1. The ghosts of the school curriculum: Past, present and future

   • Jane Kenway

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 13

2. “I am smart and I am not joking”: Aiming high in the middle years of schooling

   • Brenton Prosser
   • Faye McCallum
   • Helen Nixon

   OriginalPaper Pages: 15 - 35

3. The “Absent presence” of part-time senior secondary study: A research and policy challenge

   • Eleanor Ramsay

   OriginalPaper Pages: 37 - 54

4. Secondary school students’ perceptions of, and the factors influencing their decision-making in relation to, VET in schools

   • Leanne Dalley-Trim
   • Nola Alloway
   • Karen Walker

   OriginalPaper Pages: 55 - 69

5. Youth and the critical agenda: Negotiating contradictory discourses

   • Mary Ryan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 71 - 88

6. Unsettling deficit views of students and their communities

   • Robert Hattam
   • Brenton Prosser

   OriginalPaper Pages: 89 - 106

7. “Finding what doesn’t fit”: Adjusting the focus on education in country towns as a limiting case for the “learning or earning” years

   • Robert Funnell

   OriginalPaper Pages: 107 - 122

8. School teacher parents and the retreat from public secondary schooling: A view from the Australian Census, 1976–2001

   • Helen Proctor

   OriginalPaper Pages: 123 - 137

9. Book Reviews

   • Maree Dinan Tompson
   • Val Klenowsi
   • Hilary Whitehouse

   BookReview Pages: 139 - 151