Join educators from Alliance member schools for an enlightening presentation with journalist and author Madonna King
Madonna King is an award-winning journalist and author, who writes for Fairfax, including the Sydney Morning Herald and Age newspapers’ Good Weekend magazine.
The author of six books, including the biographies of Professor Ian Frazer and Joe Hockey.
Madonna will release her seventh book, titled Being 14, (released by Hachette on March 28). It captures the views of 200 14-year-old girls, along with teachers, principals, school counsellors, psychologists, parenting experts and police, and shows the importance of parental engagement in a teen girls’ life.
Madonna, who has spent 25 years working across TV, radio and newspapers, regularly visits girls’ schools to talk about leadership and decision-making.
More about Being 14
What do 14-year-old girls want and need us to know? That’s at the heart of a huge research project and book authored by award-winning author and journalist Madonna King. She’s interviewed 200 14-year-old girls from across Australia, and looked at the 22,000 contacts 14-year-old girls have had with Kids Helpline over the past 4 years. In Being 14, she let’s them tell their stories — the struggle with self image, and lure of the in-crowd, the angst they feel at the pressures at home, the confusion over competing with boys in debating and then waiting to be asked to dance. In Being 14, the girls tell us what they see as their challenges, and how we might help them. Madonna also talked to dozens of principals, teachers, school nurses, teen psychologists, parenting groups and police, in the hope that we can all work together to help our teens become awesome women.
Bookings close: 16 March
