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Title: What Dreams May Come?: Class Struggle and the Supplanting of the Ideology of Equality of Opportunity in Australian Education
Contributor(s): McQueen, Kelvin  (author); Poynting, Scott (author)
Publication Date: 2007
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/4665
Abstract: If, as E. P. Thompson suggested, class is best understood in terms of class struggle, then social class in Australia has been entrenched with a vengeance. Class struggle, largely 'from above', is radically altering not just education policy, but the entire relationship between government and citizen. An increasingly authoritarian Stale has formulated new sedition laws (Maher, 2006; Williams, 2006); legislated dragnet definitions of terrorism and terrorist activities (Nette, 2005, 2006 ); used anti-asylum-seeker laws to suspend habeas corpus and permit indefinite detention: doubled the budget of Australia' s spy agencies and empowered them to operate as a secret-police force; militarized police force s and extended Federal police powers to intervene in stale-level conflicts: enacted a 'shoot 10 kill' law allowing military engagement in domestic 'emergencies' (McCulloch, 2005/06); and had Australian troops intervene concurrently in an unprecedented four overseas conflicts.
Publication Type: Book Chapter
Source of Publication: The lost dream of equality: critical essays on education and social class, p. 7-28
Publisher: Sense Publishers
Place of Publication: Rotterdam, Netherlands
ISBN: 9789087900229
908790021X
9789087900212
9087900228
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 160809 Sociology of Education
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 930501 Education and Training Systems Policies and Development
HERDC Category Description: B1 Chapter in a Scholarly Book
Publisher/associated links: http://books.google.com.au/books?id=E4GGAAAAMAAJ
https://www.sensepublishers.com/product_info.php?manufacturers_id=21&products_id=230&osCsid=1a7
http://nla.gov.au/anbd.bib-an41566870
Series Name: Educational futures
Series Number : 5
Editor: Editor(s): Alan Scott and John Freeman-Moir
Appears in Collections:Book Chapter

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