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Reality bytes: Education, markets and the information superhighway

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Keynote Address to AARE Annual Conference, Newcastle, 1994

This paper arises from a number of Australian research Council projects in the Deakin Centre for Education and Change. I draw particularly on research with Chris Bigum and Lindsay Fitzclarence, conversations with Bill Green, and the invaluable research assistance of Janine Collier.

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Kenway, J. Reality bytes: Education, markets and the information superhighway. Aust. Educ. Res. 22, 35–65 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03219581

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