Saturday 1 October, Day 1 Program

8:30am		REGISTRATION
CONFERENCE OPENING
9:15am	Emeritus Professor Richard Broome AM FAHA FRHSV, President of the RHSV	Welcome
	Emeritus Professor Kwong Lee Dow AO	Opening
	Dr Deborah Towns OAM	Keynote Celebrating the 150th with three Rs: Responsibility, Realisation, Reflection
BEFORE THE ACT
	Dr Andrew Lemon AM FRHSV	The names: a quick explanation of Denominational / National / Common Schools
	Dr Liz Rushen AM	Educating girls in colonial Melbourne
	Professor Adrian Jones OAM	Comparative perspective: visions of education in other societies around 1872
FIRST THEME: COMPULSORY
	Dr Geraldine Moore	Politics of the 1872 Education Act
	Margaret Pagone	Catholic reaction to the Education Act 1872: an inner-suburban case study
	Dr Alan Gregory AM	Effects of the 1890s depression and the reforms it created
	Dr Beth Marsden	'Not so compulsory': the schooling of Aboriginal children under the 1872 Act
	All the speakers from the morning sessions	PANEL and Q&A
1:00pm		LUNCH
THE SCHOOLS
1:50pm	Dr Geoff Sandy	The Church of England Denominational School at Little Eltham
	Dr David Harris	Livingston: A one-teacher school in the Gippsland hills 1913 - 1938
	Ian Hind	Yarra Park State School: the first 25 years
THE TEACHERS
	Dr Wendy Dick	Case study: early experiences of a woman teacher employed in State Schools 1873 - 1905
	Dr Cheryl Griffin FRHSV	Making a difference: Victorian teachers as social activists in the first half of the twentieth century
	Dr Rosemary Francis	The Victorian Secondary Teachers Association 1953 - 1995
	Professor Georgina Tsolidis	From Migrant English to Multicultural Education: changing the deficit model
	All the speakers from the afternoon sessions including guest panellist, Meredith Peace, Victorian Branch President of the Australian Education Union	PANEL and Q&A
5:00pm		DRINKS
		Including the awarding of Fellowship of the Federation of Australian Historical Societies to Emeritus Professor Richard Broome AM FAHA FRHSV.
6:00pm		DAY 1 ENDS

 

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Sunday 2 October, Day 2 Program

SECOND THEME: SECULAR
10:00am	Dr Rosalie Triolo FRHSV	Sunday keynote: State schooling and seven civic and citizenship ideals in Victoria, 1872-1910
	Alex McDermott	The aftermath of the Education Act: its immediate impact on political thinking in Victoria
	Dr Helen Doyle	The impact of the act on the Irish Catholic community in Victoria and the efforts made to retain local schools for Catholic children
	All of the speakers above	PANEL and Q&A
THE SECONDARY SCHOOLS
	Professor Richard Teese	Growth of State secondary education
	Dr John Pardy	Technical Education: a secular ideal for post-primary teaching
	Dr Michele Matthews	Bendigo School of Domestic Arts: the nomadic experience, 1916 to today
	All of the speakers above	PANEL and Q&A
1:00pm		LUNCH
THIRD THEME: FREE
1:50pm	Dr Carole Hooper	The limitations of the free curriculum – and the consequences for the provision of higher education in Victoria
	Dr Deborah Towns OAM	Women's Community Leadership: Mothers' Clubs in the 20th Century
	Marilyn Bowler	The teacher studentship schemes from the 1950s
	All of the above speakers	PANEL and Q&A
THE RECORDS
	Emerita Professor Lorraine Ling	School reading materials: A window into society
	Jillian Hiscock	Published school histories in the RHSV Collection: a brief overview
	Kara Krusche	Preserving records for the future
	Emeritus Professor Richard Broome, Dr Rosalie Triolo and Dr Deb Towns	CONCLUDING REMARKS and PANEL
4:30pm		CONFERENCE ENDS