Title: The one best system : a revisionist history of state schooling in New Zealand /
Authors: Shuker, Roy
Publisher: Dunmore Press,
Year: 1987
Subjects: Education New Zealand History
Contents: 1. History, social theory and revisionism -- 2. Society, equality and education, 1877-1985 -- 3. Youth and moral panics: larrikins, delinquents and truants -- 4. The patriot game: education for citizenship -- 5. Schooling, credentialism and the labour market -- 6. Selecting and organising knowledge: curriculum conservatism -- 7. From Terman to TOSCA : IQ and the meritocracy -- 8. Maori education -- 9. Gender and education: schooling for seplarate spheres -- 10. The state and secularism: religion and schooling -- 11. The blackblocks and urban education -- Conclusion: Who benefits?