Education
Articles
- Facey’s A Fortunate Life and Traditional Oral Narratives
Argues that 'there were features of Bert's world which make it more appropriately thought of as a residually oral culture, and which suggest that a…
1 May 1988 - Oodgeroo - an Educator Who Proved One Person Could Make a Difference
For those of us who knew Oodgeroo well and loved her dearly our attempts to contribute to this book are difficult as we are still…
1 November 1994 - Oodgeroo: A Pioneer in Aboriginal Education
"White people want to do something about Aborigines, but they don't know how to go about it," said Kath Walker (Oodgeroo) to reporter Jim Hall…
1 November 1994 - ‘The Young Man Will Go Far’: Educational Mobility and Christina Stead’s Compositional Practice in the Early 1930s
Education is a recurring concern in Stead's fiction, but nowhere is it more prominent as a theme than in her unpublished and largely ignored manuscript…
7 December 2016 - Review of Required Reading: Literature in Australian schools Since 1945, edited by Tim Dolin, Jo Jones and Patricia Dowsett.
Required Reading: Literature in Australian schools Since 1945. Edited by Tim Dolin, Jo Jones and Patricia Dowsett. Monash University Publishing, 2017.
25 February 2018 - Economies of Childhood in Nineteenth-Century Australia: Catherine Helen Spence’s Short Fiction for Children
In her long-running annual column for the Adelaide Observer, ‘Gossip about Children’s Books’, Australian writer and social reformer, Catherine Helen Spence, maintained that ‘the…
9 July 2018 - Irish Protestant Colonialism and Educational Ideology in Australia:** *Hannah Boyd’s *Letters on Education (1848)
The transnational movement between Ireland and Australia of school periodicals, pedagogical ideas and educational theories are writ large in histories of colonial education in Australia…
30 September 2021 - Helen Garner’s Education
On the 14th of December 1972, a schoolteacher named Helen Garner found herself fired. This essay argues that the terms of Garner’s firing inform the…
28 October 2021
Contributors
- Michael Ackland
- Patrick Buckridge
- Wendy Capper
- Rhonda Craven
- Alan Duncan
- Anne Jamison
- Anne Jamison
- Joseph Steinberg