... was enshrined in public education, was overdetermined by the politics of racialisation and ethno-nationalism. Design/methodology/approach The historiographical method used here is labelled “political genealogy”. This approach foregrounds how every social order and norm is contingent on political struggles...

..., the labour of academic staff could be considered to normally have social and economic value to the nation. In 1951 Conant had no way of foreseeing that steps made, in this light, at Federal level during and after the war, would culminate in the 1957 Review of Universities in Australia, chaired by Sir Keith...

...Yuval Dror This article deals with the contribution of visual presentation to education for national identity, an issue not examined sufficiently by recent theories of nationalism. Studies of nationalism mention education only in general terms, as an instrument of socialisation on the macro level...