Dow, Gwyneth Maude

Gwyneth Dow was appointed as a Lecturer in the Education Faculty at the University of Melbourne in 1958, a Senior Lecturer in 1963 and Reader in 1970. She was an inaugural member of the Steering Committee of the Curriculum Advisory Board in Victoria, and fostered pilot schemes to introduce curriculum and organisational changes in secondary schools. She published several reports relating to these schemes. She introduced a Diploma of Education Course "Systems of Education" and was instrumental in introducing an alternative Diploma of Education Course, Course B, which concentrated on method and practical teaching in the first year. Gwyneth Dow, a descendant of the early colonial Terry family, began researching the family history in 1965 after writing an article on Samuel and Rosetta for the 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'.

Membership

• Temporary Teachers' Club, Victorian Teachers' Union (1955 - 1960)

Books

• Dow, Gwyneth, Learning to teach, teaching to learn, Routledge & K. Paul, London, 1979, 262 pp. [ Details... ]
• Dow, Gwyneth M, Samuel Terry :the Botany Bay Rothschild, Sydney University Press, Sydney, 1974, 266 pp. [ Details... ]

Book Sections

• Dow, Gwyneth M, 'Terry, Samuel', in Shaw, A G L and Clark, C M H (eds), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 2, 1967, pp. 508-509. [ Details... ]