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Site, school, community

History of education review, 2014-09, Vol.43 (2), p.152-171 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Emerald Group Publishing Limited ;Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 ;ISSN: 0819-8691 ;EISSN: 2054-5649 ;DOI: 10.1108/HER-03-2014-0018

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    Site, school, community
  • Author: Darian-Smith, Kate ; Henningham, Nikki
  • Subjects: 20th century ; Architecture ; Central business districts ; Children & youth ; Core curriculum ; Education ; Endowment ; Females ; Girls ; Government archives ; History ; History/theory of education ; Immigration ; Learning ; Maternal & child health ; Multiculturalism & pluralism ; Pedagogy ; Schools ; Students ; Teaching methods ; Vocational education ; Working class
  • Is Part Of: History of education review, 2014-09, Vol.43 (2), p.152-171
  • Description: Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the development of vocational education for girls, focusing on how curriculum and pedagogy developed to accommodate changing expectations of the role of women in the workplace and the home in mid-twentieth century Australia. As well as describing how pedagogical changes were implemented through curriculum, it examines the way a modern approach to girls’ education was reflected in the built environment of the school site and through its interactions with its changing community. Design/methodology/approach – The paper takes a case study approach, focusing on the example of the J.H. Boyd Domestic College which functioned as a single-sex school for girls from 1932 until its closure in 1985. Oral history testimony, private archives, photographs and government school records provide the material from which an understanding of the school is reconstructed. Findings – This detailed examination of the history of J.H. Boyd Domestic College highlights the highly integrated nature of the school's environment with the surrounding community, which strengthened links between the girls and their community. It also demonstrates how important the school's buildings and facilities were to contemporary ideas about the teaching of girls in a vocational setting. Originality/value – This is the first history of J.H. Boyd Domestic College to examine the intersections of gendered, classed ideas about pedagogy with ideas about the appropriate built environment for the teaching of domestic science. The contextualized approach sheds new light on domestic science education in Victoria and the unusually high quality of the learning spaces available for girls’ education.
  • Publisher: Bundoora: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0819-8691
    EISSN: 2054-5649
    DOI: 10.1108/HER-03-2014-0018
  • Source: ProQuest Central
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