Mr John Butler CGeog

Biography

John Butler OAM has been a teacher and enthusiast of Geography all of his life. He has also been an adviser, a state-wide consultant, an author, an examiner, a curriculum developer and a school administrator. He has taught secondary school students in both government and private schools, and having retired after 40 years, now teaches future teachers of Geography at Flinders University. He has received numerous awards including a medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for his services to education. He has written or contributed to 40 books, mostly for secondary geography. In recent years he has been the lead writer of the primary section of the website GeogSpace, and co-author of Teaching Primary Geography for Australian Schools.