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Words For Pam, Rowan Cahill
Words For Pam, Rowan Cahill
Rowan Cahill
Words spoken by Rowan Cahill at the funeral of his wife, Pam Cahill, 24 June 2015.
Behind The Rhetoric, Rowan Cahill
Behind The Rhetoric, Rowan Cahill
Rowan Cahill
A contemporary critical account of changes taking place in the NSW state education system in the late 1990s-2001 under the leadership of Dr. Ken Boston, Director-General of Education and Training in NSW. The author argues that Boston's 'devolution' rhetoric masks a determined conservative and Rightist push to politically and ideologically centralise the education system and in the process emasculate teacher initiative, imagination, and enterprise.
The Education System I'D Like To See, Rowan Cahill
The Education System I'D Like To See, Rowan Cahill
Rowan Cahill
Written and published in 1989, this is an Australian classroom teacher's view of the sort of education system he would like to see, a view at odds in many ways with then prevailing practices. The article was commissioned by the editor of 'Education', journal of the NSW Teachers Federation, the author a frequent contributor to the journal and a well known activist.