Social context of education, policy and practice
Not offered in 1995
Dr T Seddon
Clayton
This subject will examine issues and debates which are changing the way our society educates the next generation. It considers the selection, organisation and distribution of educational practice through different social institutions in order to understand the changing patterns of educational provision and their social consequences. These issues reinforce the importance of considering education in context, but raise questions about the way `education' and `context' are conceptualised. Such empirical and theoretical questions will be addressed by an examination of the experience, politics and theory of context. Starting time to be negotiated at first session.
Recommended texts
Harman G and others Restructuring school management: Administrative reorganisation of public school governance in Australia Australian College of Education, 1991
Inglis F The management of ignorance: A political theory of the curriculum Blackwell, 1985
Lingard R and others Schooling reform in hard times Falmer, 1992
Seddon T and Deer C E A curriculum for the senior secondary years ACER, 1992