This groundbreaking book examines why the majority of Australian
school leavers want to go to university and have resisted
government attempts to promote alternative forms of tertiary
education. The New Inheritors explores differences in young
people's understanding of the purpose of university and their
reasons for wanting to enrol. The book reveals that although there
has been a general shift in values towards the utilitarian
perspective, there is still significant support for the traditional
liberal idea of university education as a cultural experience. This
support is concentrated in well-educated families, regardless of
their financial resources, but there is a substantial number of
young people from less well-educated families who have absorbed the
liberal perspective. The book begins with an extensive and unique
overview of changes in Australian federal government tertiary
education policy and changes in the public discourse on education.
This overview provides a framework against which differences among
today's students are examined in detail. Drawing on a study of over
200 secondary school students from diverse backgrounds The New
Inheritors records their attitudes to university - including
access, fees and the role of government - and explores how these
are formed by their family backgrounds and influenced by public
policy on education. The New Inheritors uncovers the complexity of
young people's attitudes, and what processes occur in the forming
and reforming of those attitudes to university and what young
people really want from university education. Dr Madeleine
Mattarozzi Laming is a Lecturer in Education at Australian Catholic
University. She has given numerous conference papers on transition
from school to university and teaching students from diverse
backgrounds. In 2011 she received an Australian Learning and
Teaching Council Citation for an outstanding contribution to
student learning, particularly at the first year.
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