Education

Academic Success and Social Power: Examinations and Inequality [PB] Available
Richard Teese
Drawing on strikingly original research, this study of Australian secondary education looks beyond clichés about 'excellence' to analyse the historically specific nature of the scholarly ideal against which successive generations of Australian students have been judged.

Consortia: International Networking Alliances of Universities [PB] Available
David Teather (ed.)
In Consortia, Emeritus Professor David Teather and thirteen other international experts evaluate the new wave of smaller, more homogeneous groupings of universities, known as global consortia.

Education, Science and Public Policy: Ideas for an Education Revolution, Academic Monograph [POD] Available
Simon Marginson and Richard James (eds)
Nine policy practitioners and educators shape the knowledge economy into bite-sized chunks for public policy debate.
Academic Monograph

Education, Science and Public Policy: Ideas for an Education Revolution, Academic Monograph [e-book] Available
Simon Marginson and Richard James (eds)
Nine policy practitioners and educators shape the knowledge economy into bite-sized chunks for public policy debate.
Academic Monograph

Growing Good Catholic Girls: Education and Convent Life in Australia [PB] Available
Christine Trimingham Jack
Growing Good Catholic Girls offers an illuminating study of life in a convent boarding school from the mid-1940s to 1965.

Relearning to E-learn: Strategies for Electronic Learning and Knowledge [PB] Available
M. S. Bowles
Relearning to E-Learn is for e-learning practitioners at all levels. It provides a credible, comprehensive look at where e-learning is today, at all the elements that affect it and the potential it holds for future learning.

Relearning to E-learn: Strategies for Electronic Learning and Knowledge, Academic Monograph [POD] Available
M. S. Bowles
Relearning to E-Learn is for e-learning practitioners at all levels. It provides a credible, comprehensive look at where e-learning is today, at all the elements that affect it and the potential it holds for future learning.
Academic Monograph

The Shop: The University of Melbourne, 1850-1939 [HB] Available
R. J. W. Selleck
A vivid social, educational and cultural history of the University of Melbourne from 1850 to 1939.

Teaching the Nation: Politics and Pedagogy in Australian History, Academic Monograph [POD] Available
Anna Clark
The 'History Wars' have come to dominate discussion of Australian history in recent years, playing out over various national sites of celebration and commemoration.
Academic Monograph

Teaching the Nation: Politics and Pedagogy in Australian History, Academic Monograph [e-book] Available
Anna Clark
The 'History Wars' have come to dominate discussion of Australian history in recent years, playing out over various national sites of celebration and commemoration.
Academic Monograph

Undemocratic Schooling: Equity and Quality in Mass Secondary Education in Australia [PB] Available
Richard Teese and John Polesel with the Assistance of Merryn Davies, Margaret Charlton and Anne Walstab
This groundbreaking book presents a national picture of who succeeds and who fails at school.