dc.contributor.author | Carden, Clarissa | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-05-29T12:34:47Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-05-29T12:34:47Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0819-8691 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1108/HER-12-2016-0037 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10072/380175 | |
dc.description.abstract | Purpose – Westbrook Farm Home for Boys in Queensland, Australia, existed in various forms for over 100 years.
As such, it offers a valuable window into Australian approaches to managing and reforming boys through the
twentieth century. The purpose of this paper is to examine its approach to reforming teenage boys during a period
marked by a mass escape in 1961. It argues that the reformatory education initially intended was no longer tenable
during this moment in history, and that this period represents a breakdown of that approach.
Design/methodology/approach – This paper draws on material including newspaper reports, memoirs,
and the report of an inquiry into an escape by inmates in 1961. These are analysed in order to construct a
picture of the type of reformatory education during this period and the public and official responses
to this.
Findings – Westbrook Farm Home for Boys was, during this period, an institution attempting to provide a
reformatory education at a historical moment when such an education was no longer viewed as appropriate
means of addressing the criminal behaviour of youths. This, combined with the leadership of a domineering
figure in Superintendent Roy Golledge, led to a culture of abuse, rather than education. The uncovering of
this culture was a pivotal moment in the transition of Westbrook into an institution explicitly dealing with
criminal youths.
Originality/value – No academic work relating to this moment in Westbrook’s history has been
previously published. | |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Yes | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | Emerald Publishing Limited | |
dc.publisher.place | Australia | |
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom | 67 | |
dc.relation.ispartofpageto | 76 | |
dc.relation.ispartofissue | 1 | |
dc.relation.ispartofjournal | History of Education Review | |
dc.relation.ispartofvolume | 47 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Specialist studies in education | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Historical studies | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Australian history | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 3904 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 4303 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 430302 | |
dc.title | A breakdown of reformatory education: remembering Westbrook | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
dc.type.description | C1 - Articles | |
dc.type.code | C - Journal Articles | |
gro.faculty | Arts, Education & Law Group, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science | |
gro.hasfulltext | No Full Text | |
gro.griffith.author | Carden, Clarissa J. | |