History of Education Review: Volume 43 Issue 1

Kindergarten teachers as leaders of children, makers of society

In Australia as elsewhere, kindergarten or pre-school teachers’ work has almost escaped historians’ attention. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the lives and work of…

“How do we learn about sex?”

Using sex education at Shepparton South Technical School (South Tech) as a prism, the purpose of this paper is to analyse the Victorian Technical Schools Division policies and…

Democracy meets rangatiratanga: Playcentre's bicultural journey 1989-2011

The purpose of this paper is to trace the implementation of biculturalism in the New Zealand Playcentre Federation between 1989, when a public commitment to The Treaty of Waitangi…

When the war is over: Lithgow, Western Sydney and the search for higher education options

The purpose of this paper is to explore the interaction between a liminal rural Australian city (Lithgow) and the development of higher education options across the city's…

Through a pupil's eyes […]. A “chalk face” study on ideological conflict in a Flemish school during World War II

The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the ways in which World War II ideologically interacted with education and social networks within a school context, on the basis of a…

Representation and use of aboriginality in a post-federation kindergarten setting : An early curriculum innovation by Martha Simpson

The purpose of this paper is to examine an experimental neo-Herbartian and Frobelian curriculum Work in the kindergarten: An Australian programme based on the life and customs of…

School-based drug education: the shaping of subjectivities

– The purpose of this paper is to explore how school-based drug education programmes in Australia have sought to reduce adolescent drug use.

Reel Schools: Schooling and the Nation in Australian Cinema

Catholic Teaching Brothers: Their life in the English-speaking world, 1891-1965

Cultures, Communities and Conflict: Histories of Canadian Universities and War

Finding Home: The Masson Family

Primary Education in Ireland 1897-1990: Curriculum and Context

Leaders in the Historical Study of American Education

Len Pryor: Leading Teacher Educator, 1912-1991