Research Catalog

Title

• Reforming education : the New Zealand experience, 1984-1996 / Graham and Susan Butterworth.

Author

Butterworth, Graham, 1941-2016

Publication

Palmerston North, N.Z. : Dunmore Press, 1998.

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Additional Authors

• Butterworth, Susan.
• New Zealand. Ministry of Education.

Description

299 p. : ill., ports.; 21 cm.

Summary

The history of a major sectoral reform and its relationship to the wider government restructuring. It is based both on archival material and on interviews with many of the key figures of the period: Ministers, educators, public servants and sectoral representatives. The authors consider that the changes in education were as much a revolution from below as an imposition from above.

Subject

• Education > Political aspects > New Zealand
• Education and state > New Zealand
• Educational change > New Zealand

Note

• "An independent history commissioned by the Ministry of Education and produced with the assistance of the Historical Branch, Department of Internal Affairs."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-288) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Large prophets, slow returns -- Shaking the foundations : Russell Marshall as Minister of Education 1984-86 -- The origns of the reforms 1986-87 -- When all the lights turned green : Picot, Meade & Hawke 1987-88 -- Into the whirlwind : the Lange-Ballard period 1988-89 -- Creating a steady state system I : Phil Goff starts the process 1989-90 -- Creating a steady state system II : Dr Smith sees it through 1990-94 -- Seamless education : Lockwood Smith's vision 1991-96.

ISBN

• 0864693346 (pbk.)
• 08646933496 (invalid) : (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

42728211

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Harvard Library