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1 Case-study : Curriculum Materials Gregory Blaxell , Don Drummond , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Paper Empires : A History of the Book in Australia 1946-2005 2006; (p. 322-324) ‘Curricula developed by Australian states and territories generally do not provide the teaching materials themselves. These are produced by educational publishers in response to the curriculum statements. From the late 1980s to the mid-1990s, education departments and schools themselves set the curricula. Such school-based curriculum development, however, often resulted in greater reliance on commercially generated educational texts.’(Introduction 322)
1 Educational and Reference Publishing Gregory Blaxell , Don Drummond , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Paper Empires : A History of the Book in Australia 1946-2005 2006; (p. 314-322)

‘Publishing for Schools : 1946-1960

'In the period after the Second World War. most secondary texts were imported from Britain to meet the needs of Australia's secondary school market at a time when this sector was beginning to expand rapidly. Large educational booksellers began to emerge as both booksellers and publishers.The key booksellers in this trade included MeLeod’s in Brisbane, Whitcombe & Tombs, Dominie and Angus & Robertson (A&'R) in Sydney, FW Cheshire and Hall‘s in Melbourne and Rigby in Adelaide. Responding to demand, they replaced imported texts with their own educational books. In the years following World War II, most secondary texts were imported from ’(Introduction 314)
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