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Schooling for Happiness: Rethinking the Aims of Education
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Cavanagh, Tom – Kairaranga, 2008
The release of "The New Zealand Curriculum" causes us to rethink the aims of education. Dr Cavanagh offers an alternative set of aims to the vision outlined in the Ministry of Education document, which is based, at least in part, on socialisation into the corporate industrial world. Dr Cavanagh's position is focused on putting…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Interpersonal Relationship, Student Behavior
Primary Science on CD-ROM: The New Zealand Experiment.
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Jasperse, Jaap A. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1994
Discussion of scientific journals and the use of electronic tools focuses on a study in New Zealand that investigated the feasibility of CD-ROM instead of printed journals for scientific publishing. Highlights include software choice; prototype publication; sampling method; document delivery; credibility and durability; and future possibilities.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Software, Credibility, Electronic Journals
Broadening the Scope for Educational Research. Report of a Regional Seminar (Tokyo, Japan, July 11-20, 1984).
National Inst. for Educational Research, Tokyo (Japan). – 1984
The results of a seminar in which representatives from Australia, New Zealand, and eight Asian countries discussed interdisciplinary research in education are presented. Types of interdisciplinary research were identified, and the conditions necessary for its development were examined. The recent impetus toward interdisciplinary research has…
Descriptors: Communications, Community Support, Comparative Education, Computers