Ward, Geoff

Geoff Ward was a primary school teacher and deputy principal in New Zealand for nine years and had two years as a Visiting Researcher at the University of Auckland before moving to Australia. He taught graduate programs in Reading Education and Primary language Arts for four years at Adelaide CAE, and then moved to James Cook University in Townsville, where he is a Senior lecturer in the Department of language and Arts Studies in Education. He is the Secretary of the Australian Reading Association, author of Reasons to Read, and has presented papers at many conferences in Australia and oversea...