BiographyAilsa Thomson Zainuddin was a writer and academic who taught at the Faculty of Education at Monash University, specialising in the history of education. Her undergraduate courses at Monash on the history of education in Southeast Asia and the history of education for girls and women, were among the first of their kind in Australia. Her published writing in these fields includes the text-book, A Short History of Indonesia. Ailsa maintained a close and enduring association with Indonesia, the country where her husband was born and raised, and where she herself lived and worked during the 1950s. Ailsa was awarded a PhD for They Dreamt Of A School, the centenary history of Methodist Ladies’ College, Kew; the school she herself attended from 1933-1944.Date of Birth08/04/1927Date of Death25/03/2019MLC ConnectionMLC Student 1933-1944. Author of MLC's centenary history 'They Dreamt of a School' 1982.
