Inside looking out : a memoir / William Renwick
Material type: TextPublisher: Paraparaumu Beach, [New Zealand] : Steele Roberts Aotearoa Publishers, [2024]Copyright date: ©2024Description: 264 pages : illustrations, portraits, photographs ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781738589265
- 370.92 23
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | North Campus North Campus Main Collection | 370.92 REN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | A562478B |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction by Margery Renwick -- 1. First memories: Matakohe -- 2. A real house: Virginia Avenue -- 3. My state house years, and Seddon Tech -- 4. Part-time student, and teacher training -- 5. Getting started: my first year of teaching -- 6. Moving to Wellington: Muritai -- 7. Wellington Teachers' College: a golden age -- 8. Out of left field: The Commission o Education -- 9. Our year in London -- 10. Pipitea Street again, and Southland -- 11. An uncomfortable appointment -- 12. Departmental politicking -- 13. Running the show: director-general -- Afterword by Margery Renwick -- Conclusion by Cathy Wylie -- Appendices -- I. Looking back - by Etta Bryers Polley -- II. 'Plan into action' -- III. Correspondence as director-general, 1975-1983 -- IV. My job: welcome to it -- V. Bill's tribute to Alan Smith & Sonny Wilson -- VI. Submission on the Picot reforms -- VII. Curriculum vitae & bibliography -- VIII. Tributes at the celebration of Bill's life.
This is the story of Bill Renwick. It is a New Zealand story, of a small boy who spent his early years in poverty. Justice and equality were the compelling forces in his professional life, from the time he entered teaching as a young man, till his retirement as director-general of education.
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