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Looking Back from the Centre

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The School of Education at Victoria University of Wellington was an integral part of Wellington’s educational domain from 1927 until its disestablishment in 2008. It is now part of the new Faculty of Education at Victoria University. Here, past and present members of the School offer their reflections, recollections and current research. This book is both a way of remembering and a way of looking forward to the School’s continuing influence on education, both in New Zealand and internationally.

• Are We There Yet? Sixty Years of Educational Sociology and Equality in Aotearoa/New Zealand – Jane Gilbert

• Parking in the Margins: The Sociology of Education – Joanna Kidman

• He Pārekereke: Māori Education and Pacific Education – Te Whanau o He Parekereke

• Educational Research and Democratic Debate: A Reflection on the Centre – Hugh Lauder

• Education: Commodity or Public Good? Twenty Years on – Gerald Grace & Martin Thrupp

• New Zealand’s Role in Education in the Pacific – James Irving

• Understanding Why Radical Policy Reform Takes Time to Embed: Illustrations from Policy on Assessment – Cedric Hall & James Irving

• Teaching Early Childhood Education at Victoria: Policy, Discipline and Profession – Carmen Dalli & Anne Meade

• Reframing Some Windows on Early Childhood Education: An Unlikely Career – Helen May

• An Open Learning Matrix to Sustain Education in Rural New Zealand – Ken Stevens

• The Introduction of a Collaborative New Zealand Model to Sustain Rural Schools in Atlantic Canada – Ken Stevens

• Diversity, Development and Educational Psychology: Keeping Social Justice on the Agenda – Lise Bird Claiborne

• Adolescent Identity Development: Implications for Teaching and Counselling – Jane Kroger

• A Capital Contribution: People, Proclivities and Programmes – Lex McDonald

• Reminiscences on Peace Education – Jim Collinge

• Learning to Read and a Half-Century of Research – G. Brian Thompson

• Mathematics After Efficiency: An Agenda for Action – Jim Neyland

Joanna Kidman studied in the School of Education in the 1980s and is now a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Victoria University of Wellington. She is based in He Pārekereke: Institute for Research and Development in Māori and Pacific Education. Her current research interests are in the sociology of Māori education.

Ken Stevens is a Professor of Education at Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada where he has held a research chair in e-learning. Since 2005 he has also been an Adjunct Professor at Victoria University of Wellington. He specialises in the provision of education in rural communities and the application of information technologies for teaching and learning in sparsely populated areas.

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