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How can education help to break down unnecessary sex-stereotyping of school subjects? The issue was much discussed in the 70s. The 'Catch 22' situation in the diagram was common and it was realised...
| Year published: 1983 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
How long should a young person continue at school? Should they remain and risk educational failure or should they leave and risk unemployment? Every year in New Zealand thousands of young people face...
| Year published: 1983 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The development of the educational system has been checked or deflected from time to time as the result of crises in the country's economy. What parts of the system were especially affected and to...
| Year published: 1983 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
What is work experience for? The main goal may be to make students more employable, or it may be to teach students about the community in which they live. It may be to help students to become more...
| Year published: 1983 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This year marks the centenary of the birth of Dr C.E. Beeby in 1902. Dr McDonald explores some themes from his life and career and relates his reform of education in New Zealand to aspects of her own...
| Year published: 2002 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: set2002_2_025.pdf | Content type: Set article
Issues of grouping and streaming are still hotly debated by teachers and administrators. Many are moved to turn to the research workers, and ask the simple question - Should we stream our children...
| Year published: 1984 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The assertion above was made, not in 1976, but over 40 years ago, in a review of the research on ability grouping published in 1932. Are we any further ahead today? Issues of grouping and streaming...
| Year published: 1976 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: set1976_2_014.pdf | Content type: Set article
Secondary schools can be organized in a variety of ways. A whanau organization subdivides a large school into largely self-contained units or whanaus to gain the social advantages of a small school...
| Year published: 1985 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The story I have to tell is not a particularly cheerful one. Discrimination on grounds of ethnic origin - racial discrimination - is widespread. The evidence for it is well established by research,...
| Year published: 1987 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This article sets out to ask questions about the desire for dialogue across cultural groups – a desire which is strongly held by many Pakeha in education. Pakeha educationist Alison Jones, drawing on...
| Year published: 2001 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article