Designing Australian Schools: A Spatial History of Innovation, Pedagogy and Social Change

A future of uncertainty: school, class, ethnicity, gender and power in Australian television’s ‘chalk-operas’ of the 1970s

D Nichols

2023-01-01

High school education underwent a radical change in Australia in the 1960s and 1970s, commensurate with the major changes experien..

Open-plan schooling and everyday utopias: Australia and Denmark in the 1970s

J McLeod, L Rosén Rasmussen

2021-01-01

This article explores the take-up and imaginaries of open-plan schooling during the 1970s, drawing on examples from Denmark and Vi..

Architecture and the school in the twentieth century

J WILLIS

2017-01-01

Through international cases studies that span the Americas, Europe, Africa and Australia, this volume examines historical innovati..

Bristling with opportunity: audiovisual technology in Australian schools from the 1930s to the 1980s

D Nichols, H Lewi

2017-01-01

Designing Schools: Space, Place and Pedagogy

K Darian-Smith, J Willis

2017-01-01

Set around three interlinked themes – school buildings, school spaces and school cultures – this book argues that education is med..

Australian Children’s Cultures of Play and Creativity: Historical, Contemporary and Cross-Cultural Perspectives

K Darian-Smith

2016-01-01

Domestic spaces and school places: Vocational education and gender in modern Australia

K Darian-Smith

2016-01-01

Hans Coper and Paul Ritter: Tactile environments for children in postwar Britain and Australia

G Franklin, D Nichols

2016-01-01

Memorializing Colonial Childhoods: From the Frontier to the Museum

K Darian-Smith

2016-01-01

In the early 1940s, Felicity Clemons, the wife of a Tasmanian doctor, embarked on the task of ‘improving’ a small dolls’ house her..

The classroom is another place?: Ernest J. Kump’s ‘ideal’ learning environments for Californian schools 1937-1962

P Goad

2016-01-01

Through international cases studies that span the Americas, Europe, Africa and Australia, this volume examines historical innovati..

‘We make no discrimination’: Aboriginal education and the socio-spatial arrangements of the Australian classroom

J McLeod, S Healy

2016-01-01

School space shapes pedagogical practice and student identities, yet how this happens has culturally differentiated significance a..

A stimulus for education: Global economic events and the design of Australian schools

H Lewi, C Logan

2015-07-16

From the Apple Store in New York City, to the street markets of the Pan American Highway; from commercial Dubai to the public scho..

Educational Spaces and the ‘Whole’ Child: A Spatial History of School Design, Pedagogy and the Modern Australian Nation

S Healy, K Darian-Smith

2015-06-01

This article combines perspectives from architectural history, educational history and social history to examine the development o..

Bringing it all home: Robin Boyd and Australia’s Embrace of Brutalism, 1955–71

P Goad

2015-01-01

The emergence in late 1950s Australian architecture of what has come to be known historically as Brutalism was complex, diffuse an..

Free Spirits, New Education and the New School: A Different Account of Modernism in Australia, 1925-1975

P GOAD

2015-01-01

Designing woodleigh school: Educator and architects in context

P Goad

2014-09-30

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine the professional context of the educator and architects who designed and conceiv..

From home to civic: Designing the australian school

J Willis

2014-09-30

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine the design of state school buildings in Australia from the 1880s to the 1980s to..