A Genealogy of an Australian System of Comprehensive High Schools: The Contribution of Educational Progressivism to the One Best Form of Universal Secondary Education (1900–1940)

Campbell, Craig; Sherington, Geoffrey

doi:10.1080/00309230600552120

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“…A substantial body of research exists on the impact of the NEF, its version of progressive education and the role of its international conferences in aiding the circulation of their ideas and ideals within and beyond Europe (Jenkins 2000, Brehony 2004, Fuchs 2004, Godfrey 2004, Campbell and Sherington 2006. This scholarship forms part of the backdrop to the discussion here.…”

Section: Education For Complete Living 1937mentioning

confidence: 95%

Educating for ‘world-mindedness': cosmopolitanism, localism and schooling the adolescent citizen in interwar Australia

McLeod

2012

Journal of Educational Administration and History

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Section: Education For Complete Living 1937mentioning

confidence: 95%

Educating for ‘world-mindedness': cosmopolitanism, localism and schooling the adolescent citizen in interwar Australia

McLeod

2012

Journal of Educational Administration and History

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“…This is despite the hardships and often devastating effects of the Great Depression, perhaps especially though by no means exclusively with regard to women teachers (Seddon, 1988), and also increasing fiscal stringencies across the various school systems. Campbell and Sherington (2006) indicate that the period was the beginning of the second of two phases of 'intensive educational reform discourse and activity … in the first half of the twentieth century'. One occurred at the turn of the new century, while the other was more drawn out and intermittent, with 'many of the ideas broached in the 1930s and 1940s only receiv [ing] implementation in the 1950s and 1960s' (Campbell & Sherington, 2006, pp.…”

Section: Reading (Pedagogy) In Australiamentioning

confidence: 97%

Re-reading the reading lesson: episodes in the history of reading pedagogy

Green¹,

Cormack²,

Patterson³

2013

Oxford Review of Education

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Reading pedagogy is constantly an object of discussion and debate in contemporary policy and practice but is rarely a matter for historical inquiry. This paper reports from a recent study of the history of reading pedagogy in Australia and beyond. It focuses on a recurring figure in the historical record--the 'reading lesson'. Presented as a distinctive trope, the reading lesson is traced in its regularity in and through the discourse of reading pedagogy, starting in 1930s Australia and moving back into 19th-century Europe, and with specific reference to the UK and the USA. Teaching reading is expressly identified as a moral project--something that, it can be argued, clearly continues into the present.

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“…It might therefore well be asked When was the New Education? Campbell and Sherington (2006) argue a connection between the innovation of the comprehensive high school and what they term “[e]ducational progressivism” (p. 193), or “twentieth century educational progressive thought” (p. 192). They point in particular to two waves of reform and what might be called consciousness-raising in the first half of the twentieth century, in Australia, noting first” the contribution of the New Education early in the century”, and second “the kinds of progressivism advocated by the New Educational Fellowship a little later in the century” (Campbell and Sherington, 2006, p. 193).…”

Section: The New Education – and Its Limitsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Green

2019

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Purpose 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 of the Carnegie Corporation of New York in this period. Further, in this regard, the paper proposes a neo-Foucaultian notion of philanthropic power, as an explanatory and analytical principle, with possible implications for thinking anew about the role and influence of American philanthropic organisations in the twentieth century. Design/methodology/approach The paper draws on mainly secondary sources but also works with primary sources gathered from relevant archives, including that of the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER). Findings The paper concludes that the larger possibilities associated with the particular view of public education outlined here, referring to both public school and public libraries, were constrained by the emergence and consolidation of an increasingly professionalised view of education and schooling. Research limitations/implications The influence of the Carnegie Corporation of New York on early twentieth-century Australian education has been increasingly acknowledged and documented in recent historical research. More recently, Carnegie has been drawn into an interdisciplinary perspective on philanthropy and public culture in Australia. This paper seeks to add to such work by looking at schools and libraries as interconnected yet loosely coupled aspects of what can be understood as, in effect, a re-conceived public education, to a significant degree sponsored by the Corporation. Originality/value The paper draws upon but seeks to extend and to some extent re-orient existing historical research on the relationship between Australian education and the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Its originality lies in its exploration of a somewhat different view of public education and the linkage it suggests in this regard with a predominantly print-centric public culture in Australia, in the first half of the twentieth century.

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A Genealogy of an Australian System of Comprehensive High Schools: The Contribution of Educational Progressivism to the One Best Form of Universal Secondary Education (1900–1940)

Cited by 10 publications

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Educating for ‘world-mindedness': cosmopolitanism, localism and schooling the adolescent citizen in interwar Australia

Educating for ‘world-mindedness': cosmopolitanism, localism and schooling the adolescent citizen in interwar Australia

Re-reading the reading lesson: episodes in the history of reading pedagogy

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

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