History of public policy in Australian education
Dr A D Spaull
Second semester * Clayton * Corequisites: Available to eligible BEdSt students
Drawing on the perspective of historical studies this subject examines some of the legislative and administrative developments in Australian education. The subject will cover the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries with special emphasis on Victorian state education. The focus will be on the following: sources of influence on public policy; the working of education bureaucracies; the provision of primary and secondary schooling; the `administrative style' of political and professional leaders in education; development of the school inspectorate and the teaching service; studies of centralisation, decentralisation and structural reform, and the development of industrial relations in education and Commonwealth/State relations in education.
Assessment
Written (4000 words): 100%