Outback teacher : the inspiring story of a remarkable young woman, life with her students and their adventures in remote Australia / Sally Gare with Freda Nicholls.
Momo rauemi: TextKaiwhakaputa: Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2022Whakaahuatanga: 292 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- cartographic image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781761065347
- 1761065343
- 370.92 23
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Nonfiction | Stratford Nonfiction | Nonfiction | 920 GAR (Tirotirohia te whatanga(Opens below)) | Wātea | A00908527 |
The year is 1956. Sally Gare is twenty. She's just out of teachers' college, and has been sent to work at a two-teacher school more than 3000 kilometres from Perth. With the head teacher away, she starts out alone with a class of forty-five Aboriginal children, ranging in age from five years to thirteen. Thus begins the career of a remarkable teacher and a life-changing adventure in remote Australia. Outback Teacher is the story of the challenges and delights of teaching in outback schools in the 1950s and 1960s. Sally's interaction with her students and the local Aboriginal communities is affectionate and heart-warming, although it isn't without its misunderstandings. But the tensions aren't just confined to the school and the local community. Some of the characters with whom Sally shares her less than comfortable housing are as eccentric and as curiously interesting as any escapee to the outback.
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