Product Description: Making Sense of Mass Education provides an engaging and accessible analysis of traditional issues associated with mass education. The book challenges preconceptions about social class, gender and ethnicity discrimination; highlights the interplay between technology, media, popular culture and schooling; and inspects the relevance of ethics and philosophy in the modern classroom...read more

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Product Description: Seddon approaches the study of "context" from conceptual and historical perspectives, using them as springboards for further consideration of the main debates which frame the study of education - philosophical, theoretical and methodological...read more

Product Description: Based on research carried out under Labour governments throughout the 1990s in Western Australia, the authors consider the social, political and economic conditions under which policy is formulated, understood and enacted. They look at how the state structure affects the content and nature of policy statements and provide an outline of the history of policy developments and point to future possibilities and probabilities...read more

Product Description: While this book was being compiled, there was a Federal election in Australia. The campaign run by the parties bore out what many of the contributors to this book were arguing: namely, that the rhetoric and promotion allows little time for detailed information.