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Author Nelson, Hank.

Title With its hat about its ears : recollections of the bush school / Hank Nelson
Published Sydney : ABC Enterprises for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 1989
©1989

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 W'PONDS  370.193460994 Nel/Wih  AVAILABLE
Description 211 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Contents 1. Four schools -- 2. Paradise or Boggy Creek Upper -- 3. The romance and reality of the bush -- 4. Hang on till I tie the dogs up -- 5. Rhubarb and rabbit -- 6. A hundred years of schools -- 7. To a bright farewell -- 8. An infusion of snap and vigour -- 9. Getting the cuts -- 10. More hands, more milkers -- 11. Big house and battler -- 12. Great days and dunnies -- 13. Schoolie and community -- 14. Other cutlures, other frontiers -- 15. A corner block with Pepper trees
Summary Social history and anecdotes about one teacher schools from across Australia ; reminiscences of teachers and pupils, combined with archival research ; policies towards educating Aboriginal children (pp.180-190)
Notes "An ABC book."
Produced in conjunction with a 5 pt. radio series first aired by ABC early 1989
Bibliography bibliography: pages 206-211
Subject Education, Rural -- Australia -- History.
Education, Rural -- Australia -- Victoria -- History -- Case studies.
Education, Rural -- Australia -- Victoria -- History -- Case studies.
Rural schools -- Australia -- History.
Rural schools -- Australia -- Victoria -- History -- Case studies.
Rural schools -- Australia -- Victoria -- History -- Case studies.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Author Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
LC no. 90151107
ISBN 0642129843