Like most other Western countries, New Zealand has been undergoing considerable change in its rural communities for some decades. Alongside the changes in rural New Zealand, there has been what many commentators argue, a paradigm shift in education from a "front-loaded" model dominated by schooling to one of lifelong learning. This…

This document researched the utilization of SET: Research Information for Teachers, a package of articles presenting a smorgasbord of educational research information. Five case studies in New Zealand schools were presented; five institutional visits were described. The purpose of the school visits was to investigate what happened to SET…