Changing Australian Education: How Policy Is Taking Us Backwards and What Can Be Done about It

ISBN-13: 9780367717650 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 368 str.

Alan Reid

Opis

From one of Australia's leading education thinkers comes a trenchant critique of the current state of Australian schooling, and an inspiring and evidence-based proposal for a new direction.

Spis treści

INTRODUCTION: A tale of two policy discourses
PART ONE: The current state of Australian education policy, and why it must change
1. Neoliberalism comes to Australian education
2. The damaging effects of current education policy directions

PART TWO: What are the problems?
3. Taking the public out of public education
4. Standardised testing and its problems: A case study of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)
5. Evidence-based policy: The use and abuse of research
6. Outside influences on education policy

PART THREE: Changing the educational narrative
7. The perils of ignoring the purposes of education
8. Towards a process for thinking about futures for Australian education
9. Using the process: A case study of the fourth industrial revolution

PART FOUR: New policy directions for Australian education
10. New curriculum directions
11. New pedagogical directions
12. New directions in system-wide and school-based cultures

EPILOGUE: Towards a new narrative for Australian education

GLOSSARY

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
REFERENCES

O autorze

Alan Reid AM is Professor Emeritus of Education at the University of South Australia. Long recognised as one of Australia's leading educators, he has won many awards for his distinguished contributions to education, including the Gold Medal of the Australian Council of Educational Leaders.