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Author Teese, Richard.

Title Undemocratic schooling : equity and quality in mass secondary education in Australia / Richard Teese, John Polesel with the assistance of Merryn Davies, Margaret Charlton and Anne Walstab
Published Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Publishing, 2003

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Description x, 260 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
regular print
Contents 1. Economy and School -- The Machine of the Curriculum -- 2. The Hierarchy of the Curriculum in Historical Perspective -- 3. Creating a Working-Class Space in the Curriculum, 1985-1998 -- Historical Progress -- 4. Social Progress in Access to Mathematics -- 5. Social Progress in Access to the Sciences -- 6. Progress or Regression in the Social Sciences and Humanities? -- Hierarchical Curriculum, Stratified School System -- 7. What Makes the Hard Options Hard, and for Whom? -- 8. Selective Schooling and the Curriculum -- Results of School -- 9. Early Leaving -- 10. Finishing School and Getting a Job -- 11. Going on to Further Study -- Lines of Reform -- 12. School Effectiveness and Structural Inequality -- 13. Vocational Education and Training in Schools -- 14. From Mass to Democratic Secondary Education
Summary Brings together a unique range of information on who our students are, what they want from school, how well they think their schools work, what subjects they study, how well they succeed, and where they end up. It also reveals their larger views on matters such as jobs, careers, marriage and family and the political system
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 238-250
Notes Text in Japanese
Subject Education, Secondary -- Australia.
Students -- Australia -- Social conditions.
Education, Secondary -- Social aspects -- Australia.
Students -- Australia -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Educational equalization -- Australia.
Author Polesel, John.
LC no. 2003446026
ISBN 0522850480 :