TY  - BOOK
AU  - Renwick,W.L.
TI  - Inside looking out: a memoir 
SN  - 9781738589265
U1  - 370.92 23
PY  - 2024///]
CY  - Paraparaumu Beach, [New Zealand]
PB  - Steele Roberts Aotearoa Publishers
KW  - Renwick, W. L.
KW  - Educators
KW  - New Zealand
KW  - Biography
KW  - Education
KW  - Government executives
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -