| Description |
xvi, 367 pages ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
Contents note continued: 11.Curriculum / Margaret Vickers -- Three approaches to curriculum and pedagogy -- Critiquing the role of the academic disciplines -- The intended curriculum and the enacted curriculum -- Waves of curriculum reform -- Conclusion -- 12.Teachers / Raewyn Connell -- Images of teachers -- Teachers' daily work -- The teaching workforce -- Teaching as an occupation -- Wages and conditions -- Teacher organisations -- Supervision and management -- Teachers' careers -- 13.Globalisation / Nigel Bagnall -- What is globalisation? -- Development of theories of globalisation -- How does Australia figure in the global marketplace? -- International educational standards -- International curriculum -- Conclusion -- 14.Researching Education -- pt. I Science, Research, and Teachers / Raewyn Connell -- What is science? -- Research and practice -- Practitioner research and professional research -- pt. II A Research Project / Craig Campbell -- Why do a research project? -- |
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Contents note continued: 5.Social Class and Inequality / Helen Proctor -- Introduction -- Conceptualising social class -- Understanding the relationship between schooling and social class -- Managing social class inequalities through education: from meritocracy to the rule of markets -- Challenging social class inequality: thinking sociologically about schooling practices -- Conclusion -- 6.Cultural Difference and Identity / Anthony Welch -- Culture, language and identity in Australian education -- Australia's migration history -- Implications for education -- The cultures of Australian education -- Effective multiculturalism in education: policies, programs and parameters -- Refugees and education -- Conclusion -- 7.Indigenous Australia and the Education System / Dennis Foley -- Disparities in school attendance -- Indigenous identity -- Background knowledge on Aboriginal education -- Contemporary issues in Indigenous education -- |
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Contents note continued: Developing a research question, choosing a partner and what the project might eventually look like -- Searching the literature and writing a literature review -- Research methods and research results -- Ethical practice in research -- Writing up the project and presenting the results of your work |
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Contents note continued: The teacher's toolbox: working with Indigenous students -- Conclusion -- 8.Gender / Margaret Vickers -- Understanding gender -- Moral panic: the feminisation of teaching -- Privileging men in the teaching workforce -- Bullying, gender and sexuality -- Gender and school performance: the boy turn -- A review of the evidence on gender-based score gaps -- Conclusion -- 9.Making Education Policy / Anthony Welch -- Making policy, making democracy -- Understanding the policy process: policy in practice -- Politics of reform or the reform of politics? The changing nature of the state -- The rise of economics: markets, managerialism and the knowledge economy -- Diverting risk -- Diverting funds -- Conclusion -- 10.School Systems and School Choice / Arathi Sriprakash -- Public and ̀private' schools -- Who goes where? -- School markets and school choice -- The operation of school choice -- School funding in Australia -- Conclusion -- |
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Machine generated contents note: 1.Young People and School / Debra Hayes -- Introduction -- Teachers, families and schools -- Different families---different lives -- Feeling ̀at home' in school -- Power and cultural groups -- Conclusion -- 2.Growing Up / Raewyn Connell -- How children grow -- Families and children -- The many worlds of childhood -- Adolescence -- Conclusion -- 3.Youth Transitions / Margaret Vickers -- Changing patterns of youth transition -- Changes at school and at work -- Why do students leave early and what can be done about it? -- Family strategies -- Reconfiguring work and reconstructing masculinities -- Conclusion -- 4.The City and the Bush / Anthony Welch -- Introduction: fractures in the Australian landscape -- History of rural education -- Regional difference and educational opportunity in the current era -- Patterns of participation -- Rural refugees -- Prospects, policy and social capital -- Conclusion -- |
| Summary |
Helps students understand how contemporary education systems, their issues, policies and institutions operate and fit into Australia's broad social landscape. It focuses on the connection between local and global in explaining contemporary educational change, and considers the role that globalisation plays in increasing the rate of change in society, as well as its impact on education and education systems |
| Analysis |
Australian |
| Notes |
Previous ed. 2010 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Education and state -- Australia.
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Education -- Social aspects -- Textbooks.
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Education -- Social aspects -- Study and teaching (Higher)
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Education -- Social aspects -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Australia.
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Education -- Social aspects -- Australia -- Textbooks.
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Education -- Social aspects -- Australia.
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Education -- Australia.
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Educational change -- Study and teaching (Higher)
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Educational change -- Textbooks.
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Educational change -- Australia -- Textbooks.
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Educational change -- Australia.
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| Genre/Form |
Textbooks.
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| Author |
Bagnall, Nigel, author
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Campbell, Graig, author
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Foley, Dennis (College teacher), author
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Hayes, Debra, 1960- author
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Proctor, Helen, 1959- author
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Sriprakash, Arathi, author
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Vickers, Margaret, author
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Welch, Tony, author
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| LC no. |
2014412277 |
| ISBN |
9780195522273 (paperback) |
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