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Alexander Mackie: An Academic Life
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Contents
Prologue
Part One:
The young academic
The city of Edinburgh
Democratic intellect and middle-class meritocracy
Teaching as a profession
Becoming a teacher
The academic world
Studying at Edinburgh University
Becoming an academic
Networks of Empire
Part Two:
Principal and professor
Contexts for change
Introducing the new college principal
Installing the college principal
Australia’s first professor of education
A shining light in the Empire
Keeping the college alive and active
Towards progressivism in teacher education
The public intellectual
Australian education and American philanthropy
Towards the end
Beyond the Mackie era
Part Three:
An academic family
A bachelor’s life
The marriage of Alec and Annie
Bringing up Margaret and John
Drumgrain School
Margaret and Abbotsleigh
John and Knox Grammar School
The University of Sydney
Oxford
Margaret’s postwar career
John’s transnational academic career
Epilogue
References
Index
About the author
Copyright