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8.8 Aboriginal retention rate in NSW, to Year 12 255
8.9 Aboriginal retention rate, Australia 256
8.10 Pupils in single sex and co-educational non-government
schools, Australia, 1981 and 1987 		261
8.11 Popularity of the professions, 1977 and 1984 271
9.1 Items in Australian Education Index classified as
Sociology of Education 		296
10.1 Membership of state teachers' unions and number of
teachers in state schools, 1986 		321
10.2 Full-time equivalent teachers and all non-teaching staff,
state schools, 1988 		324

FIGURES
3.1 A generation gap emerges 65
4.1 The educational ladder, c.1910-c.1960 71
4.2 The educational conveyor belt 72
4.3 The expanding bureaucracy: Victoria 77
5.1 Teaching less attractive as a profession 121
5.2 One hundred years of education: The official view 129
5.3 One hundred years of education: The radical view 130
5.4 The great transition 138
5.5 A satirical view of radical teachers 141
6.1 Louis Althusser, major theorist of neo-Marxism 153
6.2 The new sociological jargon 164
7.1 A radical interpretation of educational differences 197
7.2 Radical confusion over schooling 204
8.1 The drift to non-state schools 221
8.2 The cultivation of grievance 237
8.3 Pressure for ethnic languages in schools 240
8.4 Attempts to revive standards 275
9.1 Doug White, left-wing critic of education 299
9.2 Public awareness of sociological philosophies 300
9.3 A satirical view of post-modernism 303
10.1 A dubious view of school retention 311
10.2 Terry Metherell, initiator of reform 339
10.3 John Dawkins, exponent of instumentalism 352
10.4 Academic freedom and financial dependence 355
10.5 Bob Connell moves to America 371

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Publication Information: Book Title: Sociological Theory and Educational Reality: Education and Society in Australia since 1949. Contributors: Alan Barcan - author. Publisher: New South Wales University Press. Place of Publication: Kensington, N.S.W.. Publication Year: 1993. Page Number: viii.
    
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