Garth Boomer
Garth Boomer (died 1993) 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.
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)
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