EDU104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Swan River Colony, Bulldozer, Numeracy
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Queensland
“It’s very well-known that the closer a place is to the equator, the less civilized the
society”. (Harms, 2005, para. 23)
“Queensland is a place, a people, a history, a climate, an architecture. But it is also a
mood, a feeling, a spirit, a state of mind. It is known for its political eccentrics, its down-
on-the-farm conservatism, its parochial uncomplicated people and its get-the-big-
bulldozer economy.” (Harms, 2005, para. 3)
“Queenslanders remained attached for decades to a nostalgic vision of an imagined rural
past” (Fitzgerald, Megarrity & Symons, 2009, p. 109)
“Tropical lassitude was used as an excuse for the Queenslanders’ apparent slowing down
compared with the typical Australian – slowness of speech, slowness of gait, slowness of
thought, ee sloess i progress. To the outsider Queeslad eae the hill-billy
state Gooda,6, p.
Changing borders
1829:
Western Australia - swan river colony
Everywhere else: New South Wales
Tasmania : van Diemen's land
There is a unique history of schools ranging from church, private schools, national schools.
Normal schools provisional schools, preparatory and pre-schools, primary, secondary and
technical schools, rural schools, school of arts and trainings.
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Document Summary
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