Jamie Manolev

Jamie Manolev is a Research Associate at the University of South Australia, and a member of the Centre for Research in Educational and Social Inclusion. Jamie's research program is concentrated on educational issues across two primary areas, a) the platformisation and datafication of education, and b) school discipline, including in particular, school exclusionary practices. His program focuses on what the implications of contemporary developments in these two areas are, or may lead to, in education. His research is critical in orientation and therefore concentrates on examining how education is mediated by power, including in ways that produce disadvantage and inequality. His current research is focussed on examining issues of policy and practice, and the relationships between them, to develop understandings about: a) the ways digital education platforms and datafication are shaping, or re-shaping, education. b) the ways disciplinary exclusions are being used to manage student behaviour, the impacts these exclusions have on students and their families, and less harmful educative alternatives to exclusion. He draws on critical platform studies, critical data studies, critical policy studies, sociological theory, and Foucauldian theory as sites of knowledge to make sense of these issues. He has recently worked as a postdoc on an ARC Discovery project titled School Exclusionary Policies and Practices and their Impact. His PhD research investigated the ways in which ClassDojo (an education platform) is influencing contemporary education, in particular school discipline practices and pedagogies. Jamie’s PhD research has attracted considerable media attention including coverage that spanned television (The Project), radio, print, and online mediums. Critical theory, Education Policy, Education policy, sociology and philosophy, Educational Technology and Computing, Sociology of Education

[2025] Tippett, N., Sullivan, A., Manolev, J., Johnson, B., & Down, B. (2025). How policies of school exclusion frame practice: a comparative analysis of Australian state education policies. The Australian Educational Researcher, 52(5), 3505-3523. [2025] Corser, K., Manolev, J., & Danby, S. (2025). Problematising ClassDojo as a digital tool for behaviour management and home-school communication. Learning, Media & Technology, online, 1-17. [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. [2024] Manolev, J., Sullivan, A., & Tippett, N. (2024). Reshaping school discipline with metrics: an examination of teachers' disciplinary practices with