Education for Democratic Citizenship: Ernest Simon’s Ideals of Liberal Democracy and Citizenship Education in England, 1934-1944

Ku, Hsiao-Yuh

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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.…”

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

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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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“…Such relationships, perhaps developed in the context of the experimental educational and social communities Macmurray made a point of supporting in the 1930s, could serve as the basis for a renewed social order. One example was the Grith Fyrd (Old English for "peace army" or "peace militia") scheme, which recruited young men from economically depressed urban areas and placed them in rural camps where cooperation and the pursuit of self-sufficiency in a rustic environment would demonstrate, it was hoped, the transformative potential of communities based on non-coercive relationships 25 . Support for such schemes was in keeping with Macmurray's belief that social conditions were ultimately a manifestation of the inner emotional life of a society's inhabitants: "The Grith Fyrd idea rests upon a psychological diagnosis of the crisis of our social life.…”

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“…8 Simon was an industrialist and sometime Liberal MP. On his citizenship education initiatives, see Ku [25]. 9 See for example [28] (pp.…”

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Reason, Emotion, and the Crisis of Democracy in British Philosophy of the 1930s

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2024

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This article examines how British philosophers of the 1930s grappled with the relationship between reason, emotion, and democratic citizenship in the context of a perceived “crisis of democracy” in Europe. Focusing especially on Bertrand Russell, Susan Stebbing, and John Macmurray, it argues that philosophers working from diverse philosophical perspectives shared a sense that the crisis of democracy was simultaneously a crisis of reason and one of emotion. They tended to frame this crisis in terms of three interrelated concerns: first, as a problem of balancing or integrating reason and emotion; second, as a problem of the relationship between emotions and democratic citizenship; and third, as a problem of how to properly train or educate the emotions. Significantly, British philosophers addressed these issues most directly in writings for a non-professional audience, as they sought to translate their professional expertise into popular works that might rejuvenate democratic citizenship. This historical episode is a reminder of how philosophers were deeply engaged in the cultural politics of the interwar period and is a telling example of how personalist concerns were central to philosophy even as the “analytic revolution” was gathering steam.

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What was colonial in extending Australian citizenship to New Guinea Chinese?

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Backhaus

2024

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Standard histories of the dismantling of White Australia policies can imply New Guinea Chinese had, at best, a minor role in such processes. While this may be true, these histories tend to assume that policies flow from the centre to the colony and that nothing much came from the periphery with the result that what gets written is largely Eurocentric (Thomas, 1994, p. 106;Anderson, 1998). Such histories are sometimes confined to, and conflated with, the values of a single nation-state, as when Tavan noted, perhaps somewhat over-enthusiastically, that the dismantling of the White Australia policies was 'largely a pragmatic response by political leaders to the changing circumstances in which Australia found itself and to the changing values of Australian society ' (2005, p. 238, italics in original). 1 Responding to this kind of methodological nationalism (Wimmer & Glick Schiller, 2002), we argue New Guinea Chinese should be made more central to the history of the White Australia policy. We do so by examining the granting, in 1957, of conditional Australian citizenship to Chinese residents in both Australia and New Guinea. In this chapter we merely point toward 1Along with Tavan's work there is a vast range of scholarship on the history of the White Australia policy (

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Education for Democratic Citizenship: Ernest Simon’s Ideals of Liberal Democracy and Citizenship Education in England, 1934-1944

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

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

Reason, Emotion, and the Crisis of Democracy in British Philosophy of the 1930s

What was colonial in extending Australian citizenship to New Guinea Chinese?

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