Community organising in Australian education policy, 1970s-1980s

本项目旨在调查20世纪70年代和80年代澳大利亚各地倡导教育政策改革的社区团体的活动、网络、抱负和理由。该项目希望对澳大利亚近代史上教育政策变化和公民参与之间的关系产生新的认识。预期的结果包括详细了解社区教育改革者如何从各个政治派别塑造教育政策。这应该会带来显著的好处，包括一个创新的、公开可用的数据库，洞察人们如何以及为什么组织起来进行教育改革，以及社区行动在政策形成中的作用。

This project aims to investigate the activities, networks, ambitions, and rationales of community groups advocating for education policy reform across Australia in the 1970s and 1980s. The project expects to generate new knowledge about the relationship between education policy change and civic participation in Australia’s recent history. Expected outcomes include a detailed understanding of how community-based education reformers shaped education policy, from across the political spectrum. This should provide significant benefits including an innovative, publicly available database, insight into how and why people organised to bring about education reform, and the role of community action in policy formation.