History of Education Review: Volume 47 Issue 2

Powerful narratives and compelling explanations: educational historians and museums at work

The partnering of museums and academics: working together on history that matters

Museums and academics collaborating to create knowledge and learning opportunities is a current innovative strand of museum theory and practice. Working together across…

Affective practices and the prison visit: learning at Port Arthur and the Cascades Female Factory

The purpose of this paper is to consider the ways Port Arthur Historic Site and the Cascades Female Factory educate visitors using the often contentious and confronting histories…

“The system of compulsory education is failing”: Assimilation, mobility and Aboriginal students in Victorian State schools, 1961-1968

The purpose of this paper is to examine the ways in which the mobility of indigenous people in Victoria during the 1960s enabled them to resist the policy of assimilation as…

Totalitarian school politics during fascism in Italy and their transgenerational effects

The research is rooted in the interest in educational biographies of ethnic and linguistic minorities in Europe during the twentieth century. The purpose of this paper is to give…

Australian education policy from the 1970s: an autobiographical approach

The purpose of this paper is to illuminate the history of national education policy through an interview with one of its significant makers and critics, Lyndsay Connors, a former…

The unsaintly behaviour of Mary Mackillop: her early teaching career at Portland

Mary Mackillop, the only Australian to have been declared a “saint” by the Roman Catholic Church, co-founded the Institute of the Sisters of St Joseph, a religious congregation…

The national in the transnational: The compelling story of Anna Marie Hlawaczek in the New South Wales colonial teaching service

The purpose of this paper is to relate the compelling story of Viennese-born and educated Anna Marie Hlawaczek (c.1849–1893) and her employment as the second headmistress at…

Lucky or privileged? Working with memory and reflexivity

Through a case study of the decision making that led to the writer becoming a teacher educator, the purpose of this paper is to contribute to historiography by exploring the…

New Education beyond the school: Rosemarie Benjamin’s Theatre for Children, 1937-1957

The purpose of this paper is to examine the work of Rosemary Benjamin’s Theatre for Children in Sydney as a compelling narrative of the New Education in Australia in the late…

University Jubilees and University History Writing: A Challenging Relationship

Committed to Learning: A History of Education at the University of Melbourne

Class Wars. Money, Schools and Power in Modern Australia

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

Empathy and History: Historical Understanding in Re-enactment, Hermeneutics and Education

The Color of Mind: Why the Origins of the Achievement Gap Matter for Justice