The development of schools and school systems in Australia. For example the nature of teachers' work including their classroom practices.
Time for a schooling system?
A schooling system needs to be integrated when there is a population growth, change in economic production, families no longer units of production, rise of a literate culture.
All this leads to new forms of government and new concepts of children.
What is the school?
School is the education system with in modern societies. It is demanded by law and is looked at by employers. A good education also sets students up for life.
A Brief time line...
1850s - Primary schools were established. Indigenous kids excluded.
1900s - Beginnings of (state) secondary systems. Teachers trained in teachers' colleges.
1960s/70s - Comprehensive high school system. Public schooling was seen as being better.
2000s - Push for national curriculum's. A big push for participation in schooling from all social groups. Private graduates are seen as being better.
Results of all this
The results of having a good education:
- Uneven distribution between different social groups and races can be seen.
- Values:
- Abstract - Concrete
- Mental - Manual
- Theoretical - Practical
- Academic - Vet
- Normalization of pedagogy of the teaching profession.
- individual Advantages - Better education, better results allow better employment opportunities.
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