1st Edition

Developing Social Equity in Australian Adult Education Lessons from the Past

By Pamela Osmond Copyright 2021
132 Pages
by Routledge

136 Pages
by Routledge

132 Pages
by Routledge

Developing Social Equity in Australian Adult Education: Lessons from the Past  presents a case study of the trajectory of an Australian adult basic education program in New South Wales from its humanist, social justice beginnings, through forty years of destabilising change. It identifies the influences and influencers that have directed this change; those that were responsible for... Read more

Chapter 1: About the Book

Chapter 2: Preparing the Fertile Ground

Chapter 3: The Foundation Years

Chapter 4: A New Discourse Emerges

Chapter 5: What have we Learnt? Some Lessons from our History

Biography

Pamela Osmond has worked in the field of adult basic education in Australia since the 1970s in teaching, management and curriculum support roles in the technical and further education (TAFE) system. She has been employed as a teacher educator at the University of Technology Sydney and at TAFE NSW.