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Outback Teacher
The inspiring story of a remarkable young woman, life with her students and their adventures in remote Australia
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Outback Teacher
The inspiring story of a remarkable young woman, life with her students and their adventures in remote Australia
About this book
A charming story of a young woman who faces challenges and finds joy teaching in outback schools.
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 kilometers 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.
Full of warmth, humor and kindness, this generous book reminds us how bush people have always found their own solutions to the problems isolation throws at them. But most importantly, and in the most personal way, it confirms how inspiring and passionate teachers can change lives.
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 kilometers 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.
Full of warmth, humor and kindness, this generous book reminds us how bush people have always found their own solutions to the problems isolation throws at them. But most importantly, and in the most personal way, it confirms how inspiring and passionate teachers can change lives.
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Table of contents
- COVER PAGE
- TITLE PAGE
- COPYRIGHT PAGE
- NOTE
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
- MAPS
- CONTENTS
- 1 HEADING NORTH
- 2 DJIDJA
- 3 IN THE BACKGROUND
- 4 FITTING IN
- 5 FINDING INSPIRATION
- 6 GUIDES
- 7 BEATEN
- 8 CHEEKY SNAKES
- 9 MOUNT HOUSE STATION
- 10 BISHOP AND JOHNNY
- 11 CHANGE OF SEASON
- 12 VISITORS
- 13 BEING HAD
- 14 SHUT DOWN
- 15 FLYING VISIT
- 16 ONE YEAR DOWN
- 17 CAMP SCHOOL
- 18 MICK
- 19 COMINGS AND GOINGS
- 20 GOODBYES
- 21 ABRACADABRA
- 22 EXODUS
- 23 GOING BUSH
- 24 A BEAUTIFUL AND SAD PLACE
- 25 MOVIES
- 26 MY BIG BROTHER
- 27 THE DEBBIL DEBBIL SYMPHONY
- 28 THE RETURN
- 29 WEST TO EAST
- 30 TRIP TO YARRABAH
- 31 FAMILY AND OLD FRIENDS
- 32 THE PINDAN MOB
- 33 PORT HEDLAND
- 34 THE LOCO SHED
- 35 MAKING DO
- 36 BETWEEN THE RAILWAY LINES
- 37 SEGREGATION
- 38 WINGS
- 39 NEW YEAR
- 40 NEEDLES AND THREADS
- 41 TOMMY
- 42 DASH TO DERBY
- 43 WITTENOOM
- 44 MCLEOD'S MOB
- 45 ERNIE'S MOB
- 46 LOW TIDE
- 47 TOM
- 48 REPORTS
- 49 BACK TO THE PILBARA
- 50 RETURN
- 51 PARENTS & CITIZENS
- 52 BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR
- 53 JIGALONG
- 54 BACK TO FORREST RIVER
- 55 MILI MILI
- 56 MISUNDERSTANDINGS
- 57 RACES AND MERRY-GO-ROUNDS
- 58 BUKLI MEETING
- 59 AN UNLIKELY PROPOSAL
- 60 BISHOP
- 61 INTEGRATION
- 62 REFLECTION
- PICTURE SECTION
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS