scholarly journals The Cottage that Kids Built: Jack's Mill School and the significance of architecture for progressive education in New Zealand in the late 1930s

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 126-139
Author(s):  
Peter Wood
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
West Coast ◽  
Progressive Education ◽  
Department Of Education ◽  
The Self ◽  
Running Water ◽  
Educational Experiment

Even today, the tiny West Coast community of Kōtuku is difficult to find. In 1935, when Edward Darracott arrived to the position of sole teacher at Jack's Mill School, it must have felt very far removed indeed from the rest of New Zealand. Yet here, in what might be described as a Department of Education backwater, Darracott implemented an audaciously progressive educational experiment. Central to his teaching, Darracott embarked on two major projects with his students. The first (and in keeping with an interschool competition at that time) was the design and establishment of a garden. The second project would prove more ambitions. With responsibility for the planning and building passed to the students, Darracott initiated the construction on the school grounds of a three-quarter scale bungalow, complete with furnishings, running water and electricity. The "miniature bungalow" received national attention at the time, and survives today under the care of the Department of Conservation, but outside the interests of back-road tourists, Darracott's educational experiment remains largely neglected. This paper will provide an overview of Darracott's achievements in Kōtuku before focusing attention of the specific architectural interests he activated. This begins with the self-conscious civility on display in the garden, before moving on to the opportunities and consequences of domesticity at work with the cottage itself. Viewed in this way, it is hoped that the isolation of Darracott's achievement (geographically and educationally) will begin to be replaced by a well-informed alignment with international practices of the time. Moreover, it will be shown how these "radical pedagogies" saw architecture as a necessary - perhaps inevitable - tool of implementation.

LUCERNE IN THE WELLINGTON, TARANAKI, AND EAST COAST DISTRICTS

1936 ◽  
pp. 92-95
Author(s):  
A.G. Elliott ◽  
T.W. Lonsdale
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
West Coast ◽  
East Coast ◽  
General Trend ◽  
Present Position ◽  
Department Of Agriculture ◽  
Forage Crop ◽  
High Rainfall ◽  
The North ◽  
Subsequent Discussion

IN two papers read by officers of the Department of Agriculture at the 1936 conference of the New Zealand Grassland Association, the growing of lucernc as a forage crop in districts of relatively high rainfall was dealt with. The area covered by the papers included the Manawatu and west coast from Paraparaumu to the Patea River(I) and Taranaki(n). During the subsequent discussion on these and other papers the present position and general trend in regard to lucernegrowing in the Wairarapa, Eiawke's Eay, and Poverty Bay districts were also touched on. It is the intention here. to review briefly some of the more important points in regard to the cultivation of lucerne in the southern portion of the North Island as discussed at the conference.

Unreported bycatch in the New Zealand West Coast South Island hoki fishery

Marine Policy ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 504-512 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graeme Bremner ◽  
Peter Johnstone ◽  
Tracy Bateson ◽  
Philip Clarke
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
West Coast

scholarly journals How to Become a Mushroom: A New Nature Ethnography of Fungi in Aotearoa

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Alice Nicholls
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
West Coast ◽  
Nature Writing ◽  
The West ◽  
Multispecies Ethnography ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Native Forests ◽  
Transformative Potential ◽  
The Moment

<p>This thesis proposes that the moment of interaction between a person and a fungus is transformative of both subjects. Using new nature writing techniques in tandem with multispecies ethnography, this thesis seeks to present a rich, autoethnographic account of my encounters with fungi in the native forests of the West Coast of Aotearoa. Drawing on five days of ethnographic fieldwork spent at the Fungal Network of New Zealand (FUNNZ) annual Fungal Foray in the township of Moana, I explore the affective, emotional, sensory, intellectual, and corporeal experiences of interacting with fungi. Using new nature writing as an ethnographic medium, I suggest that narratives that pertain to the researcher’s experiences can render new understandings of nonhuman subjects. In doing so, I explore both the transformative potential of multispecies encounters for the researcher and the researched, and the literary potential of multispecies ethnography to illustrate the encounters themselves.</p>

PREP Statement

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 84 (6) ◽  
pp. 1116-1117
Author(s):  
ERROL R. ALDEN ◽  
JEAN Dow ◽  
Keyword(s):  
American Academy ◽  
Department Of Education ◽  
The Self ◽  
Practice Management ◽  
Advisory Group ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Diagnosis And Management ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽  
The Future ◽  
Projected Changes

The following statement was developed by the PREP Advisory Group as part of an effort to inform the Academy membership about plans currently underway for the future of the PREP program. Planning is still in the early stages, but the Department of Education is enthusiastic about the projected changes, including 12 (instead of 10) issues of Pediatrics in Review, a new section in the journal devoted to practice management, and computerized diagnosis and management problems in addition to the Self-Assessment examination. Some of these changes will be phased in during the next 2 years; the new PREP program will actually be launched in January 1992. Please "stay tuned"—as plans continue to develop, we will keep the membership informed. In the meantime, if you have questions, comments, or suggestions regarding PREP, we would be happy to hear from you. You may contact PREP, Department of Education, American Academy of Pediatrics, 141 Northwest Point Blvd, Elk Grove Village, IL 60009-0927.

The involvement of teachers in curriculum change : with special reference to the introduction of programmes in mathematics in primary classes

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Edwin Arthur Palmer
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Special Reference ◽  
Curriculum Change ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Department Of Education ◽  
Professional Organization ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Educational Institute ◽  
To Receive

<p>Curriculum building is a complex process; a process which has in recent years intensified. The rapidity of technological development has placed on educationalists a greater pressure than ever before. Furthermore, the concept of co-operative curriculum building, with the involvement of a wider number of people has come to receive greater acceptance.  This thesis sets out to examine the process of syllabus revision in New Zealand in one particular subject area, mathematics. It aims to evaluate the degree of consultation between the New Zealand Educational Institute, the teachers' professional organization, and the Department of Education which is ultimately responsible for syllabus revision. In particular the thesis wishes to discover the role played by the practising teacher in this revision.</p>

Governments and Activities in the Public Interest

2019 ◽  
pp. 154-177
Author(s):  
Sijbren Cnossen
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Unfair Competition ◽  
The Self ◽  
African Countries ◽  
The Public ◽  
African Experience ◽  
The Eu

Chapter 11 discusses the EU legacy of taxing public bodies, illustrated by the African experience. The EU’s out-of-scope approach is bedevilled by distortions arising from the self-supply bias, the investment disincentive, and, somewhat more remotely, unfair competition vis-à-vis the private sector. Outside Africa, countries with VAT have addressed these issues differently. Various EU countries and Canada, for example, have designed input tax refund mechanisms to eliminate the self-supply bias and the investment disincentive. Still other countries, such as New Zealand, tax governments and activities in the public interest in full and have thus come to terms with the unfair competition issue, too. A concluding section summarizes the characteristics and effects of the various approaches and attempts to formulate a recommendation for African countries.

scholarly journals Dreaming of a National Socialist World: The World Union of National Socialists (wuns) and the Recurring Vision of Transnational Neo-Nazism

Fascism ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 275-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Jackson
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
The Self ◽  
Global Order ◽  
National Socialist ◽  
Membership Application ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World ◽  
National Socialists ◽  
New Tradition

Abstract This article will survey the transnational dynamics of the World Union of National Socialists (wuns), from its foundation in 1962 to the present day. It will examine a wide range of materials generated by the organisation, including its foundational document, the Cotswolds Declaration, as well as membership application details, wuns bulletins, related magazines such as Stormtrooper, and its intellectual journals, National Socialist World and The National Socialist. By analysing material from affiliated organisations, it will also consider how the network was able to foster contrasting relationships with sympathetic groups in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Europe, allowing other leading neo-Nazis, such as Colin Jordan, to develop a wider role internationally. The author argues that the neo-Nazi network reached its height in the mid to late 1960s, and also highlights how, in more recent times, the wuns has taken on a new role as an evocative ‘story’ in neo-Nazi history. This process of ‘accumulative extremism’, inventing a new tradition within the neo-Nazi movement, is important to recognise, as it helps us understand the self-mythologizing nature of neo-Nazi and wider neo-fascist cultures. Therefore, despite failing in its ambitions of creating a Nazi-inspired new global order, the lasting significance of the wuns has been its ability to inspire newer transnational aspirations among neo-Nazis and neo-fascists.

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