Providing a curriculum: The A.C.T. experiment

Collins, C. (1989) Providing a curriculum: The A.C.T. experiment. Curriculum perspectives, 9 (2). pp. 56-61.

Abstract

In these conservative days when rhetoric about top-down steering capacity is automatically intoned, and a management ideology is cemented through astronomical salaries for education bureaucrats, it is time for historians to resurrect and appraise the last push in the opposite direction. I refer to the revisionist, anti-hierarchical movement commonly called progressivism, which gathered force in the late '60s, making its presence felt most strongly in the Whitlam era...

Item Type:	Journal Article
Murdoch Affiliation:	School of Education
Publisher:	Australian Curriculum Studies Association
Publishers Website:	http://www.acsa.edu.au/pages/index.asp
URI:	http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/24633

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