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Jean Blackburn : Education, Feminism and Social Justice, Paperback / softback Book

Jean Blackburn : Education, Feminism and Social Justice Paperback / softback

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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.

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