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Whitehead, Kay – History of Education, 2021
Focusing on the transnational circulation of ideas about suffrage and education, this article explores the work of suffragist Muriel Matters (1877-1969), and teacher educator Lillian de Lissa (1885-1967). It begins with Matters' and de Lissa's childhoods and education in post-suffrage Australia, and their initial work as an actress and…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Feminism, Foreign Countries, Montessori Method
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Jones, Jennifer – History of Education, 2014
This article examines an experimental kindergarten programme "Work in the Kindergarten: An Australian Programme based on the Life and Customs of the Australian Black" developed by Martha Simpson in early twentieth-century Australia. Here Simpson adapted international Revisionist Froebelian approaches to cultural epoch theory and nature…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Indigenous Populations, Culture