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Title A name given to the resource School of Mines, Ballarat Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Photographer unknown Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Public Record Office Victoria, <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/public-record-office-victoria/6287143107">VPRS 14514.P1.Unit 40</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource c1950 https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/f48ea64509c0e2625e1d09f95a4c3525.JPG 1ef2e271d8d6d1a2c7162606a63d7934 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Alf McKenzie's Pupil's Record Book from Boys' Technical School Ballarat Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Courtesy Alf Mckenzie Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource c1942–1943 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Schooling Memories Person An individual. Education Primary: Correspondence Primary: Pura Pura Station school (1930s) Primary: Nerrin Nerrin Primary School (1930s) Primary: Trawalla Primary School (1930s) Secondary: Beaufort Higher Elementary School (c1939–1941) Secondary: Ballarat Technical School (1942–1943) Secondary: School of Mines, Ballarat (1944–1946) Tertiary: South Yarra Teachers College (c1940s?) Tertiary: La Trobe University Tertiary: Deakin University Birth Date 1927 Occupation Metallurgist Teacher: Geelong technical schools Teacher: School of Mines, Ballarat Teacher: United States of America Teacher: United Kingdom (c1950s?) Biographical Text Alf was born in Skipton, central Victoria, in 1927. His father was a rabbiter and then a boundary rider on the Trawalla South Station following the death of his own father. The family lived on the property and, as it was a long way from town, Alf and his twin brother did correspondence schooling, with his mother as supervisor: ‘we did correspondence at the breakfast table; my mum with the bucket of water to wash the dishes in front of her’. When the boys were old enough to ride a horse together, they travelled to a neighbouring Pura Pura station where the owner had provided some land for a one-teacher primary school. This was followed by a number of moves, which saw Alf educated in Trawalla, Beaufort and Ballarat. When Alf was at school in Trawalla he would visit the Beaufort library and he says, ‘I think I discovered the world at that library’. He would read the Illustrated London News and other periodicals and recalls that this was at the time of the Spanish civil war. A particular highlight of his education was his time at Ballarat Technical School, the most valuable aspects being the confidence it instilled in him and the time the teachers had to converse with and get to know the students. He also notes the trust teachers had in students to complete tasks and work independently. Alf taught at two Geelong technical schools for one year prior to his teacher training at South Yarra Teachers College. He was then accepted to teach at the School of Mines in Ballarat, also spending some time as a teacher in Britain and the United States. His interest in metals and chemistry had been encouraged at school and he also spent some time working as a metallurgist. Alf mentions that the highlight of his teaching was ‘the students, the interaction with the students’ and although he had to deal with a few ‘larrikins’ it was the students that kept him teaching: ‘that’s what education should be about, a joint exercise’. He also believes, ‘it’s very difficult to dissociate life in general from schooling and if you were a teacher from life’. Image credits: Page from Alf McKenzie's Pupil's Record Book from Boys' Technical School Ballarat, 1942. Courtesy Alf Mckenzie Birthplace Skipton, Victoria Image credits 1.Page from Alf McKenzie's Pupil's Record Book from Boys' Technical School Ballarat, 1942. Courtesy Alf Mckenzie 2. School of Mines, Ballarat, c1950. Photographer unknown. Public Record Office Victoria, <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/public-record-office-victoria/6287143107">VPRS 14514.P1.Unit 40</a> 3. Alf McKenzie's Pupil's Record Book from Boys' Technical School Ballarat, c1942–1943. Courtesy Alf Mckenzie Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Alf McKenzie Students_1930s Students_1940s Teachers_1950s Teachers_1960s Teachers_1970s https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/b2362f92084ae53cf07b9e40e212572f.jpg 580bdf873b9e55e9f1ed40eb50f61584 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Looking down Victoria Street, Nhill, Victoria Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Photographer unknown. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://viewer.slv.vic.gov.au/?entity=IE1867178&mode=browse" target="_blank" rel="noopener">State Library Victoria, H88.45/10</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1920–1950 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Schooling Memories Person An individual. Birth Date c1922 Education Primary: Winiam East Primary (c1927–1934) Secondary: By correspondence (c1935–1936) Tertiary: n/a Occupation Telephone Exchange, Nhill Biographical Text Audrey grew up in the small western Victorian country town of Winiam East, just southeast of Nhill and 75 kilometres from the South Australian border. She attended the local primary school until grade eight and studied a range of subjects. She particularly remembers her needlework and music classes, suggests she would just ‘scrape through English’ but ‘was always good at maths’. She also remembers being very dissatisfied with her history classes, which mainly focused on Europe, and that they were ‘mostly dates and what happened on those dates and parrot like’ and ‘it was all so far removed from anything we had contact with’. Audrey then completed two years of correspondence schooling, in which she studied a range of subjects, including shorthand and bookkeeping. She remembers there were a few options for students once they finished primary school: some boarded at Nhill High School, a few kilometres away, while others attended boarding schools in Adelaide. She was the only student in her area who chose to do correspondence to complete her secondary schooling as she felt that she was ‘too shy, too young to venture out to a big place like Nhill to board’. She notes that few young people from her community went on to tertiary study as most returned after school to the farms to work with their families. After she had completed her correspondence studies she helped on the farm and then worked on the telephone exchange in Nhill before moving to Warrnambool. Audrey remembers the strong influence of the Depression on the families in her region with many struggling greatly, and suggests poverty inhibited the academic success of some of the children. She recounts how her mother would bake and deliver food to the neighbours, creating a strong ethic of care within her family: ‘I think it made you very considerate of people that were poor, you know, helpful and considerate. Dad and mum were wonderful citizens like that. And I think it rubs off on the kids’. Birthplace Nhill, Victoria Image credits Looking down Victoria Street, Nhill, Victoria, 1920–1950. Photographer unknown. <a href="https://viewer.slv.vic.gov.au/?entity=IE1867178&mode=browse" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">State Library Victoria, H88.45/10</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Audrey McLeod Students_1920s Students_1930s https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/84ccea3d11a3a94b74944530c7f16273.jpg 46f2db068dad3c970f707bec8342cd45 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Girdlestone High School, James Street, Perth (detail). Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Western Australia Government Photographer. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://encore.slwa.wa.gov.au/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2054602" target="_blank" rel="noopener">State Library Western Australia, 008334D</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource January 1951 https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/483befd5e5d545d73d6eac94405b0015.jpg 4839eb8319627cc19d0137f4566e7f1b https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/db394a87fb80c1ce0adc9512f360798f.jpg 86702d5fb4bbf5365b6fa6744e77e0bc https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/b6e398206cc5fea17e20a7bb9bd160b6.jpeg f556700e5a99a8b96b734ca6df7cfdba Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Cathedral Girls School, Shanghai Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lara de la Harpe Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2016 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Lara de la Harpe, <a href="https://findingoldshanghai.wordpress.com/2016/09/26/blog-post-title/">Finding the Old Shanghai</a>, blog Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Schooling Memories Person An individual. Birth Date 1932 Education Primary: Cathedral Girls’ School, Shanghai, China (1936–1940) Primary: St Catherine’s School, Waverley, Sydney (1941–1942) Primary: Bundanoon School (1943–1945) Secondary: China (1940s) Secondary: Hong Kong (1940s) Secondary: Perth (1940s) Tertiary: Claremont Teacher’s College (1951–c1952?) Tertiary: Western Australia Institute of Technology (1970s) Occupation Teacher: Girdlestone Girls’ High School, Perth (1950s) Teacher: Malaysia (1950s/1960s) Teacher: Singapore (1950s/1960s) Teacher: School for the Deaf, Cottesloe (1969) Guidance Officer: Swanbourne High School (1971) Guidance Officer: Chidley Education Centre Guidance Officer: Kwinana High School Biographical Text Barbara was born in Shanghai in 1932 and spent much of her childhood in China and Hong Kong, being schooled within the English education system. She remembers that her childhood and schooling experiences were ‘not typical, but it has allowed me to, I think, get used to a whole range of different people; it doesn’t throw me’. Barb completed her Leaving Certificate in Perth and then studied for an Arts Degree, with a double major in English and Psychology, followed by a teaching qualification. Barb’s first teaching appointment was at Girdlestone Girls’ High School in Perth. She describes it as a ‘stretched out primary school’, as teachers tended to teach a range of subjects similar to primary teachers. In the mid 1950s Barb moved to Malaysia with her husband and spent thirteen years teaching there and in Singapore, before moving back to Perth in 1969. On her return she taught in a School for the Deaf in Cottesloe for a short time, working extensively with the parents to support them in teaching their children. She then decided to move into the Guidance area in schools and did a year of training at Swanbourne High School in 1971. After completing a Counselling Psychology course at WA Institute of Technology, Barb taught at another School for the Deaf, this time in a Guidance capacity. She moved to Chidley Education Centre, ‘a remedial centre for children in remote areas’, and then to Kwinana High School. After her three years at Kwinana, Barb applied for a promotion to senior education officer, which involved managing and coordinating guidance officers in the area. She then moved on to a position as district guidance officer, secondary services, in the south-east region. Barb reflects on the many issues related to gender, class and migration that she confronted in her various roles. And she talks about the collegiality within the Guidance area, remembering that ‘because we were a branch, we formed a very tight unit … I could ring thirty people up to get some help and say tell me what you think about this … which means that we’re exchanging ideas and so on all the time’. She also remembers that many people were engaged in the wider psychology sphere, reading journals and ‘wanting to do something different’. Birthplace Shanghai, China Image credits 1. Girdlestone High School, James Street, Perth, January 1951 (detail). Western Australia Government Photographer. <a href="https://encore.slwa.wa.gov.au/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2054602" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">State Library Western Australia, 008334D</a> 2. Group of 13 senior students, St Catherine's, Waverley (interviewee not pictured), 1 November 1945 . Photographer Sam Hood. <a href="http://archival.sl.nsw.gov.au/Details/archive/110007408" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">State Library New South Wales, Home and Away–11343</a> 3. Group of four senior students with their headmistress, St Catherine's, Waverley (interviewee not pictured), 1 November 1945. Photographer Sam Hood. <a href="http://archival.sl.nsw.gov.au/Details/archive/110007408" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">State Library New South Wales, Home and Away–11349</a> 4. Cathedral Girls School, Shanghai, 2016. Photograph courtesy Lara de la Harpe. From <a href="https://findingoldshanghai.wordpress.com/2016/09/26/blog-post-title/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Finding the Old Shanghai</a>. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Barbara Tydeman Counselling Students_1930s Students_1940s Students_1950s Teachers_1950s Teachers_1960s Teachers_1970s https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/421ae1721eae5c7745b3a730b2629487.jpg 4e5a32097f394eb65d2eb8020dd59d78 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Barry Carozzi's Class at Bell Street Primary School, Grade 1B Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Courtesy Barry Carrozzi, from his blog: <a href="https://inthismy70thyear.wordpress.com/2012/07/12/day-77-school-days-coburg-484-bubs-to-grade-6/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In This My 70th Year</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1949 https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/a0d9a8870f6117d0064f997dda9dc1d5.jpg cde0a83720c4c209d7438454af72e2f6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Barry Carozzi's Class at Bell Street Primary School, Coburg, Grade VIA Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Courtesy Barry Carrozzi, from his blog: <a href="https://inthismy70thyear.wordpress.com/2012/07/12/day-77-school-days-coburg-484-bubs-to-grade-6/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In This My 70th Year</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1954 https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/5d1336945a933d90f83fc8050ba6c93b.jpg 8c4e5c838db7fc60a43f5a46824e66bf Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Melbourne Teachers College Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Photographer Unknown Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER2015093 " target="_blank" rel="noopener">State Library Victoria, H2009.153/17</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource c1950s https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/0523b590a6c7d9681a6f67c63c05b323.jpg 73e3bd4e6cc9553f1bad5a1428c6b78a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Looking east from Wiseman House to the Technical School Glenroy Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Photographer Unknown Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://moreland.libero.com.au/libhist/WebOpac.cls?VERSION=2&ACTION=DISPLAY&RSN=817&DATA=MHD&TOKEN=U86HEHKdzv710&Z=1&SET=4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Moreland City Council, Brunswick Historical Society, 6746</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1956 https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/798c37f0ea43ad6f838a5d677ee76038.jpg 1b4a8e9e0db8bad0713014c36090306d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Aerial view of Essendon High School Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Charles Daniel Pratt, Airspy Collection Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER1672588">State Library Victoria, H2008.41/77</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource c1950-1960 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Schooling Memories Person An individual. Birth Date c1943 Education Primary: Bell Street Primary School, Coburg, Melbourne, Victoria (1949-1956?) Secondary: unknown Tertiary: University of Melbourne (1961–1964) Occupation Teacher: Glenroy Technical College, Melbourne, Victoria (1965–1968) Teacher: Fawkner Technical College, Melbourne, Victoria (1960s?) Teacher: Essendon High School, Melbourne, Victoria (1960s?) Teacher: Chisholm TAFE Berwick & Frankston, Melbourne, Victoria (2000s?) Teacher: Warrandyte High School, Melbourne, Victoria (2009–present) Curriculum Developer Writer Biographical Text Barry decided when he was eleven that he wanted to be a teacher. This was quite an aberration in his family; his father was a labourer for the Board of Works and ‘no one in our extended family had ever been to university’. He received a studentship to the University of Melbourne, which he noted ‘was the only way working-class boys could get into the university in those days’. His first teaching position was at Glenroy Technical College where he taught English and Social Studies. He had a keen interest in remedial English teaching and, after four years at Glenroy Tech, he did a training year at the Psychology Branch. His teaching experience and training in psychology enabled him to develop an interest in pedagogy that involved the students in their classes rather than dictating to them: Barry encouraged the students to write and then use their writing as a basis for their reading. His career included many varied roles in education, curriculum and advocacy – he sat on the Committee for Teaching English to Remedial Students (CTERS) and later became executive officer; he wrote about English teaching; organised a set of readers to be written by ‘a whole bunch of prominent Australian writers’; and tutored remedial English at the University of Melbourne. He was also on the Victorian Association for the Teaching of English Committee and was president from 1978 to 1980. Barry observed much change in education during his career and noted the ‘decision to allow schools to develop their own curriculum’ as ‘the most dramatic change’. He also remembers there was a lot of ‘experimentation’ going on in the early 1970s and that there was recognition that ‘relationships are actually at the core of good teaching’. For more on Barry's life and careers, see his website: <a href="https://inthismy70thyear.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">In This My 70th Year</a> Birthplace Coburg, Melbourne, Victoria Image credits 1. Barry Carozzi's Class at Bell Street Primary School, Grade 1B, 1949. Photographer unknown. Courtesy <a href="https://inthismy70thyear.wordpress.com/2012/07/12/day-77-school-days-coburg-484-bubs-to-grade-6/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Barry Carrozzi</a> 2. Barry Carozzi's Class at Bell Street Primary School, Grade VIA, 1954. Photographer unknown. Courtesy <a href="https://inthismy70thyear.wordpress.com/2012/07/12/day-77-school-days-coburg-484-bubs-to-grade-6/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Barry Carrozzi</a> 3. Melbourne Teachers College, c1950s. Photographer unknown. <a href="http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER2015093%C2%A0">State Library Victoria, H2009.153/17</a> 4. Looking east from Wiseman House to the Technical School Glenroy, 1956. Photographer unknown. <a href="https://moreland.libero.com.au/libhist/WebOpac.cls?VERSION=2&ACTION=DISPLAY&RSN=817&DATA=MHD&TOKEN=U86HEHKdzv710&Z=1&SET=4" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Moreland City Council, Brunswick Historical Society, 6746</a> 5. Aerial view of Essendon High School, c1950-1960. Photographer Charles Daniel Pratt, Airspy Collection. Bibliography Barry Carrozzi, In this my 70th Year [web blog]: <a href="https://inthismy70thyear.wordpress.com/">https://inthismy70thyear.wordpress.com/</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Barry Carozzi Counselling Policy_Administration Students_1940s Students_1950s Teachers_1960s Teachers_1970s Teachers_2000s Teachers_2010s https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/ff09e63e3dc0e7c0a77f0e97f0934d66.jpg 38812a255cb28a9741c8c9faf2d4ff31 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Main Street, Donald Victoria Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Photographer unknown Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://collections.museumvictoria.com.au/items/766802" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Museums Victoria, MM 749</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource c1939 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Schooling Memories Person An individual. Birth Date 1939 Education Primary: Donald Higher Elementary School, Victoria (mid-1940s–c1954) Secondary (Form 5): St Arnaud High School, Victoria (c1954) Secondary (Form 6): Warracknabeal High School, Victoria Form 6 (c1955) Tertiary: RMIT, Melbourne, Victoria (c1956–?) Occupation Chemical Engineer Biographical Text Don* was born in Donald in country Victoria, and attended Donald Higher Elementary School until the end of Form 4, recalling that it was common for country schools to have a combined primary and lower secondary school. The large class sizes and composite arrangements are memories that stand out for 'Don', along with the limited resources, meaning that ‘the smaller ones sat three to a desk’. He remembers his Grade 5 and 6 teacher, the first male teacher he had had, being ‘a good teacher, you enjoyed learning’. He also recalls the impact of his science teacher on his love of the subject, recounting the extra efforts this teacher went to to engage and inspire his students: ‘he had a telescope and he took the class out one night to watch’. After Form 4, 'Don' caught the bus to St Arnaud for Form 5, and then boarded with a local family from Monday to Friday in Warracknabeal for Form 6. He remembers that his family were very supportive of him gaining a good education and it was never questioned that he would go on to tertiary studies. At the age of 17 he moved to Melbourne and boarded with a family while he studied Chemical Engineering at RMIT, which was the only tertiary institution at the time to offer a course in this field. 'Don' worked as a chemical engineer in Melbourne before retiring to country Victoria. *Pseudonym Birthplace Victoria Image credits Main Street, Donald Victoria, c1935. Photographer unknown. <a href="https://collections.museumvictoria.com.au/items/766802" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Museums Victoria, MM 749</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Don Turner* Students_1940s Students_1950s https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/683b76b5e91af97add59cc9e13d2e67a.jpg e865e66dd246ffea1b0064248a7bf6af Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Training School, Teachers College, University of Melbourne Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rose Stereograph Co. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/60321" target="_blank" rel="noopener">State Library Victoria, H32492/4628</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource c1920s–1939 https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/67f02f53b1ec5b41710a65c0fae72c53.jpg 760a158f9a81a233ee879fcd26f29880 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Students at Melbourne Teachers College, Gratton Street, Carlton Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Sears Studios Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER1778176" target="_blank" rel="noopener">State Library Victoria, H87.211/1</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource c1930 https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/c4420248bff6e1e1289ef864872961b8.jpg 8c4e5c838db7fc60a43f5a46824e66bf Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Melbourne Teachers College Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Photographer unknown Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available <a href="http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER2015093 " target="_blank" rel="noopener">State Library Victoria, H2009.153/17</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource c1950s https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/0ddbf722bc4a4138aeddb81408cb7e55.jpg dd4c7899d604388f5943afdc4e44a263 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Camberwell High, built 1940 Subject The topic of the resource Cropped from larger image of Victorian High & Technical Schools Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Photographer Lyle Fowler Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER1766164" target="_blank" rel="noopener">State Library Victoria, Harold Paynting Collection, H92.20/4036</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource c1951 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Schooling Memories Person An individual. Birth Date 1916 Education Primary: Woodside Primary School (1920s) Secondary: Preston Girls’ School (1920s) Secondary: Melbourne Girls’ High School (1920s) Tertiary: Melbourne Teachers’ College (1930s) Occupation Teacher: St Leonards Primary School Teacher: Lloyd Street Central (1950s) Teacher: Ballarat Girls (1950s?) Teacher: Hampton High (1950s?) Teacher: McKinnon High (1950s?) Teacher: Camberwell High (1950s) Teacher: Oakleigh High (1970s) Biographical Text Dorothy was born in 1916 in the Melbourne suburb of Coburg. Shortly after her birth, the family moved to Broken Hill, where her father worked until end of World War I. They then moved to Gippsland where her parents started a farm. Dorothy completed her primary education at a two-teacher school in Woodside and at the end of year eight she went to Melbourne to board with an aunt to finish her schooling. First, she attended Preston Girls’ School and then went to Melbourne Girls’ High School. She remembers that ‘not many schools went up to Year 12 – it was called Leaving Honours – but my father believed girls should be educated and should go too’. This enabled Dorothy to continue onto tertiary education, gaining a teaching qualification. She remembers that she ‘always wanted to be a teacher’, and worked first in the primary, then secondary teaching. She notes how ‘everyone had to start as a primary teacher’ and describes her first teaching position at a one-teacher school in St Leonards, near Geelong: ‘There were twenty-eight [students], which was the biggest [number] you could have in a one teacher school without a sewing teacher … you’d have to have everything up on the board when they came in’. Dorothy went on to teach in a range of schools during the 1950s – Lloyd Street Central, Ballarat Girls, Hampton High and McKinnon High. She then moved to Camberwell High and was made a senior mistress for the girls, which involved a significant disciplinary role. Dorothy was involved in developing a course at Camberwell High called ‘Human Relationships’, which involved sex education and other aspects of human behaviour. She was also given freedom to adapt the history curriculum so that there were no longer standalone American and British History subjects, but instead focused on world history. Dorothy remembers she was able to do many things that were unconventional during her teaching career because of the way she understood and interacted with the students: ‘so we were able to do those things – it’s not just the case of the kids, it’s your relationship with them’. Image credits 1. 2. Students at Melbourne Teachers College, c1930. Photographer Sears Studios. <a href="http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER1778176" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">State Library Victoria, H87.211/1</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Dorothy Moore Policy_Administration Students_1920s Students_1930s Teachers_1940s Teachers_1950s Teachers_1960s Teachers_1970s https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/32e31f8510cd367a08a1843cf616d3d1.jpg 1ead8b5978828090275d28fef7d1622e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Northcote High School Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Graeme Butler Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/7849945%40N02/27481724031" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Northcote Conservation Study, sheet 07 19_1982</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1982 https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/96864581f0a92374ca1b4b2c17a982cf.jpg 57604393d751d57da043eb2e5723479c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Aerial view of Ivanhoe Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Photographer unknown Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="http://www.picturevictoria.vic.gov.au/site/heidelberg/HHS/7475.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Yarra Plenty Regional Library Service, Heidelburg Historical Society, hh0064</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource c1930 https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/6ff4d3dbdf03a05dde52c30cfda44dd9.jpg c81dd0c2628cb2117564ff2681a3c42d https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/3d1d86b8a8c0f13c3f5266d5fb6369bc.tif 09974f359d69a6066449464864b60125 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Engineering School, University of Melbourne Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Ian C.H. Coll. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://viewer.slv.vic.gov.au/?entity=IE1361663&mode=browse" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">State Library Victoria. H82.50/20</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource c1930–1940 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Schooling Memories Person An individual. Education Primary: Ivanhoe State School, Melbourne, Victoria (1932–1937) Secondary: Northcote High School, Melbourne, Victoria (1938–1941) Tertiary: University of Melbourne (1947–1950) Occupation Mechanical Engineer Biographical Text Frank was born in 1925 in Melbourne. He attended Ivanhoe State School for his primary education and then went to Northcote High School. Frank has strong memories of many teachers who made a significant impact on his life. At primary school he had a teacher called Miss Chandler who ‘was an older lady and she had a more intimate manner … she would sit on a desk and instead of teaching or preaching to us she’d really talk to us’. He remembers similar teachers at Northcote High that really made a connection with their students and inspired in him a love of learning and, in particular, writing. During his time at Northcote High a library was started in one of the rooms, which provided Frank with a source for learning about the world, which he really appreciated. After completing four years of high school Frank worked as an office assistant and at the age of eighteen he enlisted for World War II. When the war was over, he returned to Northcote High to complete his matriculation and went on to study Mechanical Engineering at the University of Melbourne, supported by the Commonwealth Reconstruction Training Scheme. Frank has many observations of the ways society has changed since his school days, particularly the way young people were expected only to speak when spoken to. He also remembers the effect of the Depression, a ‘polio epidemic’ and ‘a homogenous, monocultural, monolingual society’ on his schooling. Birth Date 1925 Birthplace Melbourne, Victoria Image credits 1. Northcote High School, 1982. Photographer Graeme Butler. Courtesy the photographer, Northcote Conservation Study sheet 07 19_1982 via <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/7849945%40N02/27481724031" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Flickr</a> 2. Aerial view of Ivanhoe, c1930. Photographer unknown. <a href="http://www.picturevictoria.vic.gov.au/site/heidelberg/HHS/7475.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Yarra Plenty Regional Library Service, Heidelburg Historical Society, hh0064</a> 3. Three ex-RAAF doing engineering at University (interviewee not pictured), 1946. Photographer unknown. <a href="https://viewer.slv.vic.gov.au/?entity=IE139823&mode=browse" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Argus Newspaper Collection of Photographs, State Library Victoria, H99.201/1674</a> 4. Engineering School, University of Melbourne, c1930–1940. Photographer Ian CH Coll. <a href="https://viewer.slv.vic.gov.au/?entity=IE1361663&mode=browse" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">State Library Victoria. H82.50/20</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Frank Lees Students_1930s Students_1940s Students_1950s https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/f17f4f37c1ddb9dc87ff395b6aadba6e.jpg bf4b6fe20dc9fdb99d0900476e2f09c3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Governor Stirling Senior High School Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Francis Aubie Scharr Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived State Library Western Australia, <a href="https://encore.slwa.wa.gov.au/iii/encore/record/C__Rb3388508__Sgovernor%20stirling%20high__Ff%3Afacetmediatype%3Av%3Av%3APhotograph%3A%3A__P0%2C3__Orightresult__X2?lang=eng&suite=def#attachedMediaSection" target="_blank" rel="noopener">060792PD</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource c1965 https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/4f2b2f43ac5483d87a75ee1e7c63b486.jpg 396fbd5d1b71486162a4ad757a4fcd3e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Armadale Senior High School Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Photographer: Fritz Kos Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived State Library Western Australia, <a href="https://encore.slwa.wa.gov.au/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2412062" target="_blank" rel="noopener">340,682PD</a>. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1964 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Schooling Memories Person An individual. Birth Date 1951 Education Primary: York, United Kingdom (1950s) Secondary: York, United Kingdom (early 1960s) Secondary: Armadale Senior High School, Perth (1964) Secondary: Governor Stirling Senior High School, Perth (1964–1968) Tertiary: University of Western Australia (1969–1975) Tertiary: Nedlands Teachers’ College (1971) Occupation Teacher: Geraldton (early 1970s) Teacher: Boddington (early 1970s) Guidance Officer: Girrawheen Senior High School Biographical Text Graham was educated in a range of locations in the 1950s and 1960s – for his primary and early secondary schooling, in the United Kingdom; on the ship when he returned to Australia with his family and, finally, in Perth. He remembers that when he was at secondary school in Perth, ‘they were just starting to introduce Malay and Japanese’ into the language program. He also remembers the influence of his science teacher, Sylvia Blytvich, who had a strong rapport with her students. Graham chose to pursue Science at the University of Western Australia and took up a scholarship for educational studies. He believes he wasn’t a particularly good teacher and, after three years of teaching in secondary schools in Western Australia, he decided to further his studies and move into the guidance area. Graham finished his psychology degree in 1975 and shortly after this he ‘saw in the education circular adverts for counselling assistants’. He was awarded a job and worked for the Guidance and Special Education Branch, participating in some further training in his first couple of years. His role included career and course advice, some personal counselling, testing of children referred with ‘problems’ and at one stage he also took on an extra role of driving instructor! In his first post as a Guidance Officer, Graham remembers that he ‘used to go to the State Film Library and borrow vocational films, and I’d put them on at lunchtime’ to inspire students to think about their career possibilities. Graham noticed many changes in the area of Guidance over his long career, including increased bureaucratic requirements, the separation of career counselling from the guidance role and the shift to Guidance Officers being ‘seen much more professionally competent these days, not just technical people, but you carve your own role’. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource Alfred Crescent Primary School, Fitzroy Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Photographer Unknown Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER1807038" target="_blank" rel="noopener">State Library Victoria, H2008.12/118</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource c1920-1954 https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/49ac571156f966ad96e0b798f8814423.jpg 456e4496ef5f203bd738f839532e4279 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Old Commerce Building, University of Melbourne Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Commercial Photographic Co Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER2010091" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harold Paynting Collection, State Library Victoria, H2009.185/10</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource c1935-1949 https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/80e5237f3fcde49430511f67493e5e48.jpg 1b4a8e9e0db8bad0713014c36090306d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Aerial view of Essendon High School Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Charles Daniel Pratt, Airspy Collection Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER1672588">State Library Victoria, H2008.41/77</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource c1950-1960 https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/9442e89894c940ee595e0301e1ec0efa.jpg 1ead8b5978828090275d28fef7d1622e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Northcote High School Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Graeme Butler Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/7849945%40N02/27481724031" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Northcote Conservation Study, sheet 07 19_1982</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1982 https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/939f98191a35247adeab3ed49eeaaa9d.jpg cf7cb261a7922859c4f05d00a7a8e86c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Melbourne Teachers College Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Photographer unknown Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER2015093%C2%A0">State Library Victoria, H2009.153/17</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource c1950s Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Schooling Memories Person An individual. Birth Date 1925 Education Primary: Dimboola Primary School (1931–1933) Primary: Alfred Crescent Primary School, North Fitzroy (1933–1934) Primary: Falconer Central School, North Fitzroy (1935–1938) Secondary: Northcote High School (1939–1941) Tertiary: Melbourne Teachers College (1946) Tertiary: University of Melbourne (?–1953) Occupation Teacher: Toolong via Port Fairy Teacher: Knots Siding via Erica Teacher: Woodburn via Yea Teacher: Westgarth Central School (1949–c1950) Teacher: Essendon High School (c1950–c1960) Teacher: Heidelberg High School Teacher Education Teacher: Monash Teachers Centre/Rusden Teachers College Teacher Education Teacher: Collingwood Education Centre Assistant Director of Secondary Education Special Assistant to the Director General Biographical Text Hec was born in 1925 in Collingwood and then the family lived in Hawthorn until he was about one and half when his father got a job with the railways, moving them to Dimboola. He has very fond memories of his first years of schooling at Dimboola Primary School, remembering that ‘it wasn’t like going to school in terms of being a chore; it was just fun all the time’. When Hec was in grade four the family moved back to Melbourne and he attended Alfred Crescent Primary School in North Fitzroy. He describes it as a ‘dour horrid place’, contrasting greatly with his early school experiences. Hec then went to Falconer Central School in North Fitzroy. He remembers that the students were streamed and suggests that many were ‘kids who were just waiting ‘till they were fourteen and they would leave’. Hec, however, went on to attend Northcote High School and then, due to the Depression and World War II, postponed further study, taking and took up a job as a junior clerk in the Victorian Railways. When he was eighteen, Hec joined the Air Force and served in the war, before returning to Australia and taking up a place in the Commonwealth Reconstruction Training Scheme, recalling that, ‘hundreds of teachers became trained under this scheme’. He discovered that teaching ‘was just made for me; I was as happy as can be’, and he went on to teach geography and accounting at various schools across Victoria. In 1961 Hec received a travelling scholarship from the Education Department and did an Associateship at the Institute of Education in London for a year. Hec studied the ‘teaching of geography at the sixth form level’ and looked at how geography was being taught in schools in the UK. Hec continued to engage in education when he returned to Australia, taking on a variety of roles, including as a teacher at Rusden Teachers College, Assistant Director of Secondary Education and Special Assistant to the Director General. Part of the Assistant Director role involved inspecting schools and observing teachers and their teaching. Hec describes the ways in which inspectors tried to support schools and his own work in developing ‘in-service camps’ and in particular his desire to develop ‘field study for geography’. In all his experience of education, Hec observed that, ‘If you tell a person he’s stupid or she’s stupid, they’ll oblige you, and if you tell groups of kids look you’re hopeless, they’ll be no hopers’. He therefore advocated education that was connected to real events and experiences and not just the ‘test for the sake of a test’. Image credits 1. Alfred Crescent Primary School, Fitzroy, c1920-1954. <a href="http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER1807038" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">State Library Victoria, H2008.12/118</a> 2. Old Commerce Building, University of Melbourne, c1935-1949. Commercial Photographic Co. <a href="http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER2010091" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Harold Paynting Collection, State Library Victoria, H2009.185/10</a> 3. Aerial view of Essendon High School, c1950-1960. Photographer Charles Daniel Pratt, Airspy Collection. <a href="http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER1672588">State Library Victoria, H2008.41/77</a> 4. Northcote High School, 1982. Photographer Graeme Butler. Courtesy the photographer, Northcote Conservation Study sheet 07 19_1982 via <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/7849945%40N02/27481724031" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Flickr</a> 5. Melbourne Teachers College, c1950s. Photographer unknown. <a href="http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER2015093%C2%A0">State Library Victoria, H2009.153/17</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Hec Gallagher Policy_Administration Students_1930s Students_1940s Teachers_1940s Teachers_1950s Teachers_1960s Teachers_1970s https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/7037ec176e8736842fa7f3b349457e73.jpg f65689e7a252551dcbcd382c0c728e92 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Lygon Street Building, University High, Parkville, Melbourne Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Photographer unknown Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Courtesy <a href="http://www.unihigh.vic.edu.au/index.php/our-community/alumni/history">University High Alumni</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1966 https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/4d19b8f41d058fd2223496631154f1cb.jpg cf7cb261a7922859c4f05d00a7a8e86c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Melbourne Teachers College Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Photographer unknown Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER2015093%C2%A0">State Library Victoria, H2009.153/17</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource c1950s https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/738466ee519d71c61cc6a1d3bd3aae37.jpg d45eb60f09b098277c514963973e36fa Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Schools & Technical Highs, including Camberwell High at bottom left Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lyle Fowler Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://viewer.slv.vic.gov.au/?entity=IE563323">State Library Victoria, H92.20/4036</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource c1951 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Schooling Memories Person An individual. Birth Date c1930s–1940s Education Primary: Not stated Secondary: Camberwell High School, Melbourne, Victoria (1940s–1950s) Secondary: University High School, Parkville, Melbourne, Victoria (1940s–1950s) Tertiary: Melbourne Teachers College (1950s) Tertiary: University of Melbourne Occupation Teacher: Mont Albert Central School, Melbourne, Victoria (1950s) Teacher: Brunswick Girls’ School, Melbourne, Victoria Teacher: Montmorency High School, Melbourne, Victoria (1970s) Teacher: Albert Park Central, Melbourne, Victoria Biographical Text Helen was born in Redcliffs, northern Victoria, and is the youngest of three children. The family moved to Lancefield during World War II and in 1945 they moved to West Preston, where her father was a vicar. A little later they moved to Blackburn and Helen attended Camberwell High, before finishing her secondary schooling at University High School. She was accepted into the latter due to her good results in the Leaving Certificate and she remembers that education, particularly for girls, was highly valued in her family. After completing her Matriculation, she went on to study teaching on a studentship, support that she recalls enabled many of her contemporaries to gain further education, as their families were not able to support them financially while at university. Her first teaching position was at Mont Albert Central School in the 1950s, before she moved to Brunswick Girls’ School to teach English, Geography and History, as well as some Maths ‘because they were short of arithmetic teachers’. She remembers that ‘you sort of pitched in and taught whatever’. After having time off to have a family, Helen went back to university to finish her Arts degree and took up teaching again in the 1970s at Montmorency High School. She remembers the ’70s as a very exciting time in education: ‘you had that feeling that people were sort of enthusiastic to do things’. Helen had a significant role in the teaching of Social Studies and led the development of the Community Involvement elective. She engaged students through film, guest speakers and excursions and reflects that ‘they were the most amazing experiences for those kids, that was the sort of teaching I liked, being able to facilitate that, where you were widening kids’ horizons – shocking them a bit, but making them think about what’s going on in the world’. Birthplace Redcliffs, Victoria Image credits 1. Lygon Street Building, University High, Parkville, Melbourne, 1966. Photographer unknown. Courtesy <a href="http://www.unihigh.vic.edu.au/index.php/our-community/alumni/history">University High Alumni</a> 2. Melbourne Teachers College, c1950s. Photographer unknown. <a href="http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER2015093%C2%A0">State Library Victoria, H2009.153/17</a> 3. Schools & Technical Highs, including Camberwell High at bottom left (detail), c1951. Photographer Lyle Fowler. <a href="https://viewer.slv.vic.gov.au/?entity=IE563323">State Library Victoria, H92.20/4036</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Helen Symons Students_1940s Students_1950s Teachers_1950s Teachers_1960s Teachers_1970s https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/8c11c194c9d59028605079b373455a3d.jpg 868699c67da2ce16587242168675ac35 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jan McCarthy (right) as a nurse in Vietnam (detail) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Maria Constance Boyle Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C288976/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Australian War Memorial, P02017.022</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1968 https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/7179e9cd96c0c4cbcc6887dd082c1245.jpg a739728fcf2109a4febb27c6968ce3ed Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Seymour High School Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://www.seymourcollege.vic.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Spirit-Magazine-1951.pdf">The Spirit, Seymour High School Magazine 4</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Courtesy Seymour College Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1951 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Photographer unknown https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/8042c696b55fb0b2803606d11734605c.jpg fda4804def09e20b0d7e28b59aa366c9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Seymour High School Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://www.seymourcollege.vic.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Spirit-Magazine-1960.pdf">Spirit, Seymour High School Magazine 13</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Courtesy Seymour College Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1960 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Photographer unknown https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/2a09fec45b9d5f6021358cbae59e428b.jpg 996bfbf14be2c691dc854b077e62f368 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Demonstration of New Equipment at Seymour High School Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Photographer unknown Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://www.seymourcollege.vic.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Spirit-Magazine-1960.pdf">Spirit, Seymour High School Magazine 13</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Courtesy Seymour College Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1960 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Schooling Memories Person An individual. Birth Date 1940 Education Primary: Seymour Primary School (1945–1952) Secondary: Seymour High School (1953–1956) Tertiary: Nursing Cadetship (1957) Tertiary: Box Hill Hospital Nursing Training (1958–1961) Occupation Nurse Biographical Text Jan is the youngest of five children. She was born in 1940 in Seymour, Victoria and attended Seymour Primary School and Seymour High School. Her father worked on the railways as a guard and her mother was a milliner and a tailoress, before becoming a housewife with the arrival of her children. Jan remembers her primary school teachers being very good and quite revered in the town. A strong memory of her time at school, just after World War II, is the provision of hot cocoa: ‘It was a thing I think in all schools at morning tea time break; you went over to the shelter sheds and there was hot cocoa. All the kids, you took your pannikin or whatever and you got a cup of hot cocoa which was very nice in the winter’. At high school Jan remembers studying a range of subjects but being particularly focused on sport, something she enjoyed greatly. After Matriculation Jan studied to be a nurse and worked at the Box Hill Hospital before going overseas to study midwifery in Scotland and work in the UK. She travelled through Europe and when back in Australia she joined the Army and became an Army nurse, working in a field hospital in Vietnam in 1968-9. On her return to Australia, Jan worked in many different cities and towns as an Army nurse and finally became Director of Nursing, retiring in 1992. In her retirement, Jan looks after war widows, is on the Committee of Lighthorse Park, is the President of the Returned Nurses, and plays bowls. Image credits 1. Jan McCarthy (right), as a nurse in the Vietnam War (detail), 1968. Photographer Marie Constance Boyle. <a href="https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C288976/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Australian War Memorial, P02017.022</a> 2. Seymour High School, from <a href="https://www.seymourcollege.vic.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Spirit-Magazine-1951.pdf">The Spirit, Seymour High School Magazine 4</a>, 1951. Courtesy Seymour College 3. Seymour High School, from <a href="https://www.seymourcollege.vic.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Spirit-Magazine-1960.pdf">Spirit, Seymour High School Magazine 13</a>, 1960. Courtesy Seymour College 4. Demonstration of New Equipment at Seymour High School, from Spirit, <a href="https://www.seymourcollege.vic.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Spirit-Magazine-1960.pdf">Spirit, Seymour High School Magazine 13</a>, 1960 (interviewee not pictured). Courtesy Seymour College Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource Schoolgirls at Methodist Ladies College Claremont (interviewee not pictured) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Photographer unknown Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://www.slwa.wa.gov.au/images/pd015/015,812PD.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">State Library Western Australia, 015811PD</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1937 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Schooling Memories Person An individual. Birth Date 1926 Education Primary: Broome State School (1930s) Primary: Thornbury State School (1930s) Secondary: Methodist Ladies College, Perth (1930s and 1940s) Occupation Office Administration Biographical Text Jean grew up in Broome in Western Australia in the 1930s, her father being involved in the pearling business. She attended a two-teacher school in Broome for her primary schooling, however, she spent a year in Melbourne when she was eight, staying with her grandmother and aunt and attending Thornbury State School. When she was eleven and a half she started boarding school Methodist Ladies College in Perth and remembers that when she started there at she felt underprepared, as many of the other students had studied algebra and French and her schooling in Broome hadn’t included these subjects. Jean could only travel home once a year to Broome on the ship, so her boarding school friends became like family to her. She recalls ‘you learned to be tolerant of other people’s foibles’. Contact with her family was minimal: ‘we wrote home once a week … no telephone calls, didn’t speak to them for long periods’. She remembers the long journey on the ship between Perth and Broome and the freedom afforded the dozen or so children who were travelling unaccompanied: ‘we virtually looked after ourselves, we were responsible for ourselves, and we were treated like that. We weren’t treated like ineffectual children’. She believes children were less demanding and left to their own devices more in those days. Jean was sixteen when she completed the Junior Certificate and, although she would have liked to continue on to the Leaving Certificate, her family’s financial situation was tight and it was decided she should attend Business School instead: ‘what I wanted to do was go on and get a degree in English and History, you see … well of course you don’t do that if you’re going to earn a living at that stage’. She had a number of office administration jobs and remembers that ‘I learned things all the way along the line, and it stood me in good stead for all the other things I’ve done since’. Image credits Schoolgirls at Methodist Ladies College Claremont, 1937. Photographer unknown. <a href="https://www.slwa.wa.gov.au/images/pd015/015,812PD.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">State Library Western Australia, 015811PD</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource Kevin Yon, playing tennis for University High School Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Photographer unknown Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Age Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 27 May 1939, 31 https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/b5646e7824f9755ca7a8bcb7a21270bc.jpg 1ead8b5978828090275d28fef7d1622e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Northcote High School Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Graeme Butler Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/7849945%40N02/27481724031" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Flickr</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1982 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Northcote Conservation Study Sheet 07 19_1982 https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/cd64175b0c1cdbf107a4a15b389e08dd.jpg 8c4e5c838db7fc60a43f5a46824e66bf Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Melbourne Teachers College Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER2015093%C2%A0">State Library Victoria, H2009.153/17</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource c1950s Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Photographer unknown https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/9c1c81dfd3bb0570d92da54ee62c7c53.jpg da764de6c99128a77a4bb7728794b259 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Upwey Higher Elementary School [later Upwey High School] Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Photographer unknown Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://viewer.slv.vic.gov.au/?entity=IE1284321&mode=browse" target="_blank" rel="noopener">State Library Victoria, H2014.1019/1</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1937–1945 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Schooling Memories Person An individual. Birth Date 1920s Education Primary: North Brunswick State School, Melbourne, Victoria (1920s) Secondary: University High School, Parkville, Melbourne, Victoria (1930s) Tertiary: Melbourne Teachers College (1940s) Occupation Teacher: Upwey High, Melbourne, Victoria Teacher: Burwood High, Melbourne, Victoria Teacher: Dandenong High, Melbourne, Victoria Teacher: Blackburn High, Melbourne, Victoria Teacher: Nunawading High, Melbourne, Victoria Acting Principal: Eltham High School, Melbourne, Victoria Principal: Northcote High School, Melbourne, Victoria (1975–1980) Principal: Waverley High School (1981) Biographical Text Kevin was born in Brunswick in the 1920s. His family were pioneering tobacco growers in the King Valley in Northern Victoria. His father’s family are related to the Ah Kets, ‘probably one of the most prominent Chinese families in the early Chinese history here’ and his mother’s family have links to the Hoy Lings; his grandfather was a merchant in the goldfields in Castlemaine and owned Ling Na restaurant in Little Bourke Street. Kevin was an only child and remembers that he was very independent and active: ‘I was always a go-getter, I was always a leader, it didn’t matter what it was’. He believes he went to ‘one of probably the best Primary schools in the State’ in which the students were expected to be inquirers and researchers. He then sat the entrance exam to University High School and, as an ambitious student, sportsman and leader, he excelled in everything in which he was involved. Although he was guaranteed a job with a leading sporting firm when he finished school, he opted to become a teacher instead and worked in a large number of Melbourne high schools in the 1950s and ’60s, including Upwey High, Burwood High, Dandenong High, Blackburn High and Nunawading High. In 1974 he became principal of the all-boys Northcote High School. He remembers this as a time of hope with the Whitlam government giving greater funding to schools; however, many were particularly run down, under resourced and in huge competition with independent schools. Northcote High had a population of mainly Greek and Italian students at the time, which created some racial tensions. While Kevin was principal he introduced female enrolments, creating what is now the co-educational Northcote High School. Of his teaching philosophy and principles Kevin notes that ‘my method of teaching was not that you had to remember things, I didn’t care what they said as long as they thought about it’. He remembers that he learnt during his time as Acting Principal at Eltham High School and Principal at Northcote High School during the 1970s that ‘there was no formula that any Principal or teacher could adopt for the rest of their life for teaching; you had to adapt to the circumstances’. He also states that good principals are ‘people who can communicate with people and understand how to handle staff’. Kevin made significant contributions to the secondary education sphere as a Chinese-Australian amidst both overt and subtle racism, however, he remembers his ambitions to achieve kept him competitive: ‘I’d be better than them anyway, what they could do I could do better’. Birthplace Brunswick, Melbourne, Victoria Death Date 2012 Image credits 1. Kevin Yon as a young tennis player, c1930s–1940s. <a href="https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/kevin-yon-obituary?pid=155874779&page=2" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Legacy Obituaries</a> 2. Kevin Yon, playing tennis for University High School, 1931. Photographer unknown. Age, 27 May, 31 via <a href="https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/205632371" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Trove</a> 3. Melbourne Teachers College, c1950s. Photographer unknown. <a href="http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER2015093%C2%A0">State Library Victoria, H2009.153/17</a> 4. Northcote High School, 1982. Photographer Graeme Butler. Northcote Conservation Study sheet 07 19_1982 via <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/7849945%40N02/27481724031">Flickr</a> 5. Upwey High School (originally Upwey Higher Elementary), 1937–1945. Photographer unknown. <a href="https://viewer.slv.vic.gov.au/?entity=IE1284321&mode=browse" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">State Library Victoria, H2014.1019/1</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Title A name given to the resource Students in Class at Dookie Agricultural College Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Photographer Unknown Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived National Archives Australia Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1945 https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/079d55d93ae9539f30e147fe82519370.jpg a259a8c5a2a8132c813ab76b6c26c9f7 https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/9df49d14358fb00fb1a559e12375fc33.jpg 8c4e5c838db7fc60a43f5a46824e66bf Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Subject The topic of the resource Melbourne Teachers College Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Photographer unknown Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER2015093%C2%A0">State Library Victoria, H2009.153/17</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource c1950s https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/901a22771635f6be2284073d78df64d9.jpg 5bada88281510f3882240205d741e40a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Lygon Street Building, University High, Parkville, Melbourne Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Photographer unknown Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="http://www.unihigh.vic.edu.au/index.php/our-community/alumni/history">University High Alumni</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1966 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Schooling Memories Person An individual. Birth Date 1921 Education Primary: Windsor Primary School (1927–?) Primary: Elwood Central School Primary: Elsternwick Primary School Secondary: University High School (1930s) Tertiary: Melbourne Teachers College (1940s) Occupation Teacher: Miller Street in North Fitzroy (early 1940s) Teacher: Korong Vale (1943–?) Teacher: Bairnsdale High School (1940s) Teacher: Dookie Agricultural School Planning and Survey Officer: Department of Education Principal: Burwood Teachers’ College (1961–?) Director of Education, Victoria Biographical Text Lawrie Shears was born in 1921 and began his schooling at Windsor Primary School on his sixth birthday. He relished the opportunities school afforded and went on to study at Elsternwick Primary, Elwood Central School and University High School. This was quite a feat, as his father didn’t know that high schools existed and no one in his family had pursued an academic path. Although Lawrie initially wanted to be a lawyer, he ‘showed some signs of being able to be a good teacher’ and on finishing his Leaving Certificate he was offered a Junior Teacher role at Miller Street in North Fitzroy. His experiences with his senior teacher, Pauline Knight at Miller Street convinced him that he ‘wanted to be a teacher’. He went on to study at Teachers College and took up his first teaching position at Korong Vale in 1943 where he ‘stayed in the local pub, played tennis and did all those things’. He moved on to Bairnsdale High School soon after and established a social sciences classroom, displaying a tendency towards innovation and leadership that would characterise the rest of his career. His next teaching position was at Dookie Agricultural School, where he revolutionised the timetable and syllabus, before heading to London on a John and Eric Smyth Travelling Scholarship to complete a PhD in the dynamics of leadership in adolescent school groups. When Lawrie returned to Australia he took on a number of roles in which he instituted significant changes in education. The first was as a Planning and Survey Officer, which involved establishing a large number of Teachers’ Colleges across Victoria and ensuring students from country areas were able to access training opportunities by providing hostel accommodation. His next move was to principal of Burwood Teachers’ College in 1961 and he recalls this was labelled the ‘golden age of teacher education’. His influences in this realm included instigating better connections between practising principals and teacher education institutions, and sending students on trips across Australia to learn about the country they would be teaching in. The next stage in Lawrie’s career was as Director of Education in Victoria. In this role he wrote a series of influential papers regarding various elements of the education system and had responsibility for ‘education from babies to adults’. At this time, he also became the president of the Victorian Institute of Educational Research, which would foreshadow the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) and he recalls was ‘the premier institute in Australia’ at the time. Image credits 1. Students in class, Dookie Agricultural College, Victoria. Photographer Unknown. National Archives Australia, 11738199 2. Blacksmith's Shop at Dookie Agricultural College, 1945. Photographer J Gallagher. National Archives of Australia, 11738248 Melbourne Teachers College, c1950s. Photographer unknown. <a href="http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER2015093%C2%A0">State Library Victoria, H2009.153/17</a> 2. Lygon Street Building, University High, Parkville, Melbourne, 1966. Photographer unknown. Courtesy <a href="http://www.unihigh.vic.edu.au/index.php/our-community/alumni/history">University High Alumni</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Lawrie Shears Policy_Administration Students_1920s Students_1930s Students_1940s Teachers_1940s Teachers_1950s Teachers_1960s https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/bad9b76a471dfb7f4afa91ccf8d71e84.jpg a35eff50c49f777d50c1c1deb39eab75 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Schools & Technical Highs, including Camberwell High at bottom left (detail) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lyle Fowler Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://viewer.slv.vic.gov.au/?entity=IE563323">State Library Victoria, H92.20/4036</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource c1951 https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/b445abab34e049cac955dcc463793bc8.jpg dd4c7899d604388f5943afdc4e44a263 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Camberwell High (detail of images of Schools & Technical Highs in Victoria) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lyle Fowler Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://viewer.slv.vic.gov.au/?entity=IE563323">State Library Victoria, H92.20/4036</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource c1951 https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/cbfc61e42b285ab74718aac521248d51.jpg 8c4e5c838db7fc60a43f5a46824e66bf Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Melbourne Teachers College Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Photographer unknown Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER2015093%C2%A0">State Library Victoria, H2009.153/17</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource c1950s https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/4e63ac1078ddf5a8855b0e06cb0d7f54.jpg 6cb92f33ff76af8508390bc786295f19 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource After Lecture Old Arts, 1st Term (interviewee not pictured) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Photographer unknown Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available <a href="https://gallery.its.unimelb.edu.au/umblumaic/imu.php?request=display&port=45208&id=f98e&flag=ecatalogue&offset=0&count=default&view=details">University of Melbourne Archives, 1986.0200.00002</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1953 https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/cb961289628b510be6257d2446943332.jpg 78a42e684495a0c0f72bbf4c5fef667e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource School of Mines, Ballarat Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Photographer unknown Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/public-record-office-victoria/6287143107" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Public Record Office Victoria, VPRS 14514.P1.Unit 40</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource c1950 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Schooling Memories Person An individual. Birth Date 1936 Education Primary: Box Hill South Primary School, Melbourne, Victoria (1940s) Secondary: Camberwell High School, Melbourne, Victoria (1940s) Secondary: University High School, Parkville, Melbourne, Victoria (1940s, 1950s) Tertiary: University of Melbourne (early 1950s) Tertiary: Melbourne Teachers’ College (c1952/3) Occupation Teacher: Ballarat School of Mines, Victoria (1957–?) Teacher: Montmorency High School, Melbourne, Victoria (1972–?) Guidance Counsellor Biographical Text Loris was born in Koo Wee Rup, southeast of Melbourne, Victoria. The family moved to Box Hill South in Melbourne when she was five and a half and she attended the local primary school. She was then recommended to Camberwell High School and finished her high schooling at University High. She remembers that Camberwell High felt very ‘homogenous’ compared with University High, where she met students from a range of cultural backgrounds. She found this diverse environment, the high quality teaching and the links with the University of Melbourne stimulating and exciting; she went on to study teaching at university. She remembers her first teaching experiences were when she was in primary school during World War II. When there were not enough teachers she would ‘supervise all the lower grades’ as they completed the work the principal had set them. Her first official teaching position was at the Ballarat School of Mines in 1957, where she taught in the girls’ part of the school, which had only recently opened. She notes that it was ‘a male-dominated institution’. There was no written curriculum to follow for her subjects of English or Social Studies so she was able to be quite creative. Over the next few decades Loris fulfilled the roles of mother, teacher and counsellor. Her experiences watching her own four children grow and learn informed much of her teaching at Montmorency High School. When her children were young she also trained as a Lifeline counsellor and worked at the Citizens’ Advice Bureau. While at Montmorency High School she worked closely with Olive Zacharov and eventually took over her position of student welfare coordinator. Loris notes the many changes that occurred in education during the seventies, such as the emergence of disruptive student behaviour and the beginning of differential teaching. She states that even among all the change and challenges of teaching: ‘I never regretted being in the classroom. I love teaching’. Birthplace Koo Wee Rup, Victoria Image credits 1. Schools & Technical Highs, including Camberwell High at bottom left (detail), c1951. Photograph Lyle Fowler. <a href="https://viewer.slv.vic.gov.au/?entity=IE563323">State Library Victoria, H92.20/4036</a> 2. Camberwell High (detail of images of Schools & Technical Highs in Victoria), c1951. Photographer Lyle Fowler. <a href="https://viewer.slv.vic.gov.au/?entity=IE563323">State Library Victoria, H92.20/4036</a> 3. Melbourne Teachers College, c1950s. Photographer unknown. <a href="http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER2015093%C2%A0">State Library Victoria, H2009.153/17</a> 4. After Lecture Old Arts, 1st Term (interviewee not pictured), 1953. Photographer unknown. <a href="https://gallery.its.unimelb.edu.au/umblumaic/imu.php?request=display&port=45208&id=f98e&flag=ecatalogue&offset=0&count=default&view=details">University of Melbourne Archives, 1986.0200.00002</a> 5. School of Mines, Ballarat, c1950. Photographer unknown. Public Record Office Victoria, <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/public-record-office-victoria/6287143107">VPRS 14514.P1.Unit 40</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Loris Wilmot Counselling Students_1940s Students_1950s Teachers_1960s Teachers_1970s https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/a1dd7355b510bec3c8efad94dd0fefdf.jpg ab9bc47c60216878d0467ac713577e23 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Pascoe Vale Primary School, 1929 Building Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Laurie Burchell Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived State Library Victoria, Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available <a href="https://viewer.slv.vic.gov.au/?entity=IE1132743&mode=browse">State Library Victoria, H2006.165/287</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource c1970–1999 https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/29011718d104b017c1b96bf616e5be1b.jpg 8c4e5c838db7fc60a43f5a46824e66bf Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Melbourne Teachers College Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Photographer Unknown Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER2015093 " target="_blank" rel="noopener">State Library Victoria, H2009.153/17</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1953 https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/4c9c0c2cf028554efcb3e93e299d0513.jpg 5bada88281510f3882240205d741e40a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Lygon Street Building, University High School, Parkville, Melbourne Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Photographer Unknown Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="http://www.unihigh.vic.edu.au/index.php/our-community/alumni/history" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University High School Alumni</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1966 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Schooling Memories Person An individual. Birth Date 1940 Education Primary: Coburg North Primary, Melbourne, Victoria (1940s) Primary: Pascoe Vale Primary, Melbourne, Victoria (1940s) Primary: Princes Hill Central School, Carlton, Melbourne, Victoria (1940s–1950s) Secondary: University High School, Parkville, Melbourne, Victoria (1950s) Tertiary: Melbourne Teacher’s College (1958–1959) Tertiary: La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria Tertiary: RMIT, Melbourne, Victoria Occupation Teacher: Morwell High School, Melbourne, Victoria (1960–?) Librarian: Doutta Galla, Essendon, Melbourne, Victoria Principal: Pascoe Vale North Primary School, Melbourne, Victoria Biographical Text Malcolm was born in 1940 in Brunswick in Melbourne and his parents had a fruit and confectionary shop on Bell Street, near the corner of Essex Street. They left the shop in 1947 and moved around Victoria quite a bit as Malcolm’s father acquired various jobs. They eventually settled in Melbourne and Malcolm attended Princes Hill Central School to Form Two and then went to University High School where he ‘matriculated and then went on to Melbourne Teachers College’. Some of his strongest memories of University High are related to his involvement in the cadets. He remembers that both involvement in cadets and Scouts inspired him to become a teacher: ‘as a patrol leader [you would] teach the others how to do the knots and all those sorts of things. And then in the cadets it was the same thing except you were teaching them how to pull a Bren gun down’. Malcolm was trained as a primary teacher; however, his first teaching appointment in 1960 was at Morwell High School ‘because they were short of teachers’. He taught English, History, Geography, Science, Art and French to Forms One and Two. This was the beginning of a teaching career that involved many varied roles including the sole teacher of a small country school, relieving teacher for the Warrigal inspectorate, librarian, delivery of professional development for the Library Branch [what is this?] and finally Principal of Pascoe Vale North Primary School. Some of the major changes Malcolm observed during the seventies were the introduction of school libraries and the end of ‘printed curricula’. Malcolm believes another big change is that there is now ‘too much non-teaching’, which was ‘one of the reasons I think that I … resigned’. Birthplace Brunswick, Melbourne, Victoria Image credits 1. Pascoe Vale Primary School 1929 Building (detail), c1970–1999. Photographer Laurie Burchell. <a href="https://viewer.slv.vic.gov.au/?entity=IE1132743&mode=browse">State Library Victoria, H2006.165/287</a> 2. Lygon Street Building, University High, Parkville, Melbourne, 1966. Photographer unknown. Courtesy <a href="http://www.unihigh.vic.edu.au/index.php/our-community/alumni/history">University High Alumni</a> 3. Melbourne Teachers College, c1950s. Photographer unknown. <a href="http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER2015093%C2%A0">State Library Victoria, H2009.153/17</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Malcolm McIlvena Policy_Administration Students_1940s Students_1950s Teachers_1960s Teachers_1970s https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/1d00f40f3ba7bb8f3d00f361f5ae7767.jpg 996bfbf14be2c691dc854b077e62f368 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Demonstration of New Equipment at Seymour High School Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Photographer unknown Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://www.seymourcollege.vic.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Spirit-Magazine-1960.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Spirit, Seymour High School Magazine 13</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Courtesy Seymour College Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1960 https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/764d6eec683d189fec44c81897b9634e.jpg a739728fcf2109a4febb27c6968ce3ed Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Seymour High School Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Photographer unknown Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://www.seymourcollege.vic.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Spirit-Magazine-1951.pdf">The Spirit</a><a href="https://www.seymourcollege.vic.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Spirit-Magazine-1951.pdf">, Seymour High School Magazine 4</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Courtesy Seymour College Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1951 https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/ec589d64e4ce22b3cca24a5422bedfc1.jpg fda4804def09e20b0d7e28b59aa366c9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Seymour High School Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Photographer unknown Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Courtesy Seymour College Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1960 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://www.seymourcollege.vic.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Spirit-Magazine-1960.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Spirit, Seymour High School Magazine 13</a> https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/20584caac4512065af43cfb5ad2a96c3.jpg 8c4e5c838db7fc60a43f5a46824e66bf Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Melbourne Teachers College Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Photographer Unknown Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER2015093 " target="_blank" rel="noopener">State Library Victoria, H2009.153/17</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1953 https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/7094b5c58e3d1a609547048937618d36.jpg 210de21252e97feaeb543ec756a89a4a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource After a Lecture in the Old Arts Building, University of Melbourne, 1st Term (interviewee not pictured) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Photographer Unknown Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gallery.its.unimelb.edu.au/umblumaic/imu.php?request=display&port=45208&id=f98e&flag=ecatalogue&offset=0&count=default&view=details" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of Melbourne Archives, 1986.0200.00002</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1953 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Schooling Memories Person An individual. Birth Date 1939 Education Primary: Broadford, Victoria (1940s) Secondary: Seymour High School, Victoria (1950s) Tertiary: Melbourne Teachers College (1950s) Tertiary: Caulfield Technical College, Melbourne, Victoria Tertiary: RMIT, Melbourne, Victoria Tertiary: Melbourne University Occupation Teacher: Colac, Victoria (1950s) Teacher: Broadford, Victoria (1950s) Teacher: Europe (1950s?) Teacher: Gladstone, Queensland Biographical Text Marilyn was born in Bendigo in central Victoria in 1939 and grew up the nearby towns of Broadford and Seymour. She remembers her primary school years in Broadford in which the children would sit around a big fireplace and listen to the teacher. She also remembers learning folk dances with the aid of a radio program. She was an ambitious student at Seymour High School, competing with the boys to get the highest grades. She remembers her mother placing a high value on education for girls: ‘my mum’s mother, now she didn’t want her girls to be working in factories, she made them stay at school for as long as possible so I think my mother probably had that sort of attitude too’. She also remembers the introduction of Australian History, remembering that, after studying British History, ‘suddenly we’re hearing it, we’re realising that we do have history as well’. She notes that Seymour High School offered students lots of opportunities and she became particularly involved in the softball team and the choirs, recalling the excitement of the first operetta that was performed in the Seymour town hall. Marilyn was inspired by some of the women teachers, such as her music teacher, enabling her to realise ‘wow I can do anything’. She went on to study teaching in Melbourne on a scholarship and became an art teacher. Her first teaching position was at Colac and then Broadford. After completing the three years of service attached to her scholarship she went to Europe and later, Queensland. Birthplace Bendigo, Victoria Image credits 1. Demonstration of New Equipment at Seymour High School, from <a href="https://www.seymourcollege.vic.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Spirit-Magazine-1960.pdf">Spirit, Seymour High School Magazine 13</a>, 1960 (interviewee not pictured). Courtesy Seymour College 2. Seymour High School, from <a href="https://www.seymourcollege.vic.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Spirit-Magazine-1951.pdf">The Spirit, Seymour High School Magazine 4</a>, 1951. Courtesy Seymour College 3. Seymour High School, from <a href="https://www.seymourcollege.vic.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Spirit-Magazine-1960.pdf">Spirit, Seymour High School Magazine 13</a>, 1960. Courtesy Seymour College 4. Melbourne Teachers College, c1950s. Photographer unknown. <a href="http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER2015093%C2%A0">State Library Victoria, H2009.153/17</a> 5. After Lecture Old Arts, (interviewee not pictured), 1953. Photographer unknown. <a href="https://gallery.its.unimelb.edu.au/umblumaic/imu.php?request=display&port=45208&id=f98e&flag=ecatalogue&offset=0&count=default&view=details">University of Melbourne Archives, 1986.0200.00002</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Marilyn Haertel Students_1940s Students_1950s Teachers_1950s https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/d31ecae2d176e7f1f0195fb9406fba55.jpg 0c1cb74a6710bb3ca3fdc4d2a2026212 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ballarat Junior Technical School Students and Staff (detail) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Photographer unknown Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://victoriancollections.net.au/items/59a8bdbe21ea6f1fa8513501" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Federation University Australia Historical Collection, 03501</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource c1932 https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/3e806c375430d09cf792086d1cd08a9d.jpg 8d8b77decaf714388c2e908806f37c12 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ballarat Junior Technical School Students and Staff Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Photographer unknown Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://victoriancollections.net.au/items/59a8bdbe21ea6f1fa8513501" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Federation University Australia Historical Collection, 03501</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource c1932 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Schooling Memories Person An individual. Birth Date 1933 Education Primary: Pleasant Street Primary School, Number 695, Ballarat, Victoria (1939–1944) Secondary: Ballarat Junior Technical School, Victoria (1945–1948) Tertiary: Machining Apprenticeship (1949–1954) Occupation Machinist Biographical Text Norman was born in 1933 in Ballarat, the youngest of four children. His parents had a delicatessen in Sturt Street and the family lived behind the shop. He attended Pleasant Street Primary School and then Ballarat Junior Technical School. He enjoyed his schooling experiences, remembering in particular two teachers whom instilled in him a strong sense of the value of listening, which was to be important in his later work. One of the things Norm enjoyed immensely during his primary schooling was the opportunity to play in the school brass band, an unusual and exciting program. He was disappointed that his parents could not afford for him to continue as a recruit for the Ballarat City Band after his experience with the band in primary school. He also remembers the effect of the war on his schooling with trenches being dug in the ‘boys’ yard’ for air raid drills and the presence of American soldiers on the nearby base. He describes the range of disciplinary measures employed at both his primary and technical schools, but states that overall, ‘we had good teachers’. Norm attended the Ballarat Junior Technical School because he was ‘better with my hands than I was with my brains’ and, due to experience working on his father’s ‘old T model Ford’, he had ‘more of an industrial mind.’ His studies at technical school involved a range of subjects and prepared him well for a machining apprenticeship at the age of 16 at a pipeline valve manufacturer. He remained in that line of work for 45 years, rising through the ranks during his career, eventually becoming assistant to the production manager. Birthplace Ballarat, Victoria Image credits Ballarat Junior Technical School Students and Staff, c1932. Photographer Unknown. Federation University Australia Historical Collection (Geoffrey Blainey Research Centre), 03501 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Norman D'Angri Students_1930s Students_1940s Students_1950s https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/ecb43db4e46c078f8b664ab40d3f45c5.jpg 7979a7d60f3816b52fc0628d517a736f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Port Pirie High School, South Australia Subject The topic of the resource Photographer unknown Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=11739477" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Archives Australia, A1200/L42277</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1962 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Schooling Memories Person An individual. Birth Date 1940 Education Primary: Colonel Light Gardens Primary School, Adelaide (c1945–1951) Secondary: Unley High School, Adelaide (c1952–1956) Tertiary: Unknown (c1957–1959) Occupation Teacher: Port Pirie High School, South Australia Special Education Teacher: Berri, South Australia (c1962–1964) Special Education Teacher: Whyalla, South Australia (early 1970s) Training Supervisor: Special Education (1970s–1990s) Biographical Text Pam grew up in Adelaide and attended Colonel Light Gardens Primary School and Unley High School, before taking up studies to become a primary school teacher. She remembered that she had ‘want[ed] to be a teacher for a long time’ and that she had a particular interest in special education. She won a scholarship for her teacher training and was bonded to the South Australian country town of Port Pirie. Although primary trained, Pam also taught in the high school as there were teacher shortages. During her time there, she was completed a ‘course for difficult and backward children’ and was invited to teach in the town of Berri in a Special Education role. Here she won a scholarship to become a teacher/psychologist, completing her degree with a psychology major followed by two years of on-the-job training. Pam gives a spirited account of the training she received as an apprentice, remembering that it was a ‘very lively, exciting place’ with ‘a lot of discussion’. Pam’s career in Special Education spanned four decades and involved a range of roles. These included as a remedial reading teacher in the 1960s, a teacher/psychologist and regional officer, involving travelling to outlying towns in the 1970s and then as a training supervisor for Special Education officers in the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s. In the 1970s, she suggests, ‘South Australia did lead Australia at that stage in offering education to students – in most other states they were excluded from school’, highlighting the leading role that South Australia played in Special Education. Pam notes the many changes that have occurred in the delivery of Special Education over the time she has worked in the field, observing shifts in values that guide this work, and the social and contextual shifts that have impacted the area. She laments the most recent narrowing of the role of Special Education workers, remembering that, ‘it was a joy of a job and I think you miss that if you’re just a psychologist wandering around looking for a few problems’. Birthplace Adelaide Image credits Port Pirie High School, South Australia, 1962. Photographer unknown. <a href="https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=11739477" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">National Archives of Australia, A1200/L42277</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Pamela Jones Counselling Students_1940s Students_1950s Teachers_1960s Teachers_1970s Teachers_1980s Teachers_1990s https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/6b2c662b5f02407baac2086f106c6dba.jpg dccfaf7ae807f8a175639212c596e48e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource High School, Ballarat Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Victorian Railways Photographer Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/97518" target="_blank" rel="noopener">State Library Victoria, H91.330/1155</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1947 https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/4a38f844c0ba71e167c824c344a28083.jpg d3d11fb8691984287daa0c03a44f85d4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The High School, Ballarat, Vic. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rose Stereograph Co. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/62965" target="_blank" rel="noopener">State Library Victoria, H32492/2521 </a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource c1920–1954 https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/f0d9fe2beab444c082927c7daa720224.jpg cf7cb261a7922859c4f05d00a7a8e86c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Melbourne Teachers College Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Photographer unknown Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER2015093%C2%A0">State Library Victoria, H2009.153/17</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource c1950s https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/386f4949d0a47ebd6b4e3c619e6efe0a.jpg 210de21252e97feaeb543ec756a89a4a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource After Lecture in Old Arts, 1st Term (interviewee not pictured) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Photographer unknown Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gallery.its.unimelb.edu.au/umblumaic/imu.php?request=display&port=45208&id=f98e&flag=ecatalogue&offset=0&count=default&view=details">University of Melbourne Archives, 1986.0200.00002</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1953 https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/71a0c32b7f528ca02970dff8e63e63ee.jpg 1ead8b5978828090275d28fef7d1622e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Northcote High School Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Graeme Butler Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Northcote Conservation Study sheet 07 19_1982 via <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/7849945%40N02/27481724031">Flickr</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1982 https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/4b0efd3ed3c7211f6778691e4140784d.jpg c4c1e1f8206ece5b5e44af0c7deab44d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Bowbrook School Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Photographer unknown Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived London Metropolitan Archives, SC_PHL_02_0350_67_5540 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1965 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Schooling Memories Person An individual. Birth Date 1940 Education Primary: Invermay State School number 882 (late 1940s) Secondary: Ballarat High School (1950s) Tertiary: University of Melbourne (1958–1960) Occupation Geelong High School Bowbrook School for Girls, London Reservoir High School Northcote High School (1973–1989, 1997–2004) St. John’s Greek Orthodox College Preston (1990–1996) Biographical Text Robert was born in 1940 and grew up just outside Ballarat on a farm that had been in the family for a number of generations. He attended the one-teacher Invermay primary school and remembers the teacher fondly, a man ‘to whom I am really indebted in many, many respects … he inculcated in us humane values’. He went on to Ballarat High School, initially boarding with his mother’s aunts, then returning to the family farm after his father’s death in 1955, from whence he cycled eight miles each day to school, after helping milk the cows. He enjoyed his time at Ballarat High, being placed in the ‘professional stream’ and studying history, English, literature and Latin for his Matriculation. He notes the high academic standards of his education at Ballarat High School and comments on the quality of teachers, particularly his ‘outstanding Junior Latin teacher’, who shared aspects of his work with refugees and migrants. Robert suggests the teacher’s students ‘were sort of imbued with a very early notion of multiculturalism’ through this experience. Robert attended the University of Melbourne, studying Arts Honours in English and History and being supported on a secondary studentship before completing his tertiary studies with a Diploma of Education. His first teaching assignment was at Geelong High School for three years, after which he spent the next three years in Europe doing an assortment of work, including teaching in London. When he returned to Australia he taught at Reservoir High School and then became Head of English at Northcote High School in 1973. He taught there for fifteen years, then moved to St. John’s Greek Orthodox College in Preston for six years before, returning to Northcote High School in 1997, and retiring in 2004. Of his own teaching career Robert has many reflections and comparisons. At Northcote, he and some other teachers started to adapt the curriculum to suit the needs of their students (particularly the large Greek population at Northcote) and include more Australian literary content. He also states that it is in History that he noticed a ‘major change’ over time. He believes that the ‘inclusion and acknowledgement of the Aboriginal History of Australia is important and beneficial and only right’ and that the breadth of History offered to students is much better than when he was at school. Image credits 1. High School, Ballarat, 1947. Victorian Railways Photographer. <a href="http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/97518" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">State Library Victoria, H91.330/1155</a> 2. The High School, Ballarat, 1920–1954. Rose Stereograph Co. <a href="http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/62965" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">State Library Victoria, H32492/2521</a> 3. Melbourne Teachers College, c1950s. Photographer unknown. <a href="http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER2015093%C2%A0">State Library Victoria, H2009.153/17</a> 4. After Lecture Old Arts, 1st Term (interviewee not pictured), 1953. Photographer unknown. <a href="https://gallery.its.unimelb.edu.au/umblumaic/imu.php?request=display&port=45208&id=f98e&flag=ecatalogue&offset=0&count=default&view=details">University of Melbourne Archives, 1986.0200.00002</a> 5. Northcote High School, 1982. Photographer Graeme Butler. Northcote Conservation Study sheet 07 19_1982 via <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/7849945%40N02/27481724031">Flickr</a> 6. Bowbrook School, 1965. Photographer unknown. London Metropolitan Archives, SC_PHL_02_0350_67_5540 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Robert Bridges Students_1940s Students_1950s Students_1960s Teachers_1970s Teachers_1980s Teachers_1990s Teachers_2000s https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/6156ac96a74f23c0c8863302a2d4c151.png 6d011d5a5d500ad9c98a1bd399eebd7f https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/4828cb9646f6f68003ca95df247995b7.jpg 456e4496ef5f203bd738f839532e4279 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Old Commerce Building, University of Melbourne Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Commercial Photographic Co Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER2010091" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harold Paynting Collection, State Library Victoria, H2009.185/10</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource c1935-1949 https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/dfcf2c758752639fc3feeefed3cc8a11.jpg 7a82eaf8cdad2f3752933a5920401805 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Stephen Mason's School Workbooks Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Courtesy Stephen Mason Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1920s–1940s Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Schooling Memories Person An individual. Birth Date 1924 Education Primary: Yarra Park Primary School, Richmond, Melbourne, Victoria (early 1930s) Primary: West Preston State School, Melbourne, Victoria (early 1930s) Secondary: Coburg High School, Melbourne, Victoria (1935–1937) Secondary: Melbourne High School (1938–1939) University of Melbourne (1940–1943, then post 1945) Occupation State Bank Victoria Biographical Text Steve was born in Richmond in 1924 and spent a little time in his early childhood in Gippsland, where his father was a teacher, before moving back to Richmond to live with his grandmother when he started school. He began his primary education at Yarra Park School in Richmond and then attended West Preston State School. A strong memory of his primary school experience is the large class sizes – up to 70 children in a class – and the authority of the teachers, ‘you never queried what your teacher said, there was no challenging’. Steve recalls how young students at this time were quite independent, going across the road for lunch and riding bicycles long distances to get to school. He attended two high schools: the first, Coburg High, where he remembers his Latin teacher inspiring a long-lasting love of the language. The second high school he attended was Melbourne High, which he remembers fondly, noting Geology excursions, the library and academic rigor as important aspects of that experience. He left Melbourne High at the age of 15 and started work in the State Bank, studying commerce at university alongside his work. Part-way through his degree he left for World War II and continued his work and study when he returned. He worked for the State Bank for 49 years. Steve is proud of the family tradition of attendance at Melbourne High School and the value of academic study, instilled in him by both his family and his teachers. Birthplace Richmond, Melbourne, Victoria Image credits 1. Coburg High School, 1928. Photographer unknown. <a href="http://www.picturevictoria.vic.gov.au/site/coburg/chs/15981.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Coburg Historical Society, R3.12</a> 2. Old Commerce Building, University of Melbourne, c1935–1949. Commercial Photographic Co. Harold Paynting Collection, <a href="http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER2010091">State Library Victoria, H2009.185/10</a> 3. Steven Mason's School Workbooks, 1920s-1940s. Courtesy Steve Mason Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Stephen Mason Students_1930s Students_1940s https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/b90be161f6245cd60f4a5a2bd8989a3b.jpg 6237caf437ded591ec339c072ebdc446 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Students Receiving a Lecture, Working Mens College, later Melbourne Technical College Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Photographer unknown Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived State Library Victoria, <a href="http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/46274" target="_blank" rel="noopener">H82.288.41.1 2</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource c1920–1930 https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/dbb887871a677842e6fe4d4d70a80901.jpg 2464d81a9c49e6b412793711f904cb70 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Grade 3 Teacher Preparing for a Film Showing, Brunswick East Primary School Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Photographer unknown Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Public Record Office Victoria, <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/public-record-office-victoria/8165524462" target="_blank" rel="noopener">VPRS 14514:P1, Unit 6</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1954 https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/a1bc8676be03bbd416c4091284d82946.jpg 41b8c76bb00677643f08fc310b6d37bd Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Working Men's Technical College, Melbourne, c1906. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Photographer Unknown Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived State Library Victoria, <a href="http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER1667756" target="_blank" rel="noopener">H96.200/504</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource c1906 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Schooling Memories Person An individual. Birth Date 1938 Education Primary: Albury Infant School (1940s) Primary: Albury Boys Public School (1940s) Primary: Albury Grammar School, Grades 5 and 6 (1940s) Secondary: Albury Grammar School (1940s–1950s) Tertiary: Melbourne Technical College Occupation Chemical Engineer Anglican Chaplain/Minister Biographical Text Stuart was born in St Kilda East in Melbourne in 1938 and his family moved to Albury in the north of Victoria when he was three. He completed his primary and secondary schooling in Albury, first attending Albury Boys Public School and then going on to Albury Grammar School from grade 5. He remembers that opportunities for students to serve the school and build understandings of citizenship were particularly prominent. He was involved in the cadets and was a Vice House Captain. He partook in regular morning assemblies and at the end of the year the school community came together and did maintenance ‘around the ground, painting the windows, frames and all this sort of stuff’, through which, he notes, ‘you learnt a bit and you enjoyed it’. When reflecting on the values inherent in his education, Stuart expresses gratitude for ‘the privilege of all that was offered to me by the school, its ethos, and which I didn’t fully realise until thrown into life of my own and had a bit more maturity’. Stuart completed the Leaving Certificate and then moved to Melbourne, where he had a job at Melbourne Technical College and studied chemical engineering part time. When he turned eighteen Stuart had to undertake national service training and he regards his earlier cadet education as proving important background. He then worked in the area of gas and fuel for a time before his career took quite a turn and he trained to be an Anglican minister, working up until retirement as a chaplain in Melbourne and Geelong. Birthplace St Kilda East, Melbourne, Victoria Image credits 1. Students Receiving a Lecture, Working Mens College, later Melbourne Technical College, c.1920–1930. Photographer unknown. State Library Victoria, <a href="http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/46274" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">H82.288.41.1/2</a>. 2. Grade 3 Teacher Preparing for a Film Showing, Brunswick East Primary School, 1954. Public Record Office Victoria, <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/public-record-office-victoria/8165524462" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">VPRS 14514:P1, Unit 6/3</a>. 3. Working Men's Technical College Melbourne, c1906. Photographer Unknown.State Library Victoria, <a href="http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER1667756" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">H96.200/504</a>. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Stuart Young Students_1940s Students_1950s https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/132de217c21e791f85ba62b17eaf2ca2.jpg 9bb0c8363667b3c5426d13cdb2c6c339 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ballarat School of Mines Staff Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Photographer Unknown Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://victoriancollections.net.au/items/575554ebd0cdd11cf8717057" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Federation University Australia Historical Collection (Geoffrey Blainey Research Centre), 18975</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource c1970s? https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/c5b3fe716359eb5c651958cb22ec377a.jpg 3fe055e08de626db1eb33e8539284888 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ballarat School of Mines TAFE Art Teachers, including Valda D'Angri (third from right) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Photographer Unknown Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://victoriancollections.net.au/items/59b1492d21ea671de46587c3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Federation University Australia Historical Collection, 07301</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource c1970s? https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/492c2fe660b2a2c2fbe109a1c26fc516.jpg 78a42e684495a0c0f72bbf4c5fef667e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource School of Mines, Ballarat Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Photographer unknown Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Public Record Office Victoria, <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/public-record-office-victoria/6287143107">VPRS 14514.P1.Unit 40</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource c1950 https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/cc89d3909542eca8428218c2051fa3cf.jpg 66c4de5c476f693701bf27d098e9ebee Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ballarat Primary School, Humffray Street (interviewee not pictured) Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/public-record-office-victoria/6287573950" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Public Record Office Victoria, VPRS 14514- P1-Unit 3</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1950s? Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Schooling Memories Person An individual. Birth Date 1930s Education Primary: State School No. 27, Humffray Street, Ballarat (1940s) Secondary: Girls’ School, Hopetoun Street, Ballarat (1940s–1950s) Tertiary: The School of Mines, Ballarat (1950s) Occupation Draughtswoman Teacher: Girls’ School, Hopetoun Street, Ballarat Teacher: The School of Mines, Ballarat Biographical Text Val grew up in Ballarat and started school in the early 1940s, during World War II. Her mother was a teacher and her father worked in Melbourne on war-related business. She attended kindergarten, which she recalled was unusual for the time, before starting primary school at the State School in Humffray Street, Ballarat. One of her strongest memories of primary school was the care and commitment of her teachers. She remembered Miss Baxter, who helped her through her struggles with maths and sold silkworms to the children, encouraging them to be scientifically curious. She also recalls Mr. Sinclair, who brought gladioli into the classroom and ran a Friday afternoon quiz, which was very popular. Val completed her secondary school education at Ballarat Girls’ School and at 15 years of age went on to tertiary study at The School of Mines, where she trained in art and dressmaking. After completing her education, she worked as draughtswoman before becoming a teacher. The remainder of her career was spent teaching art and textiles at both secondary and tertiary levels. She taught at the secondary school that she had attended and notes the many changes that occurred there between her time as a student and a teacher, such as new buildings, the introduction of male teachers and changes in student attitude and discipline. In reflecting on her own school experiences, Val said that the most important thing was that ‘it broadened my mind and it prepared me for working’. Val’s experiences as a teacher allowed her to reflect on her own teachers and she ‘realised just what a wonderful set of people those teachers were’ and one of the strong memories of her teaching time was her Principal’s commitment to outdoor education through the purchase of some land for ‘a permanent school camp’. She recalled her experiences as a Girl Guide as valuable in enabling her to support the camping program at the school. In reflecting on the changes in education over her lifetime she noted the better conditions in which students now learnt and the increased range of subjects offered. Image credits 1. Ballarat School of Mines Staff, c1970s. Photographer Unknown. <a href="Federation%20University%20Australia%20Historical%20Collection%20(Geoffrey%20Blainey%20Research%20Centre),%2018975" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Federation University Australia Historical Collection (Geoffrey Blainey Research Centre), 18975</a> 2. Ballarat School of Mines Art Staff, including Valda D'Angri (third from right), c1970s. Photographer Unknown. <a href="Federation%20University%20Australia%20Historical%20Collection,%2007301" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Federation University Australia Historical Collection (Geoffrey Blainey Research Centre), 07301</a> 3. School of Mines, Ballarat, c1950. Photographer unknown. Public Record Office Victoria, <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/public-record-office-victoria/6287143107">VPRS 14514.P1.Unit 40</a> 4. Ballarat Primary School, Humffray Street, 1950s?<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/public-record-office-victoria/6287573950" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Public Record Office Victoria, VPRS 14514- P1-Unit 3</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Valda D'Angri Students_1940s Students_1950s Teachers_1960s Teachers_1970s https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/c249b5338a0148d1297e1c95fe3b4b5a.jpg 2724ebfd7c959bb7813da4f461bf216a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource MacRobertson Girls High School, Melbourne Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Photographer unknown Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://viewer.slv.vic.gov.au/?entity=IE1846802&mode=browse" target="_blank" rel="noopener">State Library Victoria, H88.33/95</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Australian News and Information Bureau Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource c1953–1965 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Schooling Memories Person An individual. Birth Date Unknown Education Primary: Unknown Secondary: Unknown Tertiary: [Melbourne?] Teachers’ College University of Melbourne (Science/Psychology) (1970s) Occupation Teacher: Drouin High School, Victoria (1968-) Teacher: The Mac.Robertson High School, Melbourne, Victoria (1970s) Teacher: Sydney Road School, Coburg, Melbourne, Victoria (1970s?) Guidance Officer: Kyneton High School, Victoria Biographical Text Victoria* has been actively involved in educational change since becoming a teacher in the late 1960s. Her first teaching position was at Drouin High School where she was involved in development of materials for the internal assessment of Biology as responsibility for assessment began to be moved from predominantly external to mostly school-based. She remembers one of the influential figures in education at the time was Robert Reed, who in 1968 was Director of Secondary Education and phased out the Intermediate Certificate examinations and developed the ‘Ten Principles of Secondary Education’, which helped to guide reform. She recalls how this marked the end of segregated subjects such as woodwork and created foundations for greater equity in schools in which everyone had to have access to all subjects in the curriculum. 'Victoria went on to work in the Psychology Office of the Education Department in the 1970s, initially part-time while studying, and then taking on a full-time position that included some in-service training for teachers and some research work with Kyneton High School. Victoria remembers that the special annexe program initiated by the teachers at Kyneton High and supported by the Psychology Office of the Department of Education was highly successful: ‘It was really interesting to see that you could actually move a group of students to having better social relationships and more comfort with being around the school and so on’. She notes that the active progressive schools’ movement in Victoria was highly diverse, offering options for students who were disengaged socially, academically and emotionally from school and also options for more connected students and families wanting to push the boundaries of what education was about. She remembers it being an amazing time in education – ‘the sorts of things that you could do; it was incredible’. Victoria then joined the Australian Labor Party and in 1979 was involved in the Policy Committee for Youth, Sport and Recreation, initiating a subcommittee dealing with issues of youth unemployment and education. This subcommittee engaged with youth and developed a series of motions for the State Conference, enabling some substantial change in the ways education was structured and how it could better support all students. *A pseudonym Image credits MacRobertson Girls High School, c1953–1965 (detail). Australian News and Information Bureau. <a href="State%20Library%20Victoria,%20H88.33/95" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">State Library of Victoria, SLV_H88.33/95</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Victoria Maynard* Counselling Students_1950s Students_1960s Teachers_1960s Teachers_1970s