Zusammenfassung der Ressource
History of Australian Schooling
- Education vs. Schooling
- Education
- Gaining of knowledge, skills
and understanding
- What you view as education depends
on the value you place an certain
knowledge, skills and understanding
- Formal and informal
- Self-directed or otherwise
- Purposeful or not
- Subject of much philosophising
- Schooling
- The organisation, or
structuring of education
- Formal
- Directed by others
- Purposeful
- Reflects the dominant cultural
value of certain knowledge, skills
and understanding
- Subject of much social, cultural
and political debate
- Before Colonization
- Schooling started with the arrival of
the colonists
- Education had already been
present
- Education deeply founded in
cultural and spiritual practices
- Learned in real-world situations
- Often about Looking after the land and
animals, hunting, gathering, food,
making tools, history and culture
- Pedagogy took the forma of storytelling, long
metaphors, allegories, fables, drawing,
singing, dancing, and via observing and
imitation.
- Access to knowledge depended on
age and was often ritualistic
- Late 1700s and early 1800s
- 1789- 1810 Captain Arthur Philip formed the
colony of Sydney. the first school was set up
for the children of convicts
- Teachers
- Anglican Church provided first formal
instruction, which was based on the bible
- First schoolmaster was the
Reverend Richard Johnson
- 1789 - Isabella Rossen (a convict)
was employed as the first teacher
- 1791 - Mary Johnson (convict) was
hired in parramatta
- Curriculum and Pedagogy
- Non-convicts could educate
their own children with
governesses and tutors
- Convict children
- Separated from their parents as
they were bad influences
- They learned religious and moral discipline,
loyalty, reading, writing, arithmetic, home
skills, work skills, and manners
- Taught using direct instruction and
physical discipline
- Learnt through practice, rote learning and
memorising textbooks
- Genders were taught diffrent
things
- Individual teaching method
- Assessed through reciting
and showing their work
- 1811 - the Monitorial school was established in
sydney by William Crook (missionary)
- Based on Lancaster system which involed the teacher
taught older students (the monitors), and they taught the
younger students
- 1814 - the native Institution in parramatta was
opened by Governor Macquarie
- Edicated students to become labourers and
semi-skilled workers
- Aboriginal School
- The first stolen generation
- Not successful and closed in 1833
- Blacktown Native Institution opened 1820
and closed 1825
- Focused on Discipline and
Morality
- 1830s to early 1900s
- Schools for the wealthy
- Based on geographical parish system
- The King’s School (Anglican) in Parramatta
in 1832
- St Mary’s Seminary (Catholic) in 1837
- Scots School (Presbyterian) in 1838.
- The Dame schools
(Working class)
- Run by women in their own homes
- Students were young
- Dames weren't always trained teachers, they
were often old spinsters or widows
- Paid small amount directly from families
- Taught basic literacy, numeracy, the bible
(moral education) and general household
chores
- Individual teaching method used
- students of diffrent ages present
- Public Schools
- Resulted from the need to systematise schooling
- caused rise of formal teaching education,
mandated curriculum, school timetables
- Inspectors travelled to check paperwork, attendance,
watch teachers and assess student's learning
- Public examination were put in place for
students intrested in uni
- schooling became normalised for all children
but subjects depended on gender
- Sir Henry Parkes
- His ministry introduced the Public
Instruction Act of 1880
- Opened a variety of free
education for children (<14 old)
- Schooling was compulsary
- Withdrew government funding
to Catholic schools in 1882 but
was re-instated in 1964
- Promoted and set up secular schools
- 1900s - current
(progressive education)
- Professor Francis Anderson thought
teachers should be free of oppressive rules
and ditch rote learning and memorisation
- Teachers started playing games,
excurtions, and science ecpirements
- emertion of practical, worksheets,
projects and group work
- Later on introduction of creative
and performing arts, and welling
being and health
- 1951 the alice springs school of the air
- started from Miss Adelaide Miethke's idea
( Royal flying doctors), only had one
teacher
- Students would have get togethers
- Now school has a princable, 16 teachers,
7 support staff and 125 students
- Comprehensive high schools
- Pathways decided by curriculum choices
- All students had to stay till they were 15
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children
required to attened school from 1967
- The differention of schools
- schools were selective (streamed) eg girls secretaria school)
- Some designed for uni entry and others for trades
- often differentiated along class and gender lines
- 1950s - 1960s considered thing of the past
- Can be seen starting to come back in currently