Australian Journal of Education articles from November 1999

Australian Journal of Education archives from November 1999

Editor's introduction.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1999... Simon Marginson's Special Issue on `Education and markets' provides a comprehensive, analytical, and broad-based discussion of what is arguably one of the most centrally important issues in contemporary Australian public education. To my mind,...

Introduction by Guest Editor: Education and the trend to markets.
November 1, 1999... The trend towards market forms and behaviours in education (`marketisation'), associated also with the growing role of corporate forms of organisation, is transforming the state-built mass education systems characteristic of the period since...

`Working for your future': The rise of the vocationalised university.
November 1, 1999... Universities are at a pivotal point in their history and are undergoing dramatic changes. One of the more significant of these changes is the move towards more instrumental programs of learning, as manifest, for instance, in workplace...

Market, choice and public good in school education.
November 1, 1999... The view that the 1990s have seen a sharp shift to a market approach in Australian school education is challenged. In reality, governments have moved within a relatively narrow range in public policy over the last quarter of the 20th century. A...

School-based trust in Victoria: Some telling lessons.
November 1, 1999... The first major study of trust between principals and teachers in Australia reveals that trust is crucial for effective school leadership. The research data produced in a multiple case-study of trust relationships between teachers and...

Packaging literacy, new technologies and `enhanced' learning.
November 1, 1999... Literacy educators need to pay attention to shifts in the perceived relationship between literacy education, the use of new technologies and learning, as exemplified in national and state P-12 policy documents. At the national level, policy...

Designing generations: Hybridising entertainment, advertising and education.
November 1, 1999... The article considers some distinctive features of contemporary childhood, adulthood and inter-generational relations and explores their implications for student/teacher/parent relations in commodified education and schooling at the end of the...