ISBN: 9780867670004 - My Way. W.h.(bill) Rourke's 50 Years Adventure in Education (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. Pp. 304. The book serves as both a personal memoir and a vital historical record of public schooling, remote community building, and race relations in mid-20th-century Western Australia. A significant portion of the book focuses on Rourke's later role as a school inspector in the North-West and Kimberley regions during the 1950s. He details a fierce, historic confrontation with the WA Minister for Education, Harry Strickland, over the integration of Aboriginal children into state schools. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges, particularly tail edge. Price in ink has been added to interior page. Dust jacket has wear to edges. Signed by author. Body text and binding are still very good. The autobiography of Bill Rouke, who attended the Claremont Teachers College in 1917. His studies were interrupted by his service in WWI. In 1920, he re-entered Teachers' College to begin a fifty-year teaching career, including time in the North West, Goldfields and the South West.…