[Sres-postdocs] SRES Seminar, Wednesday 5 July, Abstract

[John Dargavel]

SRES Lunchtime seminar
Wednesday, 5 July, 1-2pm
Room 103, Forestry Building (48), ANU
All welcome

The Social Construction of Australian Foresters
John Dargavel (Visiting Fellow, SRES)
Abstract

This paper asks whether the manner in which Australian foresters have been 
socially constructed, which has been more or less stable over the last 
70-80 years, at a point where some structural change may occur? Will the 
familiar model of forestry education adapt, or will a new model arise?

The historical record provides almost the only possible record of model 
change. The paper looks first at the lives of three foresters in an earlier 
Australian model: Thomas Bailes, John La Gerche and Richard Dalrymple Hay. 
It then looks at three foresters notable in the formation of the current 
model: Harold Swain, Charles Lane Poole and Alfred Lawrence.

The paper raises matters for discussion about the future of Australian 
foresters:
    * Will there be foresters?
    * Will they be called foresters?
    * Will they regard themselves as foresters?
    * Will foresters be a single category?
    * Will the higher education model continue?

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Dr John Dargavel
Visiting Fellow,
School of Resources, Environment and Society
Room 17, Forestry, Building 44
The Australian National University
Canberra, ACT 0200
Tel: (02) 612 53565  Fax: (02) 612 50746