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Site, school, community Educating modern girls at the J.H. Boyd Domestic College, South Melbourne, 1930s-1980s

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the development of vocational education for girls,
focusing on how curriculum and pedagogy developed to accommodate changing expectations of the
role of women in the workplace and the home in mid-twentieth century Australia. As well as
describing how pedagogical changes were implemented through curriculum, it examines the way a
modern approach to girls’ education was reflected in the built environment of the school site and
through its interactions with its changing community.
Design/methodology/approach – The paper takes a case study approach, focusing on the example
of the J.H. Boyd Domestic College which functioned as a single-sex school for girls from 1932 until its
closure in 1985. Oral history testimony, private archives, photographs and government school records
provide the material from which an understanding of the school is reconstructed.
Findings – This detailed examination of the history of J.H. Boyd Domestic College highlights the
highly integrated nature of the school’s environment with the surrounding community, which
strengthened links between the girls and their community. It also demonstrates how important the
school’s buildings and facilities were to contemporary ideas about the teaching of girls in a vocational
setting.
Originality/value – This is the first history of J.H. Boyd Domestic College to examine the
intersections of gendered, classed ideas about pedagogy with ideas about the appropriate built
environment for the teaching of domestic science. The contextualized approach sheds new light on
domestic science education in Victoria and the unusually high quality of the learning spaces available
for girls’ education.

Keywords Domestic science education, Girls’ education in Australia, Home Economics education,J.H. Boyd Domestic College, J.H. Boyd Girls’ High School, State education for girls,Vocational education for girls

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History of Education Review

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: Emerald Group., 2014

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History of Education Review Vol. 43 No. 2, 2014 pp. 152-171

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