History of Education Review: Volume 45 Issue 1

The role of universities in nation-building in 1950s Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand

Catherine Manathunga

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the diverse rendering of the idea of nation and the role of universities in nation-building in the 1950s Murray and Hughes Parry…

Access and exclusivity in nineteenth-century Victorian schools

Carole Hooper

In the mid nineteenth-century Victorian government-aided schools were patronised by a broad spectrum of the community, many of whom sought a higher, or “middle-class”, education…

“Among the Boer Children”: Australian women teachers in South African concentration camp schools, 1901-1904

Nicole Anae

There exists no detailed account of the 40 Australian women teachers employed within the “concentration camps” established by British forces in the Orange River and Transvaal…

Inclusive education in New Zealand: rhetoric and reality

Judith Anne Selvaraj

New Zealand continues to struggle with interpreting and implementing its current policy of inclusion, especially as it relates to children traditionally known as having “special…

No regrets in the evening of life: Access, equity and exclusivity at Junction Park State School in the early twentieth century

Neville Douglas Buch, Beryl Roberts

The purpose of this paper is to find an answer the question of whether an educational institution of a fair socio-economic mix of pupils, and an institution favoured with powerful…

Privileged knowledge, privileged access: early universities in Australia

Sue North

The purpose of this paper is to show that Australia’s first two universities were connected to class status. It challenges the idea that these universities extended the…

“Raw, free”, and “almost rude”: educating warders’ children on St Helena Penal Establishment

Tony James Brady

The purpose of this paper is to examine the education of children at St Helena Penal Establishment in Queensland and the trials faced by the educators that delivered their formal…

The Western Australian Art and Crafts Superintendents’ advocacy for years k-12 Visual Arts in education

Geoffrey William Lummis, Julia Elizabeth Morris, Graeme Lock

The purpose of this paper is to record Visual Arts education in Western Australia (WA) as it underwent significant change between 1967 and 1987, in administration, policy…

For the CommonWeal: The Public High School in Victoria 1910-2010

Craig Campbell

Midwives of Progressive Education: The Bureau of Educational Experiments 1916-1919

Suzanne Manning

Symposium report

Marta Brunelli, Juri Meda