Australia, Quality Education and the 'Best Interests of the Child'

Autor/inn/en	Cumming, Joy; Mawdesley, Ralph
Titel	Australia, Quality Education and the 'Best Interests of the Child'
Quelle	In: Australian Journal of Education, 57 (2013) 3, S.292-309 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0004-9441
DOI	10.1177/0004944113497892
Schlagwörter	Educational Quality; Foreign Countries; Children; Childrens Rights; International Law; Treaties; Educational Change; Accountability; Parent Attitudes; Decision Making; Educational Policy; Academic Achievement; Housing; Laws; Costs; Court Litigation; School Choice; Elementary Secondary Education; Educational Legislation; Family (Sociological Unit); Neighborhoods; Correlation; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Ausland; Child; Kind; Kinder; 'Children''s rights'; Kindesrecht; Law of nations; Völkerrecht; Abkommen; Bildungsreform; Verantwortung; Elternverhalten; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Schulleistung; Unterkunft; Law; Recht; Cost; Kosten; Rechtsstreit; Choice of school; Schulwahl; Bildungsrecht; Schulgesetz; Familie; Neighbourhoods; Nachbarschaft; Korrelation; Australien
Abstract	The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, ratified by Australia, states that the 'best interests of the child' shall be a primary consideration in all decisions about children, yet these are rarely considered in Australian education-related legislation and policy. This article considers the history and current practice of national educational reforms aimed at high quality education, including educational accountability and publication of school performance data. Research on quality education and parent perspectives is examined in two contexts: first, economic research on relationships between reported school performance and housing prices; and, second, research on indicators that parents value as quality education. The final section examines legal decisions in family law, where decisions about quality education and choice of school are explicitly based on the best interests of the child. We conclude that current Australian educational reforms, while intended to promote education quality, do not always give specific attention to the best interests of the child. They should. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01