书目名称 | The New Inheritors | 副标题 | Transforming Young P | 编辑 | Madeleine Mattarozzi Laming | 视频video | | 概述 | Written by experts, Gives a modern approach, Comprehensive in Scope | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | This groundbreaking book examines why the majority of Australian school leavers want to go to university and have resisted government attempts to promote alternative forms of tertiary education. The New Inheritors explores differences in young people’s understanding of the purpose of university and their reasons for wanting to enrol. The book reveals that although there has been a general shift in values towards the utilitarian perspective, there is still significant support for the traditional liberal idea of university education as a cultural experience. This support is concentrated in well-educated families, regardless of their financial resources, but there is a substantial number of young people from less well-educated families who have absorbed the liberal perspective. The book begins with an extensive and unique overview of changes in Australian federal government tertiary education policy and changes in the public discourse on education. This overview provides a framework against which differences among today’s students are examined in detail. Drawing on a study of over 200 secondary school students from diverse backgrounds The New Inheritors records their attitudes to univ | 出版日期 | Book 2012 | 关键词 | Australian schools; higher education | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-621-2 | isbn_ebook | 978-94-6091-621-2 | copyright | SensePublishers 2012 |
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