Pedagogists Memoir - Some Boys Are Born Twice

The memoir now looms large as a pedagogical tool for multiple levels of schooling and of education. Addressed essentially to senior students in schools, students undertaking undergraduate and postgraduate teacher preparation courses in universities.

List of contents

Acknowledgements; About the Author; Preface; Part 1.¿ Exegesis; 1-'We Live in an Age of Memoir-Mania'; 2-Memoirs as a Pedagogical Tool; 3-Memoirs: Problematics: Social Class and Schooling, Sexual Abuse, Racism, Correspondence/Distance Education in Our Schools; 4-General Conclusions; Part 2.¿ The Memoir; 5-Uncertain Ancestry, an 'Illegitimacy', Family and a Small-Town Mentality; 6-Shopping-Bag Waters: Family; 7-A Working-Class Kid Is Sexually Abused, Almost Schooled and Denied a (Cultural) Adolescence; 8-Infectious Small-Town Madness; 9-Pastoralism and the Razor's Edge of Learning Racism and Protective Myths; 10-The Fruits of a Small-Town Schooling, Topped by the Fruits of Correspondence Schooling; 11-Coda: In Yet More Forests, Dark and Deep; Index

About the author

Grant Rodwell is a retired school principal from Tasmania, Australia, and an academic from four Australian universities. He holds five PhDs.

Product details

• Authors: Grant Rodwell, Rodwell Grant
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.10.2025
• EAN: 9781839995644
• ISBN: 978-1-83999-564-4
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Education, EDUCATION / Professional Development, EDUCATION / Home Schooling, EDUCATION / Distance, Open & Online Education, teacher training, Biography and non-fiction prose, EDUCATION / Teacher Training & Certification, Open learning, distance education, Home schooling / home education