1 100 2 https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/schooling_memories/files/original/ecb43db4e46c078f8b664ab40d3f45c5.jpg 7979a7d60f3816b52fc0628d517a736f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Port Pirie High School, South Australia Subject The topic of the resource Photographer unknown Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=11739477" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Archives Australia, A1200/L42277</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1962 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Schooling Memories Person An individual. Birth Date 1940 Education Primary: Colonel Light Gardens Primary School, Adelaide (c1945–1951) Secondary: Unley High School, Adelaide (c1952–1956) Tertiary: Unknown (c1957–1959) Occupation Teacher: Port Pirie High School, South Australia Special Education Teacher: Berri, South Australia (c1962–1964) Special Education Teacher: Whyalla, South Australia (early 1970s) Training Supervisor: Special Education (1970s–1990s) Biographical Text Pam grew up in Adelaide and attended Colonel Light Gardens Primary School and Unley High School, before taking up studies to become a primary school teacher. She remembered that she had ‘want[ed] to be a teacher for a long time’ and that she had a particular interest in special education. She won a scholarship for her teacher training and was bonded to the South Australian country town of Port Pirie. Although primary trained, Pam also taught in the high school as there were teacher shortages. During her time there, she was completed a ‘course for difficult and backward children’ and was invited to teach in the town of Berri in a Special Education role. Here she won a scholarship to become a teacher/psychologist, completing her degree with a psychology major followed by two years of on-the-job training. Pam gives a spirited account of the training she received as an apprentice, remembering that it was a ‘very lively, exciting place’ with ‘a lot of discussion’. Pam’s career in Special Education spanned four decades and involved a range of roles. These included as a remedial reading teacher in the 1960s, a teacher/psychologist and regional officer, involving travelling to outlying towns in the 1970s and then as a training supervisor for Special Education officers in the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s. In the 1970s, she suggests, ‘South Australia did lead Australia at that stage in offering education to students – in most other states they were excluded from school’, highlighting the leading role that South Australia played in Special Education. Pam notes the many changes that have occurred in the delivery of Special Education over the time she has worked in the field, observing shifts in values that guide this work, and the social and contextual shifts that have impacted the area. She laments the most recent narrowing of the role of Special Education workers, remembering that, ‘it was a joy of a job and I think you miss that if you’re just a psychologist wandering around looking for a few problems’. Birthplace Adelaide Image credits Port Pirie High School, South Australia, 1962. Photographer unknown. <a href="https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=11739477" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">National Archives of Australia, A1200/L42277</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Pamela Jones Counselling Students_1940s Students_1950s Teachers_1960s Teachers_1970s Teachers_1980s Teachers_1990s https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/schooling_memories/files/original/6b2c662b5f02407baac2086f106c6dba.jpg dccfaf7ae807f8a175639212c596e48e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource High School, Ballarat Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Victorian Railways Photographer Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/97518" target="_blank" rel="noopener">State Library Victoria, H91.330/1155</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1947 https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/schooling_memories/files/original/4a38f844c0ba71e167c824c344a28083.jpg d3d11fb8691984287daa0c03a44f85d4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The High School, Ballarat, Vic. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rose Stereograph Co. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/62965" target="_blank" rel="noopener">State Library Victoria, H32492/2521 </a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource c1920–1954 https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/schooling_memories/files/original/f0d9fe2beab444c082927c7daa720224.jpg cf7cb261a7922859c4f05d00a7a8e86c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Melbourne Teachers College Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Photographer unknown Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER2015093%C2%A0">State Library Victoria, H2009.153/17</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource c1950s https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/schooling_memories/files/original/386f4949d0a47ebd6b4e3c619e6efe0a.jpg 210de21252e97feaeb543ec756a89a4a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource After Lecture in Old Arts, 1st Term (interviewee not pictured) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Photographer unknown Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gallery.its.unimelb.edu.au/umblumaic/imu.php?request=display&port=45208&id=f98e&flag=ecatalogue&offset=0&count=default&view=details">University of Melbourne Archives, 1986.0200.00002</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1953 https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/schooling_memories/files/original/71a0c32b7f528ca02970dff8e63e63ee.jpg 1ead8b5978828090275d28fef7d1622e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Northcote High School Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Graeme Butler Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Northcote Conservation Study sheet 07 19_1982 via <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/7849945%40N02/27481724031">Flickr</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1982 https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/schooling_memories/files/original/4b0efd3ed3c7211f6778691e4140784d.jpg c4c1e1f8206ece5b5e44af0c7deab44d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Bowbrook School Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Photographer unknown Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived London Metropolitan Archives, SC_PHL_02_0350_67_5540 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1965 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Schooling Memories Person An individual. Birth Date 1940 Education Primary: Invermay State School number 882 (late 1940s) Secondary: Ballarat High School (1950s) Tertiary: University of Melbourne (1958–1960) Occupation Geelong High School Bowbrook School for Girls, London Reservoir High School Northcote High School (1973–1989, 1997–2004) St. John’s Greek Orthodox College Preston (1990–1996) Biographical Text Robert was born in 1940 and grew up just outside Ballarat on a farm that had been in the family for a number of generations. He attended the one-teacher Invermay primary school and remembers the teacher fondly, a man ‘to whom I am really indebted in many, many respects … he inculcated in us humane values’. He went on to Ballarat High School, initially boarding with his mother’s aunts, then returning to the family farm after his father’s death in 1955, from whence he cycled eight miles each day to school, after helping milk the cows. He enjoyed his time at Ballarat High, being placed in the ‘professional stream’ and studying history, English, literature and Latin for his Matriculation. He notes the high academic standards of his education at Ballarat High School and comments on the quality of teachers, particularly his ‘outstanding Junior Latin teacher’, who shared aspects of his work with refugees and migrants. Robert suggests the teacher’s students ‘were sort of imbued with a very early notion of multiculturalism’ through this experience. Robert attended the University of Melbourne, studying Arts Honours in English and History and being supported on a secondary studentship before completing his tertiary studies with a Diploma of Education. His first teaching assignment was at Geelong High School for three years, after which he spent the next three years in Europe doing an assortment of work, including teaching in London. When he returned to Australia he taught at Reservoir High School and then became Head of English at Northcote High School in 1973. He taught there for fifteen years, then moved to St. John’s Greek Orthodox College in Preston for six years before, returning to Northcote High School in 1997, and retiring in 2004. Of his own teaching career Robert has many reflections and comparisons. At Northcote, he and some other teachers started to adapt the curriculum to suit the needs of their students (particularly the large Greek population at Northcote) and include more Australian literary content. He also states that it is in History that he noticed a ‘major change’ over time. He believes that the ‘inclusion and acknowledgement of the Aboriginal History of Australia is important and beneficial and only right’ and that the breadth of History offered to students is much better than when he was at school. Image credits 1. High School, Ballarat, 1947. Victorian Railways Photographer. <a href="http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/97518" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">State Library Victoria, H91.330/1155</a> 2. The High School, Ballarat, 1920–1954. Rose Stereograph Co. <a href="http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/62965" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">State Library Victoria, H32492/2521</a> 3. Melbourne Teachers College, c1950s. Photographer unknown. <a href="http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER2015093%C2%A0">State Library Victoria, H2009.153/17</a> 4. After Lecture Old Arts, 1st Term (interviewee not pictured), 1953. Photographer unknown. <a href="https://gallery.its.unimelb.edu.au/umblumaic/imu.php?request=display&port=45208&id=f98e&flag=ecatalogue&offset=0&count=default&view=details">University of Melbourne Archives, 1986.0200.00002</a> 5. Northcote High School, 1982. Photographer Graeme Butler. Northcote Conservation Study sheet 07 19_1982 via <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/7849945%40N02/27481724031">Flickr</a> 6. Bowbrook School, 1965. Photographer unknown. London Metropolitan Archives, SC_PHL_02_0350_67_5540 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Robert Bridges Students_1940s Students_1950s Students_1960s Teachers_1970s Teachers_1980s Teachers_1990s Teachers_2000s