Authors

Di Gardiner, University of Western Australia
Tom O’Donoghue, University of Western Australia

Robert George Cameron : the First Professor of Education, at UWA 1927-1954

Abstract

There has been much debate about the status of Education as a field of study within universities. In many circumstances the evidence suggests that there was hostility towards the inclusion of Education within the university curriculum. The fact that ‘teacher training was never accepted at the Universities of Sydney or Melbourne in the same manner as the professional training courses such as Medicine, Law or Engineering’ (Bessant and Holbrook, 1995. p.266) was a legacy of the association of teaching with the public service and apprenticeship training.

Recommended Citation

Gardiner, D., & O’Donoghue, T. (2003). Robert George Cameron : the First Professor of Education, at UWA 1927-1954. Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 28(1). https://doi.org/10.14221/ajte.2003v28n1.2