About

Navigating in a sea of Change addresses the uncertainty and turbulence of Australian Higher Education from the Dawkins regime to the end of the federal Labor regime. That uncertainty and turbulence so characteristic of our postmodern times is addressed across the various dimensions and aspects of higher education by our contributors.

Navigating in a Sea of Change is the second volume of working papers produced from the Higher Education Policy Project and follows on from the prior collection, Higher Education in Transition. The title theme is taken from a short chapter by Professor Brian Wilson, Vice Chancellor of the University of Queensland from 1978 to 1995. Indeed, more broadly, navigating education in a sea of change may be seen as a thematic concern of this volume which expands the original policy focus of higher education into many cognate areas of education policy as former fixed categories of research leak and become more fluid.

Some of the wide cross-section of topics by the fifteen papers in this collection are:

• indigenous social policy and higher education
• women's place in Australian Open Learning
• non-government tertiary institutions in Australia
• a brief history of FAUSA
• access, equity and social justice in higher education
• the case of teacher education in Australia
• public discourse and education decision making
• policy "ghosting' in the reform agenda
• assessing literacy
• performance indicators in higher education
• Labor policy regime and its dilemmas 1987-1995

This book is required reading for all those who want to understand the complexities of Australian Higher Education and the challenges it faces in the future.

Proudly hosted by Post Pressed

top

Contributions

• Introduction
• Navigating in a sea of change
  Brian Wilson
• Australian Higher Education 1987-1995: Some Notes on a Labor Policy Regime and its Dilemmas
  John Knight, Bob Lingard
• Increasing Access, Chancing Equity: Social Justice and Australian Higher Education
  Trevor Gale, Peter McNamee
• Indigenous Social Policy and Higher Education
  Cathryn McConaghy
• Beyond Access and Equity: Women's Place in Australian Open Learning
  Leonie Rowan, Leo Bartlett, Patrick Danaher
• Do We Need a Performance Indicator Project?
  John Knight, Jim Butler, Glen Evans, Bob Lingard, Lloyd Logan, Graham Maxwell
• University Culture and Overseas Students: Some Theoretical Considerations
  Delroy Brown
• Governing Teacher Education: The Case of Teacher Education in Australia
  Peter O'Brien
• "Corporate Federalism" and the Australian Teaching Council
  Rhondel Johannessen
• Policy "Ghosting" in the Reform Agenda: The Spirit Takes Shape
  Maureen Bella
• A Brief History of FAUSA, 1952-1993
  John McCollow
• Non-Government Tertiary Institutions in Australia: The Forgotten Sector
  Barry Wright
• Assessing Literacy: New Patches on Old Garments or a Rechannelling of the Mainstream?
  Trevor Gale
• "Off the Agenda" The Marginalisation of Discourse of Contestation Within a Policy-Making Site
  Brian Hoepper
• Public Discourse and Education Decision-Making: An Initial Analysis of Newspaper Items on Teachers
  Sue Thomas
• Notes on Contributors

top