Thody, Angela M. (2011) The more things change, the more they stay the same? Nineteenth-century education leadership in Tasmania. International Studies in Educational Administration, 39 (2). pp. 17-32. ISSN 1324-1702

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Abstract

This historical exploration of educational leadership’s early years enables readers to compare their management practices and ideas today with those of a school principal of a nineteenth-century, one-teacher, all-age school still common in rural areas of our Commonwealth today. Written as the story of one day in a principal’s life, it follows pertinent themes for all school leaders: management definitions, management of time and curriculum, physical and financial resources, human resources, school reputation and quality assurance. The article also makes a methodological contribution as part of the growing genre of semi-fictionalisation. It creates the story from disparate sources, inventing the central character linking the main points; through this I hope readers can better identify with past experiences of school leadership. Locating the history in Tasmania offers reflections for post-colonialism today as the period covered by this article saw Tasmania self-consciously emerging from being an imperial outpost.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	This historical exploration of educational leadership’s early years enables readers to compare their management practices and ideas today with those of a school principal of a nineteenth-century, one-teacher, all-age school still common in rural areas of our Commonwealth today. Written as the story of one day in a principal’s life, it follows pertinent themes for all school leaders: management definitions, management of time and curriculum, physical and financial resources, human resources, school reputation and quality assurance. The article also makes a methodological contribution as part of the growing genre of semi-fictionalisation. It creates the story from disparate sources, inventing the central character linking the main points; through this I hope readers can better identify with past experiences of school leadership. Locating the history in Tasmania offers reflections for post-colonialism today as the period covered by this article saw Tasmania self-consciously emerging from being an imperial outpost.
Keywords:	nineteenth-century education, elementary school history, school leadership history, Tasmania history
Subjects:	X Education > X300 Academic studies in Education
Divisions:	College of Social Sciences > Centre for Educational Research and Development (CERD)
Depositing User:	Angela Thody
Date Deposited:	16 Mar 2011 15:55
Last Modified:	13 Mar 2013 08:57
URI:	http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/id/eprint/4195

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