Schooling Outback Children in Post-Colonial Australia, 1901–1950

This article encapsulates historical research from many sources on the New South Wales government's implementation of universal, compulsory education for Australian children living in remote and isolated country areas of the “Outback” through the use of travelling schools, subsidised schools, one teacher bush Public schools, tutors and governesses, correspondence education, central rural schools and the School of the Air. An examination is also made of the Far West Children's Scheme as a special form of schooling and health treatment and education for underprivileged outback children. In this context, educational theory and practice and government polity will be considered in a period that encompasses the establishment in 1901 of the Commonwealth of Australia, the First World War, the Great Depression, the Second World War and the post-war reconstruction of education

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