Outback Teacher: The inspiring story of a remarkable young woman, life with her students and their adventures...

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Sally Gare Freda Marnie Nicholls

Outback Teacher

The inspiring story of a remarkable young woman, life with her students and their adventures...

Sally Gare, Freda Marnie Nicholls

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Allen & Unwin
03 May 2022

Biography: general; Rural communities; Teaching staff; Biography - Australian

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.

Full of warmth, humour 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.

'Full of great stories and reflections, Outback Teacher is a fascinating chronicle of the first six years of Sally's teaching career in small outback schools, and a reminder of how things were.' - Canberra Times

'This generous book reminds us how bush people have always found their own solutions to the problems isolation throws at them' - Australian Rural & Regional News

'Sally's love of teaching is evident on every page' - School News

By: Sally Gare, Freda Marnie Nicholls
Imprint: Allen & Unwin
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 153mm,
Weight: 390g
ISBN: 9781761065347
ISBN 10: 1761065343
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 03 May 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sally Gare (Herzfeld) has been an educator since 1956. She was the principal of the Helena School in Darlington for many years and is still involved in education as part of the Alternative to Violence Project in Western Australia and the Northern Territory. Freda Marnie was taught by Sally and has worked as a rural journalist. She is the author of Love, Sweat & Tears (2013), Back of Beyond (2014) and The Amazing Mrs Livesey (2016).