Non-government schooling
Not offered in 1995
Dr P C Gronn and Dr L B Angus
Clayton
This subject introduces students to historical and contemporary developments in the provision of non-government schooling, including funding and managerial issues and the cultural influence of Catholic and independent schools. Contents of the subject will include the origin of independent and denominational schooling, individual school histories and the writing of school histories, school games and the school novel, boarding schools and day schools, associations of headmasters and headmistresses, unionisation and awards, religious-order run schools, councils and governing bodies, the clientele and beneficiaries of non-government schools, funding policies and state aid, independence, alternative and diversified provision.