The SchoolsThis book is a tour of different types of Australian secondary schools: traditional schools, which are often authoritarian, elitist, or just dreadfully ordinary; and progressive schools, which may be tentative reformers, or determinedly radical, or disastrously innovative. It is a guide to educational change in the seventies. [Back cover, ed]. |
Contents
Introduction | 13 |
The Best School of All | 35 |
Port Arthur | 57 |
Copyright | |
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