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A place on my bookshelf, Helen Anderson
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…
Tagged with: Helen Anderson, Issue 119, Otago University Press, Spring 2017, Welby Ings
Posted in Education, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Education, Non-fiction, Review
State-of-the-education-nation, Elizabeth Crayford
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
Posted in Education, Non-fiction, Review
Waving or drowning, Brian Opie
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
Posted in Education, Non-fiction, Review
Call me “Sir”, Nicholas Reid
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
Posted in Biography, Education, Non-fiction, Review
Puppy-dogs’ tails, Anne Else
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
Posted in Education, Gender, Non-fiction, Review
Telling tales out of school, Harvey Molloy
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
Posted in Education, History, Non-fiction, Review
The operative words, Rae McGregor
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
Posted in Education, Non-fiction, Review
Hard lines, David Grant
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
Posted in Education, Non-fiction, Review
Risky business, Alison Kirkman
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
Posted in Education, Gender, Health, Non-fiction, Psychology, Review, Sociology
Rescue mission, Nicholas Reid
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
Posted in Education, Non-fiction, Review