Barbara Preston
Biographic Data
| ID | 1180310 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara Preston |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara |
| FAMILY NAME | Preston |
| SIGNATURE | PRESTON B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Manchester Polytechnic |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9898-8851 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Australian private school ascendancy
Australia’s large private school sector receives high levels of public funding, has a high and increasing share of enrolments and advantaged students, and a decreasing share of disadvantaged students. Employing an historical sociology approach and drawing on primary and secondary sources, I argue that this ascendency arose from the inherent differences between public and private schooling, combined with the historical circumstances as schooling d…
Further Statistics of Inequality
Statistics of Inequality
Road Safety Education for Young Children
S ummary . Trends in road casualty figures among children in recent years are evaluated and interpretations suggested. The experiment reported here shows that the educator's conception of the function of the kerb drill, i.e., to detect traffic, is not reflected in its function as perceived by many young children, who in the experimental setting behave as though they regarded the performance of the kerb drill as in itself sufficient to ward off th…
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Road Safety Education for Young Children
S ummary . Trends in road casualty figures among children in recent years are evaluated and interpretations suggested. The experiment reported here shows that the educator's conception of the function of the kerb drill, i.e., to detect traffic, is not reflected in its function as perceived by many young children, who in the experimental setting behave as though they regarded the performance of the kerb drill as in itself sufficient to ward off th…
Statistics of Inequality
Further Statistics of Inequality
The Australian private school ascendancy
Australia’s large private school sector receives high levels of public funding, has a high and increasing share of enrolments and advantaged students, and a decreasing share of disadvantaged students. Employing an historical sociology approach and drawing on primary and secondary sources, I argue that this ascendency arose from the inherent differences between public and private schooling, combined with the historical circumstances as schooling d…
Inequality (2 works) · Mathematics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Statistics (2 works) · Advanced Statistical Methods and Models (1 work) · Developmental psychology (1 work) · Drill (1 work) · Econometrics (1 work) · Education Systems and Policy (1 work) · Engineering (1 work)