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Gregory Blaxell Gregory Blaxell i(A96059 works by)
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1 Case-study : Curriculum Materials Gregory Blaxell , Don Drummond , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Paper Empires : A History of the Book in Australia 1946-2005 2006; (p. 322-324) ‘Curricula developed by Australian states and territories generally do not provide the teaching materials themselves. These are produced by educational publishers in response to the curriculum statements. From the late 1980s to the mid-1990s, education departments and schools themselves set the curricula. Such school-based curriculum development, however, often resulted in greater reliance on commercially generated educational texts.’(Introduction 322)
1 Educational and Reference Publishing Gregory Blaxell , Don Drummond , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Paper Empires : A History of the Book in Australia 1946-2005 2006; (p. 314-322)

‘Publishing for Schools : 1946-1960

'In the period after the Second World War. most secondary texts were imported from Britain to meet the needs of Australia's secondary school market at a time when this sector was beginning to expand rapidly. Large educational booksellers began to emerge as both booksellers and publishers.The key booksellers in this trade included MeLeod’s in Brisbane, Whitcombe & Tombs, Dominie and Angus & Robertson (A&'R) in Sydney, FW Cheshire and Hall‘s in Melbourne and Rigby in Adelaide. Responding to demand, they replaced imported texts with their own educational books. In the years following World War II, most secondary texts were imported from ’(Introduction 314)
1 Case-study : Jacaranda Press and Brian Clouston Gregory Blaxell , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Paper Empires : A History of the Book in Australia 1946-2005 2006; (p. 34-38) 'Brian Clouston was born in 1925 in Brisbane and educated at The Southport School before joining the RAAF where he trained as a pilot. After the war he completed a commerce degree at the University of Queensland and began work at McLeod's Bookshop which had been established by his great-uncle, Alexander McLeod, and which his late father had owned. He saw the possibility of expanding the business by publishing locally written books for Queensland secondary schools to compete with the mainly British imports then widely in use.' (Introduction 34)
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