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 | | Educating Australia: Government, Economy and Citizen since 1960 by Simon Marginson ISBN-10: 9780521591744 ISBN-10: 0-521-59174-0 ISBN-13: 9780521591744 ISBN-13: 978-0-521-59174-4 Hardcover 1997-10-28 Cambridge University Press Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description This 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. | ||
Book Description The first comprehensive history of education systems, programs and policies of 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 modernisation of Australian life. It examines the implications of change for the labour 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. | ||
Download Description This 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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Excellent history of Australian education Simon Marginson, a well known Australian Professor specialising in Higher Education, has written an excellent history of Australian education since 1960. Among the many virtues of the book are its rich statistical and historical detail and the theoretical approach which Marginson takes - concentrating on the shift from education as building social citizenship to the present obsession with markets plaguing Australian education at all levels. This is a politically engaged and highly readable academic history and should be compulsory reading for anyone concerned with Australia's future. | ||