![[PDF]](/pb-assets/Icons/adobe-pdf-icon-1498649896243.png){kind=icon}
Abstract
The Australian school context has been something of a failed test case of trying to organise schooling around the tenets of the market as a regulating mechanism. The result has been an intensification of social stratification as the already ‘disadvantaged’ miss out yet again in education. This short paper argues that what is needed to interrupt and puncture this unfortunate policy trajectory, is to begin to include the desires, wishes, lives and experiences of young people − and the way to do this is through the promotion of policy approaches that are informed by and celebrate ‘student voice’.
References
Section:
|
Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (2009) National Report on Schooling in Australia 2009. Table 33 Additional Statistics, Year 12 Completion Rates by Socio-Economic Status and Sex by State and Territory 2005−2009. Sydney, New South Wales: Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority. Google Scholar | |
|
Teese, R . (2011) From Opportunities to Outcomes: the Changing Role of Public Schooling in Australia and National Funding Arrangements. Melbourne: Centre for Research on Education Systems, University of Melbourne, September. Google Scholar |
