Civic leadership and education for democracy: The Simons and the Wythenshawe estate

Olechnowicz, Andrzej

doi:10.1080/13619460008581569

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“…Another element in our account of similar liberal policy interventions concerns a New Guinea Chinese high school student, Brian Cheung, who wrote to Hasluck to argue for the abolition of Rabaul's Chinatown and its replacement with a new de-racialised urban settlement and greater citizenship rights for the Chinese residents. The student's arguments relied on the work of Simon (Simon & Hubback, 1935;Ku, 2018;Olechnowicz, 2000) an influential British liberal educationalist and practitioner of new forms of urban planning for the improvement of the working class. We argue this urban emphasis of Cheung prefigured how some New Guinea Chinese effectively reworked the government's intentions concerning Australian citizenship by largely settling in urban centres in both Australia and PNG.…”

Section: Michael Wood and Vincent Backhausmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Simon hoped to reform British class inequalities by designing a new town that would facilitate the poor's self-improvement. By the late 1930s, Simon regarded this reform as a failure partly because most of the residents were working class and as such were not really suitable as leaders of a model democratic community (Olechnowicz, 2000).…”

Section: Manchester Liberalism and Chinese Citizenshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Chinese in Papua New Guinea: Past, Present and Future

2024

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Guide to Gender and Classifiers (OUP, forthcoming), in addition to a general interest book I Saw the Dog: How Language Works (London, Profile Books). Her current focus is on the integration of language and society and the ways of conceptualising disease and well-being in minority languages and cultures, and investigation of languages and cultures of Amazonia and New Guinea, including a comprehensive grammar of Yalaku, from East Sepik. xiii CONTRIBUTORS Shaun Gessler is an anthropology PhD candidate from the Australian National University's Department of Pacific Affairs. His thesis investigates the relationship between the Chinese majority-run Ramu Nickel Cobalt Project in Papua New Guinea and the indigenous communities on whose land the mine is located. Shaun has professional experience in Papua New Guinea working and volunteering in international development, which underpins his research interests in the anthropology of development, the social impacts of resource extraction and China's rise in the Pacific.Cathy Hair has broad experience in tropical aquaculture and fisheries. She has been involved with projects in the Pacific Islands region for more than two decades, working on aquaculture commodities for livelihoods and food security. In 2020 she completed her PhD, a multidisciplinary thesis on development of community-based sea cucumber mariculture in Papua New Guinea. Cathy is an Adjunct Fellow within the College of Arts, Society and Education at James Cook University and the School of Science, Technology and Engineering at the University of the Sunshine Coast.

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Section: Michael Wood and Vincent Backhausmentioning

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The Chinese in Papua New Guinea: Past, Present and Future

2024

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“…The nature of citizenship, and specifically education for citizenship in Britain between the wars, has already attracted attention from historians of education and others (McCulloch, 1994;Olechnowicz, 2000;Heater, 2001;Davies & Freeman, 2003;Beaven & Griffiths, 2008;Lammers, 2008;Perriton, 2009). This research has emphasised the publicly articulated ideals and the national policies related to education for citizenship, as opposed to the personal and social implications for the individuals, families and schools involved.…”

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confidence: 99%