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Why We Need News Services for Australian Children

14/05/2017 by Yvonne Perkins 7 Comments

Front page February 1975 edition of The Australian Student

Crinkling News is an Australian newspaper for children. Each week it brings news and current affairs to children aged between seven and fourteen years old. It also provides children with opportunities to do reporting and editing. Crinkling News is staffed by professional journalists and advised by a child psychologist so the content is age appropriate and has high standards for … [Read more...] about Why We Need News Services for Australian Children

Maybanke Anderson: suffragist and social reformer

06/04/2017 by Yvonne Perkins 3 Comments

Change in a culture often occurs in fits and starts, in confusing whirls of ideas and protest followed by quiet periods where old orthodoxies percolate through society again but in a different guise. Reform digs in its heels. New form orthodoxies flex their muscles and then we find the times of protest, ideas and reform are upon us again. As we cycle through complacency, … [Read more...] about Maybanke Anderson: suffragist and social reformer

History and Time – It’s All Relative

28/02/2017 by Yvonne Perkins 2 Comments

Every now and then my daughter and I think about how the times in which we live will be perceived by people in the future. “They did that???,” we imagine incredulous school students of the future saying when told about things that happen that seem to be weirdly normal today. But when will school students be taught about 2017 in their history lessons? I will make a bold … [Read more...] about History and Time – It’s All Relative

Singapore’s Education History on Display

04/02/2015 by Yvonne Perkins 12 Comments

On the second day I was in Singapore I left the bus and became lost. My phone was low on batteries and my GPS was not working properly. I trudged off in the direction I thought I should be going and found myself walking through a large HDB housing complex. Getting lost on foot in a new place is a good thing. My family is not convinced about this, but that is their loss. Losing … [Read more...] about Singapore’s Education History on Display

Review: A History of Australian Schooling

22/09/2014 by Yvonne Perkins 7 Comments

For over a century Australian schools have acted as future-shapers. Since the era of compulsory schooling emerged in the Australian colonies during the late nineteenth-century, every Australian child has spent a number of years in school. Children take at least some of the ideas and behaviours that are developed in the classroom and in the playground with them for the rest of … [Read more...] about Review: A History of Australian Schooling

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Yvonne Perkins is a professional historian and launched Stumbling Through the Past in August 2010. Focusing on history, and Australian history in particular, posts include interviews, book reviews, news reports on conferences and reflective pieces.

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