Reactions from Australia
School: Telopea Park School Canberra
Contact: Jacob Cherian
Date: 5-31-2000
About the only Fleming who comes to mind would be Chalres of Burgundy, who might get a mention in connection with Richard III.Nick Ewbank
School: Canberra Grammar School
Contact: bruce.faraday@cgs.act.edu.au
Date: 11-6-2000
I have read your pice on the internet on the important Flemish personalities and am afraid to admit that the History department at Canberra Grammar School does not treat any of them in our classes. It is quite probable that the art department deals with some of the arists but that would be all.
Hope this
helps. Bruce Faraday
School:
Contact: Tim & Sylvia Groves
Date: 4-18-2001
Sorry none of the people you mention appear in the history that I teach to my class. Or for that matter in any of the curriculum of our school. I am sorry and especially at this time as Australians remember the war with our Anzac day, it seems important to me to be teaching the children something of the world beyond their front yard.
Thank you for your email.
Tim
School: Camberwell Grammar School Melbourne
Contact: pbh@cgs.vic.edu.au
Date: 4-19-2001
Dear students and teacher, Thankyou for your email regarding your research into famous people at Flanders. I am afraid that the teachers in our History department are not familiar with the names you have mentioned. It appears that we do not have material on any of these people and their historical influence is not taught in our curriculum. For your interest, Camberwell Grammar School is a non-government (independent) school for boys and 1200 boys study here. The vast majority of our students proceed to university for further study. Currently we have one student in Year 10 who is on an international student exchange to your country. He is enjoying his stay in Belgium very much. I extend to you our warmest regards from Australia. Yours sincerely, Peter B. Hauser, Deputy Headmaster and Head of the Senior School, Camberwell Grammar School, Melbourne, Australia.
School:
Contact: Lorraine Hook
Date: 4-23-2001
In response to your
question, we do not study Belgium in history. Our studies relate more to British
history, seeing that is our heritage. We also study the history of Asian
countries like China and Japan, because they are our near neighbours. Hope this
answers your question.
Lorraine Hook
School:
Contact: mglenister@mlc.wa.edu.au
Date: 4-29-2001
Dear Researchers
At present I do not cover any of the names you have listed, however in a brief course on women in history I do mention women artists, writers etc. Levina Teerling (1520 - 1576) and Caterina van Hemessen (1528-1587) are two examples.
Hope this is of some use.
Yours sincerely Margaret Glenister
School:
Contact: jhamilton@rostrevor.sa.edu.au
Date: 5-3-2001
Our curriculum does not deal with Flanders as such. Of the names you mention some of course, Rubens, Van Eyck, Memling and Breughel, would be used as examples in art classes. Mercator's projection is sometimes discussed in Geography and mapping exercises. Flanders also is mentioned in English poetry dealing with World War 1. We have several books on Father Damien," Father Damien" by Pam Brown and"Damien the Leper" by John Farrow ( these incidentally refer to him as Belgian ). Hope this helps you - I can't undertake scanning the actual pages, I'm sorry. Best wishes with your research.
School: The King's School
Contact: cll@kings.edu.au
Date: 5-5-2001
Dear Sir
Thank you for your email to The King's School regarding whether any of the listed personalities are studied in text books. I have done a quick review of the books that we use and unfortunately there is little to no mention in Australian textbooks except for Reubens as painter.
Interestingly enough I have just finished reading a book about the wool buyers from Flanders who came out to Australia in the 19th Century and decided to settle here while still having close ties with relatives and friends back in Belgium/Northern France to the extent that some of them returned to fight for France in both World War I and II.
Sorry I cannot be of any more help in your research.
Regards
Clive Logan
(Head of History, The King's School)
School: Xavier College Kew
Contact: Graham.ORourke@xavier.vic.edu.au
Date: 5-3-2001
Dear students and teachers I am a history teacher at Xavier College, in Melbourne Australia. Your e-mail was passed on to me. Of the list of Flemish people, the ones most likely to be considered are the artists Rubens, Breughel, prints of whose works are to be found around the school and in Art courses, we also study their influence and work. Our school at this campus, covers Years 9-12 of school education. In year 8 students take a course on Medieval Histroy, and may well use the pictures of Breughel as examples of medieval village life. I have not the scope to scan in some samples of books at present, but at least this might give you a sense of the influece of Flemish artists so far away in Australia.
regards, Graham O'Rourke
School: North Sydney Girls High School
Contact: Administration@nsghs.nsw.edu.au
Date: 7-3-2001
Thank you for your enquiry. I regret to advise that these characters appear very rarely if at all in our texts. References to some of them are peripheral to our teaching of World War One but this is our only reference to Flemish history.
Kind regards,
Roger Owens Head Teacher, History
School: Loreto College Marryatville, Adelaide
Contact: paul.dunow@loreto.sa.edu.au
Date: 11-2-2001
The following attachment
containing "jpg" files displays all the works we have in our library
that cover famous people of Flanders.
There are currently no courses specifically covering any of these famous people
