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The demise of school-developed elective courses in NSW: a case study in centralisation History of Education Review (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-05 Ksenia Filatov
Purpose In January 2021, the state government of NSW, Australia, announced that all year 9 and 10 elective courses developed by schools will be phased out. This paper offers a brief historical account of school-developed board-endorsed courses (SDBECs) in NSW and a close analysis of the policy to phase them out. Design/methodology/approach I give an historical account of the meaning and place of SDBECs
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“A pleasant walk on the Pakihi”: ecological orientations in mid-century nature study History of Education Review (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-16 Frances Jennifer Kelly
Purpose A recent United Nations (2021) report stated that education needs to be concerned with enhancing human relationships with the natural world if we are to work toward building a sustainable future. This paper proposes that educational practices underpinned by an ecological orientation in mid-century Aotearoa offer insights for educators looking to enhance human connection with nature. It also
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Enchanting things: the scientific communication of Julius Sumner Miller History of Education Review (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-11 Marcus Harmes
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study the popular educational broadcasting of Julius Sumner Miller and its intersections with contemporary science policy and education. Design/methodology/approach The paper draws on archival research including resources so far unused by historians of science or of broadcasting and audio-visual resources of Sumner Miller’s broadcasts on Australian, Canadian
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New angles and long walks: building regional networks through union education History of Education Review (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-24 Alice Garner, Mary Leahy, Anthony Forsyth, Renee Burns
Purpose This article examines the role the Australian Trade Union Training Authority (TUTA) played in international education through the provision of trade union courses and exchanges. We consider how an investigation of trade union networks contributes to a richer understanding of international education linkages. Design/methodology/approach This paper is based on research conducted for an Australian
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The Endeavour scholarships program in the era of the Asian century: promise unfulfilled History of Education Review (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Joanne Susan Barker
Purpose The Australian Government has long used its international scholarship programs as an instrument of soft power in international diplomacy. The paper examines an international scholarship program and its role in Australia’s soft power efforts during a period in recent history. Design/methodology/approach The Australia in the Asian Century White Paper of 2012 is used as a lens to reveal how the
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Rosbercon Girls' Grammar School: the adoption of innovative educational practices in early 20th century Australia History of Education Review (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Brett Rolfe
Purpose This paper explores the context within which experimental, pedagogically progressive schools were established in Australia during the first decades of the 20th century. Design/methodology/approach The paper presents a case study of the establishment of Rosbercon Girls’ Grammar School. It draws on educator accounts, archival documents and contemporary literature to provide a brief narrative
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Changing policy, changing plans: responses to the end of fee-free education History of Education Review (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Anna Kent
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the ending of fee-free higher education in Australia for overseas students in the 1980s, and the ways in which the government managed the diplomatic relationships that were affected by this policy shift. The introduction of fee-free higher education in Australia in 1974 was incredibly popular, and the end of the program in the late 1980s created difficulties
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“Are we there yet?” 25 years of reform (and reform, and reform, and reform) of teacher education in Australia History of Education Review (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Nicole Mockler
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the reform of initial teacher education (ITE) policy in Australia over a 25-year period from 1998 to 2023. It examines policy shifts and movements over this timeframe and aims to better understand the ongoing reforms in the changing contexts of their times. Design/methodology/approach The paper engages a critical policy historiography approach, focusing
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Transformation of the architect's role: a reading of architectural education in Turkey through the Mimarlık journal (1963–2000) History of Education Review (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Gi̇zem Özer Özgür, Aslıhan Şenel
Purpose This study investigates the transformation of the architect's role as portrayed in written texts by analyzing discursive practices concerning architectural education in Turkey between 1963 and 2000. Design/methodology/approach The research employs critical discourse analysis (CDA) to examine selected texts published in the Mimarlık journal, representing the Chamber of Architects of Turkey.
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Beyond zero-sum thinking in teacher education: cognitive science, educational neuroscience, and the history of education History of Education Review (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Remy Low
Purpose I take as a starting point the disparaging comments about the place of history and philosophy of education in initial teacher education (ITE) made by the chair of the Teacher Education Expert Panel established by the Australian Government in 2023, which I take to be the most recent attempt at resurrecting the tired debate over “the art versus science of teaching”. I draw on an example from
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The ABC of history education: a comparison of Australian, British and Canadian approaches to teaching national and First Nations histories History of Education Review (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Alison Bedford
Purpose This essay engages with scholarship on history as a discipline, curriculum documents and academic and public commentary on the teaching of history in Australian, British and Canadian secondary contexts to better understand the influence of the tension between political pressure and disciplinary practice that drives the history wars in settler-colonial nations, how this plays out in secondary
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Education to secure empire and self-government: civics textbooks in Australia and Aotearoa, New Zealand, from 1880 to 1920 History of Education Review (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Julian Rawiri Kusabs
Purpose Recent trends in Western civics education have attempted to secure democratic institutions from perceived threats. This paper investigates how political securitisation historically operated within civics textbooks in Australia and Aotearoa, New Zealand. It further evaluates how Māori, Aboriginal and other Indigenous peoples were variably incorporated or marginalised in these educational discourses
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Between obedience and resistance: transforming the role of pupil councils and pupil organisations in Sweden (1928–1989) History of Education Review (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Joakim Landahl
Purpose The overall aim of this article is to discuss the conditions and character of collective protest in schools. When do pupils as a collective gain the ability to express critical views on the policies of schools, and what is that criticism about? Using Sweden as an example, I discuss this question by studying the collective organisation of pupils from the 1920s to the 1980s. Design/methodology/approach
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Elite women's clubs in the 1930s across three Australian states: a prosopographical study History of Education Review (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-04-03 Josephine May
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the clubs and club memberships of 491 elite women in three eastern Australian states in the 1930s. It is the second part of a descriptive analysis of these women's biographical sketches in Who's Who-type collections, now out of copyright, published in Australia in the 1930s: Victoria (1934), New South Wales (1936) and Queensland (1939). Design/methodology/approach
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Elite women's schools across three Australian states in the 1930s: a prosopographical study History of Education Review (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Josephine May
Purpose This paper presents a descriptive analysis of elite women's biographical sketches in Who's Who-type collections, now out of copyright, published in Australia in the 1930s: Victoria (1934), New South Wales (1936) and Queensland (1939). It concentrates on information given about their schooling. Design/methodology/approach The biographical sketches of the women, defined as “elite” by their inclusion
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The hope and burden of early intervention: Parents' educational planning for their deaf children in post-1960s Australia History of Education Review (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-12-13 Aaron Payne, Helen Proctor, Ilektra Spandagou
Purpose This article examines the educational decision-making of hearing parents for their deaf children born during a period (1970–1990s) before the introduction of new-born hearing screening in New South Wales, where the study was conducted, and prior to the now near-universal adoption of cochlear implants in Australia. Design/methodology/approach We present findings from an oral history study in
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“A time for noble enthusiasms”: schools and Anzac commemoration, 1916–1918 History of Education Review (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-11-14 Mark Cryle
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine Anzac Day commemoration in schools during World War 1. Design/methodology/approach Empirical research from newspapers and education department publications is used to illustrate key themes in these commemorations. Findings Despite claims made at the time that school commemorations did not promote militarism, the available evidence proves the fallacy of
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The history of knowledge and the history of education History of Education Review (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-10-18 Joel Barnes, Tamson Pietsch
Purpose The purpose of this article is to introduce the themed section of History of Education Review on “The History of Knowledge and the History of Education”, comprising four empirical articles that together seek to bring the history of education into fuller dialogue with the approaches and methods of the nascent field of the history of knowledge. Design/methodology/approach This introductory article
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From classical political economy to “Indian Economics”: a case of contestation and adaptation in universities in colonial India History of Education Review (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-09-15 Sharmin Khodaiji
Purpose By the mid-19th century the British colonial state introduced liberal education to India. Amongst various disciplines, political economy illustrates the concerns of the colonial state with the education of Indians, and its anxiety with quelling political discontentment. The emerging Indian nationalist intelligentsia also utilized ideas from classical political economy, first taught in educational
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The boarding school testimony of Charlotte Brontë History of Education Review (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-09-08 Christine Trimingham Jack
Purpose Charlotte Brontë integrated her own and her sisters' traumatic boarding school experiences into her novel, Jane Eyre (1847) as a way of expressing her anger through autobiographical fiction. The aim is to link contemporary research into boarding school trauma to the relevant events, thereby identifying what she wrote as a testimony contributing to the long history of the problematic nature
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“Resurrecting the glorious tradition”: Spanish liberalism’s controversy regarding the university, academic freedom and secular knowledge in the late 19th-century History of Education Review (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-08-22 María Muñoz Sanz-Agero, Carl Antonius Lemke Duque
Purpose This study provides a new look at the late 19th-century university issue in Spain. Loss of self-government among universities and the state’s centralization brought a conflict between science and religion to the fore in the process of the secularization of knowledge. Design/methodology/approach We first delve into the anti-Darwinian framework associated with the scientific professionalization
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Culture and education with Alice Rigney (1942–2017), Australia's first Aboriginal woman school principal History of Education Review (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-04-19 Belinda MacGill, Kay Whitehead, Lester Rigney
Purpose This article explores the childhood, professional life and social activism of Alice Rigney (1942–2017) who became Australia's first Aboriginal woman principal in 1986. Design/methodology/approach The article draws on interviews with Alice Rigney along with newspapers, education department correspondence and reports of relevant organisations which are read against the grain to elevate Aboriginal
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Follow the breath: mindfulness as travelling pedagogy History of Education Review (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-02-14 Remy Low
Purpose This article considers the ethical and political significance of mindfulness by treating it as a pedagogy – that is, as a way of cultivating particular human capacities in response to a specific situation. It puts forward an approach for evaluating its implications not by recourse to a predetermined moral meter, but by locating it within specific historical and geographical contexts as mediated
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Unity lost. Negotiating the ancient roots of Pedagogy in Sweden, 1865–1971 History of Education Review (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-12-10 Isak Hammar, Hampus Östh Gustafsson
Purpose The purpose of this article is to investigate attempts to safeguard classical humanism in secondary schools by appealing to a cultural-historical link with Antiquity, voiced in the face of educational reforms in Sweden between 1865 and 1971. Design/methodology/approach By focusing on the content of the pedagogical journal Pedagogisk Tidskrift, the article highlights a number of examples of
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Aboriginal knowledge, the history classroom and the Australian university History of Education Review (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-11-24 Nell Musgrove, Naomi Wolfe
Purpose This article considers the impact of competing knowledge structures in teaching Australian Indigenous history to undergraduate university students and the possibilities of collaborative teaching in this space. Design/methodology/approach The authors, one Aboriginal and one non-Aboriginal, draw on a history of collaborative teaching that stretches over more than a decade, bringing together conceptual
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To empower or oppress: approaching duality in educational histories History of Education Review (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-08-06 Matilda Keynes, Beth Marsden
Purpose This paper introduces key themes and debates in education and educational history that engage education's complicity in injustice and violence, as well as those that continue to position education as a vehicle for positive change and possibility. The paper introduces the papers that comprise the special issue “Challenges of Contested Spaces: Constructing Difference and its Legacies in Educational
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Towards an educational modernization process: UNESCO interactions with Franco's Spain (1952–1970) History of Education Review (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-06-25 Mariano González-Delgado, Manuel Ferraz-Lorenzo, Cristian Machado-Trujillo
Purpose After World War II, an educational modernization process gained ground worldwide. International organizations such as UNESCO began to play a key role in the creation, development and dissemination of a new educational vision in different countries. This article examines the origin and development of this modernization process under the dictatorship of Franco. More specifically, we will show
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Tacit curriculum of Black intellectual ineptitude: Black girls' perspectives on Texas school desegregation implementation in the 1970s History of Education Review (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-06-18 ArCasia D. James-Gallaway
Purpose This paper uses former Black girl students' experiential knowledge as a lens to examine Black students' experiences with formal and informal curriculum; it looks to the 1970s during Waco Independent School District's desegregation implementation process. Design/methodology/approach Guided by critical race theory, I used historical and oral history methods to address the question: In newly desegregated
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The conformation of the disciplinary and professional field of pedagogy in Spain before the Civil War History of Education Review (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-05-25 Yasmina Alvarez-Gonzalez
Purpose This article focuses on the study of the shaping of pedagogy as a discipline in Spain prior to the Civil War. Its aim is to identify those elements that helped pedagogy become constituted as a distinct field of knowledge that could offer rigorous insight into the world of education. Design/methodology/approach The article uses the framework proposed by Rita Hofstetter and Bernard Schneuwly
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Childhood, disability and vocational training in Franco's Spain during the 1950s and early 1960s History of Education Review (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-05-19 Mercedes Del Cura, José Martínez-Pérez
Purpose This paper analyses the strategies designed by Franco´s dictatorship to address the “problem” of children with physical disabilities, focusing on the relevance given to vocational training. Design/methodology/approach The paper draws mainly on official documents, reports from international organisations, and Spanish experts' papers. Findings Francoism turned labour into one of the key pillars
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Fabricating spaces and knowledge: the Berlin-Dalldorf Municipal Asylum for “Feeble-Minded” Children (1880–1900) History of Education Review (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-05-18 Jona T. Garz
Purpose This paper has two purposes. One is to examine the ways mentally disabled children were disciplined and cared for in Berlin, Germany/Prussia, at the end of the 19th century, by considering the way the architecture of the asylum affected the practices within it. The second purpose is to examine the manner in which the practices at the Dalldorf Asylum, especially the administrative paperwork
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Revisiting the life of Lucy Garvin, first principal of Sydney Girls High School: expanded biography and use of digital sources History of Education Review (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-03-05 Josephine May
Purpose The article sets out primarily to fill in some of the gaps in the biography of Lucy Arabella Stocks Garvin (1851–1938), first principal of Sydney Girls High School. As a reflexive exercise stimulated by this biographical research, the second aim is to explore the transformative work of digital sources on the researcher's research processes that in turn generate possibilities for expanded biographical
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Ontology, sovereignty, legitimacy: two key moments when history curriculum was challenged in public discourse and the curricular effects, Australia 1950s and 2000s History of Education Review (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-02-09 Matilda Keynes, Beth Marsden
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the ways that history curriculum has worked to legitimise dispossession through narratives that elide questions of Indigenous sovereignty, and which construct and consolidate white settler identity and possession. Design/methodology/approach The paper uses two case studies to compare history education documentation and materials at key moments where dominant
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From Sèvres to Melbourne: Art and education museums in 19th-century Victoria History of Education Review (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-01-26 Anna Griffith, Mary Brigit Carroll, Oliver Farrell
Purpose This paper focuses on the donation in 1888 of a Sèvres Vase to the Education Department of Victoria after the International Exhibition in Melbourne. Using the vase as its focus the paper reflects on what this donation may be able to tell us about the impact, primarily on education, of a series of International Exhibitions held both in Australia and internationally between 1851 and 1900. The
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Looking in the mirror: the global '68 through the Brazilian daily press History of Education Review (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-01-19 José Luis Hernández Huerta
Purpose This article explains the process of construction and configuration of the Brazilian social imaginary on the global '68 using the daily press as source material. Design/methodology/approach It looks at the narratives conveyed by the press about the condition, situation, motivations, aspirations and capacity for action of young university students. The analysis is focused mainly on the usage
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Social imaginaries of violence and fear: the Chilean press and the 1968 global student movement History of Education Review (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-01-04 Pablo Toro-Blanco
Purpose This paper aims to explore the construction of social imaginaries of fear by the Chilean press regarding student violence during the 1968 university reforming process. Using an approach inspired by the history of emotions, the primary purpose is to analyze the discourse of two relevant conservative newspapers with national circulation about students' mobilization. Design/methodology/approach
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Single-sex versus coeducational schooling in 19th-century Victorian public schools History of Education Review (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2020-12-16 Hooper Carole
Purpose Soon after its establishment in 1863, the Board of Education – “the body responsible for administering public education in Victoria – determined that a system of universal mixed (coeducational) schooling would be adopted in the colony. Existing single-sex departments were “encouraged”, or compelled, to amalgamate, and no new separate schools were established. Although administrators and officials
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Tally Ho Boys' Training Farm, Aboriginal children and the intersection of school, welfare and justice systems, 1950s–1960s History of Education Review (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2020-12-14 Beth Marsden
Purpose This paper draws on the archival records of the Victorian Education Department, literature produced by the governing authority of Tally Ho (the Central Mission), and newspaper reports produced in the mid-20th century about school and education at Tally Ho. This paper also draws on material from the Victorian Aborigines Welfare Board and the Northern Territory Department of Welfare, as well
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“Behind the white curtain”: Indian students and researchers in Australia, 1901–1950 History of Education Review (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2020-12-08 Amit Sarwal, David Lowe
Purpose Academic scholarship on the White Australia Policy (WAP) has highlighted the history of Asian migration, early perceptions and policy-making initiatives. Prominent scholars have also pointed out the impact of the British Empire and WAP on Australia–India relations and early Indian migrants in Australia. Drawing on the debate concerning international students in Australia, our purpose in this
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Remembering and forgetting the arts of technical education History of Education Review (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2020-11-12 John Pardy
Purpose Technical education in the twentieth century played an important role in the cultural life of Australia in ways are that routinely overlooked or forgotten. As all education is central to the cultural life of any nation this article traces the relationship between technical education and the national social imaginary. Specifically, the article focuses on the connection between art and technical
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Demanding dialogue in an unsettled settler state: implications for education and justice History of Education Review (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2020-11-11 Sophie Rudolph
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the educational impulses and effects of Indigenous dialogue with the settler colonial state. Taking the Uluru Statement from the Heart, devised in May 2017 by a convention of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, as a starting point, and contrasting this with the 1967 Referendum campaign for constitutional reform, the paper explores the role
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Bilingual education, Aboriginal self-determination and Yolŋu control at Shepherdson College, 1972–1983 History of Education Review (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2020-11-06 Amy Claire Thomas
Purpose Self-determination policies and the expansion of bilingual schooling across Australia's Northern Territory (NT) in the 1970s and 1980s provided opportunities for Aboriginal educators and communities to take control over schooling. This paper demonstrates how this occurred at Shepherdson College, a mission school turned government bilingual school, at Galiwin'ku on Elcho Island in North East
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The National Defense Education Act, the American Association of University Professors and the dilemma of academic freedom in the mid-twentieth century History of Education Review (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2020-11-05 Huimin Wang
Purpose This study asks how American institutions of higher education defended the principles of academic freedom (or intellectual autonomy) during the 1950s, even as they became increasingly dependent on the federal government's financial support, their eligibility for which required an oath of political loyalty under the terms of the National Defense Education Act of 1958. Universities whose students
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Constructing race in white spaces of Dutch education (1968–2017) History of Education Review (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2020-11-03 Maria Luce Sijpenhof
Purpose The key purpose of this paper is to explore how teachers' historical constructions of race and racism may reify whiteness in Dutch classrooms. How has whiteness contributed to how teachers understand and teach race and (historical) racism in white educational spaces in the years 1968–2017? Design/methodology/approach Interview data are obtained from a selection of Dutch secondary school (former)
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Managing moral reformation: the case of Queensland's reformatory for boys, 1871–1919 History of Education Review (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2020-10-26 Carden Clarissa
Purpose This article explores the case of the Queensland's reformatory for boys through the years 1871–1919 to analyse how the institution negotiated the complex, and at times competing, goals of reforming, educating and punishing its inmate population. Design/methodology/approach The article relies on documentary evidence, including archival material produced by the institution and newspaper records
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Australian university and medical school life during the 1919 influenza pandemic History of Education Review (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2020-10-23 James Waghorne
Purpose This article examines the impact of the 1919 influenza pandemic on the life and culture of Australian universities, and the curious absence of sustained discussion about the crisis in university magazines. It considers two contexts, from the perspective of the general university population, and from the particular focus of medical students. Design/methodology/approach The primary source for
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“Not in the business of indoctrination”: religious education in South Australian public schools, 1968–1980 History of Education Review (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2020-10-16 Stephen James Jackson
Purpose This paper explores religious education (RE) in South Australia from 1968–1980. It focuses especially on the collapse of the RE settlement from 1968–1972 and the controversial legislation and subsequent curricula emerging from changes to the Education Act in 1972. Design/methodology/approach This paper draws upon archival materials, published sources from the South Australian Institute of Teachers
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A history of university income in the United Kingdom and Australia, 1922–2017 History of Education Review (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2020-10-09 Tamson Pietsch
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to create comparable time series data on university income in Australia and the UK that might be used as a resource for those seeking to understand the changing funding profile of universities in the two countries and for those seeking to investigate how such data were produced and utilised. Design/methodology/approach A statistical analysis of university income
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The quarantine archives: educators in “social isolation” History of Education Review (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2020-09-19 Ligia (Licho) López López, Christopher T. McCaw, Rhonda Di Biase, Amy McKernan, Sophie Rudolph, Aristidis Galatis, Nicky Dulfer, Jessica Gerrard, Elizabeth McKinley, Julie McLeod, Fazal Rizvi
Purpose The archives gathered in this collection engage in the current COVID-19 moment. They do so in order to attempt to understand it, to think and feel with others and to create a collectivity that, beyond the slogan “we are in this together”, seriously contemplates the implications of what it means to be given an opportunity to alter the course of history, to begin to learn to live and educate
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“You can't be an atheist here”: Christianity and Outward Bound in Britain, c.1941–1965 History of Education Review (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2020-06-01 Mark Freeman
PurposeThe purpose of this study is to explore the role of formal religion in the early years of Outward Bound, a significant outdoor education organisation in Britain, from the 1940s to the 1960s.Design/methodology/approachThis article is based on archival and other documentary research in various archives and libraries, mostly in the United Kingdom.FindingsThe article shows that religious “instruction”
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‘Doing nature’ and being a Guide: the problem of the town guide in the British Girl Guides Association, 1930–1960 History of Education Review (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2020-05-25 Sian Edwards
To explore the advice given by the British Girl Guides Association, a popular girls' youth organisation, to urban members in the period from 1930 to 1960.,This article is based on an analysis of the Girlguiding publications The Guide and The Guider in 30 years spanning 1930–1960.,The article shows that, although rural spaces maintained symbolic position in the education and training of the British
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Outdoor education in historical perspective History of Education Review (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2020-05-20 Mark Freeman, Jayson Seaman
The introduction sets out the scope of the special issue and suggests areas for further research.,This introductory article sets out the rationale and contents of the special issue of History of Education Review on “Outdoor Education in Historical Perspective”. It briefly summarizes the existing state of research and introduces the six articles that comprise the issue.,The introduction identifies four
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Outdoor education: the Romantic origins at the University of St Mark and St John History of Education Review (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2020-05-06 Mark Leather, Gil Fewings, Su Porter
Purpose: This paper discusses the history of outdoor education at a university in the south west of England, starting in 1840. Methodology: This research uses secondary sources of data; original unpublished work from the university archive is used alongside published works on the university founders and first principals, as well as sources on the developments of outdoor education in the UK. Findings:
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Collegial governance in postwar Australian universities History of Education Review (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2020-05-04 Joel Barnes
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to outline the structures of collegial governance in Australian universities between 1945 and the “Dawkins reforms” of the late 1980s. It describes the historical contours of collegial governance in practice, the changes it underwent, and the structural limits within which it was able to operate. Design/methodology/approach The analysis is based upon the writings
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Education in the apocalypse: disaster and teaching on British television History of Education Review (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2020-04-28 Marcus Harmes
Purpose The purpose of the study is to examine educational history through television's portrayal of educational activity in post-apocalyptic society. The paper examines how and why television drama set after a catastrophe is in dialogue with, but rejects, both contemporary government discourse of “protect and survive”. Design/methodology/approach The paper treats television programmes as historical
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The adventure (sex)pedition: revisiting Kurt Hahn's educational aims History of Education Review (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2020-04-19 Franklin Vernon
Discourses celebrating Kurt Hahn's practical and intellectual contributions to the field of progressive education are ubiquitous. However, the centrality of sexuality in Hahn's educational aims is often misrecognized in contemporary accounts. The purpose of this paper is to provide an historical and historicized contextualization of Hahn's hypervigilance on young male sexuality as it pertained to his
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Dartmouth Outward Bound Center and the rise of experiential education, 1957–1976 History of Education Review (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2020-04-18 Jayson Seaman, Robert MacArthur, Sean Harrington
Purpose: The article discusses Outward Bound’s participation in the human potential movement through its incorporation of T-group practices and the reform language of experiential education in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Design/methodology/approach: The article reports on original research conducted using materials from Dartmouth College and other Outward Bound collections from 1957-1976. It follows
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“The NOSCA Mafia”: overseas student activism in Australia, 1985–1994 History of Education Review (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2020-03-18 Tim Briedis
Purpose The purpose of the paper is to explore and analyse the history of the predominantly Malaysian Network of Overseas Students Collectives in Australia (NOSCA), that existed from 1985–1994. Design/methodology/approach The paper is based on extensive archival research in the State Library of New South Wales, the National Library of Australia and the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Archives
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The New South Wales Teachers Federation, the Conciliation Committee of 1927-1929, and the Formation of the Educational Workers League History of Education Review (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2020-01-23 Dorothy Kass, Martin Sullivan
Purpose Originally written in the 1990s but unpublished, the paper is now revised; the purpose of this paper is to examine the context of the formation of the Educational Workers League of NSW in 1931 with particular emphasis on the NSW Crown Employees (Teachers) Conciliation Committee and the enactment of its agreement in the worsening economic conditions of the Depression. The aims, reception and
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Henry Caldwell Cook, creativity and democratic learning History of Education Review (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2019-09-26 John Howlett
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to re-examine the life and work of a forgotten progressive educator – (Henry) Caldwell Cook who was an English and drama teacher at the Perse School in Cambridge, UK. By looking at his key work The Play Way (1917) as well as the small number of his other writings it further seeks to explain the distinctiveness of his thinking in comparison to his contemporaries with