In Search of the Virtual Class John Tiffin and Lalita Rajasingham Routledge, $54.95, ISBN 0415124832 Of all parts of our society education has been said to have undergone the least change over the past 100 years. A farmer from last…
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Not a useful guiding light, Neil James
Tagged with: Issue 20, John Tiffin, Lalita Rajasingham, Neil James, Routledge, Summer 1995
Posted in Education, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Education, Non-fiction, Review
Barbarians at the gate? Penny Fenwick
A Shakeup Anyway ‑ Government and the Universities in New Zealand in a Decade of Reform Ruth Butterworth and Nicholas Tarling Auckland University Press, $34.95 Universities are amongst the most enduring of all social institutions ‑ a state of affairs…
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Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 16, Nicholas Tarling, Penny Fenwick, Ruth Butterworth, Summer 1994
Posted in Education, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Education, Non-fiction, Review
Jim Collinge: View from the front window
Education is Change: Twenty Viewpoints Harvey McQueen (ed.) Bridget Williams Books, $34.95 Over the past few months large numbers of Swedish bureaucrats, politicians and educators have been visiting us to observe our education system as it works through the massive…
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Tagged with: Bridget Williams Books, Harvey McQueen, Issue 13, Jim Collinge, Winter I 1994
Posted in Education, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Education, Non-fiction, Review
An important piece of social history, Ruth Fry
Redbrick and Bluestockings: Women at Victoria 1899-1993 Beryl Hughes and Sheila Ahern, Victoria University Press, $29.95 This is not a book for dipping into in order to check whether the achievements of one’s aunt at university are properly recorded. It…
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Tagged with: Beryl Hughes, Issue 10, Ruth Fry, Sheila Ahern, Spring 1993, Victoria University Press
Posted in Education, Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Education, Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review
What’s wrong with the new right? Alison Glenny
Superwoman where are you? Social Policy and Women’s Experience Celia Briar, Robyn Munford, Mary Nash (eds), Dunmore Press, 1992, $39.95 Women and Education in Aotearoa II Sue Middleton and Alison Jones (eds), Bridget Williams Books, 1992, $34.95 The sweeping changes currently…
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Tagged with: Alison Glenny, Alison Jones, Bridget Williams Books, Celia Briar, Issue 6, Mary Nash, Robyn Munford, Spring 1992, Sue Middleton
Posted in Education, Gender, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review, Sociology
Posted in Education, Gender, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review, Sociology
Reassuring handbooks, Marie Bell
What Makes a Good School? G P Books, Wellington, 1990, $12.95 Your Toddler Mary Stevenson and David Geddis, G P Books, Wellington, 1990, $12.95 What Makes a Good School? is timely. It aims to help parents, particularly those on boards of…
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Tagged with: G P Books, Issue 3, Mary Stevenson and David Geddis, Spring 1991
Posted in Education, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Education, Non-fiction, Review