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Full-Text Articles in Education
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.
Return To English, Rowan Cahill
Return To English, Rowan Cahill
Rowan Cahill
Autobiographical: A burnt-out teacher gives teaching away after fifteen years in the classroom to pursue a personal agenda--writing, income generation independent of the classroom, and rediscovering life. But after three years he returned to teaching. The article explores why he left, and why he returned.
Synthesis And Hope, Rowan Cahill
Synthesis And Hope, Rowan Cahill
Rowan Cahill
A collection of the author's articles on school teaching and education, previously published in non-academic journals during the 1980s and early 1990s, and mainly drawing on the author's extensive classroom experience.
View From The Classroom, Rowan Cahill
View From The Classroom, Rowan Cahill
Rowan Cahill
Edited version of a speech given by Rowan Cahill to the Australian Education Network's 'Vision for the Future' Conference, Sydney, 18 October 1991.
Rationalising The Economic Metaphor, Rowan Cahill
Rationalising The Economic Metaphor, Rowan Cahill
Rowan Cahill
Contemporary critique of the developing trend towards education institutions being run as businesses, and for students to be treated as economic units.
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.
Teachers And Writing, Rowan Cahill
Teachers And Writing, Rowan Cahill
Rowan Cahill
Of historical interest:- Written at a time (1980) when the 'writing process' was interesting Australian school curriculum developers, the author argues that school teachers should be encouraged to write and to publish on education issues, and those delegated to actually teach students about 'writing' should themselves be active 'writers'.
The Decline Of History, Rowan Cahill
The Decline Of History, Rowan Cahill
Rowan Cahill
Written at a time when the teaching of 'History' was declining in Australian secondary schools (1970s), this is a view from the classroom by a classroom teacher. The author trenchantly defends the place of 'History' as a subject in Secondary schools, and opposes its teaching by non-history trained teachers, as well as the introduction of 'thematic' approaches. Instead he defends a broad 'History' curriculum, the exploration of cause and effect, and for Senior students, their introduction to the notion of 'historiography'.
The Decline Of History, Rowan Cahill
The Decline Of History, Rowan Cahill
Rowan Cahill
The author addresses the contemporary (1970s) loss of confidence, and interest, in history as a subject amongst Australian secondary school students and educational administrators. He mounts a defence of the teaching of the subject in schools, and argues for its complexities. Strategies to increase the appeal of the subject and its perceived relevance are suggested.