Professional

The Institute

Author: Reynold Macpherson

Published: 2015

The IRSEA collaborated with the Institute of Senior Educational Administrators (ISEA) to produce a definitive history of  ISEA.

ISEA was the registered union for the most senior non-school based position in the NSW public education service. It also fulfilled a crucial role in the professional learning and collegial support of its members. 

While ISEA and IRSEA are separate organisations – one a union and the other a community of interest – in the past, there has been a ‘natural’ progression of many members from the ISEA into the IRSEA (under its previous names) as they retired.

The Institute is a definitive history, embedded in a sociological and political examination of ISEA and the power it exerted in NSW public education over more than 100 years.

Sydney and the Bush A Pictorial History of Education in New South Wales

Authors:  Jan Burnswoods and Jim Fletcher

Published: 1980

This pictorial history was published by the Department of Education to commemorate the centenary of the New South Wales Department of Education of pblic education 

I remember when – collected memories celebrating the work of inspectors of schools in NSW.

Editor: Laurie Craddock

Published: c2005

This book, lodged at the National Library of Australia, was developed from writings by ex-inspectors of schools in NSW. It was published by the Association of Retired Inspectors of Schools and Senior Educational Administrators, a previous name of IRSEA.