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Most high schools 'bend the rules' for some pupils. The obvious results are good: less truancy, less bad behaviour, even more work. But there are bad effects: rules set aside, 'make-...
| Year published: 1991 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
A Planning Council economist sees market forces, plus education, as the only route to well paid, sustainable, full employment. Professor Snook says the figures don't back up the dogma...
| Year published: 1990 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Adolescents delight in 'Low Culture' Films such as Police Academy. They may be the sort of films adults carefully avoid but they are full of lessons and are ideal teaching material.
| Year published: 1990 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Five years ago 88 percent of students in an average high school thought there would be a devastating war in their lifetimes. How have perceptions changed? A follow-up study.
| Year published: 1990 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Teenagers have a lot to say for themselves but are not always heard. During 1987, I set out to find out how teenagers see their lives - what they worry about, what they like, what annoys them and...
| Year published: 1988 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Young people's judgements about social and ethical issues are influenced by developmental factors, by the demands of the context, by processing demands, and by the type of adult support that is...
| Year published: 1988 | 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
Teachers cannot continue to be efficient in the classroom unless parents -and society -take a much firmer hand in training children in morals, ethics and good manners.
| Year published: 1975 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The Parker Brothers' 1971 game of "Careers" may be light-hearted but the career decisions faced by young people leaving school today are no game. Those decisions are considered more...
| Year published: 2006 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
'Who are you?' said the caterpillar. Alice replied rather shyly, 'I -- 1 hardly know, sir, just at present -- at least 1 know who 1 was when 1 got up this morning, but 1 must have changed several...
| Year published: 1983 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article