Australian Schooling: Two Futures. A Paper Prepared for the National Industry Education Foundation.

Autor/in	Ashenden, Dean
Institution	National Industry Education Forum, Melbourne (Australia).
Titel	Australian Schooling: Two Futures. A Paper Prepared for the National Industry Education Foundation.
Quelle	(1994), (28 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Accountability; Decentralization; Educational Assessment; Educational Finance; Educational Improvement; Educational Quality; Elementary Secondary Education; Equal Education; Foreign Countries; Performance; Resource Allocation; School Restructuring; Standards; Teacher Qualifications; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Verantwortung; Decentralisation; Dezentralisierung; Education; assessment; Bewertungssystem; Bildungsfonds; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Ausland; Achievement; Leistung; Ressourcenallokation; Schulreformplan; Schulumwandlung; Standard; Lehrqualifikation; Australien
Abstract	Schools represent a major social investment in Australia. Assessment of Australian schools' performance depends on how one defines what they should be doing and on how well they can be expected to do it. In the official account, schools are of "high quality and modest cost" when compared with their own past and other school systems. An alternative view, however, assigns Australian schools with an equivocal rating. This paper considers current conditions and trends in schools from each of these different points of view. This second alternative view suggests that the goals of the "official" reform agenda are unlikely to be met, and that a different and more ambitious approach is required. The new approach might include: (1) national targets for improved levels and distribution of attainment; (2) work place and work force reform; (3) changes in the governing structures of schooling (a shift to a devolved, regulated market); and (4) substantial increases in public and private funding to schooling and redistribution of resources according to need. Neither of the two views is clearly right or wrong. The first view is vulnerable to the charge that it is not able to produce the kind of schooling required now and in the future. The second can be criticized as being too ambitious in current and likely future economic and political circumstances. Six figures are included. (Contains 47 references.) (LMI)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC