Opinion, policy and practice in N.S.W. education, 1833-1880 : the development of an educational tradition

Barcan, Alan

Opinion, policy and practice in N.S.W. education, 1833-1880 : the development of an educational tradition

Date

1962

Authors

Barcan, Alan

Abstract

The initial aim of this thesis is to provide a factual account of the development of the various branches of education in New South Wales from the collapse of the Anglican monopoly about the time of Governor Bourke's arrival until the Public Instruction Act of 1880, which established a structure which has endured almost to our own day. Of equal importance with this aim has been an attempt to identify the persistent, broad features of N.S.W. education which, taken as a whole, went to make up a distinctive educational tradition.