Frederick Walter Robinson

Frederick Walter Robinson (nickname Doc Robbie) (1888–1971) was an Australian academic at the University of Queensland. He was the founder of the university's Fryer Library and one of the instigators of the John Oxley Library (now part of the State Library of Queensland).[1][2]

As a young lecturer in the 1920s, Robinson led a group of university and school teachers of English to conduct a local version of the Newbolt report under the auspices of the English and Modern Languages Association of Queensland.[3]

The Report on the teaching of English in secondary schools in Queensland, published in October 1927, was the result of four years of characteristically methodical work by Robinson, involving the collation of responses to detailed questionnaires sent to every secondary school in Queensland as well as a considered response to some of the key issues – such as the relative importance of literary and language studies – raised by Newbolt.[3]

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References

  1. ↑ Bonnin, Nancy. "Robinson, Frederick Walter (1888–1971)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre for Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 1 December 2014.
  2. ↑ "LITERARY RESEARCH.". The Brisbane Courier. National Library of Australia. 5 June 1930. p. 14. Retrieved 2 December 2014.
  3. 1 2 Hatherell, Dr William. (August 2014). "Two pioneers of 'English' in Queensland – JJ Stable and FW Robinson". Fryer Folios. Fryer Library, The University of Queensland. 9 (1): 4. ISSN 1834-1004.
  4. ↑ Robinson, F. W. (Frederick Walter) (1957), The university of Queensland, St. Lucia, Brisbane, University of Queensland Press, retrieved 4 December 2014
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