History of Education Review: Volume 43 Issue 2

Space, place and purpose in designing Australian schools

The purpose of this paper is to canvass debates arising from encounters between architectural and educational history and to introduce a themed section of four papers exploring…

From home to civic: designing the Australian school

The purpose of this paper is to examine the design of state school buildings in Australia from the 1880s to the 1980s to establish common threads or similar concerns evident in…

Site, school, community: Educating modern girls at the J.H. Boyd Domestic College, South Melbourne, 1930s-1980s

The purpose of this paper is to examine the development of vocational education for girls, focusing on how curriculum and pedagogy developed to accommodate changing expectations…

Experimenting with education: spaces of freedom and alternative schooling in the 1970s

The purpose of this paper is to explore philosophies of progressive education circulating in Australia in the period immediately following the expansion of secondary schools in…

Designing Woodleigh School: educator and architects in context

The purpose of this paper is to examine the professional context of the educator and architects who designed and conceived Woodleigh School in Baxter, Victoria, Australia…

“Brave Young Singers”: children's poetry-writing and 1930s Australian distance education

There has been virtually no explication of poetry-writing pedagogy in historical accounts of Australian distance education during the 1930s. The purpose of this paper is to…

Locating the real William Colenso: reviewing a thirty year research journey

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the importance of ongoing conversations between researchers and librarians. Without such conversations followed by the active…

The social purpose of Rev. Richard Dawes who taught the philosophy of common things

The purpose of this paper is to consider why Richard Dawes (1793-1867) academic, college business manager and Church of England priest developed a curriculum in a nineteenth…

A History of Australian Schooling

Ruling by Schooling Quebec: Conquest to Liberal Governmentality – A Historical Sociology

A University of the People: A History of the University of Western Sydney