Dow, Gwyneth

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Gwyneth Dow was appointed as a Lecturer in the Education Faculty 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, for which she fostered pilot schemes to introduce curriculum and organisational changes in secondary schools, and published several reports. She introduced a Dip. Ed. Course "Systems of Education" and was instrumental in introducing an alternative Dip. Ed. Course, Course B, which concentrated on method and practical teaching in the first year.