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Geoff Moore taught in Cairnmartin Secondary School in Belfast until his appointment as Art and Craft teacher in the Young Offenders Centre in 1980. He moved to the H Blocks of the Maze and Long Kesh Prison in 1981 became Senior Teacher in the Young Offenders Centre Hydebank Wood in 1991 and was then Head of Education in Maghaberry Prison from 1997 until his retirement in 2011. Geoff has been on the Board of the Prison Arts Foundation since 1985 was Executive Director 2013-2014 and in 2019 was Director of Art.
Geoff Moore taught in Cairnmartin Secondary School in Belfast until his appointment as Art and Craft teacher in the Young Offenders Centre in 1980. He moved to the H Blocks of the Maze and Long Kesh Prison in 1981 became Senior Teacher in the Young Offenders Centre Hydebank Wood in 1991 and was then Head of Education in Maghaberry Prison from 1997 until his retirement in 2011. Geoff has been on the Board of the Prison Arts Foundation since 1985 was Executive Director 2013-2014 and in 2019 was Director of Art.
| Title: | And that is how they taught me about non-Euclidean geometry |
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| Description: | Geoff Moore Prison Education teacher in the H Blocks in the 1980s recalls supervising two students who were watching an Open University television programme on non-Euclidean geometery. He describes how the students took time out to explain it to him in an understandable way which made it perfectly clear a lesson he says will never forget. | Rights statement: | Rights owned or controlled by The Open University |
| Restrictions on use: | Contact the OU Archive prior to any re-use. Contact university-archive@open.ac.uk |
| Contributor: | Geoff Moore |
| Duration: | 00:02:28 |
| Master programe code and title: | Geoff Moore Interview |
| Master programme start time: | 00:12:31 |
| Master programme end time: | 00:16:15 |
| Master programme production number: | 091_O_01 |
| Available to public: | yes |
