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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812414603321

Titolo

Towards successful schooling / / edited by Hugh Lauder and Cathy Wylie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-136-46999-0

1-280-68627-8

9786613663214

1-136-47000-X

0-203-12857-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (253 p.)

Collana

Routledge library editions. Education ; ; v. 185

Altri autori (Persone)

LauderHugh <1948->

WylieCathy

Disciplina

370.19/0993

Soggetti

Education and state - New Zealand

Education - Social aspects - New Zealand

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in 1990 by Falmer Press.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

TOWARDS SUCCESSFUL SCHOOLING; Copyright; Towards Successful Schooling; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Glossary; Chapter 1 Citizens or Consumers? The Politics of Educational Reform: An Introduction; Chapter 2 Education and the Role of the State: Devolution and Control Post-Picot; Chapter 3 Education, Democracy and the Crisis of the Welfare State; Chapter 4 Power to the People? The Great Education Reform  Act and Tomorrow's Schools: A Critical and Comparative Perspective; Chapter 5 The Politics of Reforming Maori Education: The Transforming Potential of Kura Kaupapa Maori

Chapter 6 'I Just Wanna Decent Job', Working Class Girls' Education: Perspectives and Policy IssuesChapter 7 Notes on the Schooling of the English Working Class: What Lessons for New Zealand? A Comparative Briefing Paper; Chapter 8 The Politics of Curriculum Innovation; Chapter 9 Towards Pluralism and Democracy: The Administration of an Inner City School; Chapter 10 Public Examinations and the Structuring of Inequality: A Case Study; Chapter 11 Illiteracy, Improper Literacy and the Development of an Underclass; Chapter 12 Towards an Alternative



Transition Education Policy

Chapter 13 Trade Union Education and DemocracyChapter 14 Work and Education; Notes on Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The editors have compiled this critical and comparative study of changes which took place in the New Zealand education system in the second half of the twentieth century. For other Western societies who have felt the impact of New Right policies the New Zealand case is interesting because it provides some indication of how policies of decentralization in education might be used to develop egalitarian and democratic educational policies. In recent years there have been major changes to educational systems in the Western world. Often these changes have been justified by reference to su