http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/services/Feed ${session.getAttribute("locale")} 5 http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:1397 In this paper we want to focus on two main aspects of our experience in the United States. The teaching of Australian (and New Zealand) subject material in an exclusive US institution, and the crossover between teacher and person in the practice of this teaching. In particular we wish to highlight the challenges and rewards of teaching Australian studies outside of Australia, and explore the experiences of less senior academic staff who undertake this task. 2010-04-27T06:53:00.221Z ]]> http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:945 This article considers some of the potential possibilities and pitfalls in teaching history as a compulsory course for professional degrees in areas such as education and journalism. It considers two quite different models for curriculum design based on distinct students cohorts, and suggests some of the dangers that need to be avoided, and some of the arrangements that need to be considered for desirable outcomes, in such service teaching situations. 2010-04-27T06:41:04.647Z ]]> http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:1567 2010-04-27T06:27:56.750Z ]]> http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:2306 History provides us with a story of how we got to where we are; it gives us a heritage, and consequently a sense of place. We know where we fit in to a broader temporal 'scheme of things'. This collection brings together some of the best and most influential writng on Australian history, combined with some of the most significant and illustrative primary sources, covering the period to 1901. There are, of necessity, many voices that speak in these sources. Historical actors include the traditional Aboriginal people, the scornful William Dampier, the enchanted 'Banjo' Paterson, the zealous missionaries, and the determined Labor Party. If historical actors speak with many voices, so too do the historians who analyse them and their experiences. This collection inlcudes some of the most enlightening writing on pre-Federation Australia; from Anne Summers 'ground breaking' 1975 feminist take on the convict experience and Mudrooroo's similarly distinctive consideration of what an Aboriginal version of the past might look like, to Richard White's evaluation of Australia as an image and an idea, and Stuart Macintryre's superb end-of-millennium overview of Australia's past. 2010-04-27T06:25:41.407Z ]]> http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:2440 To most Australians Port Kembla is a grimy, polluted, industrial wasteland located down the coast from Sydney. Such images were formed over fifty years ago when industrial development in the town was at its height, and when the expanse of breathtaking coast had been colonised by the stacks and furnaces of heavy industry. Yet the vision of stacks and pollution from furnaces was never the whole story--there was always more to Port Kembla. Although these ideas persist even today, they obscure the real experiences of the people of the port. Steel Town illuminates our understanding of the processes of industrial and social change. Port Kembla was unique in Australian terms--an urban environment where industrial society shaped local life and politics like nowhere else. This book explores the advent and implications of industrial society--and the impact of economic decline and deindustrialisation. In his comprehensive and persuasive account of local life Erik Eklund draws together themes of migration, gender, class and identity. Using archival records, oral history interviews and company documents, Steel Town charts the relationship between economic change and the human experience of that change. The story of Port Kembla is the story of the 'big issues' of Australian history writ small on the lives of three generations of local people. The legacy of industrial society is a mixed one; its experiences and consequences are full of contradictions. And that, of course, is the beauty of history. 2010-04-27T06:12:30.495Z ]]> http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:3563 The city of Newcastle commemorated two bicentenaries within the space of seven years. In 2004, the city marked 200 years since the permanent establishment of the settlement on 30 March 1804. But 2004 was not the city’s first bicentennial. In 1997, Newcastle celebrated the 1797 journey of Lieutenant John Shortland, who named and sketched the Hunter River and brought back samples of coal to Sydney. These anniversaries, and earlier ones such as Newcastle’s centennial in 1897 and its sesqui-centennial in 1947, were crucial moments of history making in the public sphere. History was evoked to celebrate progress, encourage civic loyalty and, more recently, to emphasise the city’s transition into a post-industrial era. This article will explore the way in which commemorative dates in Newcastle’s history were interpreted, utilised and presented to the general public. It will examine how history, heritage, politics and policy come together to use the past in a public way. Utilising US historian John Bodnar’s terms, the shift in the themes and tenor of public history in Newcastle over this period has been from an ‘official’ to a more ‘vernacular’ style. Official public history emphasised unitary notions of progress while vernacular styles presented more diverse and occasionally more critical versions of public history. By the time of the 2004 commemorative events there was more scope for active popular participation. Newcastle public history was being nourished by community groups often with conflicting notions of public history, generating a multivalent, multilayered sense of the past, though older themes persisted with remarkable durability. In a city where ‘history’ has such an ambivalent position, large-scale historical commemorations make for intriguing analysis. After a review of the principal themes in the Newcastle commemorations of 1897, 1947, and 1997, I consider the 2004 ‘Newcastle 200’ programme. In particular, I will be considering my own movement from an apparently objective historical analyst of the earlier commemorative events to a participant in the history-making process in the 2004 program. 2010-04-27T04:55:56.137Z ]]>