EDUC264 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: David Gonski, Centrality, Geoff Masters
22 Aug 2018
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Think about this paradox: gonski review a recent attempt to make school funding more equitable. Or are we constrained by our finances: costly to raise children in today"s world varies depending on where you wanna go. Late 19th c to 1960s: heavily centralised, even, uniform and efficient services, little decision-making by schools, inspectorate ensured compliance, standardised syllabuses, textbooks, building + teacher training, later regionalisation. Education post ww2: exciting phrases of edu. history, not without challenges, two distinct stages, 1946-80s, early 1990s to present. 1960s and 70s: expansion of education services, commonwealth intervention school libraries, science classrooms, funding catholic schools, teacher militance; teacher shortage, class size reduction, centralised management of public education, school-based curriculum development. Education for all: uni expansion, secondary school expansion and retention, reform of primary schools, centrality of local comprehensive high school to socially cohesive communities, emphasis on school-based curriculum development, free tertiary education.
