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The Development of a National System of Education in New South Wales

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

J. R. Lawry
J. R. Lawry*
Affiliation:
Monash University, Victoria, Australia
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The development of supported systems of education in Australia was the outcome of conflicting constitutional, economic, and social policies in the nineteenth century. It is becoming obvious that Australian education needs to be reexamined in relation to the changing society in which it developed rather than as a separate institution. The period from 1830 to 1880 saw the influence of utilitarianism—in an increasingly democratic form—condition the gestation of contemporary systems of public-supported and centrally administered primary and secondary education. The conflict of policies is measured in part by the intellectual history of Australian society and is reflected in the granting of responsible parliamentary government, elected on a wide franchise, to the colonies, which in turn instituted systems of primary education. The whole process of emerging state control is evident in the current confusion over the role of the state in providing education for a modern complex and pluralist society.

Type
Education in the East IV
Information
History of Education Quarterly , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , Fall 1967 , pp. 349 - 356
Copyright
Copyright © 1967 by New York University 

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Notes

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