John McNair
Biographic Data
| ID | 5954499 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John McNair |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | McNair |
| SIGNATURE | MCNAIR J |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Winning Friends, Influencing People: Soviet Cultural Diplomacy in Australia, 1928–1968
This article draws on largely unpublished archive materials to examine the strategies employed by the USSR to manage its cultural relations with Australia as a means of extending its influence beyond its traditional supporters in trade union and socialist movements. The activities of key players like the All‐Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (VOKS), the Union of Soviet Friendship Societies (SSOD) and the International Co…
Mary Poppins and the Soviet Pilgrimage: P.L.Travers's Moscow Excursion (1934)
Like the journey it chronicles, Moscow Excursion, P.L.Travers’s account of her 1932 visit to Russia, was in part inspired by the genre it effectively parodies: the ‘Soviet pilgrimage’ ‘truth about Russia’ narrative characteristic of the Stalin decades and exemplified (in the Australian context) by Katharine Susannah Prichard’s The Real Russia, also published in 1934. The paper examines the ways in which Travers’s book is written against this genr…
Visiting The Future: Australian (Fellow‐) Travellers in Soviet Russia
A significant number of Australian testimonies still awaiting systematic and comprehensive study bear witness to the Soviet journeys of many key figures of the Left and help to define and characterise the successive phases of the encounter between ‘progressive’ Australia and the USSR. The article provides a chronological survey and detailed analysis of the most significant of these accounts from the early 1920s to the late 1960s, including Kathar…
El Stock de titulados universitarios y su relación con el mercado de trabajo (The Stock of University Graduates and its Relation to the Labour Market) 1976–86
Education for a Changing Spain
Teaching the spoken language. An approach based on the analysis of conversational english
Education in Spain: An annotated bibliography with suggested topics for research
Education in Spain, 1970‐80: The years of compulsory schooling
Until the provisions of the 1970 General Education Act came into force, the education system of Spain had changed little in structure since the first Education Act, the 1857 Ley Moyano. Schooling was provided for children from the ages of six to fourteen: at the age of ten the abler children were channelled into the first stage of academic secondary education, the Bachillerato Elemental, a four year course, while the remainder continued in the lo…
The Contribution of the Schools to the Restoration of Regional Autonomy in Spain 1
1The material for this paper was gathered during a four‐month stay in Spain in 1979, supported by a grant from the Area Studies Committee of the University of Manchester
Teaching the spoken language. An approach based on the analysis of conversational english
The Contribution of the Schools to the Restoration of Regional Autonomy in Spain 1
1The material for this paper was gathered during a four‐month stay in Spain in 1979, supported by a grant from the Area Studies Committee of the University of Manchester
Education in Spain, 1970‐80: The years of compulsory schooling
Until the provisions of the 1970 General Education Act came into force, the education system of Spain had changed little in structure since the first Education Act, the 1857 Ley Moyano. Schooling was provided for children from the ages of six to fourteen: at the age of ten the abler children were channelled into the first stage of academic secondary education, the Bachillerato Elemental, a four year course, while the remainder continued in the lo…
The Contribution of the Schools to the Restoration of Regional Autonomy in Spain 1
1The material for this paper was gathered during a four‐month stay in Spain in 1979, supported by a grant from the Area Studies Committee of the University of Manchester
Education in Spain, 1970‐80: The years of compulsory schooling
Until the provisions of the 1970 General Education Act came into force, the education system of Spain had changed little in structure since the first Education Act, the 1857 Ley Moyano. Schooling was provided for children from the ages of six to fourteen: at the age of ten the abler children were channelled into the first stage of academic secondary education, the Bachillerato Elemental, a four year course, while the remainder continued in the lo…
Education in Spain: An annotated bibliography with suggested topics for research
Teaching the spoken language. An approach based on the analysis of conversational english
Education for a Changing Spain
El Stock de titulados universitarios y su relación con el mercado de trabajo (The Stock of University Graduates and its Relation to the Labour Market) 1976–86
Visiting The Future: Australian (Fellow‐) Travellers in Soviet Russia
A significant number of Australian testimonies still awaiting systematic and comprehensive study bear witness to the Soviet journeys of many key figures of the Left and help to define and characterise the successive phases of the encounter between ‘progressive’ Australia and the USSR. The article provides a chronological survey and detailed analysis of the most significant of these accounts from the early 1920s to the late 1960s, including Kathar…
Mary Poppins and the Soviet Pilgrimage: P.L.Travers's Moscow Excursion (1934)
Like the journey it chronicles, Moscow Excursion, P.L.Travers’s account of her 1932 visit to Russia, was in part inspired by the genre it effectively parodies: the ‘Soviet pilgrimage’ ‘truth about Russia’ narrative characteristic of the Stalin decades and exemplified (in the Australian context) by Katharine Susannah Prichard’s The Real Russia, also published in 1934. The paper examines the ways in which Travers’s book is written against this genr…
Winning Friends, Influencing People: Soviet Cultural Diplomacy in Australia, 1928–1968
This article draws on largely unpublished archive materials to examine the strategies employed by the USSR to manage its cultural relations with Australia as a means of extending its influence beyond its traditional supporters in trade union and socialist movements. The activities of key players like the All‐Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (VOKS), the Union of Soviet Friendship Societies (SSOD) and the International Co…
Political science (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Educational Practices and Policies (4 works) · Australian History and Society (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · History (3 works) · History of Education in Spain (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)