Looking back from the centre : a snapshot of contemporary New Zealand education /
edited by Joanna Kidman & Ken Stevens.
- 287 p. : ill. 21 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface / Introduction / Sociology of Education -- Are we there yet? Sixty years of educational sociology and equality in Aotearoa/New Zealand / Parking in the margins: the sociology of education / He Pārakereke: Māori education and Pacific education / Education Policy -- Educational research and democratic debate: a reflection on the centre / Education: commodity or public good? Twenty years on / Gerald Grace & Martin Thrupp -- New Zealand's role in education in the Pacific / Understanding why radical policy reform takes time to embed: illustrations from policy on assessment / Early Childhood Education -- Teaching early childhood education at Victoria: policy, discipline and profession / Reframing some windows on early childhood education: an unlikely career / Rural Education -- An open learning matrix to sustain education in rural New Zealand / The introduction of a collaborative New Zealand model to sustain rural schools in Atlantic Canada / Human Development, Psychology and Education -- Diversity, development and educational psychology: keeping social justice on the agenda / Adolescent identity development: implications for teaching and counselling / A capital contribution: people, proclivities and programmes / Educational Matters: Teaching and Philosophies -- Reminiscences on peace education / Learning to read and a half-century of research / Mathematics after efficiency: an agenda for action / Afterword: contributions to scholarship in education from the School of Education / Dugald Scott -- Joanna Kidman & Ken Stevens -- Jane Gilbert -- Joanna KIdman -- Te Whānau o He Pārakereke -- Hugh Lauder -- James Irving -- Cedric Hall & James Irving -- Carmen Dailli & Anne Meade -- Helen May -- Ken Stevens -- Ken Stevens -- Lise Bird Claiborne -- Jane Kroger -- Lex McDonald -- Jim Collinge -- B. Brian Thompson -- Jim Neyland -- Joanna Kidman & Ken Stevens.