Rob Keelty interviewed by Peter Parkhill for the Voices from the Illawarra collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 2558869
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Keelty, Rob, 1914-, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 1994
- 3 sound tape reels (ca. 67 min.): analog, 7 1/2 ips, 2 track mono.
- Series:
- Voices from the Illawarra collection.
- Summary:
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Rob Keelty talks about the family move to Nowra and later Wollongong; his father’s occupation; his schooling; the Depression; his teachers college scholarship; Sydney Teachers College, training as a primary teacher; teaching at a special school at Swan Hill; status of teachers; description of school during WWII; student numbers, conditions at school; his transfer to Corrimal Primary (1946); schools in the Illawarra; the arrival of migrants (1946, their reliance on relatives and other contacts for support and accommodation; Cringilla and other hostels; migrant children enrolling in local schools; English language programs (1946-47); evening classes; first classes run by the NSW Government; text book and class work, use of gestures and repetition, drilling, ‘Australiana’; by 1950, courses managed from Sydney, Australian Migrant English Program (AMES); government funding; language lessons for school students; teachers as advisors, problems with students; gender and learning; different nationalities in Wollongong during 1940s and 50s; non literacy in first language, teachers' response; teaching methods; learner outcomes; establishment of large English language centres; workplace classes; different sites for English classes: public halls, industrial sites; area supervisor; teaching in 1960s/70s; assessment/evaluation; student problems, progress; teaching after retirement; regulation on hours for retired teachers; resentment shown towards older teachers; supervision; class management; student outcomes; the use of audio visual equipment (c. 1960s); teaching resources, methodology; community centres as venues for learning; class streaming; retirement; students; hostility among students; assimilation; multiculturalism; an overview of his teaching career.
- Notes:
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- Recorded on Sept. 1994.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
- Related Material:
- Australian TESOL industry; located at; National Library of Australia Oral History collection ORAL TRC 5495.
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (3 p.)
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- Teachers
- Other authors/contributors:
- Parkhill, Peter, interviewer
- Related Records:
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- Until 2064 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Published status:
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- Creation date:
- 1994
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