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This book critically reviews the role played in the shaping of school curriculum by successive federal governments which, especially since 1965, have increasingly come to regard education as important to the national interest. The author argues that the challenge facing curriculum reformers is to reconcile demands for professional curriculum autonomy, which is essential to the implementation and maintenance of any reform process, with the emerging demand that all Australian students should be entitled to adequate access to valid and comprehensive educational knowledge which is consistent with the national interest. (book jacket) Show less