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Schooling Australia: A curriculum history of English teaching, teacher education and public schooling from Federation to World War II.

• Introduction
• Contacts
• Credits
• Acknowledgements
• Copyright

Introduction

Welcome to the website for the Schooling Australia project. This project was funded by the Australian Research Council from 2001-2003.

The Schooling Australia project has involved the collation of archival English curriculum material from 1901-1938. This has included primary, post-primary and teacher training curriculum material and teacher training resources from South Australia and New South Wales for the period 1901-1938 and nationally for the period of the 1930s.

One of the aims of the project was to develop an electronic resource to make the primary data and analysis available to researchers. The material collected is of significance to further curriculum and historical research regarding the development of education in Australia in the first half of the 20th Century.

This site makes available the English curriculum documents in transcribed and scanned form by year and by state for primary school English and post-primary school English. Aspects of the analysis of the curriculum materials conducted by the key researchers, Professor Bill Green, Associate Professor Jo-Anne Reid (CSU) and Dr. Phillip Cormack (UniSA) are also available on this site.

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Contacts

For more information about the Schooling Australia project, contact:

Project Chief Investigators:

Professor Bill Green
Faculty of Education
Charles Sturt University
Panorama Avenue
Bathurst NSW 2795
Tel: +61 2 6338 4563
Fax: +61 2 6338 4824
Email: bigreen@csu.edu.au

Dr. Phil Cormack
Centre for Studies in Literacy, Policy and Learning Cultures
University of South Australia
St Bernards Rd
Magill SA 5032
Australia
Tel: +61 8 8302 4230
Fax: +61 8 8302 4212
Email: phil.cormack@unisa.edu.au

Associate Professor Jo-Anne Reid
Faculty of Education
Charles Sturt University
Panorama Avenue
Bathurst NSW 2795
Tel: +61 2 6338 4433
Fax: +61 2 6338 4824
Email: joreid@csu.edu.au

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Credits

This website was designed by Phil Cormack and Louise Ashmore, Centre for Studies in Literacy, Policy and Learning Cultures, University of South Australia

Chief Investigators:

    Professor Bill Green (Charles Sturt University)

    Dr. Phil Cormack (University of South Australia)

    Associate Professor Jo-Anne Reid (Charles Sturt University)

Research Assistants:

University of South Australia
    Rosie Kerin 2000 and 2001
    Melissa Stevenson 2002
    Louise Ashmore 2003

University of New England
    Dr. Sylvia Martin 2001

Charles Sturt University
    Claudio Dionigi 2003

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Acknowledgements

The Schooling Australia team thanks the following people for their support:

• Anne Marie Lynch, librarian, University of South Australia; curator History of Primary Education collection
• Dr Nicole McLennan, University Curator, Heritage Collection, UNE
• Miss Margaret Mackie, Armidale
  

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Copyright

© 2003

Phil Cormack (University of South Australia)

Bill Green (Charles Sturt University)

Jo-Anne Reid (Charles Sturt University)

Unless otherwise stated, the material on this website is available for non-commercial use by educators and researchers. Material used must acknowledge the authors of this site as well as the original authors (where appropriate). All other uses of this site require the written permission of the site authors.

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