Bøker av Bill Green

Childhood for Bill Green was a nightmare. Dumped by his parents when four years of age, he was farmed out to five different foster homes. Never knowing where his next meal was coming from, and homeless at age seventeen, he joined the Royal Navy. Through self-discipline, mental toughness, and hard work, he transformed himself from a seventeen-year-old boy with no future, into a British Royal Navy submariner."SILENT AND INVISIBLE" is a true story of Bill's life in submarines at the height of the Cold war. Still in his teens, he did his first patrol in a WW2 diesel/electric submarine, spending weeks below the icy waters of the North Atlantic and Arctic oceans secretly gathering information on the Soviet fleet. The resulting game of cat and mouse had the advantage shifting from one adversary to the other, creating an impasse which could keep the war going indefinitely.During the years of the Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation, (1962 -1966) Bill spent weeks patrolling the South China Seas in search of Guerrilla forces running arms to mainland Malaya.As a ship's diver, he was engaged in clearing ships in Singapore Harbour of limpet mines, whilst helping to clear unexploded WW2 bombs from the Johor Straits.In 1970, he was part of a team, from the Submarine Escape Training Tank in HMS Dolphin, to set a world record (600 feet) for escaping from a submarine.After a third near-death experience whilst escaping from a submarine on a routine exercise, he finally decided he had pushed his luck far enough. In this poignant memoir, Bill shares unforgettable fragments of both his personal and submarine life, whilst giving a harrowing glimpse of what it was like to serve in submarines of the Royal Navy amidst the clamour of the Cold War. Chased, harassed, and depth-charged, "SILENT AND INVISIBLE" captures the life and times of those eventful years.

This book provides a broad introduction to the critical work of leading Australian educator Garth Boomer, widely recognised as a significant figure in English teaching. This insightful text provides an accessible introduction to his work, with particular reference to English curriculum and pedagogy, and provides a fascinating account of his journey as a scholar-practitioner, from classroom teaching to the highest levels of the educational bureaucracy.Bill Green explores Boomer's huge influence on literacy education, teacher development, curriculum inquiry, and educational policy, and critically asks why Boomer's insights and arguments about English teaching from the last century have such importance for the field now. This text also focuses on the nature and significance of his curriculum thinking, specifically his arguments and provocations regarding English teaching, the English classroom, and the contexts that infuse and shape them. It constitutes a rich resource for rethinking English teaching in the present day and provides an important contribution to the historical imagination.With all due consideration of the larger context of social life and educational thought, this text will help any student of English in Education and Language Arts obtain a deeper understanding of Boomer's vital contribution to the field of education.

This volume focuses on the relationship between student experience and media culture. This book uses research funded by the Australian Research Council to examine whether students today differ from previous generations.