History of Education Review: Volume 40 Issue 2

Schooling of labouring migrants, Surrey to Wellington 1841‐1844

In the early 1840s Edward Gibbon Wakefield's New Zealand Company recruited “emigrants of the labouring classes” promising: “every one of them who is industrious and thrifty, may…

The establishment of area schools in South Australia, 1941‐1947

The purpose of this paper is to trace the establishment of area schools from two vantage points. The first vantage point is those who were legislatively responsible for public…

College voices: what have we lost?

The purpose of this paper is to examine an aspect of the working lives of a group of Australian college of advanced education academic staff who worked at Bendigo College of…

The arrival of the New Left at Sydney University, 1967‐1972

The purpose of this paper is to distinguish the main features of the outburst of student radicalism at Sydney University in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

A question of bias? Politics, assessment and the New Zealand history curriculum

Stakeholders groups in the educational community are not immune to wider socio‐political events when responding to educational concerns and the purpose of this paper is to use a…

The Development of Infant Education in Ireland, 1838‐1948, Epochs and Eras Series: Rethinking Education – Volume 4

Are Our Standards Slipping? Debates over Literacy and Numeracy Standards in New Zealand since 1945

Girls Becoming Teachers. An Historical Analysis of Western Australian Women Teachers, 1911‐1940

Ruskin's Educational Ideals

An Atlantic Crossing? The Work of the International Examinations Inquiry, its Researchers, Methods and Influence