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Welcome To Geneva: A Trip Through History, Virginia Heaven Dec 2001

Welcome To Geneva: A Trip Through History, Virginia Heaven

Virginia Heaven

Consultant Curator


100 Years Of The Harley-Davidson Motor Company, Virginia Heaven Dec 2000

100 Years Of The Harley-Davidson Motor Company, Virginia Heaven

Virginia Heaven

Consultant Curator Harley-Davidson Museum


“You’Ve Come A Long Way, Baby!” Images Of Women In Advertising 1960-2000, Virginia Heaven Dec 2000

“You’Ve Come A Long Way, Baby!” Images Of Women In Advertising 1960-2000, Virginia Heaven

Virginia Heaven

Consultant Costume Curator


Behind The Rhetoric, Rowan Cahill Dec 2000

Behind The Rhetoric, Rowan Cahill

Rowan Cahill

A contemporary critical account of changes taking place in the NSW state education system in the late 1990s-2001 under the leadership of Dr. Ken Boston, Director-General of Education and Training in NSW. The author argues that Boston's 'devolution' rhetoric masks a determined conservative and Rightist push to politically and ideologically centralise the education system and in the process emasculate teacher initiative, imagination, and enterprise.


Exploring Muslim Cultures: Perfume And Incense, Virginia Heaven Dec 1999

Exploring Muslim Cultures: Perfume And Incense, Virginia Heaven

Virginia Heaven

Director and Curator, Haifa Faisal Collection of Saudi Arabian Traditional Arts.


The Decline Of History, Rowan Cahill Dec 1976

The Decline Of History, Rowan Cahill

Rowan Cahill

The author addresses the contemporary (1970s) loss of confidence, and interest, in history as a subject amongst Australian secondary school students and educational administrators. He mounts a defence of the teaching of the subject in schools, and argues for its complexities. Strategies to increase the appeal of the subject and its perceived relevance are suggested.