This book explores school educational policy through the lens of moral panic theory at a theoretical level, and through a select history of moral panics in school education during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Acronyms and Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1. Moral panic theory and school education

Chapter 2. Alcohol and illicit drug education

Chapter 3. Physical fitness and obesity

Chapter 4. Sexuality education

Chapter 5. Racism and Islamophobia

Chapter 6. Pedagogy and curriculum

Chapter 7. Media and youth

Chapter 8. Teaching standards, assessment and testing regimes

Chapter 9. Buildings and school facilities

Chapter 10. Bringing it all together

Grant Rodwell has worked as a school principal in Tasmania, and in various administrative and academic capacities at Australian universities, since the 1980s. He has published over fifty articles in international peer-reviewed journals, along with eight books. He holds five PhDs from Australian universities, and also is an internationally published novelist.