Beyond Nostalgia: Reshaping Australian Education (Australian Education Review No. 44)

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A thorough analysis of change in Australian education. Featuring contributions from 12 education professionals, it examines the effects of reform and restructuring throughout the sector to thereby map the possibilities for the ongoing redesign of Australian education.

Author(s): Terri Seddon, Lawrence B. Angus
Year: 2000

Language: English
Pages: 150

Preliminaries......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Introduction......Page 9
1 Competent citizens and limited truths......Page 24
2 Education and economy: A review of main assertions......Page 47
3 Competition in Australian higher education since 1987......Page 71
4 From lucky country to clever country......Page 93
5 Competition, education and class formation......Page 114
6 Institutions with designs: consuming school children......Page 128
7 Gender, teaching and institutional change......Page 152
8 The social and organisational renorming of education......Page 174
9 The politics of postpatrimonial governance......Page 193
10 Beyond nostalgia: institutional design and alternative futures......Page 209
References......Page 233