Staff profiles

Dr Helen Proctor

BA(Hons)(Sydney), GradDipEd(UNE), PhD(Sydney), GradDipEdStud(Sydney)

Senior Lecturer

Research Higher Degree Student Co-ordinator

Email:

Phone: +61 2 9036 5401

Fax: +61 2 9351 4580

Building.Room: A35.505

Research interests

Histories of home-school relations and the "good" educational parent.
The experience of Early Career Researchers in the Faculty of Education and Social Work (with Dr Aek Phakiti, University of Sydney).

Project title	Degree	Research student
Historical thinking and new media (associate supervisor)	PhD	James Goulding
The formation of ruling class men: private schooling, power and love in the 'Plasma Society’. (Associate supervisor)	PhD	Sebastian Madrid
Design, accomplishment and creativity: the history of art education in NSW: 1880 - 1940.	PhD	Rebecca Kummerfeld
The Church of England and religious instruction after the 1880 NSW Public Instruction Act.	M.Ed.	Riley Noel Warren
Older People, Choice and Aged Care Policy in Australia (associate supervisor)	PhD	Caroline Hayter
The Impact and Future Implications of Parental Decision Making in Deaf Education from 1970-2010	PhD	Aaron Payne

Craig Campbell & Helen Proctor. (in press). Australian Schools and Schooling: A history. Sydney: Allen & Unwin.
Campbell, C., Proctor, H. and Sherington, G. (2009). School choice: How parents negotiate the new school markets in Australia. Sydney: Allen & Unwin.
Proctor, H. (1995). Ruling Russia: from Nicholas II to Stalin. Melbourne: Longman Modern History Series.

Alison Mackinnon & Helen Proctor. (in press). Twentieth century education: The great expansion . In A. Bashford & S. Macintyre (Ed.), A new Cambridge History of Australia (Vol. 2,), Melbourne: Cambridge University Press.
Helen Proctor. (2010). The Good Mother and the high school: A view from the twentieth century. In S. Goodwin & K. Huppatz (Ed.), The Good Mother: Contemporary motherhoods in Australia Sydney: University of Sydney Press.

Jo May & Helen Proctor. (2013). Being Special: memories of selective high school, 1920s-1950s.. History of Education Review, 42(1).
Helen Proctor. (2011). Masculinity and social class, tradition and change: the production of ‘young Christian gentlemen’ at an elite Australian boys’ school. Gender and Education, 23(7), 843–856.
Proctor, H. (2009). An aristocracy of talent? Describing self and other at an early twentieth-century high school. History of Education (UK), 38(2), 247–261.
Proctor, H. (2008). School teacher parents and the retreat from public secondary schooling: A view from the Australian Census, 1976-2001. Australian Educational Researcher, 35(2), 123–138.
Proctor, H. (2007). Gender and Merit: Coeducation and the Construction of a Meritocratic Educational Ladder in New South Wales, 1880-1912. Paedagogica Historica, 43(1), 119–134.
Proctor, H. (2001). Gender, merit and identity at Parramatta High School, 1913-1919. History of Education Review, 30(2), 39–50.
Proctor, H. (2000). Gender, grievance and bad behaviour at a New South Wales state high school, 1913-1922. Change Monograph, (1), 53–65.

Helen Proctor. (2012). Top marks to Gonski review for its focus on children, schools and teachers., Opinion page, Sydney Morning Herald, 24 February..
Helen Proctor. (2011). Families, schools and the modern education market, The Sydney Papers.
Helen Proctor. (2011). School choice is not the answer to everything, .
Helen Proctor. (2010). Introduction, In Threads through time: a photographic history of 125 years of Abbotsleigh. (Sydney: the school).
Helen Proctor. (2010). Bringing up baby in the 21st century, Australian Review of Public Affairs Digest.

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