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The primary school in changing times : the Australian experience

Title
The primary school in changing times : the Australian experience / edited by Tony Townsend.
Publication
London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.

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Additional Authors
Townsend, Tony.
Description
xxix, 253 pages; 24 cm
Summary
Following substantial changes throughout the Australian education system, primary schools are no longer in the protected position of having a regulated flow of clients, a pre-determined curriculum and marginal levels of staff development. Recent moves have brought new or increased responsibilities for all schools in areas such as: *curriculum and policy development *staff development *monitoring and assessment *the use of new technologies *resource allocation This book seeks to review the impact of this change on Australian primary schools, on the people who are inv.
Series Statement
Educational management series
Uniform Title
Educational management series
Subject
  • Elementary schools > Australia
  • Education, Elementary > Australia
  • Educational change > Australia
  • EDUCATION > Elementary
  • Education, Elementary
  • Educational change
  • Elementary schools
  • Schulreform
  • Selbstverwaltung
  • Sozialer Wandel
  • Grundschule
  • Australia
  • Australien
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
pt. I. Introduction. 1. 'Enterprise': the new metaphor for schooling in a post-industrial society / Hedley Beare -- pt. II. People in the primary school. 2. Synchronicity and the heroic quest: the primary principal in an era of dramatic change / Brian J. Caldwell. 3. Teachers, training and development / Len Cairns. 4. Different families: new issues for schools / Tony Townsend and Ian Walker -- pt. III. Critical issues for the restructured primary school. 5. The early years of schooling / Anne Kennedy. 6. Building a school culture / John Williamson and Maurice Galton. 7. Curriculum development in the restructured school / Colin Marsh. 8. Assessment in primary schools / John Ainley. 9. The impact of computer technology on primary education / Geoff Romeo. 10. Effective resource allocation in the primary school / Tony Townsend. 11. The education market: the view from the school / Lindsay Fitzclarence, Jane Kenway and Janine Collier -- pt. IV. Afterword. 12. The primary school of the future: third world or third millennium? / Tony Townsend.
ISBN
  • 0415146569
  • 9780415146562
LCCN
97043238
OCLC
  • ocm37843785
  • 37843785
  • SCSB-414449
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library