...Lyn Yates Purpose This paper was originally presented as a keynote presentation to the annual conference of the ANZHES whose theme was “knowledge skills and expertise”. The purpose of this paper is to reflect on history as a field of study in the context of changing conditions and new debates...

... biology is. We can draw the boundary lines […]. (Tore Donnér, Association of Biology Teachers (ABT) board minutes, May 23-24, 1970). History Science teacher education Biology Boundary-work Subject association Because, historically, it had been a major problem for biology education...

... institutional histories give some account of its occurrence (see e.g. Selleck, 2003). This paper offers an introduction to the transnational nature of the transformation of post‐war universities in Australia and the foundations for the debate between the relative place of skill development and knowledge...

... to indigenous peoples in the region together, this paper explores the role of imperial and colonial contexts, and developing discourses of race, on indigenous education. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Australia Education History Australian Aborigines Aboriginal people Maori Indigenous...

..., this paper will use a particular set of events and a particular group of protagonists in Australian history as a case study. Findings This case study illuminates conflicting ideas about the place of libraries and the organisation of their collections in early twentieth‐century society and demonstrates...

...Peter Rushbrook; Mary O'Dowd Purpose The purpose of the paper is to analyse non‐indigenous student resistance to indigenous history and to improve non‐indigenous students’ engagement with indigenous history. Design/methodology The paper, based on praxis, is a theoretical discussion...

...Peter Rushbrook; Reinhard Kuehnel Purpose By deconstructing centres and peripheries in Australian history curricula, the purpose of this paper is to establish in what ways these documents blended local, state‐specific concepts of major civilisations with trans‐local, and even global cultural...

... into the full diversity of the indigenous historical experience in Australian education. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Australia Australian aboriginals History Education Indigenous studies Empowerment This paper will consider the impact of centre‐periphery concepts within...

... the focus of wider political debates. In particular, this article focuses on the New Zealand Education and Science Parliamentary Select Committee investigation into the 2004 history examination, that was set up in the wake of increasing dissonance over the place of the Treaty of Waitangi in New Zealand...

..., Hatch and Petersham. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 United Kingdom New Zealand Migrant workers History Labour Education Migration National Society 1840s Social class On 7 November 1841 William Dew, a sawyer in Port Nicholson (Wellington), wrote in a letter to his...

... History 8 Part II CONFIDENTIAL REPORT TO THE CARNEGIE CORPORATION ON THE UNIVERSITY SITUATION IN AUSTRALIA IN THE YEAR 1951 with Appendix on New Zealand JAMES B. CONANT [Note: All footnotes are those of the editor, not James B. Conant unless otherwise indicated.] The readers of this confidential report...

...Keith Crawford This article explores how within a climate characterised by a national moral panic and an institutionalised imperialist xenophobia school history textbooks in the early years of the 20th Century came to present an intensely hostile discourse of Germans and Germany. The approach...

...Peter Rushbrook This article explores an incident that raises questions relating to the making and unmaking of history, heritage and social memory. It also points to the role of the historian in unravelling forgotten pasts. On 21 May 1945, at the Royal Australian Engineers Training Camp (RAETC...

... for and preserved. Or even re-discovered. I am not going to try to tell Melbourne High School s history in detail - Alan Gregory has already done that admirably.3 Instead I would like to begin this article in Galway, Ireland, as the Americans say, just as they say Paris, Texas to distinguish that place from Paris...

... consistently, and often fulsomely, been praised for his educational work and ideas, even by those who are otherwise critics, being described by one as ‘stimulating and, for Ireland at least, novel’ in this respect. Ireland Education Progressive education History 1 THE SCHOOLMASTER OF ALL IRELAND...