Whilst there are many differences in implementation and structure, all state education departments in Australia have, in some form or another, have been involved in the devolution of power from a central bureaucracy to schools and other organisational units in the pursuit of better management of resources and outcomes. Meadmore emphasises that these forms of restructuring and deregulation of state school systems are in no way confined to Australia, with countries such as America, England, Wales and New Zealand all instigating policy in this regard. ... Meadmore identifies that early in Au...

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Moreover, it was based on the Australian and British curriculums, as there was not one previously, it had to be based on something (McKenzie, 1992). ... Students were drilled in their education of reading, writing, arithmetic, history, geography, English grammar and composition, object lessons, vocal music, elementary science and drawing (The Education Act, 1877). ...

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The field of educational technology has links that go back for almost a hundred years, at least to the museum movement in the early part of the 20th century. The museum movement and the success of training and development work during the two world wars were major factors in the development of the fi...

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