Academic Success and Social Power Examinations in Inequality

by Teese, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780522848960
• ISBN10: 0522848966
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-09-10
• Publisher: Melbourne University Press

Summary

Study of Australian secondary education. Presents a theoretical and empirical analysis of social and academic hierarchies centering on the question of how student achievement is shaped. Includes notes, references, an extensive bibliography and an index. Author is Associate Professor, Reader in Education and Director of the Educational Outcomes Survey at the University of Melbourne. His other publications include 'The Colleges' and 'Who Wins at School'.

Author Biography

Richard Teese is Associate Professor and Reader in Education, and Director of the Educational Outcomes Research Unit, in the University of Melbourne. He directed the Educational Outcomes Survey in 1994-97. His previous books include The Colleges (with John Polesel, 1998) and Who Wins at School? (1995).

Table of Contents

List of Figures	vii
Acknowledgements	xi
The Age of Curriculum	1	(9)
English in the 1940s: A Service Course for the Professions	10	(13)
Cultural Ideal and School Systems: English in the 1970s	23	(16)
English under the Victorian Certificate of Education	39	(19)
Searching for the Scientist: Post-war Chemical Reform	58	(13)
Structural Chemistry and its Social Beneficiaries	71	(16)
Resisting Chemical Reform in the 1980s	87	(16)
Chemistry and the Victorian Certificate of Education	103	(16)
Traditional Mathematics	119	(16)
Reforming in the Shadow of the New Maths	135	(16)
Pedagogical Freedom and Institutional Power in Mathematics Reform	151	(18)
Mathematics for the Majority: Reform and Counter-Reform	169	(25)
Curriculum Hierarchy, Monopoly Access and the Export of Failure	194	(19)
Power over the Curriculum, Historical Progress and Structural Reform	213	(18)
Notes	231	(16)
Bibliography	247	(19)
Index	266