Australian education : reform or crisis?
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Australian education : reform or crisis?
（Studies in education）
Allen & Unwin, 1996
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Bibliography: p. 182-206
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
What has education ever achieved for Aboriginal Australians? What is the rationale behind the recent push for the "basics" in education? What is the meaning of the training agenda and how far should schools prepare Australian children for the changing world of work? Why are more parents turning to private schools? In this work, the author examines these and other themes in Australian education, uncovers some of the reality that lies behind the rhetoric, and argues that many recent reforms are justified by an appeal to the economics rather than education, and are unlikely to achieve their stated aims. Broad currents of change have swept through Australian education and society in recent years, altering many assumptions about the relationship between the two. Do these changes reflect democratic reforms, or a crisis in the social system? Drawing upon a range of research, the author puts many of the debates and reforms into their context. He sketches some historical background to recent reforms and sets the changes in the context of a unified, critical theory of education and society.
Table of Contents
Series editors' forewordList of figures and tablesAcknowledgementsPreface1 Reform or crisis in Australian Education?2 Aboriginal education as internal colonialism: the schooling of indigenous peoples3 Education, work and youth unemployment: old wine in new bottles?4 Back-to-basics in Australian education? Explorations in knowledge, culture and power5 The politics of cultural interaction: multicultural education in Australia6 Trawling for talent? Social class in Australian education7 Ourselves and the 'Other': gender in Australian educationBibiliographyIndex
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