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Direct linkPont, Beatriz; Figueroa, Diana Toledo; Zapata, Juliana; Fraccola, Sylvain – OECD Publishing, 2013
This policy profile on education in New Zealand is part of the "Education Policy Outlook" series, which presents comparative analysis of education policies and reforms across the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries. Building on the OECD's substantial comparative and sectoral knowledge base, the series…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Equal Education, Educational Quality
Peer reviewedDiorio, Joseph A. – Curriculum Inquiry, 1986
Where a plurality of opinions exists, the effect of uniform educational policy denies a minority group's desires for equal rights and serves partisan views. Dworkin's theory of rights supports this perspective. Governmental imposition of uniform schooling practices on unwilling persons is an illegitimate devaluation of some citizens' lives. (36…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Educational Administration, Educational Improvement, Educational Policy
Mason, Peter – 1986
Two sets of opinion exist regarding the control of schools. The first pertains to the freedom of parental choice in education and the right of individuals and associations to run private schools subject to minimal government controls. The second stresses the overriding need to promote greater equality of opportunity in the form of publicly…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Educational Cooperation, Educational Demand, Educational Opportunities
Download full textReid, Neil – 1992
This paper addresses the problem of identifying and developing talent in children from culturally different backgrounds in New Zealand. The paper offers examples of how even applying the recommended "best practice" of multi-dimensional identification approaches can be inadequate for identifying gifted children from Maori, Polynesian, or…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Cultural Differences, Cultural Pluralism, Eligibility
Macpherson, R. J. S. – Secondary Administrator, 1983
Many of the arguments in the Victoria Department of Education, Australia, against the involvement of school councils in the selection of principals are based on careerism, opportunism, and protectionism. To move away from the lock-step adherence to the values that lead to accession by seniority requires the application of democratic methods.…
Descriptors: Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Selection, Boards of Education, Community Involvement
Pountney, Charmaine – 1986
Working toward the creation of a truly equitable human society demands that school administrators (1) become aware of ways in which educational systems currently collaborate in maintaining inequitable societies and (2) work to change the structures that serve the status quo into structures that support cooperative change. One major task is to…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Educational Change, Educational Development, Educational Discrimination
