Class and state high schooling in Tasmania, 1913-1925

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This thesis is concerned with investigating a particular historical situation to see if it supports R.W. Connell's account of the competitive academic curriculum as a hegemonic mechanism for the sorting of ruling class and working class children for the labour market. The particular historical situation is the start of high schooling in Tasmania 1913-1925. The historical inquiry is a micro study of a school enrolment and its wider community of class relations. The notion of the competitive academic curriculum as a hegemonic mechanism is dependent on prior assumptions, both theoretical and historical, which conceptually organise the historical field of inquiry and are themselves considered in the thesis for their operability in a particular historical situation. Thus from an opening account of Connell's class theory, the thesis looks in a series of inquiries for a ruling class identifiable on Connell's criteria; at evidence for Connell's mode of ruling class rule and for the existence o

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