Old Bush Schools: Life and Education in the Small Schools of Western Australia, 1893 to 1961 by John A McKenzie
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ISBN:9780729800327
Author:John A McKenzie
Edition:1st editon
Publisher:Western Australian College of Advanced Education
Place:Doubleview WA
Year:1986
Format:Paperback
Pages:184 pages
Book Type:SECONDHAND
Period:19th and 20th Century
Book Description
Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book edges and spine. Spine is faded. Interior is very good. Signed by author.
The story of teachers who suffered loneliness and deprivation to bring education to bush children and the one-teacher schools of the Outback. They were pioneers in as true a sense as the farmers, miners, timber workers and group settlers with whom they shared primitive housing and living conditions.
The author sets a story against the economic, social and technological factors which gave rise to the small bush schools and the changes which led to their phasing out in the consolidation movement of the 1940s and 50s.