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Class Wars: Money, Schools and Power in Modern Australia (Monash Studies in Australian Society) - Softcover

Taylor, Tony

 
9781925495461: Class Wars: Money, Schools and Power in Modern Australia (Monash Studies in Australian Society)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1925495469 ISBN 13: 9781925495461
Publisher: Monash University Publishing, 2018

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Tony Taylor is Adjunct Professor at the Australian Centre for Public History, University of Technology, Sydney, and at Federation University. For half a century he has worked as an educator in schools and universities in the United Kingdom and Australia, teaching, researching and publishing in the fields of educational politics, policy and history.

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Publisher
Monash University Publishing
Publication date
2018
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1925495469
ISBN 13 
9781925495461
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
352