1st Edition
The Promise of the New and Genealogies of Education Reform
1. The promise of the new: genealogies of youth, nation and educational reform in Australia Julie McLeod and Katie Wright
2. ‘Pupils differently circumstanced and with other aims’: governing the post-primary child in early twentieth-century Australia Phil Cormack
3. ‘To see through Johnny and to see Johnny through’: the guidance movement in interwar Australia Katie Wright
4. Educating for ‘world-mindedness’: cosmopolitanism, localism and schooling the adolescent citizen in interwar Australia Julie McLeod
5. A new teacher for a new nation? Teacher education, ‘English’, and schooling in early twentieth-century Australia Bill Green and Jo-Anne Reid
6. Reflections: continuing the conversation Maxine Stephenson
Biography
Julie McLeod is a Professor, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne, Australia, an Australian Research Council Future Fellow, and an Editor of the journal Gender and Education. She works in the sociology and history of education and has published extensively on gender and youth studies, with a focus on identity, inequality and social change.
Katie Wright is an Australian Research Council Fellow (DECRA) in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her research interests focus on historical and sociological studies of education, psychology and childhood. Recent publications include The Rise of the Therapeutic Society: Psychological Knowledge & the Contradictions of Cultural Change (2011).
