History of Education Review: Volume 47 Issue 1

Learning the rules: writing and researching school stories in history of education

The purpose of this paper is to set out three dilemmas that challenge historians of education who write for both professional and academic audiences. It focuses on the example of…

Bibles in State schools: Moral formation in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Queensland school

The purpose of this paper is to examine the work of the Bible in State Schools League in Queensland during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, culminating in the…

Imperial values, national identity: The role of The School Paper in early 20th century Western Australian education reform

The purpose of this paper is to explore the concept of national identity, as imparted to students by the Western Australia Education Department, in the early part of the twentieth…

Setting theory to work in history of education

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the relationship between theory and history, or more specifically the role and use of theory in the field of history of education. It will…

The “special experiment” in languages: The fragile beginnings of the Victorian School of Languages 1935-1950

The Victorian School of Languages began on the margins of the Victorian education system in 1935 as a “special experiment” supported by the Chief Inspector of Secondary Schools…

A breakdown of reformatory education: remembering Westbrook

Westbrook Farm Home for Boys in Queensland, Australia, existed in various forms for over 100 years. As such, it offers a valuable window into Australian approaches to managing and…

The place of Arabic language teaching in Australian universities

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that the teaching of Arabic language has had a distinctive and important history in Australian universities from the middle of the…

“To think in enterprising ways”: enterprise education and enterprise culture in New Zealand

Enterprise education (EE) is a growing educational phenomenon. Despite its proliferation globally, there is little critical research on the field. In particular, the ideological…

Lillian de Lissa: Women Teachers and Teacher Education in the Twentieth Century a Transnational History

Educational Reform and Environmental Concern: A History of School Nature Study in Australia

The Australian Idea of a University

Diploma Mills: How for-Profit Colleges Stiffed Students, Taxpayers, and the American Dream

A Frenchwoman’s Imperial Story: Madame Luce in Nineteenth-Century Algeria

Maintaining Segregation: Children and Racial Instruction in the South, 1920-1955