P005390 revised AU-VU:EOAS Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation

All key entry types: Awards; Concepts; Corporate Bodies (Organisations); Cultural Artefacts; People; etc

These key entries are listed separately below with other indexes and lists.

 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2013-05-02 human Kristijan Causovski updated 2024-10-16 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P005390b.htm person Hodgkinson Lorna Myrtle AACR2 13 May 1887 24 March 1951 Place of Birth South Yarra, Victoria, Australia Place of Death Gore Hill, New South Wales, Australia Psychologist Educator Lorna Hodgkinson was a psychologist and educator. From 1913-1915 she taught at public schools in New South Wales. In 1917, she was appointed to teach mentally defective girls who were wards of the state by the Department of Public Instruction. She obtained an M.Ed (1921) and a D.Ed (1922) from Harvard University, writing her dissertation on 'A State Program for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Atypical Children in Public School Systems.' Returning to New South Wales in 1922, the Department appointed her superintendent and later supervisor for the education of mental defectives.

Wikidata

 Hodgkinson, Lorna Myrtle (18870513-19510324)

Trove

 'Hodgkinson, Lorna Myrtle', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Hodgkinson, Lorna Myrtle Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book Section: Hodgkinson, Lorna Myrtle (1887-1951), psychologist and educationist Turtle, Alison M. Hodgkinson, Lorna Myrtle (1887-1951), psychologist and educationist Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1996 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 14: 1940 - 1980 Di-Kel John Ritchie 462-463