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Book Review: Planning in Australian Education

Book Review: Planning in Australian Education BOOK REVIEWS This study points up the vast need for more research on the present operation of the schools and for some highly creative thinking about the alternatives open to the Catholic system for the future. All will share the hope that the complexities of administering so burdensome a system will not blind the planners to new insights into the ultimate purposes of education. GRAHAM MADDOX, Department of University Extension, University of New England Bassett, G. W., Planning in Australian Education. Melbourne: Australian Council for Educational Research, 1970. Pp. xiv + 439. $12.00. Professor Bassett has performed a quite heroic feat in reducing an account of the proceedings of the 1968 Canberra Seminar on Educational Planning, 32 papers and the reactions·they provoked from some fifty leading Australian educationists concerned with the first and second levels of the system, to a coherent and well structured single volume. We may surely expect a similar, and hopefully an equally competent, exposition of the 1969 Armidale Seminar on Planning in Higher Education. It is perhaps significant of the present attitude to planning in Australia that education appears as an isolated sector divorced from any concept of overall development planning (in great contrast with http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian Journal of Education SAGE

Book Review: Planning in Australian Education

Australian Journal of Education , Volume 15 (1): 2 – Mar 1, 1971

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Publisher
SAGE
Copyright
© 1971 Australian Council for Educational Research
ISSN
0004-9441
eISSN
2050-5884
DOI
10.1177/000494417101500110
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Abstract

BOOK REVIEWS This study points up the vast need for more research on the present operation of the schools and for some highly creative thinking about the alternatives open to the Catholic system for the future. All will share the hope that the complexities of administering so burdensome a system will not blind the planners to new insights into the ultimate purposes of education. GRAHAM MADDOX, Department of University Extension, University of New England Bassett, G. W., Planning in Australian Education. Melbourne: Australian Council for Educational Research, 1970. Pp. xiv + 439. $12.00. Professor Bassett has performed a quite heroic feat in reducing an account of the proceedings of the 1968 Canberra Seminar on Educational Planning, 32 papers and the reactions·they provoked from some fifty leading Australian educationists concerned with the first and second levels of the system, to a coherent and well structured single volume. We may surely expect a similar, and hopefully an equally competent, exposition of the 1969 Armidale Seminar on Planning in Higher Education. It is perhaps significant of the present attitude to planning in Australia that education appears as an isolated sector divorced from any concept of overall development planning (in great contrast with

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Australian Journal of EducationSAGE

Published: Mar 1, 1971

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