Crisis? Which Crisis? The state of education in Western Australia

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Crisis? Which Crisis? The state of education in Western Australia

In recent years Western Australia has experienced fierce controversy over education, focused almost entirely on the introduction of an 'outcomes-based' approach to curriculum and teaching in upper secondary schools. It was a controversy that generated far more heat than light, with very li...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Millett, Stephan, Tapper, Alan
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	John Curtin Institute of Public Policy, Curtin University of Technology 2009
Subjects:	Education teaching schools outcomes-based education Western Australia teachers
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/18636

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