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Garth Boomer (died 1993) was an influential educationalist working in Australia. Since 1995 there has been a Garth Boomer Memorial Lecture in his honour. He was particularly influential in the teaching of English, and he was president of the Australian Association for the Teaching of English for a time. Early lifeHe was born on 12 September 1940 at Mount Barker, South Australia. He was a son of South Australian-born parents Charlemagne Carlyle Guilford Boomer, who was a brickmaker, and Rita Ivy, née Miels. He received his primary education at Littlehampton Primary School and Adelaide Boys High Schools.[1] He graduated with honors from Adelaide University in 1962, where he received his B.A degree. CareerAfter graduation he was a teacher of English, Latin and mathematics in South Australian State secondary schools. Later he became the first consultant in English in South Australia. He complete his M.A at the London Institute of Education in 1972–73.[2] In 1980 he became a director of Wattle Park Teachers Centre, which was the curriculum and teacher development centre for the South Australian system. In 1984 he moved to Canberra, where he got a position of director of the Curriculum Development Centre. A year later, in 1985 he became chairman of the Commonwealth Schools Commission.[2] In 1988 he got a position of a chairman of the Schools Council, one of four councils of the National Board of Employment, Education and Training. In July this year he came back South Australia to serve as an Associate Director-General of Education. From 1981 until 1984 he was a president of the Australian Association for the Teaching of English. From 1983 until 1985 he also was a chair of the International Federation for the Teaching of English. From 1989 until 1993 he was the South Australian representative and vice-chairman of the Australian Children's Television Foundation. He contributed to the creation of Lift Off, which was an innovative approach to children's television.[3] He was awarded Life Membership at AATE(Australian Association for Teaching English) in 1977. He died because of brain cancer on 16 July 1993 in the Daw House Hospice, Adelaide, and later he was cremated. One of the education faculty buildings at the University of South Australia was named after him. Private lifeOn 2 January 1965 he got married to Jean Graham McNaught, who was a teacher at the Albert Street Methodist Church, Brisbane. They had 2 daughters and a son. AwardsHe was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia and Member of the Order of Australia in 1993 .[4][5] PublicationsBoomer's works include:
References1. ^Boomer, Robert Garth 2. ^1 [https://www.aate.org.au/about-us/garth-boomer/garth-boomer|title= Garth Boomer] 3. ^Garth Boomer 4. ^Medal of the Order of Australia 5. ^of the Order of Australia External links
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