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Title
Ongoing inequality in a 'knowledge economy': perceptions and actions
Author/Creator
Te Riele, K.;  Crump, S. J.
Description
The concept of the 'knowledge economy' is increasingly used to underpin education policy in developed countries. In Australia, it has been applied to post-compulsory education policy, with efforts to increase retention in senior secondary education and reform of vocational education in the senior years. The article draws on two research projects with senior secondary schools. Many students (and their teachers and parents) perceived qualifications not so much as providing the knowledge considered necessary by government policy for the contemporary economy, but rather as a 'screen' used by employers to sort and select. Knowledge of opportunity structures and access to resources, while not only defined by social class, operated to create differential access to available choices in the educational market place. Despite ongoing inequality, the article argues that the hope many students expressed in relation to education can be fulfilled in practice.
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International Studies in Sociology of Education Vol. 13, Issue 1, p. 55-75
Publisher Link
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09620210300200103
Date
2003
Publisher
Routledge
Keyword(s)
senior secondary education;  vocational education;  students;  Australia;  education policy
Resource Type
journal article
Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/26211
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ISSN:0962-0214
Language
eng
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