Carol Duval
Writer
Educator
Lifestyle Researcher
School Gaze takes readers on a round-the-world school trip spanning six decades. Each chapter is a snapshot of life from the ‘50s to the present day and beyond, viewed from both sides of the teacher’s desk.
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Combining memories and musings about education and life in general, the journey starts in in grey but definitely not dull post-war Sydney and travels through an ever-changing landscape of schools rich and poor, conventional and quirky, depressing and inspiring.
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Highlights include surviving a grimy inner-city teacher training college, chilling in a laid-back expat school in Bangkok, mingling with the gentry in a couple of English boarding schools, embracing the rhythm in a bushland Steiner school, throwing caution to the winds in a Balinese eco-school and labouring in a Singaporean exam factory.
The journey ends in a fantasy land of future possibilities.
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Schools / Institutions Mentioned
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Milsons Pt Primary, Sydney
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Maungawhau School, Auckland NZ
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North Sydney Girls High, Sydney
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Balmain Teachers College, Sydney
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Banksia Rd Primary, Sydney
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Macquarie University, Sydney
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Brevard Community College, Florida
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Bangkok Patana School, Thailand
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Hawksburn Primary, Melbourne
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Tower St, Sydney
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Mosman Primary, Sydney
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North Sydney Demonstration School
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Sear Rogers International School, Hong Kong
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Readers Digest, Hong Kong
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University of East Asia, Macau
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Edith Cowan University, Western Australia
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Trevelyan Middle School, Windsor, UK
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Sunningdale School, UK
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Charters School, UK
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Reading University, UK
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St Catherine's School, Sydney
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Glenaeon Rudolf Steiner School, Sydney
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George Washington University, Washington DC
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National Genealogical Society, Virginia
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National Science Teachers Association, Virginia
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The Earth Sangha, Virginia
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St George's College Junior School, UK
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St George's School, Ascot, UK
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The Green School, Bali
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CfBT (Now Education Development Trust)
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Hougang Secondary School, Singapore