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SUMMARY:Mothering for Schooling in the Mid Twentieth Century Australian Wo
 men’s Weekly - Dr Helen Proctor\, University of Sydney
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CONTACT:Lucian Stephenson
DESCRIPTION:This paper examines the magazine\, _The Australian Women’s W
 eekly_ during its mid-century heyday for accounts of ‘parenting for scho
 oling’\, particularly advice to mothers of schoolchildren about the rela
 tionship between home and school. Such advice about schooling was both dir
 ect and implied\, and appeared across a variety of the Weekly’s sections
 : in cover illustrations\, news\, feature articles\, advertising\, letters
  and advice columns. The paper tracks representations of the ‘good’ sc
 hooling parent\, and analyses the expertise\, disposition and resources th
 at informed this idea. It is also interesting to see how the magazine fram
 ed the work and responsibility of parents relative to that of schoolteache
 rs\, and how it represented the relative expertise and authority of parent
 s and schools. \n\nThe project reported in this paper forms part of a larg
 er program investigating twentieth and twenty-first century histories of p
 arent-school relations in Australia. The underpinning question is how the 
 ‘good’ educational parent of the 1940s and 1950s—apparently obedient
  to expert school authority—transformed historically into the apparently
  vigilant\, activist and entrepreneurial ‘good’ parent of the late twe
 ntieth and twenty-first centuries—holding schools and teachers to accoun
 t\, taking nothing for granted. It is also argued that the school has been
  an under-appreciated institution 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 Social Work at Sydney University. This paper
  is part of a larger project on twentieth and twenty-first century histori
 es of ‘parenting for schooling’. Her publications include _A History o
 f Australian Schooling _(Campbell & Proctor\, 2014).\n
LOCATION:Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ\, DMB
 \, Room GS5
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