Changing Australian Education - How Policy Is Taking Us Backwards and What Can Be Done About It

List of contents

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

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Alan Reid, Alan (University of South Australia) Reid, Emeritus Alan Reid
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9780367717650
• ISBN: 978-0-367-71765-0
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / General, Australia, EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, EDUCATION / Curricula, Moral and social purpose of education, Moral & social purpose of education