The Introduction of the “New Education” in Queensland, Australia

Author:

Meadmore Peter

Abstract

Reformist educational discourses of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, usually referred to as the “new education” or progressive education, emanated from the industrialized countries of the United States and Western Europe. They emerged partly as a response to social and economic conditions but also as an attempt by educationists to ameliorate the regimentation and pedagogical limitations of nineteenth-century schooling. A considerable degree of cross-pollination of ideas across different countries occurred through visits, study, and the exchange of publications between educationists, allowing an international focus to emerge. The various discourses that constituted progressive education were at times confusing, even contradictory, and the use of these umbrella-type categories masked and distorted the diversity of pedagogical practices. These discourses also found their way into the Southern Hemisphere including British colonies such as Australia.

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Subject

History,Education

Reference79 articles.

1. Cruikshank Kate in her review of Peter Metz, Herbartianism as a Paradigm for Professional and School Reform (Bern: Peter Lang, 1992) has drawn attention to a similar dissatisfaction with “the catechetical mode of teaching” in Germany. See History of Education Quarterly 36 (Fall 1996): 336. In a study of teachers in Queensland one-room schools in the period 1920–50, a common complaint of school inspectors in their annual report was that teachers continued to use the question and answer catechetical form of teaching. Associated with an instrumentary educational approach, the inspectors described it as being “mechanical” and “un-intellectual.” See Meadmore Peter “Hard Times, Expedient Measures: Women Teachers in Queensland Rural Schools, 1920–50,” History of Education 28:4 (1999): 435–447.

2. Ibid., 203.

3. New South Wales Educational Gazette, 13:12 (1904): 286.

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