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Title Beyond nostalgia : reshaping Australian education / Terri Seddon and Lawrence Angus (eds)
Published Camberwell, Vic. : ACER Press, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 233 pages) : illustrations
Series Australian education review ; no. 44
Australian education review ; no. 44.
Contents Preliminaries; Contents; Introduction; 1 Competent citizens and limited truths; 2 Education and economy: A review of main assertions; 3 Competition in Australian higher education since 1987; 4 From lucky country to clever country; 5 Competition, education and class formation; 6 Institutions with designs: consuming school children; 7 Gender, teaching and institutional change; 8 The social and organisational renorming of education; 9 The politics of postpatrimonial governance; 10 Beyond nostalgia: institutional design and alternative futures; References
Summary 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
Notes Publisher name from cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Education -- Australia
EDUCATION -- History.
EDUCATION -- Comparative.
Education
Australia
Form Electronic book
Author Seddon, Terri
Angus, Lawrence B
Australian Council for Educational Research.
ISBN 0585496013
9780585496016