I can't find any record of my introducing myself at this site after posting here for more than 8 months. So I will do so below. If I already have introduced myself, moderators are free to delete this post below.-Ron Price, Australia
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EMPLOYMENT-SOCIAL-ROLE POSITIONS: 1943-2015
2010-2015-Retired and on a pension in George Town, Tasmania
1999-2009-Writer & Author, Poet & Publisher, Editor & Researcher. Retired Teacher & Lecturer, Tutor & Adult
Educator, Taxi-Driver & Ice-Cream Salesman, George Town Tasmania Australia
2002-2005-Program Presenter City Park Radio Launceston
1999-2004-Tutor &/or President George Town School for Seniors Inc
--------------ABOVE THIS LINE ARE MY YEARS IN RETIREMENT-----------------------
1988-1999 -Lecturer in General Studies & Human Services West Australian Department of Training
1986-1987 -Acting Lecturer in Management Studies & Co-ordinator of Further Education Unit at Hedland College in
South Hedland WA
1982-1985 -Adult Educator Open College of Tafe Katherine NT
1981--------Maintenance Scheduler Renison Bell Zeehan Tasmania
1980--------Unemployed due to illness and recovery
1979--------Editor External Studies Unit Tasmanian CAE; Youth Worker Resource Centre Association; Lecturer in
Organizational Behaviour Tasmanian CAE; Radio Journalist ABC---all in Launceston Tasmania
1976-1978 -Lecturer in Social Sciences & Humanities Ballarat CAE Ballarat, Victoria
1975---------Lecturer in Behavioural Studies Whitehorse Technical College, Box Hill Victoria
1974---------Senior Tutor in Education Studies Tasmanian CAE Launceston, Tasmania
1972-1973---High School Teacher South Australian Education Dept.
1971----------Primary School Teacher Whyalla South Australia
----------------ABOVE THIS LINE ARE MY YEARS IN AUSTRALIA---- MY YEARS IN CANADA ARE BELOW---------
1969-1971----Primary School Teacher Prince Edward County Board of Education Picton Ontario Canada
1969----------Systems Analyst Bad Boy Co Ltd Toronto Ontario
1967-68------Community Teacher Department of Indian Affairs & Northern Development Frobisher Bay NWT
Canada
1959-67------Summer jobs-1 to 4 months each- from grade 10 to end of university
1949-1967---Attended 2 primary schools, 2 high schools and 2 universities in Canada: McMaster Uni-1963-1966,
Windsor Teachers’ College-1966/7
1944-1963---Childhood(1944-57) and adolescence(1957-63) in and around Hamilton Ontario
1943 to 1944-Conception in October 1943 to birth in July 1944 in Hamilton Ontario
2. SOME SOCIO-BIO-DATA TO 2014
B.A., B. Ed., and M.A.(Qual); partly completed: 4 Graduate Diplomas, 1 Advanced Diploma, and 1 Diploma, and 1 completed Certificate. I have been married twice for a total of 47 years. My second wife is a Tasmanian, aged 68. We’ve had one child: age 37. I have two step-children: ages: 48 and 43, three step-grandchildren, ages 21, 19 and 4, as well as one grandchild age 3. All of the above applies in December 2014. I am 70, am a Canadian who moved to Australia in 1971, and have written several books--all available on the internet.
I retired from full-time teaching in 1999, part-time teaching in 2003 and volunteer teaching/work in 2005 after 32 years in classrooms as a teacher, and another 18 as a student. In addition, I have been a member of the Baha’i Faith for 55 years(as of 2014). Bio-data: 6ft, 235 lbs, eyes-brown/hair-grey, Caucasian.
My website is found at:
http://www.ronpriceepoch.com/ You can also go to any search engine and type: Ron Price followed by any one of a number of words in addition to: poetry, forums, religion, literature, history, bipolar disorder, psychology, sociology, philosophy, inter alia, to access my writing________________________