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Journal articles on the topic "Mechanics' institutes Victoria History"

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Comyn, Sarah. "Literary Sociability on the Goldfields: The Mechanics’ Institute in the Colony of Victoria, 1854–1870." Journal of Victorian Culture 23, no. 4 (July 31, 2018): 447–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jvcult/vcy052.

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Barker, Donald. "Funding communal culture: opportunism and standardisation of funding for mechanics' institutes in colonial Victoria." Australian Library Journal 51, no. 3 (January 2002): 247–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00049670.2002.10755993.

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NESWALD, ELIZABETH. "Science, sociability and the improvement of Ireland: the Galway Mechanics' Institute, 1826–51." British Journal for the History of Science 39, no. 4 (November 10, 2006): 503–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007087406008739.

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Irish mechanics' institutes have received little attention from historians of science, but their history presents intriguing questions. Whereas industrialization, Protestant dissent and the politics of liberal social reformers have been identified as crucial for the development of mechanics' institutes in Britain, their influence in Ireland was regionally limited. Nonetheless, many unindustrialized, provincial, largely Catholic Irish towns had mechanics' institutes in the first half of the nineteenth century. This paper investigates the history of the two mechanics' institutes of Galway, founded in 1826 and 1840, and analyses how local and national contexts affected the establishment, function and development of a provincial Irish mechanics' institute. Situating these institutes within the changing social and political constellations of early and mid-nineteenth-century Ireland, it shows how Catholic emancipation, the temperance movement and different strands of Irish nationalism affected approaches to the uses of science and science education in Ireland.
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Curthoys, Patricia, P. C. Candy, and J. Laurent. "Pioneering Culture: Mechanics' Institutes and Schools of Arts in Australia." Labour History, no. 67 (1994): 178. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/27509295.

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Forgan, Sophie. "Context, Image and Function: a Preliminary Enquiry into the Architecture of Scientific Societies." British Journal for the History of Science 19, no. 1 (March 1986): 89–113. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007087400022779.

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From the late eighteenth century onwards, urban life underwent increasingly rapid change as towns outgrew their limits, industries polluted their skies and rivers, and a host of new types of building appeared to cater for new needs and activities. Not only did towns look different, but, as Thomas Markus has said, ‘they also ‘felt’ different in the organization of the spaces they contained.’ Buildings which housed scientific activities—the learned societies, literary and philosophical societies, professional institutes, mechanics institutes, and by the end of the century the new civic universities—were one manifestation of this different ‘feeling’. These were quite new types of building, and we should therefore expect them to give us valuable information about the development of science, about ‘images’ of science and the meaning of those images, as well as the actual practice of science.
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Stewart, Victoria. "A Theatre of Uncertainties: Science and History in Michael Frayn's ‘Copenhagen’." New Theatre Quarterly 15, no. 4 (November 1999): 301–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x00013233.

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A recurring strand over the past few years in New Theatre Quarterly has been the relationship between the nature of theatricality and scientific conceptions rooted in quantum mechanics – notably Chaos Theory and Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle. This approach is questioned by scientists, who doubt the possibility of bridging the scientific and the literary uses of the metaphorical language being deployed. Michael Frayn's recent play, Copenhagen, used the crucial wartime visit paid by Heisenberg to Niels Bohr, his fellow architect of the Uncertainty Principle, to explore the scientific concepts involved through the work's own form and content. Victoria Stewart here assesses the nature and the success of Frayn's techniques in relation to the wider uncertainties of live theatrical performance as well as to the relationship between the scientific and artistic use of metaphor. The outcome, she concludes, is ‘a dialogue between two fields of discourse – science and theatre – which reveals that both necessarily deal in ambiguity and uncertainty of outcome’. Victoria Stewart lectures in English and Drama at the University of the West of England, Bristol.
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Koltsov, I. A. "THE CONTRIBUTION OF SCIENTISTS FROM LENINGRAD UNIVERSITIES TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL POTENTIAL OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION IN THE 1950—1970-s: PAGES OF HISTORY." HYDROMETEOROLOGY AND ECOLOGY. PROCEEDINGS OF THE RUSSIAN STATE HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL UNIVERSITY, no. 58 (2020): 142–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.33933/2074-2762-2020-58-142-155.

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In the 1950s - 1970s, the most important organizational form of higher education science was research institutes attached to higher education institutions. Having appeared in the 1920s, it proved effective. The first thematic laboratories were organized in Leningrad in 1956 at the Polytechnic Institute by Professor B.P. Konstantinov (who later became an academician) and the Electrotechnical Institute named after V.I. Ulyanov (Lenin) by Professor N.P. Bogoroditsky. The desire of scientists to increase efficiency of the research, to bring it closer to the practical needs of the national economy reflected in the organization of 13 research institutes at the Polytechnic Institute in 1963. In the 1950s - 1960s, the Leningrad State University had the previously formed research institutes: the Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics, Physical, Chemical, Biological and Physiological institutes, the Institute of the Earth’s Crust, the Geographical and Economic Institute. In 1959 – 1965, the University’s scientists completed the research on 5,300 planned topics. They performed 3,017 separate experimental and theoretical research, prepared 785 textbooks and teaching aids, completed 543 dissertations, and conducted contractual work on 955 topics. Only in 1969, 3,500 research papers created by LSU scientists were published. Among them were 107 monographs and 74 textbooks. Creative collaboration with industry workers was an integral part of the activities of the Leningrad State University’s scientists. Many of the LSU collective’s research were directly related to production needs. In 1959, the collective of the Physical faculty concluded 32 contractual works and 19 agreements on creative cooperation with industrial enterprises. In 1963, they performed research on 60 contractual topics for a total of 1,100,000 rubles, at the same time conducting 22 topics, provided by the agreements on the creative cooperation for a total amount of 1,300,000 rubles.
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Jones, David J. "Not to be under-estimated: Buildings, books and beyond: Mechanics’ Worldwide Conference 2004: athenaeums, endowment institutes/libraries, literary institutes, lyceums, mechanics’ institutes, mercantile libraries, philosophical societies, schools of arts and working men’s/women’s institutes: proceedings of an international conference convened by the Mechanics’ Institutes of Victoria at Swinburne University, Prahran Campus, Melbourne, Australia, 2–4 September 2004.2nd edition. Windsor, Vic: Prahran Mechanics Institute Press, 2004. 430pp. Paperback. $77.00 plus $9.00 postage (Australia) $25.00 (overseas). ISBN 0 9756 0001 X. Also available as a CD-ROM $60.00 plus $4.00 postage." Australian Library Journal 55, no. 4 (November 2006): 369–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00049670.2006.10722334.

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Airoldi, Giulia, James D. Muirhead, James D. L. White, and Julie Rowland. "Emplacement of magma at shallow depth: insights from field relationships at Allan Hills, south Victoria Land, East Antarctica." Antarctic Science 23, no. 3 (February 1, 2011): 281–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954102011000095.

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AbstractAllan Hills nunatak, south Victoria Land, Antarctica, exposes an exceptional example of a shallow depth (< 500 m) intrusive complex formed during the evolution of the Ferrar large igneous province (LIP). Dyke distribution, geometries and relationships allow reconstruction of its history and mechanics of intrusion. Sills interconnect across host sedimentary layers, and a swarm of parallel inclined dolerite sheets is intersected by a radiating dyke-array associated with remnants of a phreatomagmatic vent, where the dolerite is locally quenched and mixed to form peperite. Intrusion geometries, and lack of dominant rift-related structures in the country rock indicate that magma overpressure, local stresses between mutually interacting dykes and vertical variations of host rock mechanical properties controlled the intrusive process throughout the thick and otherwise undeformed pile of sedimentary rocks (Victoria Group). Dolerite sills connected to one another by inclined sheets are inferred to record the preferred mode of propagation for magma-carrying cracks that represent the shallow portions of the Ferrar LIP plumbing system.
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Garner, A. D. "The Society of Arts and the mechanics’ institutes: The co‐ordination of endeavour towards scientific and technical education, 1851‐54." History of Education 14, no. 4 (December 1985): 255–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0046760850140401.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Mechanics' institutes Victoria History"

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Watson, Douglas Robert. "'The road to learning' : re-evaluating the Mechanics' Institute movement." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/11817.

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This thesis is a re-evaluation of a movement founded to provide what Samuel Smiles called “the road to learning” for workers in the nineteenth century. Mechanics’ institutes emerged during the 1820s to both criticism and acclaim, becoming part of the physical and intellectual fabric of the age and inspiring a nationwide building programme funded entirely by public subscription. Beginning with a handful of examples in major British cities, they eventually spread across the Anglophone world. They were at the forefront of public engagement with arts, science and technology. This thesis is a history of the mechanics’ institute movement in the British Isles from the 1820s through to the late 1860s, when State involvement in areas previously dominated by private enterprises such as mechanics’ institutes, for example library provision and elementary schooling, became more pronounced. The existing historiography on mechanics’ institutes is primarily regional in scope and this thesis breaks new ground by synthesising a national perspective on their wider social, political and cultural histories. It contributes to these broader themes, as well as areas as diverse as educational history, the history of public exhibition and public spaces, visual culture, print culture, popular literacy and literature (including literature generated by the Institutes themselves, such as poetry and prose composed by members), financial services, education in cultural and aesthetic judgement, Institutes as sources of protest by means of Parliamentary petitions, economic history, and the nature, theory and practice of the popular dissemination of ideas. These advances free the thesis from ongoing debate around the success or failure of mechanics’ institutes, allowing the emphasis to be on the experiential history of the “living” Institute. The diverse source base for the thesis includes art, sculpture, poetry and memoir alongside such things as economic data, library loan statistics, membership numbers and profit / loss accounts from institute reports. The methodology therefore incorporates qualitative (for example, tracing the evolution of attitudes towards Institutes in contemporary culture by analysing the language used to describe them over time) and quantitative (for example, exploring Institutes as providers of financial services to working people) techniques. For the first time, mechanics’ institutes are studied in relation to political corruption, debates concerning the morality of literature and literacy during the nineteenth century, and the legislative processes of the period.
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Hazelwood, Jennifer University of Ballarat. "A public want and a public duty [manuscript] : the role of the Mechanics' Institute in the cultural, social and educational development of Ballarat from 1851 to 1880." University of Ballarat, 2007. http://archimedes.ballarat.edu.au:8080/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/12800.

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Mechanics’ Institutes were an integral element of the nineteenth-century British adult education movement, which was itself part of an on-going radicalisation of the working class. Such was the popularity of Mechanics’ Institutes, and so reflective of contemporary British cultural philosophy, that they were copied throughout the British Empire. The Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute, established in 1859, instilled a powerful, male-gendered British middle-class influence over the cultural, social and educational development of the Ballarat city. The focus of this study is to identify and analyse the significance of the contribution made by the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute to the evolving cultural development of the wider Ballarat community, with a particular emphasis on the gender and class dimensions of this influence. This is done within the context of debates about ‘radical fragments’ and ‘egalitarianism’. Utilizing a methodology based on an extensive review of archival records, contemporary newspapers held at the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute, and previously published research, this study was able to show that, during the period from its inception in 1859 to 1880, the Institute became a focal point for numerous cultural, social and educational activities. As one of the few institutions open to all classes, it was in a position to provide a significant influence over the developing culture of the Ballarat community. The study has also identified the use made of the Institute’s School of Design by women and the contribution of these educational classes to preparing women for employment outside their traditional roles of wives and mothers. The thesis argues that despite some early radical elements, the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute initially espoused liberal egalitarian values. By 1880, however, the Institute was more readily identifiable as reflecting British, male, middle-class values.
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Hazelwood, Jennifer. "A public want and a public duty [manuscript] : the role of the Mechanics' Institute in the cultural, social and educational development of Ballarat from 1851 to 1880." University of Ballarat, 2007. http://archimedes.ballarat.edu.au:8080/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/14635.

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Mechanics’ Institutes were an integral element of the nineteenth-century British adult education movement, which was itself part of an on-going radicalisation of the working class. Such was the popularity of Mechanics’ Institutes, and so reflective of contemporary British cultural philosophy, that they were copied throughout the British Empire. The Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute, established in 1859, instilled a powerful, male-gendered British middle-class influence over the cultural, social and educational development of the Ballarat city. The focus of this study is to identify and analyse the significance of the contribution made by the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute to the evolving cultural development of the wider Ballarat community, with a particular emphasis on the gender and class dimensions of this influence. This is done within the context of debates about ‘radical fragments’ and ‘egalitarianism’. Utilizing a methodology based on an extensive review of archival records, contemporary newspapers held at the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute, and previously published research, this study was able to show that, during the period from its inception in 1859 to 1880, the Institute became a focal point for numerous cultural, social and educational activities. As one of the few institutions open to all classes, it was in a position to provide a significant influence over the developing culture of the Ballarat community. The study has also identified the use made of the Institute’s School of Design by women and the contribution of these educational classes to preparing women for employment outside their traditional roles of wives and mothers. The thesis argues that despite some early radical elements, the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute initially espoused liberal egalitarian values. By 1880, however, the Institute was more readily identifiable as reflecting British, male, middle-class values.
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Stockdale, Clifton. "Mechanics' institutes in Northumberland and Durham 1824-1902." Thesis, Durham University, 1993. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/5614/.

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Except for Hudson's major work which explored developments in the first half of the nineteenth century, and more recently the research undertaken by Tylecote and Kelly, most surveys of the Mechanics' Institute Movement in England have been confined t6 local studies of individual institutes, unpublished theses and collected essays on the subject. Kelly acknowledged that the limitations characteristic of his publication George. Birkbeck. which attempted a nationwide review of the subject, were due to a lack of detailed regional investigation upon which he could have drawn. A stimulus is therefore provided for further regionally based research. The purpose of this work is to trace the origins and metamorphosis of the Movement in the North East of England during; the last century, until its final state of change in the early 1900s.Within the region, several factors featured prominently in creating the environment in which the institutes were to function. These included economic and political reform, together with the broad spectrum of educational, social and cultural activities made available to the working-classes. Thus, the interaction between representatives from the various sections of society was inevitably brought into focus in voluntary bodies such as the mechanics' institutes, where it was hoped that mutually beneficial ambitions might be fulfilled. The Mechanics' Institute Movement in the North East reflected experiences which were typical of many other regions, yet much was exceptional. To illustrate this point, certain issues have been subjected to detailed analysis - in particular the identity of promoters, their motives, and how they brought their schemes to fruition. The effect of the powerful and often conflicting demands for the various services which together constituted both adult education and recreation has been assessed against a background determined by the promoters of institutes and by increasing Government legislation which provided for the introduction of public libraries and technical instruction. Consequently, the survival of the institutes was secured within a climate of progressive external and internal pressures. In the past, the full significance of the Movement's contribution to working-class educational, social and cultural development has lacked the appreciation it deserves. This regional analysis has shown that after existing for almost one hundred years its legacy remains encapsulated within our national system of public libraries, technical colleges, social centres, and not least in our heritage of mechanics' institute buildings. The task of providing insights into the complexity of the Movement's role in the North East has not been achieved without confronting difficulties similar to those experienced by Kelly and others. If any questions, therefore, remain unanswered, they do so because of the elusiveness of source material. At best, much was of a scattered, fragmentary and sometimes contradictory nature. Despite diligently pursued enquiry at repositories both locally and in other parts of the country, it has had to be accepted that the location of many relevant items is unknown.
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Duffy, Seamus S. "Mechanics' and similar institutes in counties Antrim, Armagh and Down 1820-1870 and their contribution to the education of the working-class adult." Thesis, University of Ulster, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.242139.

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Walker, Martyn. "'Solid and practical education within reach of the humblest means' : the growth and development of the Yorkshire Union of Mechanics' Institutes 1838-1891." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 2010. http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/9087/.

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This thesis questions the generally accepted view that mechanics’ institutes made little contribution to adult working-class education from their foundation in the 1820s to the last decade of the nineteenth century when, finally, government recognised the importance of adult and further education with the passing of the Technical Instructions Acts of 1889 and 1891. It addresses the issue of what impact the mechanics’ institutes exerted upon the adult working classes in a regional context. It has also questioned research previously carried out by a number of historians who hold the view that by 1850 the mechanics’ institutes’ movement was in decline. This thesis argues that in Yorkshire the movement, through no small contribution made by the Yorkshire Union of Mechanics’ Institutes, went from strength to strength and responded to the need for relevant curricula throughout the period of study. It establishes that mechanics’ institutes of the Yorkshire Union (1838 – 1891) were not only to be found in the urban and industrialising towns, but many were also located in the rural and semi-rural areas of the Dales and Pennines. Across the Yorkshire Union as a whole there were similar patterns in growth and development. This thesis establishes that not only did mechanics' institutes support the working classes but they also provided a firm foundation for technical and further education, which was built on through the passing of the 1889 and 1891 Technical Instruction Acts. Several institutes either became technical schools or had established a tradition of adult education which was taken up by the new technical colleges of the early twentieth century. Many smaller institutes either became satellite centres for local colleges or became public libraries and museums. The nineteenth century success of the mechanics’ institutes foreshadowed the later development of adult education.
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Davies, Llewellyn Willis. "‘LOOK’ AND LOOK BACK: Using an auto/biographical lens to study the Australian documentary film industry, 1970 - 2010." Phd thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/154339.

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While much has been written on the Australian film and television industry, little has been presented by actual producers, filmmakers and technicians of their time and experiences within that same industry. Similarly, with historical documentaries, it has been academics rather than filmmakers who have led the debate. This thesis addresses this shortcoming and bridges the gap between practitioner experience and intellectual discussion, synthesising the debate and providing an important contribution from a filmmaker-academic, in its own way unique and insightful. The thesis is presented in two voices. First, my voice, the voice of memoir and recollected experience of my screen adventures over 38 years within the Australian industry, mainly producing historical documentaries for the ABC and the SBS. This is represented in italics. The second half and the alternate chapters provide the industry framework in which I worked with particular emphasis on documentaries and how this evolved and developed over a 40-year period, from 1970 to 2010. Within these two voices are three layers against which this history is reviewed and presented. Forming the base of the pyramid is the broad Australian film industry made up of feature films, documentary, television drama, animation and other types and styles of production. Above this is the genre documentary within this broad industry, and making up the small top tip of the pyramid, the sub-genre of historical documentary. These form the vertical structure within which industry issues are discussed. Threading through it are the duel determinants of production: ‘the market’ and ‘funding’. Underpinning the industry is the involvement of government, both state and federal, forming the three dimensional matrix for the thesis. For over 100 years the Australian film industry has depended on government support through subsidy, funding mechanisms, development assistance, broadcast policy and legislative provisions. This thesis aims to weave together these industry layers, binding them with the determinants of the market and funding, and immersing them beneath layers of government legislation and policy to present a new view of the Australian film industry.
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Books on the topic "Mechanics' institutes Victoria History"

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Baragwanath, Pam. If the walls could speak: A social history of the Mechanics' Institutes of Victoria. Windsor, Vic: Mechanics Institute Inc., 2000.

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Mechanics', Worldwide Conference (2004 Melbourne Vic ). Buildings, books and beyond: Mechanics' Worldwide Conference 2004 : proceedings of an international conference convened by the Mechanics' Institutes of Victoria at Swinburne University, Prahran Campus, Melbourne, Australia, 2-4 September 2004. 2nd ed. Prahran, Vic: Prahran Mechanics' Institute Press, 2004.

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Clancy, Frances M. The libraries of the mechanics' institutes of Victoria: Report prepared for Department of Infrastructure. [Melbourne?]: Local Government Division. Dept. of Infrastructure, 2000.

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Katō, Shōshi. Eikoku ni okeru mechanics' institute no fukyū jōkyō ni kansuru kōsatsu. [Kōbe-shi]: Kōbe Shōka Daigaku Keizai Kenkyūjo, 1985.

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Katō, Shōji. Eikoku mekanikkusu insutichūto no kenkyū: Seisei to hatten. Kōbe-shi: Kōbe Shōka Daigaku Keizai Kenkyūjo, 1987.

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Hewitt, Martin. The mechanics' institute movement in the Maritimes, 1831-1889. Ottawa: National Library of Canada, 1989.

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Katō, Shōji. Eikoku mekanikkusu insutichūto shiryō kenkyū. Kōbe-shi: Kōbe Shōka Daigaku Keizai Kenkyūjo, 1992.

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University), Forum on Australian Library History (6th 1995 Monash. Instruction and amusement: Papers from the Sixth Australian Library History Forum, Monash University, 1 November 1995. Melbourne: Ancora Press, 1996.

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Institute, Kilmore Mechanics, and Victoria. Dept. of Infrastructure. Local Government Division., eds. Mechanics' institutes: The way forward. [Melbourne]: Local Government Division, Dept. of Infrastructure, 2000.

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C, Candy Philip, and Laurent John 1947-, eds. Pioneering culture: Mechanics' institutes and schools of arts in Australia. Adelaide: Auslib Press, 1994.

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Book chapters on the topic "Mechanics' institutes Victoria History"

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Kitainge, Kisilu M. "Challenges of Training Motor Vehicle Mechanics for Changing World Contexts and Emergent Working Conditions." In Handbook of Research on E-Learning Applications for Career and Technical Education, 34–46. IGI Global, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-739-3.ch003.

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This chapter is an extract from a study that examined how institute-based automotive training in the retail, service and repair (RS&R) sector could be made more responsive and effective to the changes in workplace demands and new technology. It dealt with the promotion of vocational relevance in the training of motor mechanics in the contexts of a changing world and emergent working conditions. It was an applied learning study that followed a comparative case study research design aimed at advancing reciprocal lessons between the two regions of Kenya and State of Victoria, Australia. The research was propelled by the fact that technology used in this area is now changing faster than at any other time in modern history and is impacting upon most of the human lifestyles. This chapter deals with a summary of the main issues that were researched. Specifically the chapter deals with relevance of institute-based automotive training, stakeholders’ involvement in programs development, and program transfer from one region to another: and learning for work and at workplace. It highlights the views if trainers, trainees and industry practitioners on equity in program development, relevance to workplace requirements and ownership of the automotive training programs. It was found that Australian trainers felt somehow sidelined in the program design while the Kenyan trainers complained of being left alone by relevant industry in the program development venture. None of these two cases produces optimal results since participation in program design should be equitably distributed among the stakeholders.
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"Resolution of the General Assembly of Scientists of the Department of Mechanics and Mathematics and Institutes of Mathematics, Mechanics, and Astronomy at Moscow University." In History of Mathematics, 305–11. Providence, Rhode Island: American Mathematical Society, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/hmath/043/27.

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Tuffnell, Stephen. "Engineering Gold Rushes." In Global History of Gold Rushes, 229–51. University of California Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520294547.003.0010.

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This chapter, “Engineering Gold Rushes,” by Stephen Tuffnell, examines the mechanics of late nineteenth-century global connectivity through the development of “mine engineering” as a global profession and the manifold interactions between the global and the national that contributed to that process. Internationally mobile mine engineers developed the mechanisms for transporting and maintaining the technologies of empire and extraction that converged on the goldfields. Nongovernmental mining institutes founded across the world, international congresses, and widely circulating technical journals acted as mechanisms for knowledge exchange and forums for cooperation. Underlying the emergence of specialist engineers were higher education systems that aimed at developing rival national or imperial professional identities that existed in tension with their global roles. Mine engineers were therefore key protagonists in the shifts discussed in this volume: from individual placer mining to highly capitalized corporate mining, from simple technologies to complex chemical extraction, and from free enterprise to wage labor.
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