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The Lecture System

Weighing in on a wider printed debate about the cost and value of university teaching, the author of this article takes issue with the prevailing focus on lectures as the principal delivery mode for teaching in universities. He associates the…

Chaucer as Teaching Aid in the Colonies

The opinion piece,â€œCatallictics [mutatas dicere formas] An Introduction to New Speculations [In nova fert animus] takes it Latin from the first lines of Ovidâ€™s Metamorphoses (In nova fert animus mutatas dicere formas corpora; I tell now…

Tags: Chaucer, Chaucerian, Chaucerian source, child, children, childrenâ€™s education, classical education, education, juvenile, Ovid, Ovidâ€™s Metamorphoses, Prioressâ€™s Tale, tabula rasa

C. E. W. Bean Oxford University heraldic shield

Entry on Australian War Memorial website: Black painted curved metal shield designed as a wall plaque, with the heraldic crest of Oxford University. The crest features an open book bearing the motto 'Dominus illuminatio mea' , with two crowns above…

Hertford College Oxford heraldic shield : C E W Bean

Entry on Australian War Memorial website: Red painted curved metal shield designed as a wall plaque, with the heraldic crest of Hertford College, Oxford University, on the front in the form of a gold hart's head surmounted by a gold heraldic dagger,…

C. E. W. Bean Oxford University heraldic shield 2nd

Entry on Australian War Memorial website: Flat wooden shield designed as a wall plaque, painted with the heraldic crest of Oxford University. The crest features an open book bearing the motto 'Dominus illuminatio mea' , with two crowns above the book…

Theatres of Long Ago. Some Quaint Customs. Address by Professor Murdoch

West Australian 1913 Tues 29 April Theatre Medieval Liturgy Plays Guilds.pdf

A newspaper article regarding an address made by one Professor Murdoch to the Perth Literary Society in 1913. It discusses the origin and development of English drama with a particular focus on the early involvement of the church and clergy in…

Tags: education, English drama, lesson, medieval education, medieval morality play, medieval play, medieval plays, morality play, morality plays, Perth Literary Society, university, Western Australia

""Useless Latin Grammar." Engineers' President on Education. "The Dead Hand of Medieval Schoolmen."

SMH 1909 Frid 12 March Article Medieval Useless Latin Grammar .pdf

The author of this article taken from The Sydney Morning Herald, (Friday, 12 March 1909, p. 7) examines the situation of boys' education in Australia. It describes the perspectives of the Engineers' President of Education as they were put forward at…

Tags: "boys' education", "gender roles", "medieval schoolmen", "teaching Latin", "technical college", education, masculinity, tradition

Modelling Display by Student Teachers

This photograph of a replica medieval monastery was featured in Melbourne newspaper The Argus in 1937. It was constructed by student teachers at the Teachers Training College as part of an exhibition of works, and was designed as a modelling task for…

Tags: bell tower, children, class, classroom, Cloisters, college, curriculum, display, ecclesiastical building, education, exhibition, medieval monastery, modelling, school, student teachers, students, Teachers Training College

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