and politics for school educational policy, and another on Australia’s Building Education Revolution. He has published ten books with Routledge. Grant Rodwell (author)
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