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A place on my bookshelf, Helen Anderson

Posted on September 10, 2017 by NZ Books

Disobedient Teaching: Surviving and Creating Change in Education
Welby Ings
Otago University Press, $35.00,
ISBN 9781927322666

One of the marvellous inventions found in my favourite libraries is the software that locates the book you are looking for and shows you the other books sitting on either side on the shelf. The notion of every book having its companions is a compelling one for the reader who enjoys building a “string” of connected and related books. Welby Ings’s Disobedient Teaching certainly caught my attention with its provocative title, and I was promptly on a hunt for books that were in its lineage.

Tagged with: Helen Anderson, Issue 119, Otago University Press, Spring 2017, Welby Ings
Posted in Education, Non-fiction, Review

State-of-the-education-nation, Elizabeth Crayford

Posted on March 13, 2016 by NZ Books

The Rhetoric and the Reality: New Zealand Schools and Schooling in the 21st Century David Hood Fraser Books, $39.50, ISBN 9780992247638 David Hood has written a thorough, detailed and impassioned plea for major changes to our education system. He calls…

Tagged with: Autumn 2016, David Hood, Elizabeth Crayford, Fraser Books, Issue 113
Posted in Education, Non-fiction, Review

Waving or drowning, Brian Opie

Posted on March 1, 2006 by NZ Books

Catching the Knowledge Wave? The Knowledge Society and the Future of Education Jane Gilbert NZCER Press, $36.00, ISBN 1877398047 A deep anxiety lies at the centre of policy and planning in New Zealand which the title of Jane Gilbert’s important…

Tagged with: Autumn 2006, Brian Opie, Issue 73, Jane Gilbert, NZCER Press
Posted in Education, Non-fiction, Review

Call me “Sir”, Nicholas Reid

Posted on March 1, 2006 by NZ Books

Henry Cooper of Auckland Grammar School Andrew Mason David Ling Publishing (in association with Auckland Grammar School Old Boys’ Association), $49.95, ISBN 1877378038 Personal confession and declaration of interest. I began my 25 years as a secondary-school teacher with a…

Tagged with: Andrew Mason, Autumn 2006, David Ling Publishing, Henry Cooper, Issue 73
Posted in Biography, Education, Non-fiction, Review

Puppy-dogs’ tails, Anne Else

Posted on March 1, 2006 by NZ Books

He’ll Be OK: Growing Gorgeous Boys into Good Men Celia Lashlie HarperCollins, $35.00, ISBN 156950528X Like cooped-up teenage boys, three stories jostle and elbow each other inside this book. Though the biggest wins, it gets badly knocked about in the…

Tagged with: Anne Else, Autumn 2006, Celia Lashlie, HarperCollins, Issue 73
Posted in Education, Gender, Non-fiction, Review

Telling tales out of school, Harvey Molloy

Posted on June 1, 2005 by NZ Books

Those Who Can Teach: A History of Secondary Education in New Zealand from the Union Perspective David Grant Steele Roberts, $39.95, ISBN 1877338214 Welcome to the Campus of Struggle: Dispatches from the International Student Academic Front 1999-2004 David Cohen Dunmore…

Tagged with: David Cohen, David Grant, Dunmore Press, Dunmore Publishing, Harvey Molloy, Issue 68, June 2005, Steele Roberts
Posted in Education, History, Non-fiction, Review

The operative words, Rae McGregor

Posted on March 1, 2005 by NZ Books

Writing at the Edge of the Universe ed Mark Williams Canterbury University Press, $34.95, ISBN 1877257311 I wonder if Patrick Evans realised, when he wrote that salty article about students from Bill Manhire’s Victoria University creative writing programme (New Zealand…

Tagged with: Autumn 2005, Canterbury University Press, Issue 69, Mark Williams, Rae McGregor
Posted in Education, Non-fiction, Review

Hard lines, David Grant

Posted on June 1, 2002 by NZ Books

The Crisis in New Zealand Schools Martin Hames Education Forum in Association with Dunmore Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864694105 My initial reaction was that The Crisis in New Zealand schools would be redolent with jargon and full of half-truths and misinformation…

Tagged with: David Grant, Dunmore Press, Dunmore Publishing, Education Forum, Issue 58, Martin Hames, Winter 2002
Posted in Education, Non-fiction, Review

Risky business, Alison Kirkman

Posted on October 1, 2001 by NZ Books

Whistle Blower: Abuse of Power in the Church: A New Zealand Story Louise Deans Tandem Press, $24.95, ISBN 1877178780 How dangerous men think and how to stay safe for life Brent Sanders Random House Australia, $24.95, ISBN 0091842093 Touchy Subject:…

Tagged with: Alison Jones, Alison Kirkman, Brent Sanders, Issue 50, Louise Deans, October 2001, Otago University Press, Random House Australia, Tandem Press
Posted in Education, Gender, Health, Non-fiction, Psychology, Review, Sociology

Rescue mission, Nicholas Reid

Posted on September 1, 2001 by NZ Books

A Fair and Just Solution – a History of the Integration of Private Schools in New Zealand Rory Sweetman Dunmore Press, $34.95, ISBN 0864694148 Once upon a time there were, theoretically, two school systems in New Zealand. There were state…

Tagged with: Dunmore Press, Dunmore Publishing, Issue 55, Nicholas Reid, Rory Sweetman, Spring 2001
Posted in Education, Non-fiction, Review