Maureen Hartung
Maureen Patricia Hartung, OAM is an Australian educator and established the Blue Gum Community School in Canberra. In the 2016 Australia Day Honours, she was awarded Medal of the Order of Australia for service to education, and to the community of the Australian Capital Territory.[1]
Personal
Hartung is married to Greg Hartung and has two children - Catherine and Michael.[2]
Professional career
Hartung was a social science teacher at Dickson College from 1989–1990. [3]In 1997, she founded the Blue Gum Community School in Canberra and became its inaugural Executive Director, a position that she holds in 2019. The Blue Gum School has more than 200 students from playgroup to Year 10, the school is independent and based on the Reggio Emilia approach of child-centredness.[2] Hartung is a strong advocate for the independent school sector,[4] [5] and a critic of Commonwealth funding for independent schools.[6][7]
Hartung's voluntary and expert appointment positions including membership include: [3]
- Hackett Community Association - Member, Management Committee, 2003-2010
- ACT Teacher Quality Institute Professional Experience Committee - Member since 2011
- Association of Modern Education School - Chair, School Council Canberra for 3 years.
- ACROD (ACT) (now National Disability Services Ltd) - Member 1978-1989
- Reggio Emilia Australia Information Exchange National Committee - Former Member
References
- ↑ "Maureen Patricia Hartung". It's An Honour. Retrieved 17 October 2019. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 2.0 2.1 Macdonald, Emma (15 January 2016). "Australia Day Honours 2016: Blue Gum school founder Maureen Hartung happy to share her joy". Canberra Times. Retrieved 17 October 2019.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "MEDAL (OAM) OF THE ORDER OF AUSTRALIA IN THE GENERAL DIVISION" (PDF). Governor -General of Australia - Wayback Machine January 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 17 October 2019. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Yaman, Ebru. "Schools funding 'flawed'". The Australian. 28 August 2001: 6.
- ↑ Baker, Emily (13 May 2017). "Education Fairness of needs basis questioned School funding model confusion continues". Canberra Times: 16.
- ↑ Sherlock, Emily (24 June 2007). "School calls for fairer funding; System needs a shake-up". The Canberra Times. p. 7. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Jackson, Catriona (13 Mar 2002). "New voice as private school cracks appear". The Canberra Times. p. 1. Unknown parameter
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