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Title: | The Development of the Role of Inspectors of Schools in the Education Department of South Australia: 1875 to 1970 | Contributor(s): | Jones, Albert Walter (author); Cumming, Alan (supervisor); Laird, David (supervisor) | Conferred Date: | 1986 | Copyright Date: | 1985 | Open Access: | Yes | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/11898 | Abstract: | The purpose of this study is to examine the development of the role of the inspectors of schools in the Education Department of South Australia from the assent to the 1875 Education Act to 1970, the year of appointment of A.W. Jones as Director-General of Education. The first inspector of schools was appointed in South Australia in 1851 with an ill-defined role given to him by the Governor. In fact, Dr. William Wyatt, who was not a teacher, was left to determine his own role, except that he was not to interfere with the religious feelings and prejudices of this generally dissenting and voluntaryist Colony of free settlers. ... This study shows that the value for money aspect of the role of the inspectors of schools was always present, but that the values sought changed over the period; different aspects of the multi-faceted role were to the fore or in the background at different times; and the role changed from mainly regulatory to mainly developmental as the teachers and, indeed, as the inspectors were better educated and better prepared for their tasks. The study also indicates that the clash between the advisory and the assessing role was greatest when trust between teachers and the administration was at a low ebb, for instance, when in 1913 the inspectors reacted badly to the transfer of their examining and promoting of pupils to head teachers and when in the 1940s the administration promoted teachers without regard to promotion lists. Such situations were brought about by an amalgam of personalities, social, economic and political conditions and the educational thinking of the time. | Publication Type: | Thesis Doctoral | Rights Statement: | Copyright 1985 - Albert Walter Jones | HERDC Category Description: | T2 Thesis - Doctorate by Research |
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