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BOOK REVIEWS material, it is also noteworthy that the documents included in this book and those included in Austin, A. G. and Selleck, R. J. W. The Australian Government School 1830-1914 (Pitman, 1975) complement rather than duplicate each other. The volume includes a comprehensive index and a useful list of suggestions for further reading. However in the absence of a “ Table of Documents ” it would have been appropriate for the “ Contents ” page to have shown the sub-sections into which each of the six major sections is divided. The small number of illustrations selected are pertinent and serve to highlight points and create interest. Hopefully the contributors will now consider compiling a companion volume of illustrations of teachers and pupils, different types of schools, architectural plans, teaching situations and equipment, examples of pupils’ work and activities, educational cartoons, and so on, a volume which would add further meat to the bones of Australian educational history. In general, the editor and the five other contributors (B. Bessant, J. F. Cleverley, W. F. Connell, J. R. Lawry and R. C. Petersen) have succeeded in producing a very useful and well edited source book which, inter alia, demonstrates that
Australian Journal of Education – SAGE
Published: Oct 1, 1976
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