https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/ecb43db4e46c078f8b664ab40d3f45c5.jpg 7979a7d60f3816b52fc0628d517a736f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Port Pirie High School, South Australia Subject The topic of the resource Photographer unknown Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=11739477" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Archives Australia, A1200/L42277</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1962 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Schooling Memories Person An individual. Birth Date 1940 Education Primary: Colonel Light Gardens Primary School, Adelaide (c1945–1951) Secondary: Unley High School, Adelaide (c1952–1956) Tertiary: Unknown (c1957–1959) Occupation Teacher: Port Pirie High School, South Australia Special Education Teacher: Berri, South Australia (c1962–1964) Special Education Teacher: Whyalla, South Australia (early 1970s) Training Supervisor: Special Education (1970s–1990s) Biographical Text Pam grew up in Adelaide and attended Colonel Light Gardens Primary School and Unley High School, before taking up studies to become a primary school teacher. She remembered that she had ‘want[ed] to be a teacher for a long time’ and that she had a particular interest in special education. She won a scholarship for her teacher training and was bonded to the South Australian country town of Port Pirie. Although primary trained, Pam also taught in the high school as there were teacher shortages. During her time there, she was completed a ‘course for difficult and backward children’ and was invited to teach in the town of Berri in a Special Education role. Here she won a scholarship to become a teacher/psychologist, completing her degree with a psychology major followed by two years of on-the-job training. Pam gives a spirited account of the training she received as an apprentice, remembering that it was a ‘very lively, exciting place’ with ‘a lot of discussion’. Pam’s career in Special Education spanned four decades and involved a range of roles. These included as a remedial reading teacher in the 1960s, a teacher/psychologist and regional officer, involving travelling to outlying towns in the 1970s and then as a training supervisor for Special Education officers in the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s. In the 1970s, she suggests, ‘South Australia did lead Australia at that stage in offering education to students – in most other states they were excluded from school’, highlighting the leading role that South Australia played in Special Education. Pam notes the many changes that have occurred in the delivery of Special Education over the time she has worked in the field, observing shifts in values that guide this work, and the social and contextual shifts that have impacted the area. She laments the most recent narrowing of the role of Special Education workers, remembering that, ‘it was a joy of a job and I think you miss that if you’re just a psychologist wandering around looking for a few problems’. Birthplace Adelaide Image credits Port Pirie High School, South Australia, 1962. Photographer unknown. <a href="https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=11739477" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">National Archives of Australia, A1200/L42277</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Pamela Jones Counselling Students_1940s Students_1950s Teachers_1960s Teachers_1970s Teachers_1980s Teachers_1990s