Books

• Campbell, C., Proctor, H. (2014). A History of Australian Schooling. Sydney: Allen and Unwin.
• Campbell, C., Proctor, H., Sherington, G. (2009). School Choice: How parents negotiate the new school market in Australia. Sydney: Allen and Unwin.

Edited Books

• Proctor, H., Roch, A., Breidenstein, G., Forsey, M. (2024). Parents, schools and the state: Global perspectives. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.
• Burns, K., Proctor, H. (2024). The curriculum of the body and the school as clinic: histories of public health and schooling. London: Routledge.
• Welch, A., Bagnall, N., Burns, K., Cuervo, H., Foley, D., Groundwater-Smith, S., Harwood, V., Low, R., Mockler, N., Proctor, H., Rawlings, V., Wood, J., et al (2022). Education, change and society (5th edition). Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
• Freebody, K., Goodwin, S., Proctor, H. (2019). Higher Education, Pedagogy and Social Justice: Politics and Practice. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
• Welch, A., Connell, R., Mockler, N., Sriprakash, A., Proctor, H., Hayes, D., Foley, D., Vickers, M., Bagnall, N., Burns, K., Low, R., Groundwater-Smith, S. (2018). Education, Change and Society: Fourth Edition. Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
• Proctor, H., Brownlee, P., Freebody, P. (2015). Controversies in Education: Orthodoxy and Heresy in Policy and Practice. Cham: Springer. [More Information]
• Connell, R., Welch, A., Vickers, M., Foley, D., Bagnall, N., Hayes, D., Proctor, H., Sriprakash, A., Campbell, C. (2013). Education, Change and Society: Third Edition. Melbourne, Australia: Oxford University Press.

Book Chapters

• Burns, K., Proctor, H., Spandagou, I., Weaver, H. (2024). The mediation of childhood health during the polio era in Australia. In Burns, K. & Proctor, H. (Eds.), The curriculum of the body and the school as clinic: histories of public health and schooling, (pp. 43-59). London: Routledge. [More Information]
• Proctor, H., Burns, K., Magro, D. (2024). Who owns the body of the child? Human rights and corporal punishment in 1980s Australia. In Burns, K. & Proctor, H. (Eds.), The curriculum of the body and the school as clinic: histories of public health and schooling, (pp. 211-221). London: Routledge.
• Burns, K., Proctor, H. (2022). Growing up. Education, change and society (5th edition), (pp. 25-47). Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
• Proctor, H., Weaver, H. (2020). Family, community and sociability: 1920-Present. In J. Harford & T. O’Donoghue (Eds.), A cultural history of education in the modern age (A cultural history of education, Volume 6), (pp. 81-98). London: Bloomsbury Academic. [More Information]
• Burns, K., Proctor, H., Weaver, H. (2020). Modern Schooling and the Curriculum of the Body. In Tanya Fitzgerald (Eds.), Handbook of Historical Studies in Education: Debates, Tensions, and Directions, (pp. 569-589). Singapore: Springer. [More Information]
• Hidalgo, F., Burns, K., Proctor, H., Palacios, D. (2020). Reflexiones finales [Final reflections]. In F. Hidalgo (Eds.), Educacion fisica en Chile: Discursos, performatividades y posibilidades de los cuerpos [Physical education: Discourses, performativities, and possibilities of the body]. Ambato, Ecuador: Universidad Tecnologica Indoamerica.
• Proctor, H., Weaver, H. (2019). Creating an educational home: Mothering for schooling in the Australian Women's Weekly, 1943-1960. In F. Meseci Giorgetti, A. Arslan & C. Campbell (Eds.), Culture and education: Looking back to culture through education. London: Routledge. [More Information]
• Proctor, H. (2019). Curriculum, History, and "Progress". In Tanya Fitzgerald (Eds.), Handbook of Historical Studies in Education: Debates, Tensions, and Directions, (pp. 1-13). Singapore: Springer. [More Information]
• Goodwin, S., Proctor, H. (2019). Introduction: Social Justice Talk and Social Justice Practices in the Contemporary University. In K. Freebody, S. Goodwin, H. Proctor (Eds.), Higher Education, Pedagogy and Social Justice: Politics and Practice, (pp. 1-20). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
• Burns, K., Proctor, H., Sriprakash, A. (2018). Growing up. In A. Welch (Eds.), Education, Change and Society: Fourth Edition, (pp. 21-42). Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
• Proctor, H. (2018). Masculinity and social class, tradition and change: The production of "young Christian gentlemen" at an elite Australian boys' school [originally published in Gender and Education, 23(7), 2011]. In Agnes Van Zanten (Eds.), Elites in education. UK: Routledge.
• Proctor, H., Sriprakash, A. (2018). School systems and school choice. In A. Welch (Eds.), Education, Change and Society: Fourth Edition, (pp. 305-332). Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
• Sriprakash, A., Proctor, H. (2018). Social class and inequality. In A. Welch (Eds.), Education, Change and Society: Fourth Edition, (pp. 112-138). Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
• Forsey, M., Proctor, H., Stacey, M. (2017). A Most Poisonous Debate: Legitimizing Support for Australian Private Schools. In Thomas Koinzer, Rita Nikolai, Florian Waldow (Eds.), Private schools and school choice in compulsory education: Global change and national challenge, (pp. 49-66). Wiesbaden: Springer. [More Information]
• Proctor, H., Freebody, P., Brownlee, P. (2015). Introduction: Heresy and orthodoxy in contemporary schooling: Australian educational policy and global neoliberal reform. In Helen Proctor, Patrick Brownlee, Peter Freebody (Eds.), Controversies in Education: Orthodoxy and Heresy in Policy and Practice, (pp. 1-12). Cham: Springer. [More Information]
• Proctor, H., Aitchison, C. (2015). Markets in education: School choice and family capital. In Gabrielle Meagher, Susan Goodwin (Eds.), Markets, Rights and Power in Australian Social Policy, (pp. 323-341). Sydney: Sydney University Press.
• Proctor, H. (2015). Markets Made Out of Love: Parents, Schools and Communities Before Neoliberalism. In Helen Proctor, Patrick Brownlee, Peter Freebody (Eds.), Controversies in Education: Orthodoxy and Heresy in Policy and Practice, (pp. 199-205). Cham: Springer. [More Information]
• Proctor, H., Sriprakash, A. (2013). School Systems and School Choice. In Raewyn Connell, et al (Eds.), Education, Change and Society: Third Edition, (pp. 213-233). Melbourne, Australia: Oxford University Press.
• Sriprakash, A., Proctor, H. (2013). Social Class and Inequality. In Raewyn Connell, et al (Eds.), Education, Change and Society: Third Edition, (pp. 79-98). Melbourne, Australia: Oxford University Press.
• Proctor, H. (2010). The good mother and the high school: a view from the 20th century. In Susan Goodwin and Kate Huppatz (Eds.), The Good Mother: Contemporary Motherhoods in Australia, (pp. 111-130). Sydney: Sydney University Press.

Journals

• Gerrard, J., Goodwin, S., Proctor, H. (2024). Participatory politics and education policy reform: Publics and histories. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, Online first. [More Information]
• Low, R., Proctor, H. (2023). Oceania and the history of education. History of Education, Online only. [More Information]
• Payne, A., Proctor, H., Spandagou, I. (2023). The hope and burden of early intervention: Parents' educational planning for their deaf children in post-1960s Australia. History of Education Review, 52(1), 69-83. [More Information]
• Gerrard, J., Proctor, H. (2023). The new sociology of education and the ‘new’ conservatives: the battle over the school social sciences curriculum. Curriculum Perspectives, 43(2), 203-206. [More Information]
• Proctor, H., Gerrard, J., Goodwin, S. (2023). Working with and against the bureaucratic state: histories of grassroots organising for public education reform, 1970s - 1980s. Journal of Educational Administration and History, Online. [More Information]
• Gerrard, J., Proctor, H. (2021). Activist women, schooling and the rise of the grassroots Christian conservatism. Australian Educational Researcher, Online first. [More Information]
• Proctor, H. (2021). Covid-19 and the scholarly field of education: Some notes from fortress Australia. International Journal for the Historiography of Education [IJHE Bildungsgeschichte], 1, 75-78.
• Proctor, H., Weaver, H. (2020). Family, school and the mass production of parenting advice. British Journal of Educational Studies, 68(1), 43-60. [More Information]
• Proctor, H., Roch, A., Breidenstein, G., Forsey, M. (2020). Parents, schools and the twenty-first-century state: Comparative perspectives. Comparative Education, 56(3), 317-330. [More Information]
• Proctor, H. (2019). The hidden historiography of migration and Australian schooling. History of Education Review, 48(2), 142-155. [More Information]
• Low, R., Mayes, E., Proctor, H. (2019). Tracing the radical, the migrant, and the secular in the history of Australian schooling: Contrapuntal historiographies. History of Education Review, 48(2), 137-141. [More Information]
• Myers, K., Ramsey, P., Proctor, H. (2018). Rethinking borders and boundaries for a mobile history of education. Paedagogica Historica, 54(6), 677-690. [More Information]
• Weaver, H., Proctor, H. (2018). The question of the spotted muumuu: How the Australian Women's Weekly manufactured a vision of the normative school mother and child, 1930s-1980s. History of Education Quarterly, 58(2), 229-260. [More Information]
• Proctor, H., Driscoll, A. (2017). Bureaucratic governance, family economies and the 1930s NSW teachers' marriage bar, Australia. Journal of Educational Administration and History, 49(2), 157-170. [More Information]
• Proctor, H., Weaver, H. (2017). Creating an educational home: Mothering for schooling in the Australian Women's Weekly, 1943-1960. Paedagogica Historica, 53(1-2), 49-70. [More Information]
• Proctor, H., Sriprakash, A. (2017). Race and legitimacy: Historical formations of academically selective schooling in Australia. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 43(14), 2378-2392. [More Information]
• Proctor, H., Burns, K. (2017). The connected histories of mass schooling and public health. History of Education Review, 46(2), 118-124. [More Information]
• Sriprakash, A., Proctor, H., Hu, B. (2016). Visible pedagogic work: Parenting, private tutoring and educational advantage in Australia. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 37(3), 426-441. [More Information]
• May, J., Proctor, H. (2013). Being Special: memories of the Australian public high school, 1920s-1950s. History of Education Review, 42(1), 55-68. [More Information]
• Proctor, H. (2011). Masculinity and social class, tradition and change: the production of 'young Christian gentlemen' at an elite Australian boys' school. Gender and Education, 23(7), 843-856. [More Information]
• Proctor, H. (2010). Bringing up baby in the 21st century. Australian Review of Public Affairs, June, http://www.australianreview.net/digest/2010/06/pro.
• Proctor, H. (2008). An Aristocracy of Talent? Describing Self and Other at an Early Twentieth Century High School. History of Education, 38(2), 1-14. [More Information]
• Proctor, H. (2008). School Teacher Parents and the Retreat from Public Secondary Schooling: A View from the Australian Census, 1976-2001. Australian Educational Researcher, 35(2), 123-137. [More Information]
• Proctor, H. (2007). Gender and merit: Coeducation and the construction of a meritocratic educational ladder in New South Wales¸ 1880-1912. Paedagogica Historica, 43(1), 119-134. [More Information]
• Proctor, H. (2002). Gender, merit and identity at Parramatta High School,1913-1919. History of Education Review, 30(2), 39-50.

Conferences

• Proctor, H. (2015). The Public High School, Bureaucratic Administration and the Making of the Twentieth Century Family. 2015 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Washington, DC: AERA.

Magazine / Newspaper Articles

• Burns, K., Kean, J., Proctor, H. (2024). Let's not fixate on co-ed v single-sex. Both can elevate our kids - or fail them. Sydney Morning Herald. [More Information]
• Kean, J., Burns, K., Proctor, H. (2024). Why do we have single sex schools? What's the history behind one of the biggest debates in education? The Conversation, 6 February. [More Information]
• Proctor, H. (2022). Climbing the opportunity ladder: The burden of hope and ambition. GriffithReview75: Learning Curves. [More Information]
• Gerrard, J., Proctor, H. (2020). More money for private schools won't make Australia's education fairer, no matter how you split it. The Conversation, March 6. [More Information]
• Proctor, H., Sriprakash, A. (2017). Selective schools' long and tangled history with race and class. The Conversation, March 29. [More Information]
• Graham, L., Proctor, H., Dixon, R. (2016). How schools avoid enrolling children with disabilities. The Conversation, January 28. [More Information]
• Proctor, H. (2012). Top marks to Gonski review for its focus on children, schools and teachers. Sydney Morning Herald, February 24.
• Proctor, H. (2011). School choice is not the answer to everything. The Conversation, July 12. [More Information]

Other

• Proctor, H. (2022), The OECD's historical rise in education: the formation of a global governing complex.
• Gerrard, J., Proctor, H. (2021), For the love of God: How pornography and an explicit reading list turned Rona Joyner into a conservative activist | EduResearch Matters (AARE) blog. [More Information]
• Weaver, H., Proctor, H. (2018), Which national publication is responsible for (almost) all Australian children wearing school uniform? (AARE blog post). [More Information]