Abstract
Since colonisation, schooling in Australia has developed from patterns of
partial and elite provision. These patterns were initially made available at
an elementary level and have today grown to levels of mass participation
in both primary and secondary schooling. By drawing on distinctive
institutional and policy shifts in the historical emergence of mass
schooling, this article puts forward an historical materialist explanation
that is both retrospective as well as prospective. The intention is to
critically appreciate the changing patterns and forms of schooling in
ways that reveal their class character. This is done by focusing on the
theorisation of the mental and manual division of labour in Marx?s
historical materialist theory.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 70-85 |
Number of pages | 16 |
Journal | Journal of Australian Political Economy |
Issue number | 70 |
Publication status | Published - 2012 |