Reforming New Zealand Secondary Education

The Picot Report and the Road to Radical Reform
2009. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-230-60626-5
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 211 mm, Gewicht: 399 g

Reihe: Secondary Education in a Changing World

This timely book argues that the New Zealand educational reforms were the product of longstanding unresolved educational issues that came to a head during the profound economic and cultural crisis of the 1970s and early 1980s.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Openshaw, R.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART I: TENSIONS AND CONTRADICTIONS To Suit a Political Purpose? Reinterpreting the Educational Reforms Almost Alone in the World PART II: CRISES AND SOLUTIONS Game War Only Major and System-wide Reforms Will Do The Best Kind of Accountability PART III: ELUSIVE CONSENSUS A Blank Page Approach A Long Way to go Before We Win the Battle Only Half a Policy Conclusion: A Real Say or a Morality Play?

Über Autor(innen)

ROGER OPENSHAW holds a Personal Chair in History of Education in the School of Educational Studies, Massey University College of Education, New Zealand.