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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 This article focuses on the diagnostic interview used as part of the Numeracy Development Project to assess students’ mathematical knowledge and strategies. It looks at changes in the instructions to...
| Year published: 2002 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article This article reviews some aspects of the concept of ‘learning style’, and appraises some evidence concerning its measurement. Bruce McMillan argues that while there is a common-sense basis for...
| Year published: 2001 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Harvey McQueen reflects on the media’s lack of interest in good news in education, in light of the imminent election of four teachers to the Teachers Council. Looking at the bigger picture, he notes...
| Year published: 2002 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article The most powerful thing about the literature on future-oriented education is what it tells us about our orientation to the present. This article explores some of the key ideas of future...
| Year published: 2014 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article We can no longer predict knowledge needed for the future, which has significant implications for contemporary literacy programmes. In this article we argue that reconceptualising current...
| Year published: 2014 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Education in New Zealand (and indeed the world) is currently facing the greatest period of rapid change it has ever experienced. Challenges such as how to address chronic underachievement, what to do...
| Year published: 2014 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: 
set2014_2_003.pdf | Content type: Set article In the banking concept of education, knowledge is a gift bestowed by those who consider themselves knowledgeable upon those whom they consider to know nothing. Projecting an absolute ignorance...
| Year published: 1974 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article