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1 online resource (354 pages). |
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text file PDF 3MB |
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Monash Studies in Australian Society Ser.
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Monash Studies in Australian Society Ser.
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| Contents |
Front Cover; 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; 3. The Gorton Style and Better-Established Schools; 4. Malcolm Fraser; 5. The Whitlam Government; 6. The Schools Commission; 7. The Schools Commission and the Liberal Way of Progress; 8. The Hawke-Ryan Years; 9. Minister Kemp and the Socio-Economic Status System; 10. Julia Gillard and Irresponsible, Untruthful Fear Campaigns; 11. Christopher Pyne; 12. Simon Birmingham; Conclusion. |
| Bibliography |
BibliographyIndex; Back Cover. |
| 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 remains mired in political controversy. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Education and state -- Australia.
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Education and state. |
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Australia. |
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Education -- Political aspects.
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Education -- Political aspects. |
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Education -- Australia -- Finance.
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Education. |
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Finance. |
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Education -- Aims and objectives -- Australia.
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Education -- Aims and objectives. |
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Education -- Economic aspects -- Australia.
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Education -- Economic aspects. |
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School management and organization -- Australia.
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School management and organization. |
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Australian |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Taylor, Tony. Class Wars : Money, Schools and Power in Modern Australia. Portland : Monash University Publishing, ©2018 9781925495461 |
| ISBN |
9781925495485 |
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1925495485 |
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9781925495461 |
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9781925495515 (e-pub) |
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1925495469 |
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1925495515 |
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