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Accomplishments, private schools for ladies and the education of girls

Australia, 1830-1920

By Craig Campbell, PhD DipEd. Posted .

The film Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) based on Joan Lindsay’s novel of the same name (1967) portrayed life in a rural Australian ladies’ academy of the late nineteenth century. It was largely responsible for popularly imagined representations of such schools. The private ladies’ academies and colleges provided for the education of girls and young women through the accomplishments curriculum.… Continue Reading »

Public and private in Australian schooling

Australia, 1788-2010

By Craig Campbell, PhD DipEd, University of Sydney. Posted .

The words public and private have been used in attempts to describe the ownership, governance and purposes of Australian schools and education from close to the beginnings of British colonisation in 1788. They are concepts that had little meaning for Indigenous society before, and for some time after initial colonisation.

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The meanings of these words shift over time.… Continue Reading »