...Sophie Rudolph Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the educational impulses and effects of Indigenous dialogue with the settler colonial state. Taking the Uluru Statement from the Heart, devised in May 2017 by a convention of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples...

...Carden Clarissa Purpose This article explores the case of the Queensland's reformatory for boys through the years 1871–1919 to analyse how the institution negotiated the complex, and at times competing, goals of reforming, educating and punishing its inmate population. Design/methodology...

... in order to attempt to understand it, to think and feel with others and to create a collectivity that, beyond the slogan “we are in this together”, seriously contemplates the implications of what it means to be given an opportunity to alter the course of history, to begin to learn to live and educate...

...Rhonda Povey; Michelle Trudgett Purpose The focus of this paper is to centre the lived experiences and perceptions of western education held by Aboriginal people who lived at Moola Bulla Native Cattle Station (Moola Bulla) in Western Australia, between 1910 and 1955. Of interest...

... in the forced movement of people in the past and present and seeks to show the value of historical understandings in educational contexts when framing resources for teachers and students. Design/methodology/approach The paper examines a sample of high-profile English language picture books about children’s...

... in the Education Department’s approach to Aboriginal education and inherent in the curriculum it produced for use in state schools. This is central to the construction of the state of Victoria as being devoid of Aboriginal people, which contributes to a particularly Victorian perspective of Australia’s national...

...Hannah Forsyth Chia tackles his subject via a series of six crises; indeed, he identifies a “culture of crisis management” (p. 180) as characteristic of Singaporean Government engagement with education throughout its history. Education, Culture and the Singapore Development State: “World...

... education during the waning Ottoman rule. Design/methodology/approach – In addition to the archival material, contemporary newspapers provided an important source, as did memoirs of prominent people that, to some extent, filled in the “gaps”, more on the running of the schools and less...

...Dr Keith Moore; John Ramsland Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the educative experiences of Arthur Wesley Wheen – his socialisation and indoctrination within a devout family, on the one hand, and his elite classical schooling on the other hand. Such influences laid the seeds...

... groups control over some decisions, and the adult education programme. These changes were made only after periods of open conflict. The structural changes that occurred in 2011 were the result of two decades of persistence and experimentation to find a way of honouring Te Tiriti within a democratic...

...Hugh Morrison Purpose Education was an enduring feature of the modern Protestant missionary movement. Historiographically, however, scholarship on the subject is often fragmented geographically and focused on the micro contexts in which missionary education occurred. The purpose of this paper...

... of social policy, an epoch when old assumptions were abandoned and fresh links were forged between industrialisation, national economics, education, gender relations, and social welfare. These changes are clarified not only by reference to nineteenth century sources but also to national and international...

...Peter Rushbrook; Rachel Standfield Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the theme of centre and periphery in education through a study of the views and actions of the Reverend Samuel Marsden, New South Wales colonial chaplain, in relation to the education of Aboriginal people and Māori...

...Peter Rushbrook; Mary Carroll; Sue Reynolds Purpose To most minds libraries exist at the periphery of debates over education and educational reform. However, the purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how, in 1910, the Melbourne Public Library (now the State Library of Victoria) was central...

... on the major political ideologies of the twentieth century. The structure of this document was based to a large extent on the development of so called “European political ideas” (The Board of Secondary Education and The Tertiary Institutions Service Centre, 1978, p. 185) which included Soviet Communism, German...

...Peter Rushbrook; Jeannie Herbert Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the educational journey of indigenous Australians since the time of the 1788 invasion through into the modern Australian university. This exploration is intended to clarify the way in which education delivery...

...David Limond Purpose The purpose of this paper is to encourage re‐reading and re‐evaluation of a series of educational polemics published in the UK in the 1960s and 1970s, the Black Papers. These works proposed, for the most part, avowedly conservative views on education: condemning so‐called...

... Society. While both societies aimed to “prepare the labouring classes for a life of honest, self‐dependent toil and an acceptance of the social order as it then existed” (Horn, 1978), there was one important difference between them: Educationally, the differences between the monitorial systems...

...Tony Dowden Purpose This study seeks to trace the development of curriculum integration and related curricula designs in state schools in Aotearoa/New Zealand (NZ) during the “New Education” era (1920s‐1940s). Design/methodology/approach The mixed historical/theoretical analysis draws...

... of the empire to devote much time to the larger questions of imperial and common citizenship. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 British Empire Imperialism Education 24 LEARNING ABOUT EMPIRE AND THE IMPERIAL EDUCATION CONFERENCES IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY: CREATING COHESION...