Research Catalog

Title

Education and society in Aotearoa New Zealand : an introduction to the social and policy contexts of schooling and education / Paul Adams ... [et al.].

Publication

Palmerston North, N.Z. : Dunmore Press, 2000.

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Additional Authors

• Adams, Paul, 1957 January 13-
• Adams, Paul.

Description

326 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

Why do some children fail at school while others succeed? What role do gender and ethnicity play in education? Can teachers really make a difference? Who should decide what is in the curriculum? Why do we have exams? Beginning with a broad introduction to the nature of society, and what schools are for, this timely book goes on to consider the hidden, and not so hidden, structures and processes of education. After examining various ongoing struggles over curriculum, credentialling and administration, it concludes by analysing a range of theories which purport to explain differences in education achievement.

Alternative Title

Education & society in Aotearoa New Zealand

Subject

• Education > Social aspects > New Zealand
• Education and state > New Zealand
• Multicultural education > New Zealand

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-320) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Section one : introduction to society -- 1. Competing visions of society -- 2. Inequality and social stratification in society -- 3. Introduction to gender -- 4. Introduction to ethnicity -- Section two : structures and processes in education -- 5. Aims and functions of education -- 6. The struggle for administrative control -- 7. The struggle for curriculum control -- 8. Getting qualified for the knowledge based society -- Section three : differential outcomes in education -- 9. Biological explanations -- 10. School explanations -- 11. Family explanations -- 12. Social and political explanations.

ISBN

086469380X

LCCN

^^^00341168^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library