Fw: H-ASIA: Professor James Austin Copland (Jamie) Mackie 1924-2011

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Subject: H-ASIA: Professor James Austin Copland (Jamie) Mackie 1924-2011

> H-ASIA
> May 2, 2011
>
> Professor James Austin Copland (Jamie) Mackie 1924-2011
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> From: Ian Welch <ian.welch@anu.edu.au>
>
> May I add a small note in support of Prof Reid's comprehensive remarks.
>
> I was a mature age student under Jamie Mackie at Monash and enjoyed and
> learned much from him (and from Herb Feith incidentally). In one of the
> oddities of life, my original plans to pursue SE Asian studies in teacher
> education with a secondary interest in China gave way to managing a
> national program to improve the teaching of Asian languages and cultures
> in Australian schools. In the course of that work I commissioned Jamie to
> produce a handbook for schools setting out the contemporary literature on
> SE Asia suitable for use in secondary schools. Jamie Mackie was a really
> good bloke, a very strong academic and an excellent tertiary teacher. He
> represented a kind of Australian value system that is now perhaps behind
> us—a profound awareness of Australia's utterly unique cultural place in
> the Asia-Pacific region, rather than the modern emphasis on economic
> issues. Vale, Jamie.
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>
> Ian Welch
> Canberra
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