Historical construction and Australian Catholic education

Accounting for school funding policy from the cultural politics of Australian education

Bibliographic Data

ID2938296
AuthorsMichael Furtado (0000-0002-6163-6032, corresponding author)
Year2009
Volume30
Issue2
Pages121-135
Publication date2009-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDiscourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0159-6306 • E-ISSN: 1469-3739
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01596300902808999
OpenAlexW1984472241
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited29

This paper seeks to explain why the policy history of school funding in regard to Australian Catholic Education looks and sounds the way it does today through the production of a genealogy of the subject. The questions addressed are, first, why has the funding of Catholic schools in Australia become an occluded historical site since the 1970s, despite the controversy in which popular accounts of the funding of Australian schools is mired, and when its prevalence so completely dominated the discourses of Australian education in the prior century? Second, has funding policy discourse been defined and contained and what basis is there for contesting such discourse in light of events since that period of time? Third, which or whose policy version triumphs and becomes the accepted policy process and which other policy approaches are obliterated in this process? The theoretical perspective adopted in this paper draws from both postmodern critiques and cultural theories of historical construction, as framed within Foucauldian Studies

Aesthetics · Discourse analysis · Education policy · Epistemology · Higher education · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Postmodernism · Social science · Sociology · Diverse Education Studies and Reforms · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Law · Public Administration · Religious Education and Schools

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