History of Education Review: Volume 39 Issue 1
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The official journal of the Australian and New Zealand History of Education Society
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Confidential report to the Carnegie Corporation James B. Conant on the University situation in Australia in the year 1951
James B. ConantI visited the universities of Sydney, Melbourne, and Adelaide, and the New South Wales University of Technology, and attended a week’s Seminar on Science in Australia at Canberra…
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Cold War, the universities and public education: The contexts of J. B. Conant’s mission to Australia and New Zealand, 1951
Craig CampbellThe tensions of the Cold War focussed attention on the role that universities might play through their science and technology expertise and research. At the same time the United…
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Academic work in Australian universities in the 1940s and 1950s
Hannah ForsythWhen James Conant visited Australia in 1951 he unwittingly entered an existing, lengthy debate about the value of university‐based knowledge in Australia. The Second World War…
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Australia and New Zealand through American eyes: The ‘eyes’ have it
Wayne UrbanThe points I want to make about Conant in the rest of this commentary will not be devoted to the Carnegie philanthropy and its objectives, nor to the acuity of Conant’s…
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0819-8691Online date, start – end:
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hybridEditors:
- Prof Helen Proctor
- Prof Julie McLeod
- Dr Tamson Pietsch