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