https://padlet.com/jacobchant11/emomngx8mh3i9r3h From an Egalitarian Ideology en-us 2023-03-01 22:07:00 UTC 2023-03-03 06:21:16 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f1e6-1f1fa.png jacobchant11 https://padlet.com/jacobchant11/emomngx8mh3i9r3h/wish/2500236282 Before white settlers and the first fleet's arrival in 1788, the Indigenous population had a much different way of teaching. As a non-literate society information wasn't written down, and rather remembered and spread through word-of-mouth. There weren't any formal schools, and people were taught about their cultures and how to maintain it, how to hunt/gather, and how to maintain social and religious traditions.]]> 2023-03-01 22:18:27 UTC https://padlet.com/jacobchant11/emomngx8mh3i9r3h/wish/2500236282 jacobchant11 https://padlet.com/jacobchant11/emomngx8mh3i9r3h/wish/2500242591 When white settlers and colonisers arrived, they completely changed everything about the way society was run. As they brought children (and had children after arrival) the settlers wanted to have a formal system of education for them, and this system strongly mimicked the way England's education operated. Despite initial complaints from the English government, ex-convicts and the church established formal schools in Australia, and the first post-white settlement schools were essentially government schools overseen by the governor. ]]> 2023-03-01 22:28:17 UTC https://padlet.com/jacobchant11/emomngx8mh3i9r3h/wish/2500242591 jacobchant11 https://padlet.com/jacobchant11/emomngx8mh3i9r3h/wish/2500247595 As religion was an incredibly strong force for western society in the 19th century, and the fact that a significant portion of leadership in white colonies was religious, it was bound to happen that the first proper schools that had a proper system were run by the church. These schools were seen as needed at the time to both double as a way to teach the youth about religion other than at church, and also a way for students to achieve an education that would allow them to attend secondary education and universities in Australia (with what few there was at the time) and overseas.

Private education also became a thing around the same time, which was seen as an option only for children option for university-level education. Despite this, private education became the education of choice for one third of children at the time.]]> 2023-03-01 22:35:58 UTC https://padlet.com/jacobchant11/emomngx8mh3i9r3h/wish/2500247595 jacobchant11 https://padlet.com/jacobchant11/emomngx8mh3i9r3h/wish/2500248340 The first Australian colony to fund public education was Victoria, when they brought in the Education Act 1872. This was an opportunity for all children aged 6-15 to attend a free and compulsory school. This included female and indigenous children, although women were often pulled out of school earlier to learn household schools and indigenous people were often discriminated against. There was no influence by the church and public schools slowly increased in popularity throughout the rest of the 19th century.]]> 2023-03-01 22:37:01 UTC https://padlet.com/jacobchant11/emomngx8mh3i9r3h/wish/2500248340 jacobchant11 https://padlet.com/jacobchant11/emomngx8mh3i9r3h/wish/2500258761 Despite a system in place for children to go and learn, often discrimination was still rife. There were still bans on women achieving a higher education such as attending university, and women were still not reaching the end of their possible compulsory education. A group of women formed the WSL (Womanhood Suffrage League) who advocated for rights for women to attend higher education. The first woman who became a registered doctor in Australia, Dr Constance Stone, had to go to university in Canada as she wasn't allowed to attend in Australia.

The WSL achieved great change and great support behind their message, and in 1896 a hospital was built in Melbourne for women and children, and allowed women to be in charge and work there. This, alongside the founding of the Australasian Trained Nurses' Association in NSW, marked the beginning of changed the WSL fought to achieve.]]> 2023-03-01 22:52:28 UTC https://padlet.com/jacobchant11/emomngx8mh3i9r3h/wish/2500258761 jacobchant11 https://padlet.com/jacobchant11/emomngx8mh3i9r3h/wish/2500265608 Indigenous peoples were still highly discriminated against, and were often excluded from compulsory public education. When the colonies went through a strong economic depression, and the introduction of a new secondary school system was brought in in 1905, Indigenous exclusion was still present. This all changed however, when in 1918 after World War One public school was made accessible for all students, including those of Indigenous origin.]]> 2023-03-01 23:02:55 UTC https://padlet.com/jacobchant11/emomngx8mh3i9r3h/wish/2500265608