...Nicole Mockler Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the reform of initial teacher education (ITE) policy in Australia over a 25-year period from 1998 to 2023. It examines policy shifts and movements over this timeframe and aims to better understand the ongoing reforms in the changing...

...Julian Rawiri Kusabs Purpose Recent trends in Western civics education have attempted to secure democratic institutions from perceived threats. This paper investigates how political securitisation historically operated within civics textbooks in Australia and Aotearoa, New Zealand. It further...

... authors have examined the militarisation of schools in Australia in the early decades of the 20th century, no study has focussed on schools specifically in relation to Anzac Day. Mark Cryle can be contacted at: m.cryle@uq.edu.au 29 05 2022 09 08 2022 12 10 2022 © Emerald...

... historical knowledge is constructed (Seixas, 2015). Kiem (2019) has explained that this tradition in Australia developed out of influential English research from the 1980s and began to gain hold by the end of that decade against prevailing integrated Studies of Society and Environment (SOSE) models...

... – are part of an ongoing project of negotiation, contestation and dialogue over questions of justice. Since the British invasion of Australia in 1788, education has been a site of deep contestation and at times contradiction. Education was seen by settlers and colonists as both an opportunity to “civilise...

...Archie Thomas Purpose Self-determination policies and the expansion of bilingual schooling across Australia's Northern Territory (NT) in the 1970s and 1980s provided opportunities for Aboriginal educators and communities to take control over schooling. This paper demonstrates how this occurred...

...Tamson Pietsch Purpose The purpose of this paper is to create comparable time series data on university income in Australia and the UK that might be used as a resource for those seeking to understand the changing funding profile of universities in the two countries and for those seeking...

... in Australia during the late 1960s. The case study of the Bailey campaign underlines that secondary school students were important players in the political contests of the late 1960s and, if only for brief periods, were able to command the attention of education officials, the media and leading politicians...

...Bill Green 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...

... inspector of National schools, as its secretary (Dando-Collins, 2013 ; Turney, 1992). Australia New South Wales Crime and education Half-time schools Henry Parkes Outlaws Policy formation Rural banditry Rural education Susan West (2009) notes a strong correlation between the perceived...

..., but they were championed by Seitz. Originality/value To date, this is one of few scholarly explorations of the origins of the Victorian School of Languages, a school which became a model for Australia’s other State Specialist Language Schools. This paper contributes to the literature about the VSL, a school...

... of history and those evident in the public political arena. Research limitations/implications The paper draws on a major Australia Research Council funded study of “knowledge building across schooling and higher education” which focusses on issues of disciplinarity and the fields of physics and history...

... This study is the first to examine dentistry in the context of the histories of war, universities and professionalization. It highlights the need to re-evaluate the changing place of the professions in interwar Australia in the light both of the First World War and of the university’s involvement...

...Catherine Manathunga Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the diverse rendering of the idea of nation and the role of universities in nation-building in the 1950s Murray and Hughes Parry Reports in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand. This paper provides trans-Tasman comparisons...

...Sue North Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show that Australia’s first two universities were connected to class status. It challenges the idea that these universities extended the “educational franchise” at their outset, by interrogating the characteristics of the student population...

... and were bolstered by increased government funding (Willis, 1983, pp. 87-89 ; Marginson, 2002, p. 410). Contemporaneously, Australia’s strategic disposition shifted away from Britain toward the USA. To this end, Australia’s defence forces were structured around the strategic doctrine of “Forward Defence...

... between education, reading pedagogies and citizenship formation in Australia in the post-war years to develop our knowledge of how conceptions of the ideal Australian citizen of the future – that is, Australian students – were inherently racialised. It makes a new contribution to scholarship...

...Dr Keith Moore; Janice Garaty; Lesley Hughes; Megan Brock Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to encourage historical research on the educational work of Catholic Sisters in Australia which includes the Sisters’ perspectives. Design/methodology/approach – Reflecting on the experiences...

... and aspiration. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Australia School architecture Materiality of schooling Educational space History of school design The widely noted “spatial turn” in the social sciences heralded a wave of research informed by the view that “spatial organization...

...Professor Julie McLeod; Julie McLeod Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore philosophies of progressive education circulating in Australia in the period immediately following the expansion of secondary schools in the 1960s. It examines the rise of the alternative and community school...