Part III - The Economic Citizen 1985–1995
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Summary
‘Indeed, we are reduced almost to infinity.’
Patrick White, Voss, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1960, p. 216.Market liberalism transformed government, but did not guarantee an inclusive social order and something more was needed. With youth labour market collapsing; and with higher education, training and research, in conjunction with technological change, at the cutting edge of international economic competition, it again became necessary to use education as the vehicle for social formation. The old goal of full employment was replaced with ‘full education’ in a high participation system. But this educational expansion was different to the 1960s, being part financed by the ‘user’, in government controlled markets, and dominated by vocational concerns. The objective of the strategies of government was now to produce economic citizens.
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- Educating AustraliaGovernment, Economy and Citizen since 1960, pp. 147 - 148Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1997