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• Dr. Colin Francis Baker is a graduate of the Universities of: Sydney, Calgary and New England and of the Australian Joint Services Staff College. His 2010 doctoral dissertation is titled A Phenomenological Study of a Small School serving a remote Ab...More

  Dr. Colin Francis Baker is a graduate of the Universities of: Sydney, Calgary and New England and of the Australian Joint Services Staff College. His 2010 doctoral dissertation is titled A Phenomenological Study of a Small School serving a remote Aboriginal community. His research interests reflect a dual career in education and the military in Australia, Canada and Papua New Guinea, the military aspects of which concentrated on officer education and leadership development. He has been a college lecturer, and a college and university librarian. His teaching experience has been in remote or disadvantaged schools including extensive experience in remote community schools in Papua New Guinea. From 1999 to 2007 with his wife Sandra, he ran the highly successful Warrego small school which provided full service schooling and a negotiated curriculum for the Mungalawurru Aboriginal Community in Central Australia. More recently he has undertaken remedial roles as principal of Nangatjatjara and Elliott schools. He is currently involved as a consultant in a number of education related community development projects. Less

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