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Class Wars : Money, Schools and Power in Modern Australia.

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 encou...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Taylor, Tony
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Melbourne : Monash University Publishing, 2018.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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.
  • 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.