Geoffrey Sherington
Biographic Data
| ID | 601312 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Geoffrey Sherington |
| GIVEN NAMES | Geoffrey |
| FAMILY NAME | Sherington |
| SIGNATURE | SHERINGTON G |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Alexander Mackie
From the late nineteenth century, academic disciplines emerged in universities, marking boundaries of knowledge, teaching and research. Education became a transnational academic discipline, developing across Britain, Europe and North America and providing a foundation for the teaching profession. Educated in Edinburgh, Alexander Mackie was influenced by German idealist philosophy and by progressive views of teaching drawn from the United States. …
Contrasting narratives in the history of twentieth-century British child migration to Australia
A narrative of personal loss has now supplanted an earlier narrative of rescue and Empire settlement in the history of child migration to Australia in the twentieth century. This article outlines and seeks to understand how these narratives arose. The discussion then attempts to provide another way to explain child migration which embraces changing contexts while being based on a life cycle analysis of the experiences of child migrants both prior…
Extending the educational franchise
This article introduces the notion of the “educational franchise” of Australia’s public universities established in the mid‐nineteenth century. In his recently published study of the public university and social access in the United States, John Aubrey Douglass suggests that from the mid‐nineteenth century a social contract was formed between American public universities and their social and political constituencies: institutions open to all who …
From Aries to globalisation in the history of childhood
The death of progressive education
London, Routledge, 2007, 180 pp., £24.99 (paperback), ISBN 978‐0‐415‐35972‐6 In the 1960s and 1970s the issues of access and equity, with a focus on social class and gender, were at the forefront o
Borders and Boundaries in the History of Education
The papers published in this special issue of Paedagogica Historica were selected from those presented at the meeting of ISCHE XXVII (Sydney, 2005). This conference was a unique occasion, being the
A Genealogy of an Australian System of Comprehensive High Schools
In New South Wales as for other Australian colonies, the achievement of mainly free, compulsory and secular public education systems in the 1870s was a cause of self‐satisfaction and a belief that late nineteenth‐century Australian public schools were among the best in the world. In this paper, the process by which this self‐satisfaction was contested, and eventually turned to the reform of public education, is traced. The tendencies that led to …
A better class of boy’ the big brother movement, youth migration and citizenship of empire
The Big Brother Movement was one of the best known schemes of British youth migration in the 1920s. This article examines the aims of the movement, the social origins of the young males brought to Australia and the general effects of the scheme. Represented as a way to provide opportunities for land settlement, the Big Brother Movement raised issues of Empire citizenship as well as those of age relations and middle‐class masculinity. The discussi…
Citizenship and Education in Postwar Australia
Following the Second World War, the Australian nation-state came to provide more educational opportunities but in such a way as to emphasize individual cultural and social adjustment During the 1960s and 1970s, on the other hand, there was increased emphasis on state advocacy of the rights of citizens with claims to social and economic disadvantage. By the 1980s there was in Australia renewed emphasis on individuals' knowledge and skills for soci…
In History and in Education
Bringing English to Order
Vocational guidance, training and employment of youth in New South Wales
(1991). Vocational guidance, training and employment of youth in New South Wales: From depression to post‐war boom. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 15, For your own good: Young people and state intervention in Australia, pp. 51-64
Asian Immigrants to Western Australia
The Political Education of Servants of the State
The Games Ethic and Imperialism
W. B. Hepburn, The Daily Telegraph J.A. Mangan in The Games Ethic and Imperialism not only injects fresh vigour into the old, old story but emphasises the very peculiar nature, both of those institutions. ...is written with elegance, erudition and originality Brian Rees J. A. Mangans new book is a... highly amusing and informative read. book is a serious historical works and such does help us to understand the present. Jon Hartridge This is a sti…
English Education, Social Change and War 1911-20
Convicts and Empire
The 1918 Education Act
The 1918 education act
(1976). The 1918 education act: Origins, aims and development. British Journal of Educational Studies: Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 66-85
R. B. Haldane, the Reconstruction Committee, and the Board of Education, 1916‐18
(1974). R. B. HALDANE, THE RECONSTRUCTION COMMITTEE, AND THE BOARD OF EDUCATION, 1916‐18. Journal of Educational Administration and History: Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 18-25
Extending the educational franchise
This article introduces the notion of the “educational franchise” of Australia’s public universities established in the mid‐nineteenth century. In his recently published study of the public university and social access in the United States, John Aubrey Douglass suggests that from the mid‐nineteenth century a social contract was formed between American public universities and their social and political constituencies: institutions open to all who …
In History and in Education
R. B. Haldane, the Reconstruction Committee, and the Board of Education, 1916‐18
(1974). R. B. HALDANE, THE RECONSTRUCTION COMMITTEE, AND THE BOARD OF EDUCATION, 1916‐18. Journal of Educational Administration and History: Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 18-25
Contrasting narratives in the history of twentieth-century British child migration to Australia
A narrative of personal loss has now supplanted an earlier narrative of rescue and Empire settlement in the history of child migration to Australia in the twentieth century. This article outlines and seeks to understand how these narratives arose. The discussion then attempts to provide another way to explain child migration which embraces changing contexts while being based on a life cycle analysis of the experiences of child migrants both prior…
Borders and Boundaries in the History of Education
The papers published in this special issue of Paedagogica Historica were selected from those presented at the meeting of ISCHE XXVII (Sydney, 2005). This conference was a unique occasion, being the
A better class of boy’ the big brother movement, youth migration and citizenship of empire
The Big Brother Movement was one of the best known schemes of British youth migration in the 1920s. This article examines the aims of the movement, the social origins of the young males brought to Australia and the general effects of the scheme. Represented as a way to provide opportunities for land settlement, the Big Brother Movement raised issues of Empire citizenship as well as those of age relations and middle‐class masculinity. The discussi…
Citizenship and Education in Postwar Australia
Following the Second World War, the Australian nation-state came to provide more educational opportunities but in such a way as to emphasize individual cultural and social adjustment During the 1960s and 1970s, on the other hand, there was increased emphasis on state advocacy of the rights of citizens with claims to social and economic disadvantage. By the 1980s there was in Australia renewed emphasis on individuals' knowledge and skills for soci…
The Political Education of Servants of the State
R. B. Haldane, the Reconstruction Committee, and the Board of Education, 1916‐18
(1974). R. B. HALDANE, THE RECONSTRUCTION COMMITTEE, AND THE BOARD OF EDUCATION, 1916‐18. Journal of Educational Administration and History: Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 18-25
The 1918 Education Act
The 1918 education act
(1976). The 1918 education act: Origins, aims and development. British Journal of Educational Studies: Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 66-85
Convicts and Empire
English Education, Social Change and War 1911-20
The Games Ethic and Imperialism
W. B. Hepburn, The Daily Telegraph J.A. Mangan in The Games Ethic and Imperialism not only injects fresh vigour into the old, old story but emphasises the very peculiar nature, both of those institutions. ...is written with elegance, erudition and originality Brian Rees J. A. Mangans new book is a... highly amusing and informative read. book is a serious historical works and such does help us to understand the present. Jon Hartridge This is a sti…
The Political Education of Servants of the State
Asian Immigrants to Western Australia
Vocational guidance, training and employment of youth in New South Wales
(1991). Vocational guidance, training and employment of youth in New South Wales: From depression to post‐war boom. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 15, For your own good: Young people and state intervention in Australia, pp. 51-64
Bringing English to Order
In History and in Education
Citizenship and Education in Postwar Australia
Following the Second World War, the Australian nation-state came to provide more educational opportunities but in such a way as to emphasize individual cultural and social adjustment During the 1960s and 1970s, on the other hand, there was increased emphasis on state advocacy of the rights of citizens with claims to social and economic disadvantage. By the 1980s there was in Australia renewed emphasis on individuals' knowledge and skills for soci…
A better class of boy’ the big brother movement, youth migration and citizenship of empire
The Big Brother Movement was one of the best known schemes of British youth migration in the 1920s. This article examines the aims of the movement, the social origins of the young males brought to Australia and the general effects of the scheme. Represented as a way to provide opportunities for land settlement, the Big Brother Movement raised issues of Empire citizenship as well as those of age relations and middle‐class masculinity. The discussi…
A Genealogy of an Australian System of Comprehensive High Schools
In New South Wales as for other Australian colonies, the achievement of mainly free, compulsory and secular public education systems in the 1870s was a cause of self‐satisfaction and a belief that late nineteenth‐century Australian public schools were among the best in the world. In this paper, the process by which this self‐satisfaction was contested, and eventually turned to the reform of public education, is traced. The tendencies that led to …
Borders and Boundaries in the History of Education
The papers published in this special issue of Paedagogica Historica were selected from those presented at the meeting of ISCHE XXVII (Sydney, 2005). This conference was a unique occasion, being the
Extending the educational franchise
This article introduces the notion of the “educational franchise” of Australia’s public universities established in the mid‐nineteenth century. In his recently published study of the public university and social access in the United States, John Aubrey Douglass suggests that from the mid‐nineteenth century a social contract was formed between American public universities and their social and political constituencies: institutions open to all who …
From Aries to globalisation in the history of childhood
The death of progressive education
London, Routledge, 2007, 180 pp., £24.99 (paperback), ISBN 978‐0‐415‐35972‐6 In the 1960s and 1970s the issues of access and equity, with a focus on social class and gender, were at the forefront o
Contrasting narratives in the history of twentieth-century British child migration to Australia
A narrative of personal loss has now supplanted an earlier narrative of rescue and Empire settlement in the history of child migration to Australia in the twentieth century. This article outlines and seeks to understand how these narratives arose. The discussion then attempts to provide another way to explain child migration which embraces changing contexts while being based on a life cycle analysis of the experiences of child migrants both prior…
Alexander Mackie
From the late nineteenth century, academic disciplines emerged in universities, marking boundaries of knowledge, teaching and research. Education became a transnational academic discipline, developing across Britain, Europe and North America and providing a foundation for the teaching profession. Educated in Edinburgh, Alexander Mackie was influenced by German idealist philosophy and by progressive views of teaching drawn from the United States. …
Sociology (18 works) · Political science (16 works) · History (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Australian History and Society (9 works) · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy (8 works) · History (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Pedagogy (7 works) · Economics (6 works)