Author: Karen Marie Nairn Publisher: ISBN: 9781877578182 Category : Generation Y Languages : en Pages : 0
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In New Zealand, the term "Rogernomics" - a combination of "Roger" and "economics" - was coined to describe the economic policies following Roger Douglas's appointment in 1984 as New Zealand's Minister of Finance in the Fourth Labor Government. His adoption of policies more usually associated with the political right, and their implementation by the Fourth Labor Government, were the subject of lasting controversy. Between 2003 and 2007, the authors of this book investigated what life was like for 93 young people who were about to complete their schooling and enter adulthood in the wake of "Rogernomics." Participants were interviewed in their final year of high school and again 12-18 months later. This book is the result. The lives of these young people are brought into sharp focus, revealing the powerful effects of neoliberal ideas. Their stories show how neoliberalism obscures the structural basis of inequalities and insists that failure to achieve a straightforward transition from sch
Author: Anne B. Smith Publisher: Bridget Williams Books ISBN: 1927131766 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 417
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Emphasising the voices and rights of children, international expert Anne Smith examines the latest thinking on children’s learning and development. Contemporary theories and research about children and childhood are explained, using observations from children’s everyday experiences and debates about policy. A sociocultural perspective presents development as driven by a child’s learning, supported by opportunities for reciprocal social interaction across diverse cultural contexts.
Author: Simon Collins Publisher: ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 204
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""Rogernomics" -- we hear the word almost daily on radio and television and read it constantly in our newspapers, but how many of us really understand Roger Douglas's policies and what they mean? This readable book, written specifically for laypeople, examines and explains the social and economic revolution which has hit this country since the fourth Labour Government came to power in 1984 ... Simon Collins examines what Douglas has done, and shows how a few simple principles of market economies have pervaded a whole nation. He considers some alternative policies and brings together evidence and arguments for the many New Zealanders who are asking "Is there a better way?"." -- Back cover.
Author: Julie Spray Publisher: Rutgers University Press ISBN: 1978809301 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 253
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A journey into the lives of children coping in a world compromised by poverty and inequality, The Children in Child Health challenges the invisibility of children's perspectives in health policy and argues that paying attention to what children do is critical for understanding the practical and policy implications of these experiences.
Author: Michael Peters Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135717931 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 272
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Examining, in the widest sense, the changes in political philosophy that have occurred in Western capitalist states since the early 1980s, this book focuses on the introduction of neo-liberal principles in the combined area of social and education policy. New Zealand presents a paradigm example of the neo-liberal shift in political philosophy. From constituting the social laboratory of the Western world in the 1930s in terms of social welfare provision, New Zealand has become the neo-liberal experiment of the fully marketised society in the 1990s. Against the theoretical background of educational theory and practice, this book examines neo-liberalism and its critiques as responses to the so-called crisis of the welfare state and argues for a reformulated critical social policy in the postmodern condition. The conclusions about social policy drawn by the authors can be generalized to similar situations in other Western capitalist countries.
Author: Bronwyn Hayward Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000191176 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 238
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In this significantly revised second edition of Bronwyn Hayward’s acclaimed book Children Citizenship and Environment, she examines how students, with teachers, parents, and other activists, can learn to take effective action to confront the complex drivers of the current climate crisis including: economic and social injustice, colonialism and racism. The global school strikes demand adults, governments, and businesses take far-reaching action in response to our climate crisis. The school strikes also remind us why this important youthful activism urgently needs the support of all generations. The #SchoolStrike edition of Children Citizenship and Environment includes all new contributions by youth, indigenous and disability activists, researchers and educators: Raven Cretney, Mehedi Hasan, Sylvia Nissen, Jocelyn Papprill, Kate Prendergast, Kera Sherwood O’ Regan, Mia Sutherland, Amanda Thomas, Sara Tolbert, Sarah Thomson, Josiah Tualamali'i, and Amelia Woods. As controversial, yet ultimately hopeful, as it was when first published, Bronwyn Hayward develops her ‘SEEDS’ model of ‘strong ecological citizenship’ for a school strike generation. The SEEDS of citizenship education encourage students to develop skills for; Social agency, Environmental education, Embedded justice, Decentred deliberation and Self-transcendence. This approach to citizenship supports young citizens’ democratic imagination and develops their ‘handprint’ for social justice. This ground-breaking book will be of interest to a wide audience, in particular teachers and professionals who work in Environmental Citizenship Education, as well as students and community activists with an interest in environmental change, democracy and intergenerational justice.
Author: Rod Wills Publisher: Springer ISBN: 946209893X Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 290
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This is a book about the struggle of many New Zealand families to have their children with learning disabilities included in local community schools. It reviews the influences in the post war period that shaped the state response to the right of all children to attend school. Reflections from both education policy makers and parents of that time are included. The book also examines the more recent impact of neoliberal politics on education policy and the consequences experienced by families with school-aged children with disabilities who may well become ‘collateral damage in the enterprise of improving schools.’ After examining the families’ experience the book asks how inclusion can be fostered in schools and classrooms? Practitioners and academics present research findings that indicate alternative ways of thinking and acting that attest to more ethical and humane responses to human difference. Citizens, school personnel, politicians and policy makers should be challenged by the tales from school arising from attempts to achieve a ‘world class, inclusive education system.’ Cover photograph by Rod Wills, “Oratia District School”
Author: Andrew Dean Publisher: Bridget Williams Books ISBN: 0908321236 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 66
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‘Your words of “discomfort, loss, and disconnection” don’t resonate with me at all.’ Ruth Richardson to Andrew Dean, 16 December 2014. A time of major upheaval now stands between young and old in New Zealand. In Ruth, Roger and Me, Andrew Dean explores the lives of the generation of young people brought up in the shadow of the economic reforms of the 1980s and 1990s, those whom he calls ‘the children of the Mother of All Budgets’. Drawing together memoir, history and interviews, he explores the experiences of ‘discomfort’ and ‘disconnection’ in modern Aotearoa New Zealand.
Author: Simon Walker Publisher: ISBN: Category : New Zealand Languages : en Pages : 272
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"Between 1984 and 1988 New Zealand's fourth Labour Government undertook the most comprehensive revision of economic policy which the country had ever seen. Subsidies were abolished, the tax system reformed and state-owned enterprises moved steadily down the path to privatisation. The process became known as "Rogernomics" after the Minister of Finance, Roger Douglas. Douglas became Euromoney's "Finance Minister of the Year" and an internationally admired economic reformer. At home his policies proved more controversial. Although Labour was convincingly re-elected in 1987, a year later the consensus benind Rogernomics collapsed. Roger Douglas and two other ministers left an increasingly divided administration. A major struggle over economic direction lay ahead. Nonetheless, the face of the New Zealand economy had changed irrevocably. In this book, Influential analysts, journalists and participants in the process of reform examine the events and impact of Rogernomics. "Rogernomics : reshapig New Zealand's economy 1984-1988" is an account of an individual's determination to effect change in the teeth of political opposition and institutional inertia."--Back cover.
Author: Karen Marie Nairn
Author: Anne B. Smith
Author: Simon Collins
Author: Julie Spray
Author: Michael Peters
Author: Bronwyn Hayward
Author: Johanna Wyn
Author: Rod Wills
Author: Andrew Dean
Author: Simon Walker