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Big things grow : a memoir of teaching on Country in Wilcannia / Sarah Donnelley..

Big things grow : a memoir of teaching on Country in Wilcannia / Sarah Donnelley..
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ISBN 9781761065354
Author Donnelley, Sarah (author)
Title Big things grow : a memoir of teaching on Country in Wilcannia / Sarah Donnelley..
Publisher and/or associated date/s Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2022.
©2022.
Description 279 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Summary This red dirt, it takes a hold of you. The blue skies, the sunsets, the starry nights, the river... Country holds onto you. Then you meet the people. Within one week of living in Wilcannia, I had signed up to stay until the end of the year. When Sarah Donnelley left Sydney to take up a teaching post in Wilcannia, a small town two hours east of Broken Hill, she had no idea what to expect. Determined to shrug off Wilcannia's rumoured reputation for danger and dysfunction, she threw herself into her new role. Four fulfilling years later, Sarah is an active member of a rich, complex school community that is transforming the idea of a conventional classroom experience. Making deep connections with Indigenous elders and local families, Sarah has focused her teaching practice on empowering, listening and creating space for respectful conversations. She takes her students out on Country as often as she can, enlisting aunties and uncles in the community to share their wisdom - everything from hunting for emu eggs and cutting canoes from trees to working with local artists and learning the history of the river. Big Things Grow is a powerful memoir about community, music and passion, laying bare the beauty and challenges of living in a part of Australia that is often overlooked.
Subjects Donnelley, Sarah
Teaching -- Australia
Rural schools -- Australia
Teachers -- Australia -- Biography
Teaching -- Methodology
Primary school teachers -- Biography
Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions -- Biography
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Social life and customs -- Biography
Music teachers -- New South Wales -- Wilcannia -- Biography
Women teachers -- New South Wales -- Wilcannia -- Biography
Teachers -- New South Wales -- Wilcannia -- Biography
Aboriginal Australians -- Education -- New South Wales -- Wilcannia -- Biography
Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs
Wilcannia (N.S.W.) -- Social life and customs
Call number 2022.163
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