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CATEGORIES:Pedagogy\, Language\, Arts &amp\; Culture in Educa
 tion (PLACE) Group Seminars
SUMMARY:Mothering for Schooling in the Mid Twentieth Centu
 ry Australian Women’s Weekly - Dr Helen Proctor\, 
 University of Sydney
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20151015T170000
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URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/61312
DESCRIPTION:This paper examines the magazine\, _The Australian
  Women’s Weekly_ during its mid-century heyday for
  accounts of ‘parenting for schooling’\, particula
 rly advice to mothers of schoolchildren about the 
 relationship between home and school. Such advice 
 about schooling was both direct and implied\, and 
 appeared across a variety of the Weekly’s sections
 : in cover illustrations\, news\, feature articles
 \, advertising\, letters and advice columns. The p
 aper tracks representations of the ‘good’ schoolin
 g parent\, and analyses the expertise\, dispositio
 n and resources that informed this idea. It is als
 o interesting to see how the magazine framed the w
 ork and responsibility of parents relative to that
  of schoolteachers\, and how it represented the re
 lative expertise and authority of parents and scho
 ols. \n\nThe project reported in this paper forms 
 part of a larger program investigating twentieth a
 nd twenty-first century histories of parent-school
  relations in Australia. The underpinning question
  is how the ‘good’ educational parent of the 1940s
  and 1950s—apparently obedient to expert school au
 thority—transformed historically into the apparent
 ly vigilant\, activist and entrepreneurial ‘good’ 
 parent of the late twentieth and twenty-first cent
 uries—holding schools and teachers to account\, ta
 king nothing for granted. It is also argued that t
 he school has been an under-appreciated institutio
 n in the historiography of mothering.\n\n*Bio*\n\n
 *Helen Proctor* is an education historian and ARC 
 Future Fellow in the Faculty of Education and Soci
 al Work at Sydney University. This paper is part o
 f a larger project on twentieth and twenty-first c
 entury histories of ‘parenting for schooling’. Her
  publications include _A History of Australian Sch
 ooling _(Campbell & Proctor\, 2014).\n
LOCATION:Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge\
 , CB2 8PQ\, DMB\, Room GS5
CONTACT:Lucian Stephenson
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