{"id":4,"date":"2009-02-28T10:56:45","date_gmt":"2009-02-28T10:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primaryschooling.net\/?page_id=4"},"modified":"2025-02-27T08:19:28","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T22:19:28","slug":"about-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/primaryschooling.net\/","title":{"rendered":"FOREWORD"},"content":{"rendered":"

FOR THOSE WHO VALUE PRIMARY SCHOOL PUPILS<\/span><\/p>\n

This site is about Primary School children. As we enter the second decade of the 21st century, it becomes more and more apparent that Australian school children have very few serious\u00a0 advocates\u00a0 or supporters amongst teaching or parent organisations ; and are comprehensively ignored by the general public.<\/p>\n

First-hand experiences of teaching, learning\u00a0 and administering over a few decades have disposed me to explore salient issues with a\u00a0 been-there-done-that attitude. My search for a design that will help those children who attend public schools in particular, has been challenging.<\/p>\n

Enjoy yourself with the sub-sections on this site, which include many interesting articles. It’s possible to have fun, even during such\u00a0deleterious times.<\/p>\n

Educational issues are\u00a0 notorious for their repetition. The bitter Standards Debate through the 1970s and the \u00a0Minimal Competency Movement through the 80s are instances. We older teachers failed miserably to teach present day politicians and\u00a0their eminence grise <\/em> that\u00a0they were supposed to learn from<\/em><\/strong> history; not repeat it.<\/p>\n

Through this website, I have worked around genotypical issues and tried to weave them into a fair-dinkum vision of primary schooling, the most important period of any person’s life of living and learning.<\/p>\n

Yes. This is my view of things, told in an uncluttered direct manner, that comes from the past but remains pertinent for the next few decades of this 21st Century.\u00a0 I hope that you can tolerate the way that I express my primary school bias.\u00a0
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Phil Cullen [Phil passed away in 2018 and site is no longer updated.]<\/p>\n

Charles Philip [Phil] Cullen AM;\u00a0 A.Ed., B.Ed.[UQ], Dip.Ed.Edmin, M.Ed.Admin (Hons) [UNE];\u00a0 FACE, FACEL, FQIEL, Gold Medal ACEL;\u00a0 Life Member:\u00a0 CCEA, QASSP, QSPSSA, QSSSA, Bris. SSRLA;\u00a0 Co-author: 4 books;\u00a0 Author 1 book; Former Q’ld Director of Primary Education; \u00a0<\/span><\/a>Chairman:\u00a0\u00a0Q’ld Day Comm, Primary Curric.Comm, Review Primary Educ’n in A.C.T. Gov’t Schools; Regional Director NQ & N.West Q’ld;\u00a0 Former member:\u00a0 Lismore Catholic Diocese Ed. Council,\u00a0 McAuley College\u00a0 [now ACU] Council, \u00a0James Cook U of NQ Council, Townsville CAE Council. <\/span><\/span>Primary School Teacher\/Principal 23 years; Regional Director & Inspector 6 years; Director 13 years<\/span><\/span>.\u00a0 {refer:’Who’s Who in Australia’}<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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