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Doris Chadwick Collection (D233)
History of School Education in Australasia
Overview
The Doris Chadwick 'History of School Education in Australasia'
Collection
comprises school magazines and texts, primary readers, curriculum
and syllabus material, plus reference material for both students and
teachers. The material originates from Australia, New Zealand, Papua
New Guinea, Great Britain and the United States, with publication dates
ranging from the 1890s to the late 1960s. Nearly 5000 items are
included in total.
Many of the texts and readers are representative of the types used by
Australian state Departments of Education (or Departments of Public
Instruction as some were previously known). As such, the collection
represents a valuable source of information for research into the
history of school education in Australia.
Background
The collection was compiled during the 1960s and 70s by Doris E.
Chadwick (1899-1979), assistant editor of the New South Wales School Magazine from
1929 to 1950 and editor from 1950 to 1959. It was acquired by the
Archives in 1999 from OTEN (the Open Training and Education Network),
an Institute of the NSW TAFE Commission. Prior to this the collection
had been in storage for a number of years.
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Contents of the collection
Details of the original arrangement of the collection are
unclear. Archives staff have arranged the publications
into broad subject categories to facilitate identification and
retrieval (eg. school magazines). These are listed below. Detailed
inventories or title lists for some of the series are available online.
Inventories for the other series can be provided on request.
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Access to the collection
Access to material within the collection is available by
appointment. Requestors need to specify beforehand which
categories/titles they wish to view,
as the selected material will need to be retrieved from storage. Contact
the Archivist for more information.
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10-Jul-2007 12:04
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