EDUC264 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Sr V Schools Class, Mount Druitt, Lifelong Learning
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Australian edu: how level is the playing field in which we are operating, question of resourcing and funding of schools, a challenge here talking about a level playing field. Edu: 1870s to 1960, 1960s to early 1980s, 1980s to the present. Page 38 of 102: as defined through political process. Section 4 of the education act 1990 (nsw) Educ264: australia has largest proportion of non-govt. schools anywhere. Educ264: lifelong learning and continuous professional development of teachers, to teach is to learn. By whom: enrolment trends, overcoming the natural lottery effects beyond postcodes etc, need to look at whole cohort and area. Schools: govt. school system no local control until recently, local context and demographics high influential, crestwood hs, glebe hs/sydney secondary college, young hs, no common history of comprehensive school decline, context if central to analysis. Figures disguise regional movements: schools starting to form on grounds of class and race.