Sign-In
Cart
She Sehs She Wants To Be A Teacha
Paperback
Biographies GeneralImmigration & Refugees
ISBN13: 9781067659066
Publisher: Marcia M Publishing House
Published: Jun 26 2026
Pages: 236
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.59 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
From rural Manchester, Jamaica, to the classrooms and corridors of educational leadership in Britain, She Sehs She Wants To Be A Teacha is Elaine Foster-Allen's uplifting memoir of determination, migration and purpose.
Moving to the United Kingdom in 1968, Elaine pursued the ambition that had taken root in her childhood: to become a teacher. Her journey would lead her from the classroom to secondary headship and Her Majesty's Inspectorate, before she returned to Jamaica to serve as the country's first Chief Inspector of Education and as Permanent Secretary in three government ministries.
With warmth, humour and candour, Elaine recalls the people, experiences and challenges that shaped her life and career. Her story explores what it meant to build a professional life in Britain as a Black Jamaican woman while navigating low expectations, racial prejudice and the demands of an education system in need of change. At its heart is an enduring belief in the transformative power of teaching and in every child's capacity to learn, grow and succeed.
Both a personal account and a valuable testimony to the experiences of Caribbean educators in Britain, this memoir celebrates resilience, family, cultural heritage, educational leadership and service. Elaine's reflections offer encouragement to teachers, school leaders and anyone working to create opportunities for the next generation.
Funny, humane and deeply inspiring, She Sehs She Wants To Be A Teacha is the story of a woman who followed her calling-and whose commitment to education made a lasting difference in the lives of students, colleagues and communities across two countries.
Also in
Biographies General
Bluesland: Portraits of Thirteen Major American Blues Masters
Pete Welding (ED.)
Toby Byron (ED.)
Hardcover
Karl Popper - The Formative Years, 1902 1945: Politics and Philosophy in Interwar Vienna
Hacohen, Malachi Haim
Hardcover
Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
Trump, Mary L.
Hardcover
The Children of Athena: Greek Intellectuals in the Age of Rome: 150 Bc0-400 AD
Freeman, Charles
Hardcover
Make It a Double: From Wretched to Wondrous: Tales of One Woman's Lifelong Discovery of Whisky
Sackier, Shelley
Hardcover
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
Isaacson, Walter
Hardcover
Agents of Chaos: Thomas King Forçade, High Times, and the Paranoid End of the 1970s
Howe, Sean
Hardcover
An Enemy Such as This: Larry Casuse and the Fight for Native Liberation in One Family on Two Continents Over Three Centuries
Correia, David
Hardcover
Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
Cooper, Christian
Hardcover
Florence Kelley and the Nation's Work: The Rise of Womens Political Culture, 1830-1900
Sklar, Kathryn Kish
Paperback
The Secret Life of the Savoy: Glamour and Intrigue at the World's Most Famous Hotel
Williams, Olivia
Paperback
The Devil's Diary: Alfred Rosenberg and the Stolen Secrets of the Third Reich
Wittman, Robert K.
Kinney, David
Paperback
The Badger: The Life of Bernard Hinault and the Legacy of French Cycling
Fotheringham, William
Paperback
Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything
Ehrenreich, Barbara
Paperback
The Butcher, the Embezzler, and the Fall Guy: A Family Memoir of Scandal and Greed in the Meat Industry
Cherington, Gretchen
Paperback
My Own Devices: True Stories from the Road on Music, Science, and Senseless Love
Dessa Wander
Hardcover
Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
Giuffre, Virginia Roberts
Hardcover
How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay: Tips and Tricks That Kept Me Alive, Happy, and Creative in Spite of Myself
Lawson, Jenny
Hardcover
A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
Fedarko, Kevin
Paperback
Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young: A Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary Underground
Dohrn, Zayd Ayers
Hardcover
Catch the Devil: A True Story of Murder, Deception, and Injustice on the Gulf Coast
Colloff, Pamela
Hardcover