Teacher Preparation in Australia

Thomas O' Donoghue is Professor of Education in the Graduate School of Education, the University of Western Australia. He is also an elected fellow of both the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and of the Royal Historical Society (UK). He specialises in the history of education in the English-speaking world, with particular reference to the history of teachers and the process of education in faith-based schools. Another strand in his work is concerned with examining the historical antecedents of various contemporary educational issues. He is a former President of the Australian and New Zealand History of Education Society. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the Australian Catholic University.He has published 25 books with international publishing houses, along with approximately 100 papers in internationally refereed journals. Keith Moore is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Teacher Education and Leadership, Faculty of Education, Queensland University of Technology and is a former President of the Australian and New Zealand History of Education Society. His primary research area is History of Education in Australia. In December 2013 at QUT's Gardens Point campus he convened an ANZHES Conference with the theme: Education for all? Access, Equity and Exclusivity in the History of Education and in 2014, he was Editor of a special conference issue of History of Education Review arising from papers delivered at this conference.

• Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. The Unregulated Phase in Teacher Preparation in Australia: 1788-1850 Chapter 3. The Apprenticeship Phase: 1850-1900 Chapter 4. 1900 to 1945 Chapter 5. The Hegemony of the Teachers' Colleges: 1945-1972 Chapter 6. Teacher Preparation in Papua New Guinea until National Independence in 1975 Chapter 7. The Dominance of the Colleges of Advanced Education: 1973-1989 Chapter 8. The Period of Academization: 1989 - The Present Chapter 9. Conclusion