Isbn: 9789004470101 - australia's dictation test: the test it was a crime to fail (chinese overseas, band 18) (4 Ergebnisse)

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorMichael Williams, Ph.D. (2001), Hong Kong University, is an Adjunct Professor at Western Sydney University. He has published extensively on Chinese Australian history with emphasis on continuing links with the home vil.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The last person to 'pass' White Australia's Dictation Test did so in 1907 by submitting a watercolour entitled 'Advance Australia Fair. For the next 50 years of its existence the thereafter more carefully trained officials ensured no one ever passed again. Here is detailed how the White Australia Policy came to have a fake test of dictation at the heart of its administration. Beginning as an inspired piece of hypocrisy designed to preserve the semblance of imperial equality, in the hands of the early Commonwealth of Australia this 'education test' quickly evolved into a test it was impossible to pass.…