MASS EDUCATION AND UNIVERSITY REFORM IN LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY AUSTRALIA

This article examines the 1988 Dawkins reforms to Australian higher education and the creation of a unified national system. The article is based on two propositions. The first is that as historians we should examine educational reforms in a changing society not only for what they propose, but with...

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Published in:British journal of educational studies 2020-09, Vol.68 (5), p.671-690
Main Author: Horne, Julia
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
20th century
Education reform
Educational Change
Educational History
Educational Policy
Foreign Countries
Higher Education
Historians
history
history of education
John Dawkins
Mass Instruction
Neoliberalism
Politics of Education
universities
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Summary:This article examines the 1988 Dawkins reforms to Australian higher education and the creation of a unified national system. The article is based on two propositions. The first is that as historians we should examine educational reforms in a changing society not only for what they propose, but with a look backwards to understand their place within a longer history of educational reform. The second - with a side-glance to the British higher education reforms of the early 1990s as a counterpoint - is the extent to which the 1988 Australian higher education reforms should be seen as neoliberal or, as Quicke, McCulloch and Openshaw argue, should we as historians look for nuance within the complex philosophical forces at play?
ISSN:0007-1005
1467-8527
DOI:10.1080/00071005.2020.1804526