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Summary
School restructuring is in the spotlight and this text aims to bring together the latest research on policy formations in schools in Australia with comparative references to New Zealand, the USA and UK. The information is based on research carried out by
Table of Contents
Preface | p. vii |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Restructuring Schooling Towards the 1990s | p. 2 |
Restructuring Australian Education: Comparative Perspectives | p. 23 |
Corporate Federalism: the Emerging Approach to Policy-Making for Australian Schools | p. 24 |
Education, the Economy and Citizenship in Australia: Critical Perspectives and Social Choices | p. 36 |
Thinking 'Right' in the Usa: Ideological Transformations in an Age of Conservatism | p. 49 |
Two Hemispheres-Both 'New Right'?: 1980s Education Reform in New Zealand and England and Wales | p. 63 |
Restructuring Educational Discourse: Equality and Social Justice | p. 89 |
Education and Social Justice in the Postmodern Age | p. 90 |
Inequality and Educational Reform: Lessons from the Disadvantaged School Project | p. 106 |
Multiculturalism, Social Justice and the Restructuring of the Australian State | p. 120 |
Policy and the Politics of Representation: Torres Strait Islanders and Aborigines at the Margins | p. 139 |
Gender Equity and Economic Rationalism: an Uneasy Alliance | p. 153 |
Corporate Restructuring of the Australian Disability Field | p. 176 |
Restructuring Policy and Administration: Four Case Studies | p. 193 |
The Development of Representative Committees in Victorian Schools: New Structures in the Democratization of Educational Administration? | p. 194 |
The Efficient Corporate State: Labor Restructuring for Better Schools in Western Australia | p. 222 |
Picot-Vision and Reality in New Zealand Schools: an Insider's View | p. 261 |
'Nothing but Facts, Sir': Curriculum Reform as a Function of Corporate Federalism | p. 284 |
Notes on Contributors | p. 303 |
Index | p. 307 |
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