History of Education Review: Volume 48 Issue 1

Micro histories of intercultural knowledge exchange: Tao Xingzhi’s educational poetry

Jing Qi, Catherine Manathunga, Michael Singh, Tracey Bunda

The purpose of this paper is to provide a micro historical account of the work of a key Chinese educational reformer, Tao Xingzhi (1891–1946), who transformed educational ideas…

Bushrangers, itinerant teachers and constructing educational policy in 1860s New South Wales

Ashley Thomas Freeman

The purpose of this paper is to examine how rural outlaws, known in the Australian context as bushrangers, impacted on the introduction of itinerant teaching in sparsely settled…

Australian and New Zealand women teachers in the First World War

Kay Morris Matthews, Kay Whitehead

The purpose of this paper is to highlight the contributions of women teachers to the war effort at home in Australia and New Zealand and in Egypt and Europe between 1914 and 1918.

Creating “them” and “us”: The educational framing of picture books to teach about forced displacement and today’s “refugee crisis”

Mary Tomsic, Claire Marika Deery

The purpose of this paper is to examine how the contemporary “refugee crisis” is being presented to children through picture books and teaching materials. It uses the concept of…

Carnegie in Australia: philanthropic power and public education in the early twentieth century

Bill Green

The purpose of this paper is to outline a reconceptualised view of public education, with specific reference to early twentieth-century Australia, and to revisit the significance…

There was movement at the station: western education at Moola Bulla, 1910-1955

Rhonda Povey, Michelle Trudgett

The focus of this paper is to centre the lived experiences and perceptions of western education held by Aboriginal people who lived at Moola Bulla Native Cattle Station (Moola…

Mindfulness for teachers: notes toward a discursive cartography

Remy Low

For the interested teacher, teacher educator and educational researcher seeking an entry point into how mindfulness relates to teachers’ work, the burgeoning and divergent appeals…

Muriel Pyrah: sources and myths from a West Riding of Yorkshire school, 1967–1972

Lottie Hoare

The purpose of this paper is to juxtapose different sources concerning educational experiments embarked on by an English primary school teacher, Muriel Pyrah. Pyrah taught at…

“The Right Thing to Read”: A History of Australian Girl-Readers, 1910–1960

Emily Kate Gallagher

History of Bilingual Education in the Northern Territory: People, Programs, Policies

Archie Thomas

Review of Malcolm Harris’ Kids These Days by young people encountering education in Australia

Hannah Forsyth, Christina Burjan, Patrick Flood, Cooper Forsyth, Ruby Newman

The Good University: what Universities Actually do and why it’s Time for Radical Change

Hannah Forsyth