Garth Boomer
Encyclopedia
Garth Boomer was an influential educationalist working in Australia
. Since 1995 there has been a Garth Boomer Memorial Lecture in his honour. He was particularly influential in the teaching of English
, and he was President of the Australian Association for the Teaching of English for a time.
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
. Since 1995 there has been a Garth Boomer Memorial Lecture in his honour. He was particularly influential in the teaching of English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
, and he was President of the Australian Association for the Teaching of English for a time.
Publications
Boomer's works include:- Designs on learning : essays on curriculum and teaching, with Bill Green (ISBN 1-87-586431-8)
- Changing education : reflections on national issues in education in Australia (ISBN 0-64-210066-7)
- Creativity in education : making things (ISBN 0-95-933392-4)
- Fair Dinkum Teaching and Learning: Reflections on Literacy and Power (ISBN 0-86-709139-8)
- Metaphors and meanings : essays on English teaching, with Bill Green (ISBN 0-90-995582-4)
- Negotiating the curriculum : a teacher-student partnership (ISBN 0-86-896166-3)
- Negotiating the curriculum : educating for the 21st century, with Garth Lester, Nancy Onore, Cynthia Cook, Jonathan (ISBN 1-85-000931-7)
- Orange moon, with Peter W McFarlane (ISBN 0-72-700032-2)
- The endless circle, with Morris Hood (ISBN 0-58-268061-1)
- The runaway sun, with Morris Hood (ISBN 0-58-268057-3)
- The spitting image, with Dale Spender (ISBN 0-72-700162-0)
- Themes and images : a series of photographic stimuli for talking and writing (ISBN 0-90-977320-3)
External links
- A tribute to Garth Boomer, Australian Association for the Teaching of English (AATE)
- Garth Boomer Award, Australian Curriculum Studies Association Incorporated (ACSA)