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Contesting the 1944 McNair Report: Lillian de Lissa's Working Life as a Teacher Educator
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Whitehead, Kay – History of Education, 2010
This article explores teacher educator Lillian de Lissa's working life in the first half of the twentieth century. In 1944 the McNair report criticised residential colleges and their female staff as isolated and intellectually impoverished. However, in Australia and then as the foundation Principal of Gipsy Hill Training College, de Lissa was not…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Academic Education, Foreign Countries, Teacher Educators