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Campbell, Craig; Sherington, Geoffrey – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2006
In New South Wales as for other Australian colonies, the achievement of mainly free, compulsory and secular public education systems in the 1870s was a cause of self- satisfaction and a belief that late nineteenth-century Australian public schools were among the best in the world. In this paper, the process by which this self-satisfaction was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Education, Satisfaction, Educational Change