What's Māori about Māori Education?

Wally Penetito

Victoria University Press

This is a story about what it feels like to be a Māori in an education system where, for more than a century, equality, social justice and fairness for all New Zealanders has been promised but not adequately provided. It asks the question, what has the dominant mainstream education system learned about itself from the creative backlash of the Māori 'struggle for a meaningful context', and what is it going to do to address the equally important question of 'what is an education for all New Zealanders?'

Higher Education Quarterly: Special issue

Research on Tertiary Assessment Policy and Practices

Guest Editor Luanna H. Meyer

Society for Research into Higher Education

This special issue features research building on work first reported at the Symposium on Tertiary Assessment and Higher Education Student Outcomes, Victoria University of Wellington, 2008. Articles cover important topics ranging from cultural responsiveness to contradictions or ambiguities in policy and practice, with implications for assessment in today's local and international tertiary environment.

Looking Back from the Centre: A Snapshot of Contemporary New Zealand Education

Edited by Joanna Kidman and Ken Stevens

Victoria University Press

The School of Education at Victoria University was an integral part of Wellington's educational domain from 1927 until it became part of the merged Faculty of Education at Victoria University in 2005. In this book, 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.

Professionalism in Early Childhood Education and Care: International Perspectives

Edited by Carmen Dalli and Mathias Urban

Routledge

This book draws together the work of an international group of scholars who have engaged with the question of what professionalism means in early years. Drawing on research and experience across a wide range of national contexts, this book seeks an understanding of early childhood professionalism in local contexts that might throw light on the global implications of this term.