Not offered in 1996. 16.7 Twelve 3-hour lecture/seminars. On completion of this subject students should be able to:

• appreciate and conduct research into the history of education;
• reflect on and learn from experiences of change and continuity in their own teaching;
• understand the history of conflict in the education of aborigines, working-class people, women and migrants;
• analyse the origins, power and influence of major pressure groups in the history of Victorian technical education;
• describe the influence of employers' organisations and trade unions in providing apprentice trade training; and
• indicate the relationships between technical education and industry in the history of industry in Victoria.

Origins of technical education in Victoria; the junior technical schools; apprentice training in Victoria; post-war re-training; post-war social and economic changes; the theory and practice of writing history. A minor assignment of 1,500 words (30 per cent); a major assignment of 3,000 words (70 per cent).