ANME research projects

ANME is an outstanding source of research material on the history of education in Australia. Representatives from schools and school museums, academics from interstate and overseas, and students from the University of Canberra and beyond make use of the ANME resources for research and scholarship.

Current research priorities

ANME undertakes research with the help of our volunteer community. Our current research priorities include:

• Early Colonial Teachers
• Teachers as writers of textbooks
• School museums in Australia
• Early pedagogy in Australia

To ensure that researchers discover what they need we are constantly working to digitise our collection, maintain our registers of holdings, and expand the representation displayed on our eHive platform. Our student volunteers are creating a ‘Must See’ catalogue.

The Museum also sponsors research using the collection to focus on projects of national significance for the history of education in Australia.

Past research contribution

Our research efforts inform the content of regular exhibitions, support our lectures and workshops, and have led to the production of several significant resources, including: 

• Schools, Students and World War I: A Commemorative Display

• From the Centre to the Periphery: Thinking Historically with ACT Educational History

• Mowbray House Sydney: Reflections: A case study of a Sydney North Shore Boys’ Preparatory School, 1906 – 1954

• The First School Teachers and Schools in Colonial New South Wales 1789-1810

• Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century School Textbooks in the Australian National Museum of Education