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[Review of the book Knowing women: origins of women's education in nineteenth-century Australia]

Yates, Lyn (Cambridge University Press, 1997)

The article reviews the book "Knowing Women: Origins of Women's Education in Nineteenth-Century Australia" by Marjorie Theobald.
Social justice and the middle

Yates, Lyn ; MCLEOD, JULIE ( 2000)

‘Social justice’ is not a straightforward concept; and nor is the question of what schools do in relation to it. In this article we want to elaborate a little on the first of these claims, and illustrate the second by choosing to talk about two ‘middle’ or ‘ordinary’ high schools and their apparent impact on the students in them whom we followed in a longitudinal study from 1993 when they were in grade 6 to the present year, when most have finished school.