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Issue Details: First known date: 2019... 2019 Jean Blackburn : Education, Feminism and Social Justice
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'From the maelstrom of the Depression and World War II, from
Communist Party membership in the 1930s-1950s, and early attachment to the
feminism and peace, Jean Blackburn emerged as a significant public
intellectual. Her life work was the attachment of education policy to the
causes of social equality and opportunity. She worked with Peter Karmel on the
most significant government report framing school policy in the twentieth
century, the blue-print for the Australian Schools Commission.

'Blackburn was the architect of the Disadvantaged Schools Program,
which revolutionised the way that public and Catholic schools delivered
education to families marked by many disadvantages, including poverty. She was
an architect of the Girls, School and Society report of 1976. Jean Blackburn possessed a charismatic presence, never more in evidence than as she worked on senior secondary school reform in Victoria in the 1980s. As a feminist Blackburn bridged the generations. She was a fiercely independent, courageous, creative and effective social reformer and public intellectual. (Publication summary)

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    • Clayton, Murrumbeena - Oakleigh - Springvale area, Melbourne South East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Monash University Publishing , 2019 .
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      Extent: 432p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 6 August 2019
      ISBN: 9781925835274

Works about this Work

Consequences, Unintended and Intended Janet McCalman , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Inside Story , December 2019;

— Review of Jean Blackburn : Education, Feminism and Social Justice Craig Campbell , Debra Hayes , 2019 single work biography
'Jean Blackburn played a central role in a wave of educational reform'
Consequences, Unintended and Intended Janet McCalman , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Inside Story , December 2019;

— Review of Jean Blackburn : Education, Feminism and Social Justice Craig Campbell , Debra Hayes , 2019 single work biography
'Jean Blackburn played a central role in a wave of educational reform'
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