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Mature Airline Intruder Syndrome Studies: the travels of the  O’Briens    1992-2001     

  PUBLISHING CATALOGUE  3

Trip One:  OE on again  Global Student Teaching;  TRCC and ISTE similarities at Armidale in 1992.

Trip Two:   Great arcs of the nineties  Tereora Boarding School 1893 -1911; Immediate arcs; Into the care of Lufthansa;  Frankfurt spring; Intensive MAIS observations;  Lap top computers;  Southwards.

Trip Three:  Row one to Congesscentrum Rolduc  Seminar themes;  Papers;  Cultural affairs;  Future seminars;  The travel component;  Southern England;  Northern Ireland and Scotland;  Hongkong again.

Trip Four:  Wel        o Limb    Plastic bags and cards;  Buddha’s birthday;  “Nam Der!”  Rounding the top mark;  Cameroon;  Recovery mode?  Coming round the mountain;  The fifteenth seminar;  More on the fringe;  Market forces.

Trip Five:  The seminar of the thirteen Marias  Precautionary moves;  Vamos,senhor?Gramado, faz favor.  Transitions;  Cultural selectivity;  Not the good food guide;  The guiding hand and gasometers;  No takers;  A late night show;  An afternoon in Patagonia.

Trip Six: Global Student Teaching pow-wow, Morris, 1996   Diary 9-22 November.

Trip Seven:  More promotional duties, September 1998 Diary 9 - 28 October.

Trip Eight:  Among the feds at Morris, October 2001  Notes 8 - 21 October

Flitting About: the travels of the retired O’Briens  1997-99                                                       Bob O’Brien

Trip One:  Midwest Driving   Prologue in Duluth;  Hey Ho for Brock and ISTE;  A smooth operation; West to find Rosemary: Bloomington IL and the Churukians;  Morris, Edina and Fridley;  Across the Prairies to Edmonton and the Rockies;  The northern angle of Polynesia; The Antipodean end.

Trip Two:  Sinbob amid dates, proteas and baboons  Airport design and development:  Melbourne forty years on;  Oman - land of glorious renaissance;  Mooching about in Muscat;  Delays, diversions and cold turkey;  Johannesburg airport - take one;  Transvaalers all at high speed;  Spot the game;  JHB - takes two, three and four;  Trekking home.

Trip Three:  A 1999 spin  Change at Changi;  Oman at Eid;  Salalah and the Jebel;  Home from the Haj;  Time out with KLM;  Irish B & Bs and fry-ups;  Genealogical glitches;  The not so wild west;  Surrey and Kent revisited;   ISTE nineteen;  Crossing the Atlantic;  More families;  Abraham Lincoln country Mk II,  Oahu and The Bus.

New Century Forays : more travels of the aging O’Briens  2000-06                                   Bob O’Brien

Trip One:  Wat. No more elephants: Kissocks and O’Briens in Thailand 2000  Chiefly tour;  Boat buying;  Terminal hesitancy.

Trip Two:   Y’All friends here, man: the 20th ISTE at Annapolis The twentieth ISTE at Annapolis:  Crossing the continent by the central route;  Loews in West Street;  Re-unions, re-unions;  The Maryland legislature and other light entertainment;  Obeisance to the mighty;  Winding up;  An Annapolis Easter;  Beyond the marble facade;  A night out?  To the Governor’s Inn;  Rebounding to high art;  South generally;  Countryclubs, mowing and night touring;  Subtropical forest to desert;  Taco and pecan country;  Busing in the South-West;  Illegals and Hispanics;  Shuttling. 

Trip Three:  Oil, Sand, Tents and Stratification:  ISTE at Kuwait, 2001  Subterranean ripples;  Double dipping;  Dawn in Kuwait;  The Plaza telephone system;  Dinars in the purse;  A pre-dawn chorus;  What a whanau;  Criss-crossing;   250 fils worth on bus 105;  School’s out;  Hullo, testing...inshin Allah;  Co-ed kindergarten,  The sponsor’s turn;  An ISTE milestone;  The cool resort;  Koc Al-Ahmadi;  A second Friday with Ahmed and Raiz;  Checking in and waiting about. 

Trip Four:  Circling the squares: Oman, Denmark, Scotland, Eurasia, May 2002  Intourist buddy; Tiananmen Square skirted;  Peking Duck and pigheadedness;  Plans and amendments;  Long range research;  Why not Trans-Sib?  Upgrades and silver linings;  Another Thai storm;  Milling teenagers and lost bag at Al Seeb;  Cooling it;  Another European spring;  Kosovars and Byeloruski;  Fine fare all round;  Buskers, protesters, hangers about;  Biographies galore; Slipping and sliding;  Fife favourites;  The hunt is on;  Nothing daunted;  Lacking Gyle;  Hop-scotch to Sheremetyevo;  Galina, Mikael and Elena;  Metro, Lubyanka and Novvy Arblat;  Taiga country;  How it was;  Beyond the Urals;  Border crossing - 1960 re-lived;  Ever better days;  Crossing personal borders, too;  A milling throng;  Ducks and drakes in Beijing;  Other researchers at every turn;  Notes.

Trips five and six: Hongkong and Minneapolis

Trip seven: Occasional immobility in Tapei, 2005 Hip-hop then hip op;  GST and ISTE at Minneapolis;  China again?  The man who never was?  D-i-Y tourism again;  Talking not walking;

Trip eight: Travels and travails; round the world again in 2006  Diary entries 20 April-16 May

Going Beyond the Gate: Bob’s diary 1960                                                                              

Executive Summary?   1: Chilling Out at ” Elmhurst” Crouch End; Inner London transport; South-east England;    2: Glendale Grammar and Lordship Lane Secondary Modern;  Europe 1960  3:  Primavera in Southern Europe ; Riviera and Alps;  Adriatic;  USSR ;  4:  Through the Iron Curtain and Beyond;  Russia; Finland; Scandinavia; Central Europe;  5: Cultural Surfeit?  6:  Eastwards on “Oriana”        Appendix 

Country girl, voyaging, City gal  1959-60                                                                                        

Introduction       1   World Tour  1959-60  2   The team arrival in England      3   The International Hockey Tournament        4   London, May 1959 - December 1960        5   Continental trip with Pat Stallard  6   London life        7   My last year in Britain

Bobby, Oscar, Obrien: 1934 - 1965  

Introduction:  A New Zealander  1   Little Bobby  2   Making advances         3  New learning  1964 Diary   4   Kerry arrives       5   Saturdays at Avarua   6   Hurricane season?  1965 Diary        7   New, new, new               8  Bosses and constitution     9  Self government for the Cook Islands

Seamless but frayed: reports on educational reforms 1974 - 2007                                     Bob O’Brien

1 NEW ZEALAND’S TEACHERS REFRESHER COURSES

 2          EDUCATING THE NEW ZEALAND MAORI    3     PARTNERSHIPS IN EDUCATION AMONG SMALL PACIFIC ISLAND STATES                       4   BEGINNING TEACHERS IN A CHANGING EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT     5   MIGRATION PATTERNS AND TEACHER READINESS TO RESPOND:   the New Zealand experience 1840 - l996      6   A TEACHER TRAINEE  ASSESSMENT TRIAL: Wellington College of Education 1991 - 97  7   HOW HAS NEW ZEALAND EDUCATION IN THE NINETIES SERVED MAORI?  8    HUBBLE, BUBBLE: Teacher Education   1988 – 1999   9 TEACHERS’ REFRESHER COURSES IN A DECADE OF REFORM:  In-service training   1989 ~ 2000    10      MONITORING CHILDREN’S LEARNING  in Primary Schools : 1993-2001    11    AFTER-SHOCKS IN NEW ZEALAND SCHOOLS: an assessment of Year Two teachers  12   ENHANCING THE PROFESSIONAL STATUS OF TEACHERS : Identifying competent teachers   13          UNESCO RECOMMENDATIONS TO MEMBER STATES  IN 1974:   Civic and International Education provisions               14    GLOBAL STUDENT TEACHING IN NEW ZEALAND:  1985 – 2006            15        IMPROVING PERSONAL COMMUNICATION

Two Funnels, Four Screws: 1950 - 1959                                                                                     

                                                                              Warwick Thomson

Introduction    1  Prologue  2  ‘Where to guv?’   3  Living rough  4  Inside leg and other dimensions  5  Little Napoleon  6  ‘Daisy chains’ and Skiffle  7  ‘Don’t you blokes know the routine?’  8  The Stowaway  9  ‘Don’t do the cutting in. . .’  10  Mostly Las Palmas  11  There’s no such thing  12  The hire suit  13  Mistaken identity and a beating  14  Bridge boy  15  Bucking the system – again  16  New Year in Grimsby, 1951  17  Ladder to the sky  18  Captains  19  Passengers – quick and dead  20  Wellington days  Epilogue

Biking the B Road: and other pursuits  1985- 87                                                                                

                                                                              Kerry O’Brien

Preface  1     PICCADILLY BARMAID   2    SURREY JOB SEARCH    3     BIKE REFINEMENTS               4    MARKS AND SPARKS    5  LATE AUTUMN APPRAISALS   6   DECEMBER SALES AND KNEES-UPS   7            “KERRY THE NANNY”    8   SPRINGING OUT    9    SUNNY COASTAL VIEWS   10  CLIFFS, PEBBLED BEACHES, MIST   11   WELSH AND IRISH ALLSORTS    12     BLUEBELLS AND HEATHER  13      CHILLING OUT IN SCOTLAND AND AUSTRIA     14      OUTWARD BOUND AT LOCH EIL       15      INTER-RAIL - NO PEDALLING     16     ALLEZ PARIS!

Bob O’Brien

Bob O’Brien

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