Reforming New Zealand secondary education
Subtitle: the Picot Report and the road to radical reform
By: Roger Openshaw
Contributors: Palgrave Connect (Online service)
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Secondary education in a changing world
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780230100701
Subjects: Secondary Education; Educational change; Education and state
Description: During the late 1980s, the report Administering for Excellence (the Picot Report), and the Labour Government's definitive policy response, Tomorrow's Schools, ushered in a new era in New Zealand. In what was seen as a decisive stroke, New Zealand's 110 year old three-tiered education system was swept away to be replaced by a two-component system, consisting of a new Ministry of Education and individual learning institutions. This timely book argues that the New Zealand educational reforms were the product of longstanding unresolved educational issues that came to a head during the profound economic and cultural crisis of the 1970s and early 1980s. As such, they reflected a complex mixture of both right-wing and left-wing ideals, and local and international influences in which no single group emerged victorious. In thus viewing educational reform within the wider context of public policy making, this book aims to make a wider contribution to the global policy debate.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: To suit a political purpose?; title: Reinterpreting the educational reforms; title: Almost alone in the world; title: Game war; title: Only major and system-wide reforms will do; title: The best kind of accountability; title: A blank page approach; title: A long way to go before we win the battle; title: Only half a policy.