Selected Works by Geoffrey Sherington

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Research has concentrated on the history of education but also the history of migration, and specifically child migration, as well as related biographical, institutional and policy studies, including both education policy and youth policy.

• Sherington, Geoffrey (2019). Alexander Mackie: An Academic Life. Sydney: University of Sydney Press
• Sherington, Geoffrey and Sherington, Bruce (2014). Sheringtons: A History. Sydney: Darlington Press
• Julia Horne and Geoffrey Sherington (2012). Sydney, the making of a Public University, Melbourne, Meigunyah Press
• Craig Campbell, Helen Proctor and Geoffrey Sherington (2009).  School Choice; Aspirations and Anxieties of Middle Australia, Sydney, Allen and Unwin
• Geoffrey Sherington and Steve Georgakis (2008). Sydney University Sport 1852-2007 More than a Club, Sydney, Sydney University Press
• Craig Campbell and Geoffrey Sherington, (eds) (2007). Going to School in Oceania, Westport, Greenwood Press
• Craig Campbell and Geoffrey Sherington (2006). The Comprehensive Public High School: Historical Perspectives New York, Palgrave and Macmillan 
• Geoffrey Sherington and Chris Jeffery (1998). Fairbridge Empire and Child Migration, London, Woburn Press and Nedlands, University of Western Australia Press
• Terry Irving, David Maunders and Geoff Sherington (1995). Youth in Australia : Policy, Administration and Politics, Melbourne, Macmillan
• W.F. Connell, G.E. Sherington, B. H. Fletcher, C. Turney and U. Bygott (1995). Australia's First A History ofthe University of Sydney Volume II, Sydney, Hale and Iremonger
• G. Boardman, A. Barnes, B.H.J. Fletcher, G.E. Sherington and C. Turney (1995). A History of the Sydney Teachers' College, Sydney, Hale and Iremonger
• Geoffrey Sherington and Malcolm Prentis (1993). Scots to the Fore: A History of The Scots College Sydney 1893-1993, Sydney, Hale and Iremonger
• Geoffrey Sherington and Christabel Wescombe (1993). Education in New South Wales A Guide to State and Commonwealth Sources, Sydney, Hale and Iremonger
• Geoffrey Sherington (1995). 'Youth Policy and Ethnic Youth: A History' in Carmel Guerra and Rob White (eds.) Ethnic Minority in Australia, Hobart, National Clearing House for Youth Studies
• T.H. Irving, G.E. Sherington, D. Maunders, S. Poynting (1991). 'Australie: Youth Movements in Australia' LaJeunesse et Ses Movements Editions de CRNS, Paris
• Geoffrey Sherington, 'Vocational guidance, training and employment of youth in New South Wales from Depression to Post War Boom' in R. White and B. Wilson (eds) (1991). For Your Own Good Young People and State Intervention in Australia, Bundoora, La Trobe University Press
• Geoffrey Sherington, 'Families and State Schooling in the Illawarra' in Marjorie R. Theobald and R.J.W.Selleck (eds.) (1990). Family, School & State in Australian History, Sydney, Allen and Unwin
• Geoffrey Sherington, 'Education and Enlightenment' in N.K. Meaney (ed.) (1990). Under New Heavens, Sydney, Heinemann Educational
• Geoffrey Sherington (1990). Rheumatology in Australia The Role and Development of the AustralianRheumatism Association, Sydney, Hale and Iremonger
• Geoffrey Sherington (1990). Australia's Immigrants 1788-1988, Sydney, Allen & Unwin (revised edition)
• T.H. Irving and G.E. Sherington (1989). Youth Policy in Australia A Bibliography of Official Sources, University of Sydney, Faculty of Education Occasional Series No.19
• Geoffrey Sherington and Mark Connellan (1988). 'Socialisation, Imperialism and War: Ideology and Ethnicity inAustralian Corporate Schools 1880-1918' in J.A. Mangan (ed.) Benefits Bestowed Education and British Imperialism, Manchester, Manchester University Press
• Geoffrey Sherington (1988) A Century of Caring The Royal North Shore Hospital 1888-1988, Sydney, Horwitz Graeme
• Peter Cochrane, Geoffrey Sherington and Winifred Mitchell (1987) 'Port Kembla Workers' in Bill Gammage and Peter Spearritt (eds.) Australians 1938 Sydney, Fairfax Syme and Weldon
• Geoffrey Sherington, R. C. Petersen and Ian Brice (1987) Learning to Lead A History of Girls' and Boys' Corporate Secondary Schools in Australia, Sydney, George Allen and Unwin
• Geoffrey Sherington and Winifred Mitchell (1985). 'Children and Families in Nineteenth Century Illawarra' in Patricia Grimshaw et al (eds.) Families in Colonial Australia Sydney, George Allen & Unwin
• Geoffrey Sherington and Winifred Mitchell (1984). Growing Up in the Illawarra A Social History 1834-1984,Wollongong, University of Wollongong
• G.E. Sherington (1983). 'An Uneasy Alliance - Liberal and Vocational Ends in the Australian University System and the Impact of Teacher Training' in A.J. Fielding and D. Cavanagh (eds.) Curriculum Priorities in Higher Education, Sydney, Croom Helm
• G.E. Sherington (1983). 'The Headmasters' in C Turney (ed.) Pioneers of Australian Education Volume 3, Sydney,Sydney University Press
• Geoffrey Sherington (1983). Shore A History of Sydney Church of England Grammar School, Sydney, George Allen & Unwin
• Geoffrey Sherington (1981). English Education, Social Change and War 1911-20 Manchester, Manchester University Press
• Geoffrey Sherington (1980). Australia's Immigrants 1788-1978 Sydney, George Allen & Unwin, (reprinted in 1982, 1985, 1987 and 1989 and also published in Japanese)

• Julia Horne and Geoffrey Sherington (2013). 'Education and Knowledge' in Alison Bashford and Stuart Macintyre (eds.) The Cambridge History of Australia, Volume I, Cambridge University Press
• Geoffrey Sherington and John Hughes (2012). 'Education' in P. Clune and R. Smith (eds) From Carr to Keneally: Labor in Office in NSW 1995-2011, Sydney, Allen and Unwin
• Geoffrey Sherington and Hannah Forsyth (2012). 'Ideas of a Liberal Education: An essay on elite and mass higher education' (6500 words) in Luciano Boschiero (ed.) The Liberal Education Tradition, Campion College, Centre for the Study of Western Tradition, Classic Academic Press
• Geoffrey Sherington and Julia Home (2009). 'Modes of Engagement: Universities and Schools in Australia 1850-1914", in Peter Cunningham with Susan Oosthuizen and Richard Taylor (eds.) Beyond the Lecture Hall: Universities and community engagement from the middle ages to the present day, Faculty of Education and Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge, pp. 133-50.
• Geoffrey Sherington and Craig Campbell (2007). "Middle Class Formations and the Emergence of National Schooling: A Historiographical Review of the Australian Debate" in Kim Tolley (ed) Transformations in SchoolingHistorical and Comparative Perspectives, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 15-40.
• Geoffrey Sherington (2004). 'Public Commitment and Private Choice in Australian Secondary Education' in R. Aldrich (ed.) Public or Private Education? Lessons from History, London, Woburn Press, pp. 167-84.
• Geoffrey Sherington (2001). 'Fairbridge Child Migrants' in Jon Lawrence and Pat Starkey (eds) Child Welfare and Social Action in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Liverpool, University of Liverpool Press, pp.53-81.
• G.E. Sherington (2000). 'Innovation in Teacher Education: A Case Study at University of Sydney, Australia' in Innovation in Teacher Education: Role of Schools of Education in a Borderless World, Chulalongkorn 2000, pp.17-30
• G.E. Sherington (2000). 'Australian immigration, education and ethnicity' in R.Lowe (ed) History of Education Major Themes, Volume IV, London, Methuen, pp.117-31.
• G.E. Sherington (1997). 'Australian Youth and Active Citizenship' in P. Patton and Diane Austin-Broos (eds.) Transformations in Australian Society, Research Institute for Humanities arid Social Sciences, University of Sydney, pp.161-80.
• A. Welch and G.E. Sherington (1996), 'Curriculum Documentation' in RE. Young and M. Rowland (eds) Key Competencies in Work, Education and Life, Canberra, AGPS, pp.69-100.
• Geoffrey Sherington (1995). 'Education Policy' in M. Laffin and M. Painter (eds.) Reform and Reversal Lessons from the Coalition Government in New South Wales 1988-1995, Melbourne, Macmillan, pp.171-87.
• C. Inglis, A. Birch and G.Sherington, (1995). 'An Overview of Australian and Canadian Immigration' in H Adelman, et al (eds.) Immigration and Refugee Policy: Australia and Canada Composed, Melbourne University Press/University of Toronto Press, pp.3-30.

• Geoffrey Sherington (2012). 'Wyndham, Harold' Australian Dictionary of Biography, Melbourne University Press
• Geoffrey Sherington (2009). 'Religious Schools Systems' in J.Jupp (ed) Encyclopaedia of Religion in Australia, Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, pp. 668-76.
• Geoffrey Sherington and Craig Campbell (2008). 'Comprehensive Schools' in Gary McCulloch and David Crook (eds) The Routledge International Encyclopaedia of Education, London, Routledge
• G.E.Sherington (2002).  'L.C. Robson' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 16, Melbourne University Press, pp.115-17.
• G.E. Sherington (2001). 'Child Migration' in J. Jupp (ed.) The Australian People, Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, pp.59-61
• G.E. Sherington (2001). 'Assisted English Settlement 1918-1939' in J. Jupp (ed) The Australian People, Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, pp.311-13.
• G.E. Sherington (2001). 'Settlement 1881-1914' inJ. Jupp (ed.) The Australian People, Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, pp.49-52.
• G.E. Sherington (2000). 'Mackintosh, Grace' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 15, Melbourne University Press, pp.256-57
• G.E. Sherington (1990). 'Soubeiran, Augustine' in J. Ritchie (ed.) Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 12, Melbourne University Press, p.19.
• Geoffrey Sherington (1988). 'Robson, Ernest Illiffe' in G.R. Serle (ed.) Australian Dictionary of Biography Volume II, Melbourne University Press, pp.433-34.
• Geoffrey Sherington (1988). 'Assisted English Settlement 1918-39' in J. Jupp (ed.) The Australian People:An Encyclopaedia of the Nation Its Peoples and their Origins, Sydney, Angus & Robertson, pp.417-19.
• Geoffrey Sherington (1988). 'Immigration Between the Wars' in J. Jupp (ed.) The Australian People:An Encyclopaedia of the Nation Its Peoples and Their Origins, Sydney, Angus and Robertson, pp.92-96.
• G.E. Sherington ,'Settlement 1880-1914' (1988). in J. Jupp (ed.) The Australian People: An Encyclopaedia of the Nation Its Peoples and Their Origins, Sydney, Angus and Robertson, pp.85-89.
• G.E. Sherington (1988). 'O'Conor, Broughton Barnabas' in G.R. Serle (ed.) Australian Dictionary ofBiography Volume II, Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, p.59.
• G.E. Sherington (1983). 'Jobson, Nancy' in N.B. Nairn and G.R. Serle (eds.) Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 9, Melbourne University Press, pp.489-90.
• G.E. Sherington (1979). 'Bee, James' in N.B. Nairn and G.R. Serle (eds.) Australian Dictionary of Biography Volume 9, Melbourne University Press, pp.242-43.
• G.E. Sherington (1979). 'Aspinal, Arthur Ashworth' in N.B. Nairn and G.R. Serle (ed.) Australian Dictionary of Biography Volume 9 Melbourne University Press, p. 117.

• Geoffrey Sherington (2012). 'Contrasting Narratives in the history of twentieth century British child migration to Australia: An interpretive essay' History Australia vol 9 no. 2, 2012, pp. 153-72.
• Geoffrey Sherington and Julia Horne (2010). 'Empire, State and Public Purpose in the Founding of Universities and Colleges in the Antipodes' History of Education Review, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 36-51.
• Julia Horne and Geoffrey Sherington (2010). 'Extending the Educational Franchise: the Social Contract of Australia's Public Universities 1850-1890' Paedagogica Historica, vol. 46, nos 1 and 2, pp. 205-25.
• Geoffrey Sherington and Craig Campbell (2009). 'Education in Sydney since 1788,' Sydney Journal, June 2009; ISSN-0151
• Geoffrey Sherington and Craig Campbell (eds) (2007). Borders and Boundaries: Special Issue of Paedagogica Historica Vol. XLIII, No. 1, 2007. (Edited and refereed articles arising out of papers presented to the International Conference for the History of Education held in Sydney in July 2005).
• Craig Campbell and Geoffrey Sherington (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, Vol. 42, Nos 1 and 2, pp. 191-210.
• Geoffrey Sherington and Craig Campbel l(2004). 'Australian Liberalism the Australian middle class and public education: From Henry Parkes to John Howard' Education Research and Perspectives, Vol. 31, No. 2, December 2004, pp. 59-77
• Craig Campbell and Geoffrey Sherington (2004). 'The Public Comprehensive High School in New South Wales Past Present Future' Change, Vol. 7, No. 1, May 2004, pp.1-16.
• Geoffrey Sherington (2003). 'Suffer Little Children' : British Child Migration as a study of journeyings between centre and periphery' History of Education, Vol. 32, No. 5, 2003, pp.461-76.
• Craig Campbell and Geoffrey Sherington (2002). 'History of Education; The Possibility of Survival', Change, Vol. 5, No. 1, 2002, pp.46-64.
• Geoffrey Sherington (2002). 'A Better Class of Boy: The Big Brother Movement Youth Migration and Citizenship' Australian Historical Studies, vol. 33, no 120, October 2002, pp.267-85.
• Geoffrey Sherington and Craig Campbell (ed.) (1999).  Education and Ethnicity, Ghent, ISCHE, 2001 Special Issue of Paedagogica Historica, (Edited and refereed articles arising out of papers presented to the International Standing Conference for the History of Education held in Sydney in July 1999).
• Geoffrey Sherington (1998). 'Citizenship and Education in Post-War Australia' Paedagogica Historica, Vol. IV, 1998, pp. 329-44.
• Geoffrey Sherington (1996). 'British Youth and Empire Settlement: The Dreadnought Boys in New South Wales' Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, Volume 82, Part II, June 1996, pp.1-22.
• Geoffrey Sherington (1991). 'Australian Immigration, Education and Ethnicity' History of Education Review, Vol.20, No.I, 1991, pp.61-72.
• T.H. Irving and G.E. Sherington (1989). 'Youth Policies in Twentieth Century Australia' Bulletin of the National ClearingHouse for Youth Studies, Vol.8, No.3, 1989, pp.11-19.
• Geoffrey Sherington (1988). 'Cultural Fragments'? Two Hundred Years of Australian Migration and Schooling' Education Research and Perspectives, Vol.IS, 1988, pp.33-39.
• Geoffrey Sherington (1983). 'Athleticism in the Antipodes: the AAGPS of New South Wales' in History of Education Review Vol.13, No.2 1983, pp.16-28.
• Geoffrey Sherington (1982). 'Children and Families in Nineteenth Century Illawarra' in Australia 1988 Bulletin No.10, 1982, pp.72-82.
• G.E. Sherington (1976). 'The Politics of State Rights: J.H. Carruthers and the New South Wales State Election of 1907' Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, Volume 62, pt.3, 1976, pp.179-88.
• G.E. Sherington (1976). 'The 1918 Education Act: Origins, Aims and Development', British Journal of EducationalStudies, Volume XXN, February 1976, pp.66-85.
• G.E. Sherington (1976). 'H.A.L. Fisher and the Teachers - Further Notes' British Journal of Educational Studies, Volume XXIV, June 1976, pp.71-76.
• G. E. Sherington (1976). ' 'Uncertain Partners' - British Universities and the State in the Aftermath of the First World War' ANZHES Journal, Volume 5, Autumn 1976, pp.1-11.
• G.E. Sherington (1974). 'R.B. Haldane, The Board of Education and the Reconstruction Committee 1916-1918', Journal of Educational Administration and History Volume VI, July 1974, pp.18-25.
• G.E. Sherington (1970). 'The Selection of Canberra as Australia's National Capital', Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, Volume 56, No.l, June 1970, pp.134-47.