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There is continual change in the education landscape in response to both public and political agendas. In the early 1990s, Simon Marginson noted that “the politics of education are changing and volatile, with little consensus on some issues” (1993, p. 3). This remains the case, with education policy highly politicised, and the results of this playing out in inevitable cycles for state-funded education systems, and other education stakeholders.
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- Australian Curriculum
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Brown, N., Beswick, K. (2014). Policy and Curriculum Research in the Context of Change. In: The Future of Educational Research. Bold Visions in Educational Research. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-512-0_1
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