y separately published work icon The 'Victorian Readers' single work   criticism   peer reviewed assertion
First known date: 2008 Issue Details: First known date: 2008-2007... 2008-2007 The 'Victorian Readers'
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'The Victorian Readers subset profiles one important group of texts for Australian children. But the Victorian Readers have much in common with the Tasmanian Readers, the Queensland Readers and the Adelaide Readers: they were developed and used in state and independent schools in the decades following Federation; and they share many of the same components, since favourite texts were frequently recycled. To read these collections and to ponder on the socialising agendas evident in the selection and arrangement of excerpts and in the ways in which texts were modified, is to understand how these school readers positioned children as Australian subjects.' - author's conclusion


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Subjects:
  • Victoria,
  • 1920s
  • 1930s
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