Michael Duane after Risinghill: Rise and fall of an educational celebrity

Limond, David

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“…This suggests a degree of political naivety on the part of Mackenzie. He should also have learned from the experience of Michael Duane (1915-97), a progressive head teacher of a London comprehensive school (Risinghill), who adopted a non-authoritarian approach and faced serious difficulties with London County Council and Her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools, eventually leading to closure of the school (Berg, 1968;Limond, 2005). Duane was in regular contact with A. S. Neill and Neill mentioned him in letters to Mackenzie (see, e.g.…”

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R. F. Mackenzie’s ‘Manifesto for the Educational Revolution’

Humes¹

2011

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This paper examines R. F. Mackenzie’s last extended analysis of Scottish education, ‘Manifesto for the Educational Revolution’, which was written in 1980 but not published at that time and only became available on the internet in 2003. Mackenzie’s standing as a radical voice in Scottish education, offering an alternative account of the aims and values of schooling to the one promoted by the educational establishment, remains high among progressive educators: his legacy has been reviewed positively by commentators and several reunion and memorial events have taken place (see http://www.rfmackenzie.info/). The account offered here first provides a brief outline of his background and career, noting his links with other progressive educators (such as A. S. Neill and John Aitkenhead) and referring to some of the publications which predated the Manifesto. It then examines the content of the Manifesto, drawing attention both to its continuity with earlier themes and to the sharper edge to its critique of the political purposes of schooling. The section that follows seeks to go beyond the celebratory accounts of earlier commentators on Mackenzie by drawing attention to some tensions and limitations in his philosophy, while acknowledging the importance of his sustained challenge to orthodox educational thinking in Scotland and to the dominant narratives promoted by officialdom. A short conclusion sums up the nature of Mackenzie’s radicalism.

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R. F. Mackenzie’s ‘Manifesto for the Educational Revolution’

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2011

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Michael Duane and Risinghill School: rebel with a cause?

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2019

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Strangers and sojourners: who were Miss V and Miss W?

Limond

2008

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This piece concerns a largely forgotten ethnographic experiment conducted under the auspices of the United National Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and its Tensions Affecting International Understanding Project. In the early 1950s, with UNESCO's backing, two young African teachers spent a short time living and working in a small English town. What follows is an attempt to locate them. That is to say, it sets out variously to establish who Miss V and Miss W might have been and to examine the situation in which they found themselves. The hope was that children from a monocultural background in rural England brought into contact with African teachers would have many of their prejudices dispelled. To some extent, in its own terms, the project was successful but the resulting book rendered the women anonymous and voiceless and exoticzed them in the process. Thus the piece attempts, largely using the means of textual inference, to reconstruct what can be known of their experiences, and speculates on the effect(s) that participation in the experiment might have had on them. It thus gives again both voice and identity to Miss V and Miss W, so that, like Sojourner Truth, they can come up again.

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Michael Duane after Risinghill: Rise and fall of an educational celebrity

Cited by 4 publications

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R. F. Mackenzie’s ‘Manifesto for the Educational Revolution’

R. F. Mackenzie’s ‘Manifesto for the Educational Revolution’

Michael Duane and Risinghill School: rebel with a cause?

Strangers and sojourners: who were Miss V and Miss W?

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