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Elwyn Richardson : and the early world of creative education in New Zealand / Margaret MacDonald.

By:

Macdonald, Margaret [author.]

Contributor(s):

New Zealand Council for Educational Research [issuing body.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Wellington, New Zealand : NZCER Press, New Zealand Council for Educational Research, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: xiii, 267 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781927231562
1927231566

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

371.10092 23

Contents:

1. Introduction -- 2. From milking shed to training college -- 3. A great stirring of the dry bones -- 4. Progressive influences on education in the 1920s and 1930s -- 5. The Emergency Education Scheme and the Art and Craft Branch -- 6. Oruaiti School and the study of the natural world -- 7. Art, science and the development of an environmental curriculum -- 8. A demcratic, child-centred education -- 9. Richardson and the educational establishment -- 10. An educational rebel and the end of an era -- 11. After Oruaiti -- 12. Relating educational history to the biography of an educator -- 13. Epilogue: Revisiting Oruaiti.

Summary: "From a one-roomed school in the remote Far North of New Zealand, Elwyn Richardson became a radical and internationally-renowned teacher. This is his story and it is as inspirational and timely for educators and policy makers as ever. This book explores the man and the influence of the innovative pedagogy he developed at Oruaiti School from 1949 to 1962. Central to his philosophy was his use of the natural environment to create an integrated programme of art and science"--Back cover.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"From a one-roomed school in the remote Far North of New Zealand, Elwyn Richardson became a radical and internationally-renowned teacher. This is his story and it is as inspirational and timely for educators and policy makers as ever. This book explores the man and the influence of the innovative pedagogy he developed at Oruaiti School from 1949 to 1962. Central to his philosophy was his use of the natural environment to create an integrated programme of art and science"--Back cover.

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