Secondary School and Family Background — A Review of Some Recent Australian Studies

Ancich Mary Connell R. W. Fisher J. A. Kolff Maureen “A Descriptive Bibliography of Published Research, and Writing on Social Stratification in Australia, 1946–1967.” A.N.Z. J. of Sociology, 5, April 1969, 48–76.

Butts R. Freeman Assumptions Underlying Australian Education. Melbourne: A.C.E.R., 1955.

Wiseman R. The Comprehensive High School for South Australia. A Report to the South Australian Institute of Teachers Research Committee. Mimeo., 1969, 11.

The School in Society. The Report of the Committee set up to Investigate the Role of the School in Society. Hobart, Tasmania: Education Dept. of Tasmania, 1968, table 8, 57.

Wheeler D. K. “Socioeconomic Status and the High School.” Aust. J. of Higher Ed., 3, Dec. 1968, 119–125.

Wheeler D. K. “Socioeconomic Status and the High School.” Figure obtained by combination of categories 1 and 2 and 6 and 7 in the Hall Jones Scale in table 2, 123.

Quoted in Choppin Bruce “Social Class and Educational Achievement.” Ed. Research, 10, June 1968, table 4. It should be noted that there is at least one interstate difference in Australia. “The Tasmanian figure [of 57] is markedly different from the other State figures which are all close to the total Australian figure. Tasmania's system is more occupationally selective than the other Australian States …” (in the sampling: N.S.W., Vic., Qld., W. Aust., Tas.). Hughes, P. “The Value of the IEA Mathematics Study for Educational Policy Making: Tasmania — A Viewpoint from a State Department of Education.” International Review of Ed., 15, 1969, 209.

Wiseman R. Socioeconomic Status and Academic Success. A Report to the South Australian Institute of Teachers Research Committee. Mimeo., 1967.

Department of Education, Queensland. Research and Guidance Branch. “The Wastage of Academically Talented Pupils in Queensland Schools.” Bulletin No. 24, 1962, 18.

Hammond S. B. Cox F. N. “Some Antecedents of Educational Attainment.” Aust. J. of Psychology, 19, 1967, 231–240.

There are several very detailed and research-supported explications of this point in the symposium “Discussion. How Much can we Boost I.Q. and Scholastic Achievement?”. Harvard Ed. Review, 39, Spring 1969, 273–356.

Wiseman R. 1967. Op. cit., 13 and vi.

Wiseman R. 1967. Op. cit., 2 and ii.

Lillywhite M. J. Figures included in a paper for the M.Ed. course, Adelaide, 1968.

Wiseman R. 1967. Op. cit., 18 and v.

Wheeler D. K. Op. cit., 124.

Wiseman R. 1967. Op. cit., 18–20.

Wiseman R. 1967, 20–21.

Lawry J. R. “Education.” Davies A. F. Encel S. (Eds.) Australian Society: A Sociological Introduction. Melbourne: Cheshire, 1965, 92.

Vinson A. Robinson A. “Educational Opportunities and Social Mobility.” The Australian Quarterly, 40, Dec. 1968, 29–43.

Toomey D. M. “Some Social Influences upon Selection for Secondary Education in Adelaide.” Paper read to Section J of the 38th A.N.Z.A.A.S. Congress, Hobart, 1965.

For example, Osgood C. E. Suci G. J. Tannenbaum P. H. The Measurement of Meaning. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1957.

Although there have been no published Australian studies of the usages of different linguistic codes corresponding to the work of Bernstein and Lawton in England, Australian studies of language (e.g., Mitchell, A. G., and Delbridge, Arthur. The Speech of Australian Adolescents. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1965) are limited to comparisons of “intonation” rather than structure.

Toomey D. M. “Styles of Thinking and Learning in Education.” Aust. J. of Ed., 8, June 1964, 90–104.

Adam R. “Full Stature for the Under-privileged.” The Australian College of Education. Each to His Full Stature. Melbourne: Cheshire, 1965, 60–67.

Choppin Bruce Op. cit., 216.

For example, Radford W. C. School Leavers in Australia 1959–60. Melb.: A.C.E.R., 1962. Table 11B, p. 47, shows that, in 1959–60, only 7% of all school leavers came from the “Other” (i.e., non-Catholic private) schools, but this 7% included about one-third of all those with university professional fathers and about half of all those with higher administrative fathers.

Wiseman R. 1967. Op. cit., 21.