Entries Tagged: History of adolescence in Australia

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“Making the Australian male” Martin Crotty (2001)

Australia, 1870-1920

By Craig Campbell, PhD DipEd. Posted .

Those who organise schools usually have more in mind than delivering a curriculum. There is often a sense that a school will shape its students into certain kinds of persons. The development of “character” is one of the more popular ways in which the ambition is expressed (mainly for boys), although what the elements of that character might be varies over time in different schools, among the different communities that support schools, and is very responsive to the social class origins and sex and gendered characteristics of young people.… Continue Reading »

Australian education observed by Sidney and Beatrice Webb

Australia, 1898

By Craig Campbell, PhD DipEd. Posted .

At the end of the nineteenth century there was much to interest visitors from Britain and Europe in Australia. The country was pioneering innovative forms of democracy such as votes for women, reducing the property franchise for various groups of voters and the use of the secret ballot at elections. There was also government sponsored industrial conciliation and arbitration, a response to the strikes and industrial turmoil of the early 1890s.… Continue Reading »

Physical education and training

Australia, 1880-1989

By Craig Campbell, PhD DipEd. Posted .

Anxiety concerning the fitness of youth for coming adulthood and its responsibilities has had a long history. Towards the end of the nineteenth century in Australia such anxiety rose to the level of a moral panic. Larrikinism was a problem for the respectable middle classes. The behaviour of too many unruly working class youths, larrikins, tended towards criminality, immorality, disorder and violence of various kinds.… Continue Reading »

Adolescence and the school

Australia, 1880-2014

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

The words, adolescent and adolescence came into scientific and popular use at the beginning of the twentieth century. They were assisted by the publication in 1904 of G. Stanley Hall’s remarkable study, Adolescence: Its psychology and its relations to physiology, anthropology, sociology, sex, crime, religion and education. This book, though American, was noticed in Australia.… Continue Reading »