Curriculum Hierarchy, Private Schooling, and the Segmentation of Australian Secondary Education, 1947—1985
Titel:
Curriculum Hierarchy, Private Schooling, and the Segmentation of Australian Secondary Education, 1947—1985
Auteur:
Teese, Richard
Verschenen in:
British journal of sociology of education
Paginering:
Jaargang 19 (1998) nr. 3 pagina's 401-417
Jaar:
1998-09
Inhoud:
Private schools in Australia are a large, influential and heavily subsidized sector of secondary education, offering academic and social advantages to their mainly professional and managerial clients. Their influence on patterns of inequality in higher education and career recruitment is usually seen as a function of their homogeneity of intakes and higher resource levels. This paper argues that these factors become important, not through the operation of networks and family allegiances, but because of the way in which private schools exploit the curriculum. Private schools enable families to exercise scholastic power, not only social and political power. But this depends on maintaining an academic curriculum and on the ability of private schools to exploit the cultural values embedded in this curriculum. Success reinforces the authority of the curriculum over all schools, not just private non-Catholic establishments, and through this a wider influence is exerted over social structure. This argument is developed through an analysis of the changing relationship. of Australian private schools to the curriculum over the first four decades of the post-war period.
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