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I am mindful, too, that it was here, in Canberra, almost two years ago now, that the Prime Minister opened up the new Parliament by issuing an historic Apology to Aboriginal Australians for the legacies of colonialism that we all have lived through, in some fashion, and in which we are all implicated. For that act alone, at the outset of a new federal-parliamentary regime, as a significant moment in nation-( re)building, the Government, to my mind at least, accrued much credit. It remains for history to attest to whether or not that gesture becomes more than merely symbolic, in the most basic sense.  \nIt is appropriate, I think, to turn to our own history, and to the acknowledgement of our own Elders in the Australian research community. I feel very honoured to be standing here before you today, to deliver the Radford Address – a most significant marker of Australian scholarship in Education Studies, as a distinctive and by various measures highly successful field of academic-intellectual inquiry. Bill Radford was oneof those Elders I am referring to, here, one in a long line of distinguished figures in Australian educational history. Looking specifically at the list of previous Radford speakers, from Kim Beazley Snr on, I am humbled to be in their company, and I thank Noel, as Immediate Past President, and AARE more generally for their invitation to me to come before you and speak out of my own history of scholarship to the issue at hand today – namely, what I have called, perhaps rather enigmatically, “the (im)possibility of the project”.  \nYou will excuse me, I hope, if I labour the point: I am concerned at once with possibility and impossibility. The two are to be thought together, as co-implicative, or rather, as necessarily, inescapably contaminated each with the other. This is what thinking difference looks like, or thinking relationally. I want to engage here both  \nThe Australian Educational Researcher, Volume 37, Number 3, December 2010 •1  \nBILL GREEN – RADFORD ADDRESS, 2009  \nwith the possibility and the impossibility of the educational project – and to suggest something of what it means to say this.  \nWhat is it, then, to locate what has been described as a constitutive (im)possibility atthe very heart of education, which, as we know, is quintessentially a human social project? What are the consequences and implications of doing so? What does it mean for action, for praxis, and also for sustaining and furthering a sense of hope, of possibility – not simply what might be, but also, importantly, what could and perhaps should be? My presentation today is specifically addressed, then, to the theme of the (im)possibility of the educational project. I shall draw from philosophy, literature, psychoanalysis and history, as well as educational scholarship, to explore what it means to take this theme of (im)possibility seriously, in this context, as we look back as well as forward, in our being-together here and now.  \nAlexander Mackie and the Project of Teacher Education  \nLet me introduce you to another of our Elders. Alexander Mackie was the foundation Principal of Sydney Teachers College. Born, educated and trained in Scotland, where he taught briefly1 , he took up the Sydney position in 1906. This was one of the first of the new Teachers Colleges in Australia, as a new and comprehensive program of teacher education was installed across the nation, within the terms of reference of what has become known as the New Education – part of a new enthusiasm for public education as a necessary aspect of nation-building, post-Federation, and what a commentator has described as an educational renaissance ","cbCaifux0CID9Unh","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaifux0CID9Unh","pdf",143127,17,"English","# Introduction: Acknowledging the Elders\n## Alexander Mackie and the Project of Teacher Education","[{\"question\":\"What central theme does Bill Green present in the Radford Address?\",\"answer\":\"Bill Green focuses on the (im)possibility of the educational project and what it means to treat this theme seriously at the heart of education.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the address relate possibility and impossibility?\",\"answer\":\"Green argues that possibility and impossibility must be thought together as co-implicative, necessarily contaminated by each other in thinking relationally.\"},{\"question\":\"Which historical figure and area of study does Green use to ground the discussion?\",\"answer\":\"Green examines Alexander Mackie’s work in teacher education, linking teacher training to the success of Australia’s educational system.\"}]","The (Im)possibility of the Project - Radford Address | PDF",1792077313,43]