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About Me
- Rachel Power
- I am a Melbourne-based writer and editor. My latest book is Creativity & Motherhood: The Divided Heart (Affirm Press), an updated edition of my publication, The Divided Heart: Art and Motherhood (Red Dog Books), featuring conversations with some of Australia's most prominent writers, artists and musicians about combining the twin passions of art and motherhood. My previous book was Alison Rehfisch: A Life for Art (The Beagle Press). In my day job, I am currently Communications Coordinator for the Australian Education Union (Victoria).
UPCOMING EVENTS
Listen to the "Divided Heart" feature on Radio National's Life Matters program
What I'm reading
What I'm watching
my current musical obsession
Blogs & sites I love
Supporting the Stella Prize for women's writing
I Give a Gonski
4 comments:
Oh wow, that is stunning! And are they margerine tubs, for goodness sakes?! Thank you Rach, that was truly beautiful.
Hello Rachel: One can only wonder, watching such, why "they" have determinedly taken rhyme, rythmn and repetition out of learning for young school children.
Are you up to Naplan yet? If so, you might be interested to know that the results offered to parents in Victoria are far more limited than those given in NSW.
Hi Frances. I work for the teachers union, so yes, I know all about NAPLAN! Although the union's beef is as much about the results being used to "rank" schools (as the impact on kids) through things like the My School website, and the pressure that puts on schools to teach to the test at the expense of a broader curriculum. Also my son is in Year 3, so had the first year of testing for him. That is interesting about the results in NSW. Why is that, do you think?
Thank you for this discovery!
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