Middle-Class Formations and the Emergence of National Schooling: A Historiographical Review of the Australian Debate

Sherington, Geoffrey; Campbell, Craig

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“…Historically, mainstream education in Victoria was established in 1872 through a central discourse, the 'free, secular and compulsory' Education Act (Grundy, 1972;Sherington & Campbell, 2007;Wilkinson et al, 2007). This discourse established what came to be known and understood within a collective consciousness as the 'public' school.…”

Section: The Notion Of a 'Public' High Schoolmentioning

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The discourse of public education: an urban campaign for a local public high school in Melbourne, Victoria

Rowe

2012

Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education

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This paper explores the metonymic slippage surrounding the discourse of public education, through observations and interviews with Lawson High School active campaigners in the state of Victoria, Australia. The notion of campaigning for public education has become an ever-present issue on an international scale, and this article aims to contribute qualitative knowledge regarding the key concepts that lobbyists produce and articulate within their meetings concerning public education. Data have been obtained through direct participatory observation within a contextually specific campaigning site, lobbyists' publications and oneon-one interviews with active campaigners. Findings indicate that campaigners present distinct conceptualisations of public education as a discourse and a welldefined model of their school-of-choice.

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Section: The Notion Of a 'Public' High Schoolmentioning

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The discourse of public education: an urban campaign for a local public high school in Melbourne, Victoria

Rowe

2012

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“…While the church schools were often designed for the poorer classes, state administrators such as William Wilkins knew that many middle-class parents in Sydney had come to prefer the public schools as providing the 'best' education. 20 These issues came to head in the 1870s, culminating in the 1880 Act which removed all state aid from church schools and established a Department of Public Instruction. It was soon based in Bridge Street, Sydney, in a sandstone building that symbolised the civic virtues of public education.…”

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Campbell

2009

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In the late twentieth century historians of education came to argue that the urban experience can only be fully understood through the social processes and social relations associated with schooling. The new 'social history' of education has thus often been closely aligned to the history of cities. In Australia the 'new' social history of the city has often been written in terms of family formation, sometimes related to the history of childhood, but there has only been marginal attention to the specific nature of education in Sydney as an urban phenomenon. This essay focuses on Sydney schools and other educational institutions, although it raises questions about social processes and social formations. It suggests that the history of education in Sydney can be understood in a number of phases and themes, each related to the changing social history of Sydney. Informal education had long been part of the culture of indigenous society prior to the British invasion of 1788. In the early colonial period, up to about 1830, governments established schools for the children of convicts based in Sydney and even for Aboriginal children. There were also 'private venture' schools for the sons and sometimes daughters of free settlers. In the period from 1830 to 1870 the city of Sydney emerged as a metropolitan centre of educational establishments including schools, colleges and the University. From around 1870 to the end of World War II, with the growth of the city of Sydney and its suburbs, schooling was increasingly related to social class, gender and religion as part of suburban life. From 1945, the 'neighbourhood' school and even the 'local' university has become part of a pattern of regional differences associated with the expansion of the city through migration and population growth.

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“…By the mid-nineteenth century, the relationship between the State and the various churches was changing (Sherington & Campbell, 2007). With the introduction of the colonial Education Acts from 1872 onwards, the tensions between the State and the Church becomes apparent (Lawry, 1972).…”

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“…Since the establishment of the colonies, almost a century beforehand, the Church of England had been allocated around 600 acres in and around towns to establish a church and a school (Bourke & Lucadou-Wells, 2011). The states had now taken control of education under the guise of creating opportunities for all (Sherington & Campbell, 2007).…”

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Addressing the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Education: A Critical Analysis of Indigenous Education Policy

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Middle-Class Formations and the Emergence of National Schooling: A Historiographical Review of the Australian Debate

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The discourse of public education: an urban campaign for a local public high school in Melbourne, Victoria

The discourse of public education: an urban campaign for a local public high school in Melbourne, Victoria

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Addressing the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Education: A Critical Analysis of Indigenous Education Policy

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