Garth Boomer

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.

Boomer's works include:

• Designs on learning : essays on curriculum and teaching, with Bill Green (ISBN 1-875864-31-8)
• Changing education : reflections on national issues in education in Australia (ISBN 0-642-10066-7)
• Creativity in education : making things (ISBN 0-9593339-2-4)
• Fair Dinkum Teaching and Learning: Reflections on Literacy and Power (ISBN 0-86709-139-8)
• Metaphors and meanings : essays on English teaching, with Bill Green (ISBN 0-909955-82-4)
• Negotiating the curriculum : a teacher-student partnership (ISBN 0-86896-166-3)
• Negotiating the curriculum : educating for the 21st century, with Garth Lester, Nancy Onore, Cynthia Cook, Jonathan (ISBN 1-85000-931-7)
• Orange moon, with Peter W McFarlane (ISBN 0-7270-0032-2)
• The endless circle, with Morris Hood (ISBN 0-582-68061-1)
• The runaway sun, with Morris Hood (ISBN 0-582-68057-3)
• The spitting image, with Dale Spender (ISBN 0-7270-0162-0)
• Themes and images : a series of photographic stimuli for talking and writing (ISBN 0-909773-20-3)