Geoffrey Partington

Party Days (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

This is the autobiography of a working class boy in a cotton-spinning town in Lancashire who became a teacher, headmaster, schools inspector and university lecturer in England, and Australia. He also carried out commissions to enquire into teacher education and social studies curricula in England and New Zealand, and taught after retirement from Flinders University in South Australia for two years in the University of the South Pacific in Fiji. He was a guest lecturer in Canada, the United States and Poland. These are the externals of a career. Geoffrey tells a fascinating story of his childhood and school days. He became a Sunday School teacher and Baptist Lay Preacher in his teens, but at university in Bristol became a member of the Communist Party and was for several years a leading figure in communist teacher politics and in the Peace Movement. Subsequently he repudiated communism and Marxism and in Australia became a severe critic of most of the ideas, policies and practices he had advocated as a young man. This is a valuable social history and gives insights into the main ideological conflicts of the twentieth century. Since emigration to Australia in 1976 Geoffrey has had published twelve books and over a hundred articles. His academic qualifications include BA Hons and MEd from Bristol University, BSc (Soc) (Hons), Teachers Certificate and Academic Diploma of Education, and PhD from the University of Adelaide. . At 83 Geoffrey still engages between hospital bouts in Australian disputes in politics, history and education. The autobiography gains its name from his nickname at school of Geoff Party and because the Party for many years among the British Left meant the Communist Party.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Xlibris AU
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781503502789
• Artikelnr.: 52044273

Autorenporträt

Partington was born in 1930 in Middleton, a mill town close to Manchester. His father was a cotton spinner and my mother came from a coal-mining family. He attended council schools and was the first child from Boarshaw Primary School to win a scholarship to Queen Elizabeth's School, Middleton. He was a Sunday school teacher in the Temple Street Baptist Church a youthful lay preacher and ardent socialist.. In 1948 he won a bursary to Bristol University to read History There he gained colours in football and was awarded Upper Second Honours in History. After National Service in the Royal Air Force, he taught history in Glendale Grammar School, Wood Green, and then Twyford Comprehensive School, Acton. He became a senior lecturer in history and history of education in Doncaster and Coventry Colleges of Education, headmaster of Bungay Modern School in Suffolk and an Education Officer in the London Borough of Waltham Forest During his classroom years he was very active politically. He was elected President of the Middlesex Country Association of the National Union of Teachers and National Secretary of the Teachers' Committee for Nuclear Disarmament. He only returned to serious scholarship after disillusionment with political activism. He served on Examining Boards in History and added to his qualifications an Honours degree in Sociology and Economics and the Academic Diploma in Education of London University and Master of Education of Bristol University In 1976 his pioneering Women Teachers in England and Wales in the Twentieth Century, was published by the National Foundation for Educational Research, In 1976 his Australian-born wife, their two children and he emigrated to Adelaide, where he taught for nineteen years in Flinders University and then two years in the University of the South Pacific in Fiji. In Australia He has written eleven books and numerous articles. He was awarded PhD by the University of Adelaide and commissioned to report on teacher education in Britain and New Zealand. He was a member of the South Australian Experts' Consultative Committee on the State Constitution in 1998 and the Canberra History Summit of 2006.