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1 online resource (141 pages) |
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The New Inheritors:Transforming Young People's Expectations of University; TABLE OF CONTENTS; PART 1: THE CHANGING CONTEXT OF AUSTRALIANUNIVERSITY EDUCATION.; CHAPTER 1: CHANGING ASSUMPTIONS AND EXPECTATIONS; THE SCHOOLS AND THEIR STUDENTS; The Inner Eastern and South-Eastern Schools; The Inner Western Schools; The Outer Western School; The Regional Schools; Plan of the Book.; NOTES; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 2: A REVOLUTION IN POLICY; The Pre-war Period; Menzies and the Forgotten People; It's Time: The Whitlam Years; A New Economic Policy; The Anti-Father Christmas; In the Shadow of Menzies |
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KEVIN 07 AND THE EDUCATION REVOLUTIONNOTE; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 3: NURSERIES OF LIBERAL VALUES, NURSERIESOF ECONOMIC VALUES; Liberal Values in the Antipodes; Barbarians Inside the Gates; An Economic View; An Enduring Commitment to Liberal Values; NOTES; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 4: CULTURE AND CLASS; Not Class, But Culture; The Function of Education; A PERILOUS CHOICE; Social Capital; NOTE; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 5: INHERITORS AND NEWCOMERS; The Inheritors in Australia; THE NATURE OF DEMAND; NOTES; REFERENCES; PART 2: TRANSFORMING YOUNG PEOPLE'SEXPECTATIONS OF UNIVERSITY |
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CHAPTER 6: "GOING TO University WILL ... "Definitions of Social Class in Australia; Class Subdivisions; Social Class and Leisure Activities; Social Class and Choice of Subjects; Social Class and Occupational Choice; Commitment to University; Social Class and Parental Education; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 7: KNOWLEDGE AND HIGHER EDUCATION; Sources of the Division; The Role of the Schools; Going to University will ... ; Exceptions: Peers, Family Expectations and Study; NOTES; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 8: ACCESS AND PAYMENT; SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION; Access and Equity; Responsibility for Payment; REFERENCES |
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CHAPTER 9: CONCLUSIONSTHE SAME, BUT DIFFERENT; Implications; A NEW PERSPECTIVE; REFERENCES |
| Summary |
This groundbreaking book examines why the majority of Australian school leavers want to go to university and have resisted government attempts to promote alternative forms of tertiary education. The New Inheritors explores differences in young people's understanding of the purpose of university and their reasons for wanting to enrol. The book reveals that although there has been a general shift in values towards the utilitarian perspective, there is still significant support for the traditional liberal idea of university education as a cultural experience. This support is concentrated in well- |
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College students -- Australia
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College students -- Australia -- Social conditions
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College students -- Australia -- Attitudes
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College students
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College students -- Attitudes
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College students -- Social conditions
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Australia
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789460916212 |
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946091621X |
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