AM and PM: The Munn-Pitt Report in Context

Whitehead, Derek

doi:10.1080/00049670.1981.10755428

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“…As already indicated, Tate’s role has been highlighted in the library scholarship: “Did anyone have a clear conception of what they wanted libraries to be? It is suggested that Frank Tate uniquely did” (Whitehead, 1981, p. 8)[11]. As well as writing the Introduction for the Munn-Pitt Report, Tate was active in its commissioning as well as in what happened in shaping public opinion subsequent to its release.…”

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Carnegie in Australia: philanthropic power and public education in the early twentieth century

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2019

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to outline a reconceptualised view of public education, with specific reference to early twentieth-century Australia, and to revisit the significance of the Carnegie Corporation of New York in this period. Further, in this regard, the paper proposes a neo-Foucaultian notion of philanthropic power, as an explanatory and analytical principle, with possible implications for thinking anew about the role and influence of American philanthropic organisations in the twentieth century. Design/methodology/approach The paper draws on mainly secondary sources but also works with primary sources gathered from relevant archives, including that of the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER). Findings The paper concludes that the larger possibilities associated with the particular view of public education outlined here, referring to both public school and public libraries, were constrained by the emergence and consolidation of an increasingly professionalised view of education and schooling. Research limitations/implications The influence of the Carnegie Corporation of New York on early twentieth-century Australian education has been increasingly acknowledged and documented in recent historical research. More recently, Carnegie has been drawn into an interdisciplinary perspective on philanthropy and public culture in Australia. This paper seeks to add to such work by looking at schools and libraries as interconnected yet loosely coupled aspects of what can be understood as, in effect, a re-conceived public education, to a significant degree sponsored by the Corporation. Originality/value The paper draws upon but seeks to extend and to some extent re-orient existing historical research on the relationship between Australian education and the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Its originality lies in its exploration of a somewhat different view of public education and the linkage it suggests in this regard with a predominantly print-centric public culture in Australia, in the first half of the twentieth century.

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Carnegie in Australia: philanthropic power and public education in the early twentieth century

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“…Referring to the Munn-Pitt Report, Derek Whitehead has shown how simplistic this approach can be, and how it tends to overshadow november 2005 developments which were already in train. 107 Whitehead' s argument could apply equally to McColvin. Opinions of his visit have ranged from 'the single most important event of the immediate post-war years' to 'helpful' in the period of post-war reconstruction.…”

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Great minds: Metcalfe, McColvin andPublic librariesin Australia

Jones¹

2005

The Australian Library Journal

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The author reviews the relationship between his two protagonists when they met in Australia on the occasion of McColvin's visit in 1946, and later, when Metcalfe was in London. The quality and warmth of the hospitality extended on either hand was curiously asymmetric, which possibly reflects the expectations of the host at the time. Neither man was a stereotype, and each had strong and individual opinions. And neither was a 'prophet without honour…'. McColvin's visit was more critical to the interests of his host, Metcalfe, than when the positions of host and visitor were reversed, which may account for the asymmetry referred to above. The author infers that in the end, Metcalfe was not prepared to honour McColvin's contribution, and indeed, McColvin himself did not rate it highly.

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“…While nominally the idea originated with librarians, it was Täte's energy and lobbying skill which pushed it to a successful conclusion. It was Täte, too, who had the clearest idea of what public libraries ought to be, and how a Carnegie survey could be used in a Publicity campaign16 .The Corporation agreed to fund a survey, provided that evidence of localintcrest was forthcoming. Täte procured Statements of support from universities, parliarnentary libraries, the 'public' libraries in the state capitals, library associations and state education departments 17 .…”

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The Campaign for Public Libraries in New South Wales, 1929-1950

Vincent¹

1981

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AM and PM: The Munn-Pitt Report in Context

Cited by 6 publications

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Carnegie in Australia: philanthropic power and public education in the early twentieth century

Carnegie in Australia: philanthropic power and public education in the early twentieth century

Great minds: Metcalfe, McColvin andPublic librariesin Australia

The Campaign for Public Libraries in New South Wales, 1929-1950

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