John Ramsland
Biographic Data
| ID | 693490 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Ramsland |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Ramsland |
| SIGNATURE | RAMSLAND J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Newcastle Australia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Dave Sands as Local Hero and International Champion
Stockton, the close-knit northern community of Newcastle, New South Wales, was industrialised even by 1840. Shipbuilding, a tweed factory, salt works, lime kilns, a tin smelter and vitriol works, supplemented by a coal mine from 1885, were established there, but these no longer exist. Large ships were moored beside it three abreast waiting to be refitted. With such a declining community by the 1940s, the local working-class culture nevertheless h…
Barney Kieran, the Legendary ‘ Sobraon Boy’
This article explores the remarkable career of Bernard Bede (Barney) Kieran, known in the Australian sporting press of the time as ‘the Sobraon Boy’. He was born in Sydney in 1886, grew up in the mean streets, was imprisoned aboard the industrial training ship Sobraon and, at the zenith of his sensational world record-breaking swimming career, died suddenly on 22 December 1905. He was only nineteen and was mourned by the public as one of Australi…
The Disenchantment of Childhood
In this paper the authors' primary concern is to outline the cultural and spatial boundaries delineated in the representation of children and childhood in a selection of Australian feature films. To this end they explore in some depth the depiction of children's worlds in three films: The Kid Stakes (1927), Smiley (1956), and Storm Boy (1976). The analysis canvasses class, gender, race and ethnic, as well as geographic, boundaries. These films de…
Vue de sydney 1840
The Aboriginal Boys’ Training Home, Kinchela, 1924–1970, and the Development of a Culture of Physical Fitness and Sport 1
Kinchela Boys’ Home on the mid‐north coast of New South Wales, was established by the state’s Aborigines Protection Board for Aboriginal boys and youths in 1924 and closed in 1970. By the 1930s the place had become known as a notorious carceral, poorly managed and psychologically isolated. An overdue government enquiry in 1940 concluded that it was not fulfilling its ‘requirements’ as a place of training and had many ‘shortcomings’. Reform and re…
Prison playground? Child convict labour and vocational training in New South Wales, 1788‐1840
L'article analyse la dimension de l'integration sociale des enfants de prisonniers chez les premiers colons installes en Nouvelles Galles du Sud en Australie en s'interessant plus particulierement au travail de ces enfants. Le peu d'informations disponibles rendent difficiles les recherches a ce sujet, meme si les renseignements collectes par les historiens tendent a prouver le statut penible des enfants de prisonniers au XVIIIe siecle et leur ro…
Mettray, Delinquent Youth and the Cult of Religious Honour
The Agricultural Colony and Penitentiary of Mettray, an institution for wayward boys and youths, was founded near Tours in 1840 and closed down in 1937 by the Popular Front Government It functioned for ninety-eight years as a national but privately controlled reformatory for male juveniles who had fallen foul of the French justice system and had been brought there from adult prisons to be rehabilitated through a strictly organised regime of relig…
The cautiousness of the Minister is to be commended rather than condemned‘ 1
Le role du Ministre de l'Education d'avant-guerre des Nouvelles Galles du Sud est examine. Sa responsabilite dans les echecs ou le succes de la reforme des examens entre 1932-1941 est indeniable. Il ne reussit pas a reformer comme il l'entendait, surtout dans le secondaire ou rien ne fut accompli. Celui qui avait effectue quelques ponctions dans le budget de l'Education, n'avait accompli aucun changement significatif dans le systeme docimologique…
With Just but Relentless Discipline
Schooling Outback Children in Post-Colonial Australia, 1901–1950
This article encapsulates historical research from many sources on the New South Wales government's implementation of universal, compulsory education for Australian children living in remote and isolated country areas of the “Outback” through the use of travelling schools, subsidised schools, one teacher bush Public schools, tutors and governesses, correspondence education, central rural schools and the School of the Air. An examination is also m…
Sequins under the big top
(1997). Sequins under the big top: Women in the Australian circus. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 21, Designing women, pp. 43-53
Aspects of early twentieth century Paris through Australian eyes
(1995). Aspects of early twentieth century Paris through Australian eyes. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 19, No. 44, pp. 13-21
Conference Reports
The Decline and Fall of the Thomas Coram Schools, Berkhamsted, 1935‐1954
This article explores the decline and final collapse of the Foundling Hospital tradition of child‐saving between 1935 and 1954 at Berkhamsted and the outdated ideology that underpinned it in the face of the growth of the modern welfare state and new social reforms for children in care. Consideration is given to the problematic persistence of a traditional barracks‐style charitable children's institution and its ideology in a crucial period in the…
News, Views and Ideas from around Australia
Edith onians, australian advocate of social reform
This article surveys the contribution of Edith Charlotte Onians (1866–1955) to Australian social reform, both in her work as the organiser of the Newsboys' Society, a philanthropic organisation for disadvantaged male youth in Melbourne, and in her advocacy of welfare support for needy children and youths, and impoverished urban families. Her efforts to stimulate thought about policy change in the problem areas of youth homelessness, youth employm…
Social Paralysis and Social Change
Brian James or John Tierney? The teacher as writer, or the writer as teacher
The London Foundling Hospital and its Significance as a Child-Saving Institution
This article explores the Foundling Hospital's ideology as a child-rescue institution, particularly in terms of the actualisation of the Lockeian ideal of a working school. Consideration is given to the development of the institution's ‘useful’ curriculum; the building's design as a part of a system of surveillance and control; its use as an experimental laboratory for radical pediatrics; and its particular methods of institutionalised child soci…
In the lonely, silent places’
1This article is a shortened, revised version of the author's Presidential Address to the Australian and New Zealand History of Education Annual Conference 1990, at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, 8 December 1990
The Birripai of the Manning An Aboriginal Studies Unit for Secondary Schools
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Mettray
(1990). Mettray: A Corrective Institution for Delinquent Youth in France, 1840‐1937. Journal of Educational Administration and History: Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 30-46
The Importance of Local Aboriginal History in School Curriculum
I would like to focus on the history and culture of the Aboriginal people in the Manning Valley of New South Wales to show how material that is localised in nature can be used in a school program of studies. Such material helps to reveal the local or regional nature of Aboriginal culture, as well as aspects that are related to the whole of Australia. The common factors of Aboriginal culture have tended to have been over emphasised in the past and…
Children of the Backlanes. Destitute and Neglected Children in Colonial New South Wales
Attitudes Towards Multiculturalism in Schools in an Industrial Area
The London Foundling Hospital and its Significance as a Child-Saving Institution
This article explores the Foundling Hospital's ideology as a child-rescue institution, particularly in terms of the actualisation of the Lockeian ideal of a working school. Consideration is given to the development of the institution's ‘useful’ curriculum; the building's design as a part of a system of surveillance and control; its use as an experimental laboratory for radical pediatrics; and its particular methods of institutionalised child soci…
Prison playground? Child convict labour and vocational training in New South Wales, 1788‐1840
L'article analyse la dimension de l'integration sociale des enfants de prisonniers chez les premiers colons installes en Nouvelles Galles du Sud en Australie en s'interessant plus particulierement au travail de ces enfants. Le peu d'informations disponibles rendent difficiles les recherches a ce sujet, meme si les renseignements collectes par les historiens tendent a prouver le statut penible des enfants de prisonniers au XVIIIe siecle et leur ro…
In the lonely, silent places’
1This article is a shortened, revised version of the author's Presidential Address to the Australian and New Zealand History of Education Annual Conference 1990, at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, 8 December 1990
Henry Parkes and the Development of Industrial and Reformatory Schools in Colonial New South Wales
This paper will deal with the political and administrative involvement of Henry Parkes in the establishment of government Industrial and Reformatory Schools in New South Wales through the Industrial and Reformatory Acts of 1866. The 1866 legislation of the Martin-Parkes ministry had its origins in the various government enquiries into the problem of child destitution and delinquency during the 1850's. Parkes himself chaired one such enquiry (The …
Mary Carpenter and the Child-Saving Movement
The nineteenth century English advocate of reformatory schools, Mary Carpenter, was a powerful influence in New South Wales from about 1860 until well into the twentieth century. Her ideas were clearly evident in the Second Report of the Royal Commission on Public Charities in New South Wales tabled in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in 1874.1 Various aspects of the printed report indicate that the Commissioners had a working knowledge o…
Henry Parkes and the Development of Industrial and Reformatory Schools in Colonial New South Wales
This paper will deal with the political and administrative involvement of Henry Parkes in the establishment of government Industrial and Reformatory Schools in New South Wales through the Industrial and Reformatory Acts of 1866. The 1866 legislation of the Martin-Parkes ministry had its origins in the various government enquiries into the problem of child destitution and delinquency during the 1850's. Parkes himself chaired one such enquiry (The …
Attitudes Towards Multiculturalism in Schools in an Industrial Area
Children of the Backlanes. Destitute and Neglected Children in Colonial New South Wales
The Importance of Local Aboriginal History in School Curriculum
I would like to focus on the history and culture of the Aboriginal people in the Manning Valley of New South Wales to show how material that is localised in nature can be used in a school program of studies. Such material helps to reveal the local or regional nature of Aboriginal culture, as well as aspects that are related to the whole of Australia. The common factors of Aboriginal culture have tended to have been over emphasised in the past and…
Mettray
(1990). Mettray: A Corrective Institution for Delinquent Youth in France, 1840‐1937. Journal of Educational Administration and History: Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 30-46
The Birripai of the Manning An Aboriginal Studies Unit for Secondary Schools
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The London Foundling Hospital and its Significance as a Child-Saving Institution
This article explores the Foundling Hospital's ideology as a child-rescue institution, particularly in terms of the actualisation of the Lockeian ideal of a working school. Consideration is given to the development of the institution's ‘useful’ curriculum; the building's design as a part of a system of surveillance and control; its use as an experimental laboratory for radical pediatrics; and its particular methods of institutionalised child soci…
In the lonely, silent places’
1This article is a shortened, revised version of the author's Presidential Address to the Australian and New Zealand History of Education Annual Conference 1990, at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, 8 December 1990
Brian James or John Tierney? The teacher as writer, or the writer as teacher
News, Views and Ideas from around Australia
Edith onians, australian advocate of social reform
This article surveys the contribution of Edith Charlotte Onians (1866–1955) to Australian social reform, both in her work as the organiser of the Newsboys' Society, a philanthropic organisation for disadvantaged male youth in Melbourne, and in her advocacy of welfare support for needy children and youths, and impoverished urban families. Her efforts to stimulate thought about policy change in the problem areas of youth homelessness, youth employm…
Social Paralysis and Social Change
Aspects of early twentieth century Paris through Australian eyes
(1995). Aspects of early twentieth century Paris through Australian eyes. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 19, No. 44, pp. 13-21
Conference Reports
The Decline and Fall of the Thomas Coram Schools, Berkhamsted, 1935‐1954
This article explores the decline and final collapse of the Foundling Hospital tradition of child‐saving between 1935 and 1954 at Berkhamsted and the outdated ideology that underpinned it in the face of the growth of the modern welfare state and new social reforms for children in care. Consideration is given to the problematic persistence of a traditional barracks‐style charitable children's institution and its ideology in a crucial period in the…
Sequins under the big top
(1997). Sequins under the big top: Women in the Australian circus. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 21, Designing women, pp. 43-53
Schooling Outback Children in Post-Colonial Australia, 1901–1950
This article encapsulates historical research from many sources on the New South Wales government's implementation of universal, compulsory education for Australian children living in remote and isolated country areas of the “Outback” through the use of travelling schools, subsidised schools, one teacher bush Public schools, tutors and governesses, correspondence education, central rural schools and the School of the Air. An examination is also m…
Mettray, Delinquent Youth and the Cult of Religious Honour
The Agricultural Colony and Penitentiary of Mettray, an institution for wayward boys and youths, was founded near Tours in 1840 and closed down in 1937 by the Popular Front Government It functioned for ninety-eight years as a national but privately controlled reformatory for male juveniles who had fallen foul of the French justice system and had been brought there from adult prisons to be rehabilitated through a strictly organised regime of relig…
The cautiousness of the Minister is to be commended rather than condemned‘ 1
Le role du Ministre de l'Education d'avant-guerre des Nouvelles Galles du Sud est examine. Sa responsabilite dans les echecs ou le succes de la reforme des examens entre 1932-1941 est indeniable. Il ne reussit pas a reformer comme il l'entendait, surtout dans le secondaire ou rien ne fut accompli. Celui qui avait effectue quelques ponctions dans le budget de l'Education, n'avait accompli aucun changement significatif dans le systeme docimologique…
With Just but Relentless Discipline
Prison playground? Child convict labour and vocational training in New South Wales, 1788‐1840
L'article analyse la dimension de l'integration sociale des enfants de prisonniers chez les premiers colons installes en Nouvelles Galles du Sud en Australie en s'interessant plus particulierement au travail de ces enfants. Le peu d'informations disponibles rendent difficiles les recherches a ce sujet, meme si les renseignements collectes par les historiens tendent a prouver le statut penible des enfants de prisonniers au XVIIIe siecle et leur ro…
Vue de sydney 1840
The Aboriginal Boys’ Training Home, Kinchela, 1924–1970, and the Development of a Culture of Physical Fitness and Sport 1
Kinchela Boys’ Home on the mid‐north coast of New South Wales, was established by the state’s Aborigines Protection Board for Aboriginal boys and youths in 1924 and closed in 1970. By the 1930s the place had become known as a notorious carceral, poorly managed and psychologically isolated. An overdue government enquiry in 1940 concluded that it was not fulfilling its ‘requirements’ as a place of training and had many ‘shortcomings’. Reform and re…
Barney Kieran, the Legendary ‘ Sobraon Boy’
This article explores the remarkable career of Bernard Bede (Barney) Kieran, known in the Australian sporting press of the time as ‘the Sobraon Boy’. He was born in Sydney in 1886, grew up in the mean streets, was imprisoned aboard the industrial training ship Sobraon and, at the zenith of his sensational world record-breaking swimming career, died suddenly on 22 December 1905. He was only nineteen and was mourned by the public as one of Australi…
Sociology (26 works) · Political science (20 works) · History (15 works) · Law (15 works) · Australian History and Society (13 works) · History (13 works) · Law (13 works) · Media studies (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Politics (7 works)