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Teacher Education  \n\n| Volume 44  Issue 9 | Article 4 |\n| --- | --- |\n| 2019\u003Cbr>World War II and Australia's First Rural Teachers' College\u003Cbr>Anthony Potts\u003Cbr>School of Education, University of Adelaide, [tonypotts49@hotmail.com](tonypotts49@hotmail.com)\u003Cbr>Nina Maadad\u003Cbr>School of Education, University of Adelaide, [nina.maadad@adelaide.edu.au](nina.maadad@adelaide.edu.au)\u003Cbr>Follow this and additional works at: [https://ro.ecu.edu.au/ajte](https://ro.ecu.edu.au/ajte)\u003Cbr> Part of the Education Commons |  |\n\nRecommended Citation  \nPotts, A., & Maadad, N. (2019) . World War II and Australia's First Rural Teachers' College. Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 44(9) .  \nRetrieved from [https://ro.ecu.edu.au/ajte/vol44/iss9/4](https://ro.ecu.edu.au/ajte/vol44/iss9/4)  \nThis Journal Article is posted at Research Online.  \n[https://ro.ecu.edu.au/ajte/vol44/iss9/4](https://ro.ecu.edu.au/ajte/vol44/iss9/4)  \nWorld War II and Australia’s First Rural Teachers’ College  \nAnthony Potts  \nNina Maadad  \nUniversity of Adelaide  \nAbstract: This paper examines the effects of World War II on  \nAustralia’s first rural teacher’s college in 1945. The paper locates the  \ncollege in wider national and international contexts. It looks at the  \neffect of World War II on teacher supply and demand in countries  \naffected by war. The war was a genuine reason for the basic  \nconditions of the college in 1945. However, it was not only this that  \nwas to blame. Teacher education was conducted frugally in Australia  \nat the time. The conditions at the college had not improved since its  \noriginal foundation in 1926.  \nIntroduction  \nWorld War II was a global conflict unlike any other. That said, different parts of the world experienced the war much differently-cities in Britain, Europe and Darwin, in Australia, experienced horrors from bombing that others did not. The USA and Australia, even though attacked by the Japanese, suffered less physical destruction than Britain and Europe. In Australia, there was real fear of invasion by the Japanese. The effects ofwar on education in Australia were minor compared to much of Europe and Asia but the type and quality of education was adversely affected.  \nThe Effects of World War II on Education  \nWorld War II affected education in Australia from December 1941, when it was feared Japan would conquer south-east Asia. From then, until 1945, educational building construction stopped and the commonwealth controlled entry into universities and teachers’colleges. However, the immediate effects ofthe war on education meant a repeat of practices operating during World War I and were the results of decisions taken before 1918. World War II adversely affected education in Australia but post-war prosperity and idealism saw education as the key to a new world order. By way of contrast post World War II Britain underwent profound economic and social change with periods of economic hardship, balance of payments crises and food shortages.  \nWorld War II and the Supply of Australian Teachers  \nIn Australia World War II had its most direct effect upon education in the provision of teachers. Approximately 1000 student teachers joined the Australian armed services during World War II (Hyams, 1979) . Chronic teacher shortages, a consequence of the war, were state education departments ’ greatest problem, as teachers enlisted or joined other essential occupations. While school total enrolments rose by 0.6 percent between 1941-1945 teacher  \nnumbers fell by almost 1.5 percent in the same period (Spaull, 1982) . In 1942, total school enrolments fell by 2.2 percent compared to teacher numbers which fell 4.6 percent from the previous year (Spaull, 1982) . In 1942 for example the number of male students in Victorian teachers’ colleges dropped from 174 to 45 (Spaull, 1982) . The war induced shortage of teachers especially affected the provision of primary education in rural areas and this was made worse in the more i","cbCaiaXVXzWUgmyE","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiaXVXzWUgmyE","pdf",258475,"English","# Introduction\n# The Effects of World War II on Education\n# World War II and the Supply of Australian Teachers\n# World War II and Teacher Shortages in Europe, America and Asia","[{\"question\":\"What is the main focus of the paper?\",\"answer\":\"The paper focuses on the effects of World War II on Australia’s first rural teacher’s college in 1945 and places the college in wider national and international contexts.\"},{\"question\":\"How did World War II affect education in Australia?\",\"answer\":\"Educational building construction stopped during the war and entry controls for universities and teachers’ colleges increased, producing adverse effects on education despite limited physical destruction compared with Europe and Asia.\"},{\"question\":\"How did the war influence the supply of Australian teachers?\",\"answer\":\"About 1,000 student teachers joined the armed services, contributing to chronic teacher shortages as enrollments rose while teacher numbers fell, with shortages especially harming rural primary education.\"}]","World War II and Australia's First Rural Teachers' College - Article 4 | PDF",1792078069,23]