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There is a whole ocean of error and a few islands of truth, and neither chart nor compass to go by. We build up the map by accumulating shipwrecks (Connell, 1983, p. 252). It was 1997, I was 37, sitting in my supervisor’s office, debriefing and quietly celebrating my successful completion of a Master of Education. At the time, I remember not quite believing I had achieved such a task, having been churned out of three different Catholic secondary schools by the age of 16, with much protest from my parents, and entering the workforce, when perhaps I should have been focusing on year 11?
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Brophy, M. (2012). Voyages. In: Ryan, M. (eds) Reflections on Learning, Life and Work. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-025-5_17
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