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The Australian Government Muscling in on School Education: A History (1901-2018) / Edition 1
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The Australian Government Muscling in on School Education: A History (1901-2018) / Edition 1
Current price: $180.00
Barnes and Noble
The Australian Government Muscling in on School Education: A History (1901-2018) / Edition 1
Current price: $180.00
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Despite the Australian Constitution implying school education to be a state responsibility, the Commonwealth has increasingly interfered with state school education.
therefore offers a historical account of this government involvement in Australian education, from federation to the present day, providing a much-needed, fully updated and relevant overview the topic.
- The efficiency dynamic and the progressive years (1919–39)
- Postwar imperatives and the Menzies years (1949–72)
- Coordinative federalism and treading softly: the Whitlam years (1972–5) and Fraser years (1975–83)
- Corporate federalism: the Hawke/Keating years (1983–96)
- Supply-side federalism and globalization: the Howard years (1996–2007)
- National control and the Rudd, Gillard, Abbott, Turnbull and Morrison years (2007–15)