VHJ DIGITAL VOLUME 94, NUMBER 1, JUNE 2023 VICTORIAN HISTORICAL JOURNAL

DIGITAL PUBLICATION  (a hard paper 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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