Garth Boomer

Garth Boomer (died 1993) was an influential educationalist working in Australia. Since 1995 there has been a Garth Boomer Memorial Lecture in his honour. He was particularly influential in the teaching of English, and he was President of the Australian Association for the Teaching of English for a time.

Publications

Boomer's works include:

• Designs on learning : essays on curriculum and teaching, with Bill Green (ISBN 1-87-586431-8)
• Changing education : reflections on national issues in education in Australia (ISBN 0-64-210066-7)
• Creativity in education : making things (ISBN 0-95-933392-4)
• Fair Dinkum Teaching and Learning: Reflections on Literacy and Power (ISBN 0-86-709139-8)
• Metaphors and meanings : essays on English teaching, with Bill Green (ISBN 0-90-995582-4)
• Negotiating the curriculum : a teacher-student partnership (ISBN 0-86-896166-3)
• Negotiating the curriculum : educating for the 21st century, with Garth Lester, Nancy Onore, Cynthia Cook, Jonathan (ISBN 1-85-000931-7)
• Orange moon, with Peter W McFarlane (ISBN 0-72-700032-2)
• The endless circle, with Morris Hood (ISBN 0-58-268061-1)
• The runaway sun, with Morris Hood (ISBN 0-58-268057-3)
• The spitting image, with Dale Spender (ISBN 0-72-700162-0)
• Themes and images : a series of photographic stimuli for talking and writing (ISBN 0-90-977320-3)

External links

• A tribute to Garth Boomer, Australian Association for the Teaching of English (AATE)
• Garth Boomer Award, Australian Curriculum Studies Association Incorporated (ACSA)