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Society, schools, and progress in Australia /

Society, Schools and Progress in Australia concerns the study of developments in the educational system and decisions affecting it in Australia. This book is part of a series on the same subject involving several countries or regions. This book deals with the main features of the educational system...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Partridge, Percy Herbert, 1910-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rushcutters Bay : Pergamon Press Australia, 1973.
Edición:Australian revised edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Front Cover; Society, Schools and Progress in Australia; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Comparative Studies; The Making of the Future; The Transformation of Education; Comparative Education in General; The Purpose of this Series; The Particular Case of Australia; Author's Preface; Introduction 1973; CHAPTER 1. Some Historical Influences; Geographical and Social Background; Centralization; The Religious Issue; The Question of State Aid; The Dual System; Background to the Education Acts; Catholicism; Abandonment of the ""Dual"" System; The Education Acts.
  • CHAPTER 2. The Organization of Public EducationSecondary Education; Commonwealth and States; The Commonwealth and the Universities; The States and the Universities; Educational Policy; Administration within the States; Teaching in State Schools; Examinations; The Governments and the Schools; Centralization; Local Communities and the Schools; CHAPTER 3. Schools and Society; Assumptions and Beliefs; The Independent Schools; Education and Equality; Leading Issues in Secondary Education; Reorganization of Secondary Education; The Influence of the Universities; The Independent Schools.
  • The Catholic SchoolsThe Government and Independent Schools; CHAPTER 4. The Pattern of Higher Education; University Organization; The Universities Before 1945; The British Influence; Postgraduate and Research Work; Developments after the Second World War; The Breakdown of Isolation; Criticism of Australian Universities; Diversification of Tertiary Education; Future Development of the Universities; Teaching in the Universities; CHAPTER 5. Technical and Adult Education; The Poor Relation; Economic Change; Organization of Technical Education; Commonwealth Intervention; Issues of Policy.
  • Future Development of Technical CollegesA University of Technology?; Adult Education; How Should Adult Education be Organized?; CHAPTER 6. Teachers; The Pattern of Teacher Training; State Control of Teacher Training; The Future of Teacher Training; The Independence of State Teachers; Teaching in the Universities; CHAPTER 7. Education and National Growth; Commonwealth and States; Changing Balance of the Federation; The Place of the States; The Repatterning of Administration; Bureaucracy; Social and Educational Thinking; Social Teaching; The Quality of Teachers; Freedom in and of the Schools.
  • Aspects of National DevelopmentSocial Change and Educational Change; Index.