Dr Carmen Mills, BEd(Hons), PhD    Lecturer

	Biography

Carmen's research interests include social justice in education, schooling in disadvantaged communities, and the theoretical work of Pierre Bourdieu.

Carmen Mills is a lecturer in the sociology of education. As a critical researcher, informed by the work of Pierre Bourdieu and others, she is concerned to explore questions related to whose interests are served by the social arrangements evident in educational contexts and how these arrangements might be structured more equitably. She has strong interests in issues of social justice in education, schooling in disadvantaged communities and transforming schooling for marginalised students. Her current research work explores the role of pre-service teacher education in the development of socially just dispositions in pre-service and beginning teachers.

	Keywords
	Education: Sociology Education, Education: Teacher Education, Education: Educational Reform