ERIC Number: EJ1446505
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 20
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ISSN: ISSN-0046-760X
EISSN: EISSN-1464-5130
"Houses to Live in": Planning Social Democracy in New Zealand School Texts
Frances Kelly
History of Education, v53 n6 p1024-1043 2024
Between 1947 and 1949, state-sanctioned texts on town planning and housing were produced for New Zealand schools. In these publications, ideals of social democratic citizenship intersect with modernist precepts of planning and design. Analysis of the school texts in the discursive context reveals an aim to encourage future citizens to take an active role, in accordance with new education pedagogy, in shaping the built environment of post-war society. While the relationship between ideas and architecture has been of interest to historians of education, attention has largely focused on the school. This article extends the conversation to reflect on how readers of school texts were encouraged to consider their relationship to the wider built environment and hailed as active citizens within an imagined community of New Zealand's social democracy tasked with shaping its material form.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Democracy, Textbooks, Housing, Municipalities, Planning, Textbook Evaluation, Citizen Role, Citizenship Education, Architecture, Educational History, Social Systems, Government School Relationship, School Publications
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Language: English
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