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The quest for revolution in Australian schooling policy / Glenn C. Savage.

The quest for revolution in Australian schooling policy / Glenn C. Savage.
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ISBN 9780367681876
Location 379 SAV
Author Savage, Glenn C. (author.).
Title The quest for revolution in Australian schooling policy / Glenn C. Savage.
Published London : Routledge, 2021.
©2021.
Collation vi, 169 pages ; 24 cm.
Content types text
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Bibliography Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary Note "This book seeks to critically examine the impacts of ‘grand designs’ in public policy through a detailed historical analysis of Australian schooling reforms since the ‘education revolution’ agenda was introduced by the federal government in the late 2000s. Combining policy analyses and interviews with senior policy makers and ministerial advisors centrally involved in the reforms, it offers a detailed interpretive analysis of the complexities of policy evolution and assemblage. The book argues that the education revolution sought to impose a new order on Australian schooling by aligning state and territory systems to common policies and processes in areas including curriculum, assessment, funding, reporting and teaching. Using a theory and critique of ‘alignment thinking’ in public policy, Savage shows how the education revolution and subsequent reforms have been underpinned by uncritical faith in the power of nationally aligned data, evidence and standards to improve policies and unite systems around practices ‘proven to work’. The result is a new national policy assemblage that has deeply reshaped the making and doing of schooling policy in the nation, generating complex questions about who is steering the ship of education into the future." -- [p. i].
Subject Education and state
Educational change
Education -- Forecasting
Educational change -- Australia -- History
Education and state -- Australia -- History
Geographic Name Australia
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