Tom Stanley Hepworth D.Ed. (29 June 1916 – 1 September 1985) was an Australian teacher, author and editor.

History

Hepworth was born in

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, Queensland to Tom Hepworth and his wife Martha May Hepworth, née Russell (1881–1966), of "The Palms", Park Road, South Brisbane. His father died when Tom was quite young; his mother married again, to William Robert McGregor (died 1948). He began his working life as a teacher at Colamba, near

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. By 1948 he was senior History and Economics master at

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and undertook further studies in education at

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, from where he graduated as Doctor of Education. In 1951 he was appointed Education Officer with the Commonwealth Office of Education. He was employed as editor by Educational Press, of Sydney, and was responsible for the '' Australian Children's Newspaper'' (1953– ) and ''The ABC Children's Hour Annual #1–#5'' (1956–58, 1960–61), and ''The Australian Children's Annual #6–#8'' (1963–65).

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was a frequent collaborator. In 1960 he established the Australian Reading Research Foundation to investigate and treat

dyslexia Dyslexia, also known until the 1960s as word blindness, is a disorder characterized by reading below the expected level for one's age. Different people are affected to different degrees. Problems may include difficulties in spelling words, r ...

. He died in

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Family

Hepworth married Edna Olive Wilton on 16 January 1941; they had at least one son.

Bibliography

*Hepworth, T. S. ''Castaways of the Monoboola: A story for boys'' (1948) *Hepworth, T. S. ''Religion and education in the Queensland social order: a history of the development of a system of public education in Queensland with special reference to the relationship between church and state throughout this development'' (1953) Thesis (D.Ed.), Graduate School of Education, Harvard University *Hepworth, T. S. ''Adventure of the Outcasts'' (1956) appeared in A.B.C. Children's Hour Annual'' #1, pp. 25–27 *Hepworth, T. S. ''Dyslexia: The Problem of Reading Retardation'' (1971)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hepworth, Tom Stanley 1916 births 1985 deaths Australian editors Australian children's writers Harvard Graduate School of Education alumni