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Jim and Jillian Dellit established this website to bring together their various endeavours, to engage with and contribute to the educational community and educational delivery. Jillian is continuing this work both in her own right, and to keep faith with Jim's life, 1947-2014, and their productive partnership 1970-2014.

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May 27

Conversations with Baby Boomer teachers: Profile 20 posted by Jillian in Biography, History of Education

R first heard about the option of teacher training on the deck of the SS Troubridge on the way to Kangaroo Island on a holiday in South Australia in 1970. She had grown up and attended school in Queensland. In … Continue reading

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January 10

Conversations with Baby Boomer Teachers: Profile 4 posted by Jillian in Biography, History of Education

D’s mother was 100% determined D should go to university.  She didn’t focus on a career – but she knew D needed a career, and teaching presented a pathway via a teaching scholarship commencing in the second-last year of school … Continue reading

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December 20

Conversations with Baby Boomer Teachers: Profile 2 posted by Jillian in Biography, History of Education

“B” could have been a hairdresser. She would, she believes, have been very happy in that role. She had no intention of staying at school beyond Year 11 until awarded a scholarship. Her older brother, at university on a teaching … Continue reading

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Conversations with Baby Boomer Teachers: Profile 1

“A” chose teaching because it was what she knew. The female role models she had were nurses, teachers or office workers. Her parents had only primary school education. She had cousins living in Italy in the 1950s, one of whom … Continue reading

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