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.
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.
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.
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