Victoria University of Wellington, 1899-1999
Author: Rachel Barrowman
Publisher: Victoria University Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 444
ISBN-13: 9780864733696
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Historical Perspectives on Teacher Preparation in Aotearoa New Zealand
Author: Tanya Fitzgerald
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Published: 2019-07-11
Total Pages: 203
ISBN-13: 178754639X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book documents and critiques the historical origins and historiography of schooling and teacher preparation in New Zealand. The country has a unique educational history, as the overview of the history and development of schools for the nation's children, both Pakeha (European) and Maori, will highlight.
From Empire's Servant to Global Citizen
Author: Michael Belgrave
Publisher: Massey University Press
Published: 2016-12-01
Total Pages: 528
ISBN-13: 0994132581
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe vision of two young scientists, Massey University was established in 1928 to bring science to New Zealand's role as Britain's farm. Massey has since become New Zealand's national and a global university, with almost 140,000 alumni spread across 140 different nations. This candid history looks at the university as it weathered war, funding crises, risk-taking expansion and conflict with the government's plans for New Zealand's tertiary sector. Written by distinguished historianProfessor Michael Belgrave, this is a lively look at how an agricultural college grew up to become a leading intellectual centre of excellence.
Mad on Radium
Author: Rebecca Priestley
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Published: 2013-11-01
Total Pages: 323
ISBN-13: 1775581152
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough New Zealander Lord Rutherford was the first to split the atom, the country has since been known around the world for its nuclear-free stance. In this engaging and accessible book, an alternative history is revealed of "nuclear New Zealand"—when there was much enthusiasm for nuclear science and technology. From the first users of X-rays and radium in medicine to the plans for a nuclear power station on the Kaipara Harbour, this account uncovers the long and rich history of New Zealanders' engagement with the nuclear world and the roots of its nuclear-free identity.
'A Bloody Difficult Subject'
Author: Bain Attwood
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Published: 2023-05-11
Total Pages: 493
ISBN-13: 1776710967
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRuth Ross is hardly a household name, yet most New Zealanders today owe the way they understand the Treaty of Waitangi — or te Tiriti o Waitangi as Ross called it — to this remarkable woman' s path-breaking historical research.Taking us on a journey from small university classes and a lively government department in the nation' s war-time capital to an economically poor but culturally rich Maori community in the far north, and from tiny schools and cloistered university offices to parliamentary committees and a legal tribunal, Attwood enables us to grasp how and why the place of the Treaty of Waitangi in New Zealand law, politics, society and culture has been transformed in the last seven decades.A frank and moving meditation on the making of history and its advantages and disadvantages for life in a democratic society, A Bloody Difficult Subject is a surprising story full of unforeseen circumstances, unexpected twists, unlikely turns and unanticipated outcomes.
Scholars at War
Author: Geoffrey G. Gray
Publisher: ANU E Press
Published: 2012-01-01
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 1921862505
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSCHOLARS AT WAR is the first scholarly publication to examine the effect World War II had on the careers of Australasian social scientists. It links a group of scholars through geography, transnational, national and personal scholarly networks, and shared intellectual traditions, explores their use, and contextualizes their experiences and contributions within wider examinations of the role of intellectuals in war. SCHOLARS AT WAR is structured around historical portraits of individual Australasian social scientists. They are not a tight group; rather a cohort of scholars serendipitously involved in and affected by war who share a point of origin. Analyzing practitioners of the social sciences during war brings to the fore specific networks, beliefs and institutions that transcend politically defined spaces. Individual lives help us to make sense of the historical process, helping us illuminate particular events and the larger cultural, social and even political processes of a moment in time.
Historical Portraits of Women Home Scientists
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Publisher: Cambria Press
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Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 162196910X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChina, New Zealand, and the Complexities of Globalization
Author: Tim Beal
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-12-12
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 1137516909
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book examines the expansion of investment and trade between China and New Zealand, and its changing composition within the political framework, especially the 2008 Free Trade Agreement. Particular attention is paid to China’s volatile agrifood market, where New Zealand dairy products play an important role for both countries. The New Zealand-China economic relationship – asymmetrical and complementary, but with increasing competition from domestic production – is a case study of the complexities of globalization and the interplay of economic imperatives, political pressures and cultural factors. China is now New Zealand’s main economic partner and a major source of migrants, tourists and students. This proposed study on how New Zealand and China manage their grave dissimilarities and disparities in growing, ever close economic ties will be of interest to academics, policy analysts, economic/trade decision makers, and business practitioners.
A Life of J.C. Beaglehole
Author: T. H. Beaglehole
Publisher: Victoria University Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 608
ISBN-13: 9780864735355
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"But this scholarly achievement was in many ways matched by the part he played in the intellectual and cultural life of New Zealand in his time. A prolific writer and critic he became committed to making New Zealand a more lively and civilised place to live, and through his work at Victoria University, his teaching, his involvement with the New Zealand Council for Civil Liberties and the New Zealand Historic Places Trust - among many such organisations - his influence was far reaching." "Drawing on J.C. Beaglehole's own writing, especially his sparkling unpublished letters, the author has woven together all the aspects of his father's life into an immensely readable narrative. The two chapters on Beaglehole's work on James Cook create a picture of the historical scholar at work, and give the book an international significance."--BOOK JACKET.
Family Experiments
Author: Shelley Richardson
Publisher: ANU Press
Published: 2016-11-30
Total Pages: 398
ISBN-13: 1760460591
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFamily Experiments explores the forms and undertakings of ‘family’ that prevailed among British professionals who migrated to Australia and New Zealand in the late nineteenth century. Their attempts to establish and define ‘family’ in Australasian, suburban environments reveal how the Victorian theory of ‘separate spheres’ could take a variety of forms in the new world setting. The attitudes and assumptions that shaped these family experiments may be placed on a continuum that extends from John Ruskin’s concept of evangelical motherhood to John Stuart Mill’s rational secularism. Central to their thinking was a belief in the power of education to produce civilised and humane individuals who, as useful citizens, would individually and in concert nurture a better society. Such ideas pushed them to the forefront of colonial liberalism. The pursuit of higher education for their daughters merged with and, in some respects, influenced first-wave colonial feminism. They became the first generation of colonial, middle-class parents to grapple not only with the problem of shaping careers for their sons but also, and more frustratingly, what graduate daughters might do next.
