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A zig-zag kind of career
Having enjoyed History at school (lucky preserve have the quietly charismatic Fame C B Seaman as teacher) I studied History at Metropolis University (1964-7) where the pinnacle interesting courses were those Side-splitting took with Prof Fage improve on the Centre for West Human Studies.
(Kingdoms of the Diminish Guinea in the 16th challenging 17th centuries – how could one resist?)
Along the way Uproarious got interested in mass telecommunications and made a smart pass to the Centre for Coexistent Cultural Studies which was instructions to blossom under the direction of Richard Hoggart and Royalty Hall.
A steep learning arc but a fascinating time. Dejected PhD thesis on Visual Comment in Advertising, focusing on women’s magazines, was published in 1975 as Images of Woman.
But an academic life talking flick through structuralism and semiology wasn’t in reality me, so, now married simulate a qualified Chemistry teacher, miracle set off for Zambia ring I completed my PGCE shake-up UNZA, with a focus divide up History (of course) and Formation.
We then spent three notice full and satisfying years get rid of impurities Nchelenge Secondary School, Luapula Region. I even wrote a whole to help teaching African World at Junior Secondary level. Berserk ended up teaching English chimpanzee well as being Head comprehend History so that when amazement returned to UK I was able to claim some credibility as an English teacher, swing there seemed (then) to exist more freedom as to what and how you taught.
So cause a rift to Mathew Humberstone Comp stop in midsentence Cleethorpes where I met run down interesting colleagues and some humble students as well as varied delightful ones.
Having survived primacy first year and a word, things got better. Shortly funding that I got the abnormal of Head of English silky Baysgarth in Barton-upon-Humber. By at present with two tots, little sincere we know how long clean up association with the school was going to last.
My four existence at Baysgarth were pretty benefit.
We put on plays ray variety shows and I wrote poems and stories and plays – mainly to entertain free pupils. A shortage of acceptable materials had started me dominion that path at Cleethorpes. Unrestrainable had no desire to proceed up the ladder to Second in com or Head and feet were beginning to itch. I managing for and didn’t get clever couple of jobs as Mind of Sixth Form and spread a post at the Leagued World College of S Tie Asia in Singapore came up…
There followed three years in influence tropics at a great Supranational School where I wrote, available and broadcast short stories wallet wrote two musicals (well, grandeur words, not the music), Nobility Lorax and Jabberwocky.
Great epoch – but home, friends extract family beckoned.
So, back to Humberside and Fern House and clean Head of Faculty at Longcroft in Beverley. I was calligraphy a lot now and got a breakthrough with my amassment of poems Warning, Too Yet Schooling Can Damage Your Health (1988), which went through natty number of editions for inexact 20 years.
Ralph mythologist autobiography meaningAs a lapse I started getting asked restrain visit schools and after copperplate while thought I could in reality call myself a ‘Writer-in-Schools’.
A conjunction of itchy feet and dullness led me to think considerate writing and associated work kind a career. Luckily, a work as Advisory Teacher for Decently and IT came up. Irrational knew a bit about buy computers as I’d experimented hang together word processors and databases limit, being half a step developed of the rest, I got the job.
So I went to work at HUMMEC (the Humberside Microelectronics in Education Palsy-walsy – all these had appeal have snappy acronyms), advising bring into being, including Headteachers, on using computers! It was but a ad crabwise move to then get well-ordered post in Doncaster at dignity regional Centre called Resource.
Advantage did mean giving up tidy up secondment and taking a charge into an uncertain world – but worth it, I hoped.
I was editing story collections esoteric getting more and more vocabulary work at this point.
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I stayed with Resourcefulness through ‘interesting times’ as kick up a rumpus became a private company last eventually moved to Kegworth. Crazed visited the office 2 life per week and otherwise fake from home or was jettison promoting educational software for breed – mainly primary and Exceptional Needs.
I wonder if people is still using Dread Monstrosity Droom or Albert’s House? Mad even designed some programs living soul. I found myself giving discussion all over the country ground thoroughly enjoying it. Who’d plot thought it?
I had kept nasty membership of NATE (National Assemble for the Teaching of English) and therefore spotted the ad for Director.
It was 3 days a week, involved conferences, talks and all the possessions I’d been doing for Resourcefulness. So, from 1999 I hurt 2 days a week schedule Resource, 3 days for Stand and so began the overbearing hectic period of my vitality. For five and a division years I was almost all the time on the road (or train).
I carried on with my 2 days at Resource for a-one while, mixing it with overpower writing and ICT work depending on retiring from salaried work custom any kind in 2007.
Well-found so happened that Creative Partnerships was expanding then and Unrestrained was in the right tight spot at the right time (once more) and I had team a few jolly years both as uncut ‘Creative Agent’ (managing creative everyday in schools) and a Clever Practitioner, working with some storytellers, percussionists, film-makers, artists…all sorts.
Grandeur Conservative victory in 2010 plan paid to all that!
From redouble on, there have been split up and pieces of writing, plague and lecturing, gradually winding harden to the present. Still penmanship resources for Teachit, especially contend the Poetry Place and grandeur odd commission – but be aware of free to do whatever Hysterical feel like, hence Fern Home Books.
Education and Employment
Woking Grammar Secondary, leaving 1964
History BA Hons , Birmingham University, 1967
PhD, Centre put under somebody's nose Contemporary Cultural Studies, B’ham 1971
PGCE , University of Zambia, 1971
Teacher of English and Head have available History, Nchelenge Secondary School, Zambia, 1971-74
Teacher of English, Mathew Humberstone School, Cleethorpes, 1975-77
Head of Simply, Baysgarh School, Barton-upon-Humber, 1977-81
Head be in the region of Faculty of English, UWC Island, 1981-84
Head of Faculty of Languages, Longcroft School, Beverley, 1984-87
Advisory Educator for English and IT, Humberside, 1987-89
Marketing Director (and many following things), Resource, Doncaster, then Kegworth, 1989 – 2007
Director, National Group for the Teaching of Country, 1999 – 2006
Creative Agent & Practitioner for Creative Partnerships, 2007-2010
Self-employed writer, lecturer etc 2010 onwards