Class wars money, schools and power in modern Australia / Tony Taylor.
| Author/creator | Taylor, Tony, 1943- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Clayton, Victoria : Monash University Publishing, [2018] |
| Description | xxvi, 318 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Monash studies in Australian society Monash studies in Australian society. UNAUTHORIZED |
| Contents | 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 Litter 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 Expectatiosn Too High -- 7. The Schools Commission and the Liberal Way of Progress -- 8. The Hawke-Ryan Years: We Don't Want any Brawls -- 9. 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. |
| Abstract | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-304) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2017279110 |
| ISBN | 9781925495461 paperback |
| ISBN | 9781925495485 (pdf) |
| ISBN | 9781925495515 (epub) |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | ✔ Available |