Tales And Travels Of A School Inspector
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Tales And Travels Of A School Inspector
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Author : John Wilson (School supervisor.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Tales And Travels Of A School Inspector written by John Wilson (School supervisor.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Education categories.
First published in 1928, this book is the personal account of John Wilson's experiences as a School Inspector, encompassing 50 years knowledge of social and educational conditions in the Highlands and Islands.
Tales And Travels Of A School Inspector
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Author : Dr John Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Birlinn
Release Date : 2012-12-10
Tales And Travels Of A School Inspector written by Dr John Wilson and has been published by Birlinn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
For nearly forty years John Wilson travelled the length and breadth of Scotland as a school inspector. From orkney to campbeltown and Jura to Dundee, he visited hundreds of schools and met thousands of teachers and pupils. In these memoirs, first published in 1928, he paints an insightful yet humorous picture of life in the country's schools after the 1872 education Act, which brought free schooling for all Scottish children between the ages of five and ten.
Tales And Travels Of A School Inspector
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Author : John Wilson (School supervisor.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1928
Tales And Travels Of A School Inspector written by John Wilson (School supervisor.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1928 with BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY categories.
John Wilson was an Inspector of Schools during the latter half of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. His career in education spanned 50 years, during which time he inspected many schools in the Highlands and Islands, including Jura, Islay, Orkney, Argyll, Heisker and Iona. First published in 1928, the personal account of his experiences is both compassionate and humorous, providing a valuable insight into the social and educational conditions in the Gaelic Highlands and Islands following the 1872 Education Act.
Tales And Travels Of A School Inspector
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Author : John Wilson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1928
Tales And Travels Of A School Inspector written by John Wilson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1928 with Education categories.
A School In South Uist
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Author : F.G. Rea
language : en
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
Release Date : 2016-03-03
A School In South Uist written by F.G. Rea and has been published by Birlinn Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
These are the memoirs of a teacher from England who became headmaster of Garrynemonie School in South Uist in the 1890s. At that time, the Hebrides were as remote and forbidding to mainlanders as the Antarctic is in the late-1990s. In the 1890s this island was one of the poorest districts in the Outer Hebrides. Roads were no more than rough tracks. Gaelic was the majority language, although children had to learn their lessons in English and few allowances were made for bilingual teaching. Epidemics were frequent and the school had to close its doors because of outbreaks of smallpox, whooping-cough, scarlet fever, mumps and measels. Rea's memoirs show how he strove to meet these difficulties. His pupils recall him as a sincere, hard-working man and an excellent teacher. This work reveals his powers of observation and his interest in the unfamiliar scenes and events he witnessed and recorded.
Whaur Extremes Meet
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Author : Catriona M.M. MacDonald
language : en
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
Release Date : 2009-10-30
Whaur Extremes Meet written by Catriona M.M. MacDonald and has been published by Birlinn Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-30 with History categories.
On the cusp of memory and history, the story of Scotland's twentieth-century is contested territory: international yet parochial; prosperous yet ailing; and, passionate yet temperate. This thematic account of Scotland's twentieth century examines the economic, social, political and cultural aspects that shaped the country during the period. Catroina MacDonald underlines the tensions inherent in the life of a nation distinguished by stark changes and surprising continuities, a fragmented identity, a shifting and at times uneasy accommodation in the UK nation state, and an ongoing engagement with globalising tendencies. In identifying the choices, ambitions, possibilities and contradictions that Scotland experienced during a century of profound change, she uncovers a country in which one can truly say extremes met.
Edinburgh History Of Education In Scotland
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Author : Robert Anderson
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2015-05-19
Edinburgh History Of Education In Scotland written by Robert Anderson and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-19 with Education categories.
This book investigates the origins and evolution of the main institutions of Scottish education, bringing together a range of scholars, each an expert on his or her own period, and with interests including "e; but also ranging beyond "e; the history of education.
British Autobiographies
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Author : William Matthews
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2023-04-28
British Autobiographies written by William Matthews and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-28 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1955.
Bilbao New York Bilbao
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Author : Kirmen Uribe
language : en
Publisher: Seren
Release Date : 2016-04-29
Bilbao New York Bilbao written by Kirmen Uribe and has been published by Seren this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-29 with Fiction categories.
The day he knew he was going to die, Liborio Uribe took his young daughter in law to the Museum of Fine Arts to show her a picture. Liborio had spent his entire life at sea, like his son José, living out unforgettable adventures which would later fade into obscurity. Years after, faced by the same painting, Liborio's grandson Kirmen, a writer and poet, uses these family stories to write a novel. Bilbao–New York–Bilbao takes place during a flight to New York and tells the story of journeys by three generations of the same family. The key to the book is Liborio's fishing boat, the Dos Amigos: who are these two friends, and what is the nature of their friendship? Through letters, diaries, emails, poems and dictionaries, Kirmen creates a mosaic of memories and stories that combine to form a homage to a world that has almost disappeared, as well as a hymn to the continuity of life. It is also a reflection on the art of writing, and lies between life and fiction. "Uribe has succeeded in realizing what is surely an ambition for many writers: a book that combines family, romances and literature, anchored deeply in a spoken culture but also in bookishness – and all without a single note of self-congratulation." – TLS "The novel is set in an absolutely modern territory, the usual place of key writers of our time such as Emmanuel Carrere, WG Sebald, Orhan Pamuk and JM Coetzee." – Sudouest "This book is as beautiful as a memory." – Le Figaró "Uribe's literary proposal is entirely fresh and innovative. A novel of our time. This writer who comes from a 'small country' begins his journey through the field of universal literature, searching for transnational communication." – Mainichi Shimbun "A splendid novel, which the reader acknowledges like a hug." – El País "Beautiful. It has the rare quality of attending to tradition without sounding like folk, and being modern without rejecting those that were so before." – ABC "This ingenious and original historiographical novel tells the story of its own writing, as Uribe explores the history of his family and the Basque Country fishing community of which they have long been a part. Framed by the author's plane journey to the States, the web of digressions is mapped by ever-lengthening and constantly entwining cultural tendrils as the family diffuses around the world, led off by his father's trawler. The intersection between truth and storytelling is a particularly potent theme, contrasting the prosaic and the poetic, the pragmatic and the romantic. It's a view from the inside of the novel, looking out upon the reader in consideration of what might prove engaging, a metafictional conceit made engaging by the genial candour of Uribe, or at least his novelistic avatar, as he explores the process of researching and honing his book. Huge credit must go to Wales-based indie Seren Books for bringing this book to English-language readers; it's extraordinary that this winner of Spain's prestigious Premio Nacional de Literatura wasn't picked up by a major publisher." – Jonathan Ruppin, Foyles Best Fiction: 2014
To The Hebrides
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Author : Samuel Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Birlinn
Release Date : 2012-09-28
To The Hebrides written by Samuel Johnson and has been published by Birlinn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-28 with Travel categories.
Samuel Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and James Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides are widely regarded as among the best pieces of travel writing ever produced. Johnson and Boswell spent the autumn of 1773 touring Scotland as far west as the islands of Skye, Raasay, Coll, Mull, Ulva, Inchkenneth and Iona. Highly readable, often profound, and at times very funny, their accounts of the 'jaunt' are above all a valuable record of a society undergoing rapid change. In this pioneering new edition, Ronald Black brings together the two men's starkly contrasting accounts of each of the thirteen stages of the journey. He also restores to Boswell's text 20,000 words from his journal which were denied entry to his book because they were intimate, defamatory, or about the islands rather than Johnson. The endnotes incorporate Boswell's footnotes, translations of Latin passages, a clear summary of pre-existing information on the two texts, and a fresh focus on what the two men actually found on their trip. To the Hebrides also includes contemporary prints by Thomas Rowlandson, seventeen new maps and a comprehensive index.