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Written text:
Paragraphs
and Pages
(quantity)
Entire
section on
WWI, in
terms of
Australia’s
involvement
mediated
through
BH: pp.
105-128.
Passage 1:
104)
Passage 2:
(p. 105-106)
Passage 3:
(p. 106)
Passage 4:
(p. 108)
Passage 5:
Specific phrases
(Questions 1 and 2)
(p.
509
Ideological
underpinnings
(Questions 3-5)
Analysis too lengthy to
include here, so it is
written at the bottom of
this table.
Notes
Interestingly, this is in the section of
the textbook (and remembering that
this textbook reflects the syllabus)
about British History, called “British
History: Growth of Empire” (n.p.).
Even though a significant part of this
‘British History’ concerns Australia’s
involvement in WWI, with the 8 of
the 17 chapters concerned with
Australia’s involvement in WWI
(note: chapters are very small—
usually only 3-4 pages, are not
numbered. They are more like minichapters
or sections). So, Australian
history is being
contextualised/understood though
British Heritages. The chapter, as
they appear in the contents pages are:
(n.p.)
So, the event, widely regarded as
Australia’s ‘coming of age’ or ‘birth as a
nation’ (refer to public discourses of the
time) is still regarded, as far as the school
curriculum is concerned as part of,
closely aligned with and as a result of GB
and BH.
Given the vast amount of content on this
topic, selections have had to be made,
representative of the discourses of BH
evident throughout the chapters/sections
on BH in Australian history in relation to
WWI.
Unlike the Cramp book (1927), this
textbook, the first available since the new
1930 syllabus, contains a substantial
amount of information of WWI and
makes a somewhat stronger attempt
(although overall still very weak) to
describe the differences of opinions on
issues of the war, for example
conscription (p. 106).
So, because the syllabus was slow to
change, so was the school curriculum
content, despite really obvious sociopolitical
changes. Students had to wait
over a decade (in this case 13 years) from
the end of WWI to learn about it