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A school which wishes to do more than make an intelligent guess at how well it is preparing its pupils for their working lives, and the transition to work, may find many of the questions Carol...
| Year published: 1979 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Nairn, K., Higgins, J., & Sligo, J. (2012). Children of Rogernomics: A neoliberal generation leaves school. Otago University Press. Reviewed by Jennifer Tatebe
Kalantzis, M., & Cope,...
| Year published: 2013 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article The first year of teaching is a critical stage in a teacher's professional life. Many beginning teachers are employed in short-term positions, but we know very little about how employment status...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Modern industry needs literate workers. How literate? How can workers' literacy be improved? What can schools learn about necessary literacy and what they teach? Investigations with BHP workers help...
| Year published: 1994 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article As industry has restructured itself, become leaner and meaner, attitudes to work have changed. In the USA worried corporation heads have called for schools to teach children to be good workers. The...
| Year published: 1994 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Adults were interviewed to discover the mathematics they actually used in their everyday life and their workplaces. School mathematics is relatively unimportant but estimating, optimising, and using...
| Year published: 1994 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Are schools able to prepare children for the stresses of unemployment? This follow-up study of school leavers, seven years later, looks at the effects of finding yourself in an unsatisfactory job,...
| Year published: 1994 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Transition from school to work is pretty haphazard in Australia and New Zealand; in Japan it is highly organised. We have young people unemployed, exams of doubtful educational worth, and a...
| Year published: 1992 | 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 The comment that predicting the future is hazardous (as any gambler knows) has been made so often that it is trite. Yet there is a need to look at the possible social outcomes of particular policies...
| Year published: 1985 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article