Educating Australia: Government, Economy and Citizen Since 1960This is the first comprehensive history of the Australian education systems, programs and policies in the period since 1960. The book draws on economic and sociological data, key texts and political events, anecdotes and a review of other analyses to build a picture of the role of education programs in the modernization of Australian life. It examines the implications of change for the labor market and the economy, in social policies and in cultural life. An important focus of the book is the discussion of the extension of citizenship through education. |
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Modern Citizen 19601975 | 9 |
The expansion of education to 1975 | 11 |
The Karmel report and educational equality | 46 |
The Anticitizen 19751990 | 71 |
The New Flight and public policy | 73 |
Individual and government | 100 |
The New Right and education | 119 |
Education and national economic reconstruction | 149 |
Participation and equity | 180 |
Economic government in education | 207 |
The Multicitizen 1990 | 243 |
Civics citizenship and difference | 245 |
| 259 | |
| 278 | |
The Economic Citizen 19851995 | 147 |
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| Title | Educating Australia: Government, Economy and Citizen Since 1960 Educating Australia: Government, Economy, and Citizen Since 1960, Simon Marginson Government, Economy and Citizen Since 1960 |
| Author | Simon Marginson |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 1997 |
| ISBN | 0521598303, 9780521598309 |
| Length | 286 pages |
| Subjects | › › Education / Administration / General Education / History History / Social History Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social |
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