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HARD COPY PUBLICATION (a digital copy of this VHJ is also available for purchase)
ISSUE 299 VOLUME 94, NUMBER 1 JUNE 2023
The Education Act 1872 commemorative edition of the Victorian Historical Journal, marking 150 years of public education in Victoria, was supported by the Victorian Government.
“This special issue of the Victorian Historical Journal arises from a two-day conference organised by the Royal Historical Society of Victoria in October 2022 to mark the 150th anniversary of the 1872
Education Act. These papers must be read as reflections on some questions arising out of the Act and its subsequent history. This is a timely approach, 50 years after the publication of the encyclopaedic centenary
history, Vision and Realisation.
“Children are our future. What society in its clearest mind would not want to educate every child to reach its full potential? Yet our education system is in one sense a lottery, in another a marketplace. In 1872, amid controversy, parliamentarians in colonial Victoria legislated to mandate a basic education for all. If it was to be compulsory then it had to be offered locally and free of charge, paid for by the community as a whole—‘the state’. It had to be secular, too. While there was universal agreement about alphabet and numbers, and general agreement about the physical world, society quarrelled over faith, so religion could not be part of the compulsory curriculum.” (From Dr Andrew Lemon’s editorial)
Contents
Editorial Andrew Lemon
Welcome Richard Broome
Opening the conference Kwong Lee Dow
Vale: Emeritus Professor Richard Joseph Wheeler ‘Dick’ Selleck Rosalie Triolo
Keynote Address 1: Celebrating with Three Rs: Responsibility, Realisation, Reflection: 150 Years of Public Education in Victoria 1872 – 2022 Deborah Towns
School Nomenclature in Victoria: A glossary Andrew Lemon
From National Schools to State Schools in Victoria Irene Hogan
Industrial Schools in Victoria 1864 – 1872 Russell Spencer
The Politics of the Victorian Education Act of 1872 Geraldine Moore
Fifteen Years after the Education Act: The Democratic Crowd at Spencer Street Station. A pictorial essay by Alex McDermott
‘Open the doors!”- Ellen Mulcahy and the Victorian Education Department from 1873 Wendy Dick
The Church of England Denominational School at Little Eltham Geoffrey A. Sandy
Catholic Reaction to the Education Act: A case study Margaret Pagone
An Irish-Catholic Community after the Education Act: The case of Crossley Helen Doyle
Yarra Park State School No 1406: The first 25 years Ian Hind
The Effects of the 1890s Depression, and the Reforms it Created Alan Gregory
Livingston: A One-teacher School in the Gippsland Hills, 1913 – 1938 David Harris
Keynote Address II: Beyond 3 Rs: The Seven Civic and Citizenship Ideals of State Schooling in Victoria, 1872 – 1910 Rosalie Triolo
School Reading Material: A window into society Lorraine Ling
Bendigo School of Domestic Arts: the Nomadic Experience 1916-2016 Michele Matthews
Women’s Community Leadership: Mothers’ Clubs in the Twentieth Century Deborah Towns
Making a Difference: Victorian Teachers as Social Activists in the First Half of the Twentieth Century Cheryl Griffin
Laying the Foundation: The 1872 Education Act and Universal Secondary Education Richard Teese
The Victorian Secondary Teachers Association, 1953 – 1995 Rosemary Francis
Teaching Studentships, Student Hostels and Alan Ramsay House Marilyn Bowler
From Migrant to Multicultural Education Georgina Tsolidis
Education and Democracy: Ancient and Modern Adrian Jones
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