History of educational administration in Australia
Professor R J W Selleck
Second semester * Clayton
The aims of this subject are (1) to develop an historical understanding of systems of educational administration in Australia; (2) to apply this understanding to the analysis of present-day administrative structures. The subject will study schools from the time in which they were independent private ventures, through varying degrees of state financial intervention to the growth of large centralised bureaucratic systems. The changing administration of those systems, of schools within them and of schools outside them, will be examined. The beginning of federal funding, and the administrative and political issues which that has raised, will receive particular attention.
Assessment
Written (8000 words)
Recommended texts
Austin A G Australian education 1788 - 1900 Pitman, 1972
Frazer M and others (eds) Perspectives on educational change Longman, 1985
Miller P Long division Wakefield, 1986