About - The mythopoetic classroom

I’m a retired teacher, academic and writer, spending most of my retired life gardening, walking, cooking, visiting family, but also thinking and writing about my time in the classroom.

On this site I’ve collected writing done both before and after retirement, both fiction and non-fiction.

I’d be delighted if you had a browse around.

I’d be even more delighted if you wanted to comment on anything, and/or if you wanted to receive notifications whenever a new post or book chapter (including audio) was posted.

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If you’d like to sample some of my writing before subscribing, here are a few tasters.

A blog post A hot afternoon in a 1971 classroom
A short story A Poetry Lesson
A chapter (with audio) from my novel The Worlds of Harriet Henderson

A bit about me

A favourite photo with my son Solomon. Now that we’re much older, neither of us looks like this. :-)

I live in Canberra Australia, with my wife Jo and our dog Clancy.

I have four grown children and four grandchildren. They are all, of course, extraordinary.

I taught primary, secondary (English) and tertiary (teacher education), and also trained and worked as a psychotherapist, mainly with the young.

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Reflections and published writings from 50 years as a teacher on the nature of the mythopoetic classroom.

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Steve Shann

@steveshann

A retired introvert happily pottering in the garden or messing up the kitchen, thinking back to a lifetime as a teacher in various classrooms: primary, secondary and tertiary.