History of Education Review: Volume 37 Issue 1

Images and icons: female teachers’ representations of self and self‐control in 1920s Ireland

Una Ni Bhroimeil

This article addresses a particular episode that occurred in one of the main female training colleges in Ireland in the late 1920s when students1 founded the Mary Immaculate…

Khaki in the classroom: compulsory junior cadet training in Australian schools, 1911‐31

Craig Stockings

The aim of this article is to detail the day to day experience of the Junior Cadet component of the Australian scheme of universal military service from 1911‐31. Its focus…

The march to nation: citizenship, education, and the Australian way of life in New South Wales, Australia, 1940s‐1960s

Lorna McLean

This article probes the dimensions of a newly constructed, modern citizenship within the context of post‐war tensions between a national history that recognised and asserted…

Lest we forget: the Kapooka Tragedy 1945

Peter Rushbrook

This article explores an incident that raises questions relating to the making and unmaking of history, heritage and social memory. It also points to the role of the historian in…

Comprehensive post‐primary schooling in New Zealand: 1935‐1975

Gregory Lee, Howard Lee

In light of contemporary critiques of New Zealand comprehensive schooling published mainly in the popular press, it is timely to re‐examine the origins of and the rationale for…