...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...

... to bridging the gap between subject matter and pedagogy but rather the opposite. Biology teacher education was seen as an academic pursuit carried out at universities rather than at the practically oriented teacher training colleges. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 History Science teacher...

..., autonomous. Ashby and Vernon wrote to each and asked politely: all six vice‐chancellors responded positively, keen to support the war effort. Australia Universities Higher education History Government policy Academic staff History of higher education Technology Technological universities Eric...

... the perception of him as “following” rather than shaping racial thought, as has been suggested of his relationship to race in Australia, where his harsh racial attitudes have been seen as somehow “natural” or “inevitable”. Yarwood, for example, suggests a “fatal impact” view of Australian race relations history...

... into the full diversity of the indigenous historical experience in Australian education. It is important that we understand the legacy of Australia's history, as it helps to explain the deep sense of injustice felt by Aboriginal people, their disadvantaged status today, and their current attitudes towards...

..., 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; 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...

...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...

... 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...

..., who proclaimed: “Lancaster, I highly approve of your system, and it is my wish that every poor child in my dominions should be taught to read the Bible” (cited in Temple, 2002, p. 25). United Kingdom New Zealand Migrant workers History Labour Education Migration National Society 1840s...

... 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...

... Publishing Limited 2006 History School Melbourne THE PRESENCE OF THE PAST: MELBOURNE HIGH SCHOOL IN ITS CENTENARY YEAR R.J.W. SELLECK Monash University, Australia A school s centenary year, particularly if the school has had as rich and controversial a life as Melbourne High School, brings...

... History 1 THE SCHOOLMASTER OF ALL IRELAND: THE PROGRESSIVE CREDENTIALS OF PATRICK HENRY PEARSE 1879-19161 DAVID LIMOND Trinity College, Ireland Schoolmaster of all Ireland! May God give Eternal rest to your gallant soul . - Anonymous poem, 1916. Introducing Patrick Pearse Patrick Pearse s status...