Oral history interview with E.G. Malherbe, 1967
Oral history interview with E.G. Malherbe, 1967
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- Name
- Malherbe, E. G. (Ernst Gideon), 1895- (Interviewee)
- Grossner, Isabel S (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with E.G. Malherbe, 1967
- Other Titles
- Reminiscences of E.G. Malherbe : oral history, 1967
- Abstract
- Doctoral studies at Columbia University Teachers College, 1920; initial meetings with Carnegie Corporation in South Africa, 1927; CARNEGIE COMMISSION OF INVESTIGATION ON THE POOR WHITE PROBLEM IN SOUTH AFRICA; recruiting experts on Afrikaners and working with the Dutch Reformed Church; traveling the country to survey rural communities; publication of five-volume report, thoughts on Carnegie funding of Jeanes School in Rhodesia, 1928-1932; becoming Director of National Bureau of Education and Social Research; publication of EDUCATIONAL AND SOCIAL RESEARCH IN SOUTH AFRICA; articles in TEACHERS COLLEGE INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION YEARBOOK; commissioning grants from Carnegie; investigating education in the Southern United States and CULTURE IN THE SOUTH; starting South Africa’s national film library; developing children’s art center in Pretoria; Carnegie British Dominions and Colonies travel grant program; working and traveling with educators from Australia, New Zealand, and Canada; EDUCATIONAL ADAPTATIONS IN A CHANGING SOCIETY; dissolution of the Bureau of Education during WWII, 1932-1943; becoming Principal of the University of Natal; founding University of Natal Institute for Social Research with support from Carnegie; interest in interdisciplinary research; Carnegie doctoral fellowship scholars at Natal, 1943-1955; Carnegie party at Harvard Club for heads of Commonwealth Nation universities and subsequent touring of American universities, impressions of U.S. colleges, 1958; EDUCATION AND OUR EXPANDING HORIZONS: PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EDUCATION, 1960-1962; President of South African Institute on Race Relations, 1967; thoughts on Carnegie Libraries in South Africa; Carnegie initiatives in South Africa as a whole. Impressions of Frederick P. Keppel, Whitney H. Shepardson, Arthur Lismer, J.F.W. Grosskopf.
- Collection Name
- Carnegie Corporation project. Part 1
- Subjects
- Education--Research; Education--South Africa; Afrikaners--Economic conditions; Educational exchanges; Malherbe, E. G. (Ernst Gideon), 1895-; Carnegie Corporation of New York; University of Natal; University of Natal. Institute for Social Research
- Format
- oral histories
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1967
- Physical Description
- sound files : digital preservation master, WAV files (96 kHz, 24 bit); 72 pages
- Note (Biographical)
- Founding Member, National Commission of Education and Bureau of Educational and Social Research, South Africa; Principal, University of Natal.
- Note (Funding)
- Digital reproduction of audio funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- Note
- Audio digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010.
- Interviewed by Isabel S. Grossner on June 28, 1967.
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content - Catalog Record
- 7522461
- Also In
- Carnegie Corporation of New York Digital Archive
- Copyright Status
- In Copyright
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-zv7x-gz57
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.