- Rowse , Tim . 1978 . Australian Liberalism and National Character , Melbourne : Kibble Books .
- Gleason , Philip . 1983 . ‘Identifying Identity: A Semantic History’ . Journal of American History , 69 ( 4 ) March : 910 – 31 .
- White , Richard . 1979 . ‘The Australian Way of Life’ . Historical Studies , 18 ( 73 ) October : 528 – 45 .
- Rose , Jacqueline . 1984 . The Case of Peter Pan or the Impossibility of Children's Fiction , 110 London : Macmillan .
- Steedman , Carolyn . 1990 . Childhood, Culture and Class in Britain: Margaret McMillan, 1860–1931 , 66 London : Virago .
- Steedman , Carolyn . 1986 . Landscape for a Good Woman: A Story of Two Lives , 108 London : Virago .
- 1995 . Strange Dislocations: Childhood and the Idea of Human Interiority 1780–1930 , London : Virago . her latest book
- Walkerdine , Valerie . 1990 . “ ‘Schoolgirl Fictions’ ” . In Schoolgirl Fictions , Edited by: Walkerdine , Valerie . 116 – 17 . London : Verso .
- Anderson , Benedict . 1991 . Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism , 4 London : Verso .
- White , Richard . 1981 . Inventing Australia: Images and Identity 1688–1980 , Sydney : Allen & Unwin .
- Lake , Marilyn . 1986 . ‘The Politics of Respectability: Identifying the Masculinist Context’ . Historical Studies , 22 ( 86 ) April : 116 – 31 .
- Curthoys , Ann . 1993 . ‘Identity Crisis: Colonialism, Nation and Gender in Australian History’ . Gender & History , 5 ( 2 ) Summer : 165 – 76 .
- Grimshaw , Patricia , Lake , Marilyn , McGrath , Ann and Quartly , Marian . 1994 . Creating a Nation , Melbourne : McPhee Gribble .
- White , Richard and Russell , Penny , eds. 1997 . Memories and Dreams: Reflections on Twentieth Century Australia: Pastiche II , Sydney : Allen & Unwin .
- Sheridan , Susan . 1995 . Along the Faultlines: Sex, Race and Nation in Australian Women's Writing 1880s–1930s , Sydney : Allen & Unwin .
- Zizek , Slavoj . 1989 . The Sublime Object of Ideology , London : Verso . especially pp. 64–6, 114–17, 158–61
- Steedman . Childhood, Culture and Class in Britain , 62 – 80 .
- Alomes , Stephen , Dober , Mark and Hellier , Donna . 1984 . “ ‘The Social Context , of Postwar Conservatism’ ” . In Australia's First Cold War. 1945–1953 , Edited by: Curthoys , Ann and Merritt , John . vol. 1 , 1 – 28 . Sydney : Allen & Unwin . Society, Communism and Culture
- Murphy , John . 1995 . ‘Shaping the Cold War Family: Politics, Domesticity and Policy Interventions in the 1950s’ . Australian Historical Studies , 26 ( 105 ) October : 544 – 67 .
- Finnane , Mark . 1989 . ‘Censorship and the Child: Explaining the Comics Campaign’ . Australian Historical Studies , 23 ( 92 ) April : 220 – 40 .
- Openshaw , Roger and Shuker , Ray . 1987 . ‘“Worthless and Indecent Literature”: Comics and the Moral Panic in Early Post‐War New Zealand’ . History of Education Review , 16 ( 1 ) : 1 – 12 .
- 1952 . Age , 16 August
- Spaull , Andrew . 1982 . Australian Education in the Second World War , Brisbane : University of Queensland Press . chap. 6
- 1952 . Age , 17 December
- Alomes , Stephen . 1988 . A Nation at Last? The Changing Character of Australian Nationalism 1880–1988 , 137 Sydney : Angus & Robertson .
- Ramsay , A.H. “ ‘Education Needs Social Purpose’ ” . In Speech Day address to Presbyterian Ladies College Melbourne
- 1950 . Age , 18 December
- Morey , Elwyn A. 1945 . “ Future of Education No. 9 ” . In The School Leaving Age , 11 – 12 . Melbourne : ACER .
- 1946 . Age , 16 September
- 1985 . Genealogies of Morals: Nietzsche, Foucault. Donzelot and the Eccentricity of Ethics , London : Macmillan . See especially p. 187
- Connell , W.F. 1962 . Foundations of Secondary Education , 40 Melbourne : ACER .
- Havighurst , Robert J. 1953 . Human Development and Education , London : Longmans .
- Ausubel , David P. 1954 . Theory and Problems of Adolescent Development. , 6 New York : Grune & Stratton .
- Oeser , Oscar A. 1955 . ‘The Teenager—Psychological Aspects’, Victorian Council for Mental Hygiene . Teenagers and their Problems: Proceedings of Third Mental Health Congress , 4–6 May : 11 – 15 . actively promoted this latter view of adolescence
- Connell , W.F. , Francis , E.P. and Skilbeck , E. 1963 . Growing Up in an Australian City: A Study of Adolescents in Sydney , Melbourne : ACER . (1957)
- 1953 . ‘Popularity and Status in the Adolescent Peer Group’ . Educand , 1 ( 4 ) November : 80 – 9 .
- 1963 . Growing Up in Karribee: A Study of Child Growth and Development in an Australian Rural Community , Melbourne : ACER .
- Armstrong , David . 1983 . Political Anatomy of the Body: Medical Knowledge in the Twentieth Century. , 113 – 14 . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press .
- Markus , Andrew . 1994 . Australian Race Relations 1788–1993 , 158 Sydney : Allen & Unwin .
- Bhabha , Homi . 1991 . “ ‘A Question of Survival: Nations and Psychic States’ ” . In Psychoanalysis and Cultural Theory: Thresholds. , Edited by: Donald , James . 90 – 2 . London : Macmillan .
- Copjec , Joan . 1989 . ‘The Sartorial Superego’ . October , Fall : 58
- Wall , W.D. 1948 . The Adolescent Child , 42 London : Methuen .
- Dyhouse , Carol . 1981 . Girls Growing Up in Late Victorian and Edwardian England , London : Routledge & Kegan Paul .
- Johnson , Lesley . 1993 . The Modern Girl: Girlhood and Growing Up , Sydney : Allen & Unwin .
- Morey , Elwyn A. 1958 . ‘Bridging the Gap between Primary and Secondary’ . Report of Conference on Education for Australia's Future , October : 38 – 9 .
- Neal , W.D. 1962 . ‘The Changing Secondary School Population’ . Australian Journal of Education , 6 ( 3 ) October : 163
- Bainbridge , W.J. The School and English in the Lower Forms , 1 report of an article
- Bainbridge . 1965 . ‘To Each According to his Need’ . English in Australia , : 48 – 55 . MPP
- Bassett , G.W. 1963 . Each One is Different: Teaching for Individual Differences in the Primary School , Melbourne : ACER .
- Greig , A.R. 1959 . Differential Teaching in Technical Schools , October : 1 MPP
- PGB . 1957–1958 . Annual Report , : 2
- Nilsson , O.E. 1959–60 . ‘Report on Technical Education’, in ‘Report of the Minister of Education 1957–58’ . Victorian Parliamentary Papers , 2 : 238 Chief Inspector of Technical Schools (hereafter VPP)
- McDonell , A. 1959–60 . ‘Report on Secondary Education’, in ‘Report of Minister of Education 1957–58’ . VPP , 2 : 227
- Grieg . 1959 . Differential Teaching in Technical Schools . October
- 1960 . Differential Teaching in Technical Schools, Forms 1 & 2 Mathematics Teachers, Minutes of Meetings . 10 February– 3 October 1960 . MPP
- Greig . 1959 . Differential Teaching in Technical Schools , October : 1
- PGB . Report on Differential Teaching in Technical Schools , 2 Appendix 1. MPP
- Teese , Richard . 1989 . ‘Gender and Class in the Transformation of the Public High School in Melbourne, 1946–85’ . History of Education Quarterly , 29 ( 2 ) Summer : 237 – 59 . especially p. 245
- 1958 . ‘Waste of Good Minds; Youngsters Leaving School Face a Hard Year’ . Age , 20 December
- Steedman , Carolyn . 1985 . ‘"The Mother Made Conscious”: The Historical Development of Primary School Pedagogy’ . History Workshop: A Journal of Socialist and Feminist Historians , Autumn : 149 – 63 .
- Walkerdine , Valerie . 1985 . “ ‘On the Regulation of Speaking and Silence: Subjectivity, Class and Gender in Contemporary Schooling’ ” . In Language, Gender and Childhood , Edited by: Steedman , Carolyn , Urwin , Cathy and Walkerdine , Valerie . London : Routledge & Kegan Paul . for an analysis and discussion of women as guardians of the irrational
- Steedman . ‘The Mother Made Conscious’ . 153
- 1982 . ‘Placing Women's History in History’ . New Left Review , May–June : 14
- Stanner , W.E.H. 1953 . “ ‘The Australian Way of Life’ ” . In Taking Stock: Aspects of Mid‐Century Life in Australia , Edited by: Aughterson , W.V. 9 Melbourne : Cheshire .
Growing up ‘Australian’ in the 1950s: The dream of social science
Reprints and Corporate Permissions
Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?
To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:
Academic Permissions
Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?
Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:
If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.
Related research
People also read lists articles that other readers of this article have read.
Recommended articles lists articles that we recommend and is powered by our AI driven recommendation engine.
Cited by lists all citing articles based on Crossref citations.
Articles with the Crossref icon will open in a new tab.