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Associate Professor Craig Campbell

BA(Hons)(Adelaide), DipEd(Adelaide), PhD(Adelaide)

Associate Professor, History of Education (Honorary)

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Phone: +61 2 9351 6361

Fax: +61 2 9351 4580

Building.Room: A35.534

Professional biography

Craig joined the University of Sydney as a historian of education in 1994. He has researched and written extensively in the history of Australian secondary education and adolescence. In recent times he has also written in the sociology area, working on social classes and schooling and school choice.

His work was recognised on at least three occasions by funding from the Australian Research Council and several grants from other sources.

Craig has been a significant office bearer within the Australian and New Zealand History of Education Society, organising several national and international conferences. He is the executive secretary of the Sydney meeting of the International Standing Conference of the History of Education.

Before becoming an academic, Craig was a high-school teacher and teacher union leader in South Australia. His doctorate was completed in the period 1991–1993 with Professor Ian Davey at the University of Adelaide. Its topic was a regionally based exploration of the history of adolescence and secondary schooling in the 20th century.


Professional and community roles


Current projects

  • A new history of Australian school education, to be co-authored with Dr Helen Proctor. This is to be published by Allen and Unwin in 2012.
  • Special issue of a journal on the history of Australian uninversities in the 1950s. Special focus on the visit and reports written by J. B. Conant (President of Harvard University) in the early 1950s. To be published in the History of Education Review in 2010 or 2011.

Selected publications

Books

  • Craig Campbell. (2010). Unley High School: 100 Years of Public Education. Adelaide: Wakefield Press.
  • Campbell, C, Proctor, H, Sherington, G. (2009). School Choice: How parents negotiate the new school market in Australia. Sydney: Allen & Unwin.
  • Connell, R, Campbell, C, Vickers, M, Welch, A, Foley, D, Bagnall, N. (2007). Education, Change & Society. Melbourne, AUS: Oxford University Press.
  • Campbell, C, Sherington, G. (2007). Going to School in Oceania. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press.
  • Campbell, C, Sherington, G. (2006). The comprehensive public high school: Historical perspectives. New York: Palgrave MacMillan.
  • Campbell, C, Sherington, G. (2006). The Comprehensive High School: A History of Public Policy, Private Choice and Regional Difference. Melbourne: Palgrave Macmillan.

Book chapters

  • Campbell, C. (2007). Researching education: A research project. In R Connell;C Campbell;M Vickers;A Welch;D Foley;N Bagnall (Ed.), Education, Change and Society (Vol. 1, pp. 308–325), Not known: UNSW Press.
  • Sherington, G, Campbell, C. (2007). Middle class formations and the emergence of national schooling: a historiographical review of the Australian debate. In Tolley K (Ed.), Transformations in Schooling: Historical and Comparative Perspectives (Vol. 1, pp. 15–39), New York: Palgrave MacMillan.
  • Campbell, C. (2007). Schooling in Australia. In Campbell C, Sherington G (Ed.), Going to School in Oceania (Vol. 1, pp. 9–77), Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press.
  • Campbell, C. (2007). Schools and school choice. In R Connell;C Campbell;M Vickers;A Welch;D Foley;N Bagnall (Ed.), Education, Change and Society (Vol. 1, pp. 211–238), Not known: UNSW Press.
  • Campbell, C. (2007). Class and competition. In R Connell;C Campbell;M Vickers;A Welch;D Foley;N Bagnall (Ed.), Education, Change and Society (Vol. 1, pp. 127–154), Not known: UNSW Press.

Journal articles

  • Campbell, C, Sherington, G, White, M. (2007). Borders and boundaries in the history of education. Paedagogica Historica: international journal of the history of education , 43(1), 1–6.
  • Campbell, C. (2007). The Middle Class and the Government High School: Private Interests and Public Institutions in Australian Education in the Late Twentieth Century, with Reference to the Case of Sydney. History of Education Review, 36(2), 1–18.
  • Campbell, C, Sherington, G. (2006). A genealogy of an Australian system of comprehensive high schools: The contribution of educational progressivism to the one best form of universal secondary education (1900-1940). Paedagogica Historica: international journal of the history of education , 42(1-2), 191–210.
  • Campbell, C. (2005). Changing school loyalties and the middle class: A reflection on the developing fate of state comprehensive high schooling. Australian Educational Researcher, 32(1), 3–24.
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