ABSTRACT
This book is about the reformation of schooling in the 1980s and the parameters which those changes have set for the provision of schooling in the 1990s. It is based on the premise that, in the context of ‘hard times’, most Western countries have sought to restructure public schooling, to make it more responsive to the economy. Our focus in this book is on the restructuring of Australian schooling, though the arguments we explore here have general relevance to most other English speaking countries.
