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Australian primary school in changing times / edited by Tony Townsend.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Educational management series.
- Educational management series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Elementary schools--Australia.
- Elementary schools.
- Education, Elementary--Australia.
- Education, Elementary.
- Educational change--Australia.
- Educational change.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxix, 253 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Preface: changing times, changing ways; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 'Enterprise': the new metaphor for schooling in a post-industrial society; People in the primary school; Synchronicity and the heroic quest: the primary principal in an era of dramatic change; Teachers, training and development; Different families: new issues for schools; Critical issues for the restructured primary school; The early years of schooling; Building a school culture; Curriculum development in the restructured school
- Assessment in primary schools; The impact of computer technology on primary education; Effective resource allocation in the primary school; The education market: the view from the school; Afterword; The primary school of the future: third world or third millennium?; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-75687-9
- 1-134-75688-7
- 1-280-33020-1
- 0-203-06340-6
- 9780203063408
- OCLC:
- 62589456
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