Educational centralization and the rise of the legislative state: school governance in Tasmania and New South Wales, 1830-1885

摘要

This study of the emergence of centralized systems of school governance in nineteenth centuryudTasmania and New South Wales addresses an age-old question in Australian history writing. Theuddecision to re-enter this debate is guided by a belief that existing histories have not sufficientlyudaccounted for the relationship between educational change and the emergence of the modemudAustralian state. This failure to explore the state