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1 online resource (192 pages) |
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Intro; Title Page; Copyright and Imprint Information; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preamble; Introduction; 1. The Goulburn Myth, Social Justice and the Menzies Gesture 1962-63; 2. Snob Value: The Menzies Gesture and Educating for Inequality; 3. The Gorton Style and Better-Established Schools; 4. Malcolm Fraser: Let's Pitch It a Little Higher and See How We Get On; 5. The Whitlam Government: The Chance to Put Their Schemes into Practice; 6. The Schools Commission: Too Radical, Too Expensive, and Likely to Raise Expectations Too High; 7. The Schools Commission and the Liberal Way of Progress |
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8. The Hawke-Ryan Years: We Don't Want any Brawls9. Minister Kemp and the Socio-Economic Status System: A Complete Corruption; 10. Julia Gillard and Irresponsible, Untruthful Fear Campaigns; 11. Christopher Pyne: Blowing Himself and the Gonski Reforms to Pieces; 12. Simon Birmingham: Still on a Path to Nowhere?; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
How Australians fund schooling has been a matter of bitter political, social, and religious division for almost two hundred years. And it remains so. The 2012 Gonski Review, urging all jurisdictions to move towards consensus on a needs-based and socially just education system, has continued to encounter forms of political obstruction. By examining the principles, the motives, and the means of those who, since Menzies, have fought to develop and maintain a class-based education system at the expense of a broader view of social justice, this book explains how and why Australian education policy |
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Print version record |
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Education and state -- Australia
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Education -- Australia -- Finance
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Education -- Political aspects.
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Education -- Aims and objectives -- Australia
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Education -- Economic aspects -- Australia
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School management and organization -- Australia
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Education -- Aims and objectives
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Education and state
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Education -- Economic aspects
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Education -- Finance
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Education -- Political aspects
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School management and organization
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Australia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781925495515 |
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1925495515 |
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