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Beyond phrenology: the beginnings of vocational guidance in Queensland through ‘sagax, capax and efficax’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2016

Denis Arthy
Denis Arthy*
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Queensland University of Technology
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Vocational guidance emerged in Queensland in the early 1910s as part of a governmental plan to transform the colonial educational ladder to provide an efficient distribution and coordinated range of vocational outcomes. The central feature of this new educational ladder was the New Scholarship which would provide significantly expanded opportunities for children who had the talent for an education higher than the compulsory level of primary school to participate in secondary, university, agricultural, technical and continuing levels of education. A governmental strategy was formulated to improve the efficiency of these vocational distributions, to facilitate ambition in the family for this New Scholarship and to avoid talent wastage. The guiding strategy was first proposed from within the Department of Public Instruction under the heading of “Sagax, Capax and Efficax’ prior to the First World War. While it was first proposed to be trialled by the Department of Public Instruction at the Central Technical College in Brisbane, the governmental officer charged with the responsibility to provide both the parents and the child with the necessary guidance was the primary school teacher.

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Journal of Psychologists and Counsellors in Schools , Volume 5 , November 1995 , pp. 1 - 11
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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