History of Education Review: Volume 46 Issue 1

Schools, universities and history in the world of twenty-first century skills: “The end of knowledge as we know it”?

This paper was originally presented as a keynote presentation to the annual conference of the ANZHES whose theme was “knowledge skills and expertise”. The purpose of this paper is…

Post-war political economics and the growth of Australian university research, c.1945-1965

The purpose of this paper is to consider the national and international political-economic environment in which Australian university research grew. It considers the implications…

The instructive power of the fable in New Zealand’s Native School Reader (1886)

The purpose of this paper is to examine the cultural implications of James Henry Pope’s selection of fables for his 1886 Native School Reader designed to teach English to Māori…

New Zealand Theosophists in “New Education” networks, 1880s-1938

It is well-known that Beatrice Ensor, who founded the New Education Fellowship (NEF) in 1921, was a Theosophist and that from 1915 the Theosophical Fraternity in Education she…

Military education for non-military purposes: Economic and social governing projects targeting conscripts in early twentieth-century Sweden

The purpose of this paper is to explore military service-linked economic and social governing initiatives in early twentieth-century Sweden, and thereby offer a broadened…

Continuities of influence: A critical analysis of subject English in the New South Wales’ secondary school curriculum of 1911

This paper provides a critical interpretative analysis of the first secondary English syllabus for schools in New South Wales (NSW), Australia, contained within the Courses for…

Marketing education at the University of Melbourne

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the early days of marketing education by observing the first “Marketing” subject in Australia, which was taught at the University of…

Those Good Gertrudes: A Social History of Women Teachers in America

Learning Femininity in Colonial India, 1820-1932

Alumni Voices: The Changing Experience of Higher Education

First to See the Light: EIT 40 Years of Higher Education