Уильям Маклахлан Дьюар
Уильям Маклахлан Дьюар | |
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| Рожденный | 19 апреля 1905 г. Крифф , Шотландия |
| Умер | 16 сентября 1979 г. Эдинбург , Шотландия |
| Образование | Эдинбургский университет |
| Оккупация | Педагог, директор |
| Супруг |
Мэри Синклер Андерсон
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| Дети | 3 |
Доктор Уильям Маклахлан Дьюар CBE FRSA FRSA (1905–1979) был влиятельным шотландским педагогом, который служил директором школы Джорджа Хериота в Эдинбурге с 1947 по 1970 год. Там Дейлиэлл , который занимался преподавательской практикой в Хериоте, описал его как «замечательное» и «Жесткий директор» в своей автобиографии. [ 1 ]
Ранняя жизнь и образование
[ редактировать ]Уильям Дьюар родился 19 апреля 1905 года в Крифе в Пертшире, сын Джеймса Маклахлана Дьюара и Энни Кемпи Катберт. [ 2 ] Он получил образование на местном уровне в Академии Моррисона , а затем изучал классику в Эдинбургском университете , включая период обучения в Риме, выпускной Ма, с отличием в 1928 году. [ 3 ] [ 4 ]
Карьера
[ редактировать ]Дьюар преподавал в гимназии Абердина с 1929 по 1932 год, был главным учителем классики в Академии Дамфрис с 1933 по 1941 год, а затем стал ректором Академии Гринока . В 1947 году он был назначен на престижную роль директора в Джордже Хериот. [ 5 ]
Dewar’s appointment at Heriot’s was a break with the tradition of appointing insiders. He started out as a reformer, which approach was most obvious in the changes he initiated in the running of sport, in particular rugby. The appointment of what was held to be Scotland’s first Games teacher led to some resistance among traditionalists at the School.[6]
Dewar and the Heriot Trust tried throughout his time as Headmaster to solve the School’s accommodation problems. These efforts were complicated by limited financial resources, which Dewar tried to solve by involving the former pupil community as part of a “Development Scheme” in the early 1960s.[7] Plans to expand on the School’s Lauriston Place site were blocked in the mid 1960s, by, among others, the Royal Fine Arts Commission, which was worried about the effects of new construction on the setting of the School’s 17th century main building.[8]
The tercentenary celebrations of the opening of Heriot’s marked the peak of Dewar’s period as Headmaster. Part of the programme in May and June 1959 was a visit by a group of former pupils from Serbia who had attended the School as refugees during World War I. Dewar took a personal interest in this Serbian connection, making visits to then Yugoslavia, including one with his family in the summer of 1962.[9]
Dewar was a very active and influential member of committees and bodies connected with Scottish education. He was Chairman of the Governors of Moray House College of Education from 1958 to 1971. Among other prominent engagements included being President of the Scottish Schoolmasters’ Association in 1944, of the Scottish Secondary Teachers’ Association from 1947 to 1949 and of the Headmasters’ Association of Scotland from 1958 to 1960. Additionally, he was a member of the Committee on Grants to Students from 1958 to 1960, of the Scottish Council for the Training of Teachers from 1959 to 1967, and of the Scottish Certificate of Education Examination Board from 1964 to 1973.[10] Dewar put his network among Scottish teachers to use in the SCEEB's setting up of the Ordinary Grade examinations and served as convenor of its examination committee.[11]
Other activities, honours and recognition
[edit]During the Second World War Dewar trained Scottish Air Cadets as part of the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.[12] He received an OBE for his work as a member of the Scottish Air Cadet Council in 1955.[13]
In 1955 he published a pamphlet, The law and the teacher, for the Scottish Secondary Teachers’ Association.[14]
Outside education Dewar was a director of the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce from 1964 to 1967. After his retirement he was Chairman of the City of Edinburgh Valuation Appeal Committee in 1974/75, Deputy Chairman of the Lothian Valuation Appeal Panel from 1975 to 1977, and a director of Craigmyle (Scotland) Ltd from 1971.[15]
In 1958, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Dewar's proposers were Hugh Bryan Nisbet, Isaac Arthur Preece, Maurice George Say and Walter George Green.[16] Dewar was appointed a Chevalier of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques in 1961 in recognition of his work on school exchange with France.[17][18] In 1968 Dewar was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.[19] In 1970, he received a CBE on his retirement, for services to Scottish education.[20] Dewar received an honorary DLitt from Heriot-Watt University in 1970.[21]
Personal life
[edit]Dewar married Mary Sinclair Anderson, originally from Laxfirth in Shetland, in July 1935.[22] Together they had a daughter and two sons. He died on 16 September 1979.[23]
Assessment
[edit]Towards the end of his career Dewar was perceived as ‘old school’, resistant to changing social norms among pupils in the 1960s, such as hair length. His appearance in class photographs at this time in full academic dress, his nickname “the Dome”,[24] and the stories of his disciplinary methods all reinforced this image.[25] In fact, Dewar was a central figure in Scottish education at a local, national and international level, a skilled committee man, with unmistakable presence and a sense of humour. Among his hobbies he listed the study of puns.[26] The reforming outsider of the late 1940s became an authoritative source on the history of George Heriot's. His interventions in the struggle over grant-aided education in the later 1970s in Scotland, most notably in letters to The Scotsman, are examples of his mixture of substance, direct style and commitment.[27]
References
[edit]- ^ Dalyell, Tam (2012). The Importance of Being Awkward: The Autobiography of Tam Dalyell. Edinburgh: Birlinn. ISBN 9781780270890.
- ^ Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1783-2002. Edinburgh. 2006. p. Part 1, 250. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ "Dr William McLachlan Dewar". The Herioter: 71. July 1980.
- ^ Who was Who. A&C Black. 2007. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U153873.
- ^ Lockhart, Brian (2003). Jinglin' Geordie's Legacy. East Linton: Tuckwell. p. 276. ISBN 1-86232-257-0.
- ^ Lockhart, Brian (2003). Jinglin' Geordie's Legacy. East Linton: Tuckwell. p. 279. ISBN 1-86232-257-0.
- ^ ""Where are you all?"". The Herioter. June 1963.
- ^ Lockhart, Brian (2003). Jinglin' Geordie's Legacy. East Linton: Tuckwell. pp. 283–288. ISBN 1-86232-257-0.
- ^ "Second Visit to the Serbian Boys". The Herioter: 20–21. June 1963.
- ^ Who was Who. A&C Black. 2007. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U153873.
- ^ Lockhart, Brian (2003). Jinglin' Geordie's Legacy. East Linton: Tuckwell. p. 289. ISBN 1-86232-257-0.
- ^ "No. 35203". The London Gazette. 27 June 1941. p. 3694.
- ^ "No. 40497". The London Gazette (Supplement). 9 June 1955. p. 3270.
- ^ Dewar, William (1955). The law and the teacher. Edinburgh: Scottish Secondary Teachers’ Association.
- ^ Who was Who. A&C Black. 2007. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U153873.
- ^ Бывшие стипендиаты Королевского общества Эдинбурга, 1783-2002 . Эдинбург. 2006. с. Часть 1, 250. ISBN 0-902-198-84-х .
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ "Новости". Гериотер : 44. Декабрь 1962 года.
- ^ Кто был кто . A & C Black. 2007. DOI : 10.1093/WW/9780199540884.013.U153873 .
- ^ "Выборы". Журнал Королевского общества искусств . 116 (5148): 965. ноябрь 1968.
- ^ "№ 45117" . Лондонская газета (добавка). 13 июня 1970 г. с. 6372.
- ^ «Университет Хериот-Ватт Эдинбург: почетные выпускники» . www1.hw.ac.uk. Университет Хериот-Ватт . Получено 7 апреля 2016 года .
- ^ «Семья: Дьюар/Андерсон» . Семейная история Северного острова .
- ^ Кто был кто . A & C Black. 2007. DOI : 10.1093/WW/9780199540884.013.U153873 .
- Говорят , что макушка его головы, лысая в последующие годы, напоминала серебряный купол генератора Ван -де -Граафф .
- ^ «Завораживающие времена у Хериота». Шотландский . 13 августа 2009 г.
- ^ Кто был кто . A & C Black. 2007. DOI : 10.1093/WW/9780199540884.013.U153873 .
- ^ "Письмо". Шотландский . 5 февраля 1979 года.