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ERIC Number: EJ526599
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1996
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0157-244X
The Struggle for General Science in Australia: The Final Campaign in the Technical Schools of the State of Victoria.
Fawns, Rod
Research in Science Education, v26 n1 p1-22 1996
Traces the curriculum changes in science in junior technical schools in the 1960s. Focuses on one episode of curriculum change to illustrate how curriculum and cultural change are mediated by educational actors who employ the rhetorics and reforms which emanate from their society to pursue agendas within their workplace and locality. Contains 52 references. (Author/JRH)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, General Science, Science Curriculum, Science Education History, Science Instruction, Secondary Education, Technical Education
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Australia; Reform Efforts