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  1. Projects on which I draw, all funded by the Australian Research Council, include: (1) Reinvigorating middle years pedagogy in ‘rustbelt’ secondary schools (LP0454869), 2004–2007; (2) Pursuing equity in high poverty rural schools: improving learning through rich accountabilities (LP100200841), 2010–2014; and (3) Capacitating student aspirations in classrooms and communities of a high poverty region (DP120101492), 2012–2017.

  2. This example draws, with thanks, on field notes by Peter Renshaw from the ARC project Pursuing equity in high poverty rural schools (see previous footnote).

  3. The concept of making “problems that matter” curricular derives from Zipin 2017; Zipin and Brennan 2018, 2019.

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Zipin, L. Building curriculum knowledge work around community-based “problems that matter”: let’s dare to imagine. Curric Perspect 40, 111–115 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41297-019-00096-y

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