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Optional Course Reading Material: Australian: Education Records
*Course material will only be sent to students who are registered in the course.
Education records can be a fascinating resource to add more detail and interest to our ancestor’s lives. The records may not always give us biographical information to take our family lines further back in time, but the records will tell us more about the lives they lived. Today’s education arrangements are quite different from those in the 18th and 19th centuries.
For the purposes of this course, we will mostly be looking at educational records from 1788 through to 1950. We will explore education records which can include archival records, memorabilia, photographs, building plans, newspaper reports, published school histories and local histories. Archival records are those created by the school such as administrative files, correspondence files, building files, pupil admission registers, corporal punishment registers of teachers, photographs of buildings and pupils, building plans, sporting memorabilia and other records. Records explored will span primary school to adult education and will include students as well as staff.
Course Length: 7 weeks
MODULE 1
INTRODUCTION
Why use education records?
Brief History of Education in Australia
Brief Timeline
What are education records?
Where are the records?
MODULE 2
PRIMARY EDUCATION
State Primary Schools
Industrial & Reformatory Schools
Private Primary Schools
Ragged Schools
Grammar schools
MODULE 3
SECONDARY EDUCATION
Locating High Schools
Where Are The Records?
Private Church & Independent Schools
Old Boys (or Girls) Associations
MODULE 4
TERTIARY EDUCATION
Technical and Further Education
Student records
Staff Records
Sporting Records
Education Gazettes
University Collecting Archives
Other University Organisations
MODULE 5
ADULT EDUCATION
Schools of Arts & Mechanics’ Institutes
Original Records
Literary Institutes
University of the Third Age (U3A)
MODULE 6
EDUCATION STAFF RECORDS
School Committees
Portal Websites
Staff Records
Church & Independent Schools
SUGGESTED READING & RESOURCES