Resisting qualifications reforms in New Zealand : : the English study design as constructive dissent / / Terry Locke, The University of Waikato, New Zealand.

• VerfasserIn: Locke, Terry,
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam : : Sense Publishers,, [2007]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; The professional English teacher in the context of reform /; The English Study Design as enacted activist professionalism /; The construction of English /; The design of English programmes /; The shaping of pedagogy /; The ESD and the assessment of English /; The grail of a reliable, standards-based qualifications system /; The political arena revisited /; References /; Glossary of abbreviations /; Timeline ofreform in New Zealand /; ESD Year 12 External Examination: 2001 /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 1281181870; 9786611181871; 9087902174
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Terry Locke, The University of Waikato, New Zealand.

New Zealand has been a veritable “laboratory” for a range of social experiments in the last twenty years, including an arranged marriage with neo-liberal economic policies during the late 80s and 90s. These experiments extended to education, where students, teachers, teacher educators and researchers have experienced wide-ranging “reforms” in administration, curriculum and qualifications. The most contentious of these have been a series of untrialled and radical qualifications reforms. This book offers a critical examination of these reforms from the perspective of a group of educators who resisted them by doing the unthinkable: devising their own national qualification and making it work.