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The New Zealand Education Experiment: From Democratic Participation to Self-Management, and from Universal Welfare Entitlement to Private Investment

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Historically speaking, the development of education in New Zealand was shaped and maintained by two ideas central to the welfare state: the ideal of social welfare and the ideal of egalitarian democracy. In return, education contributed to the maintenance of the welfare state and social integration. One of the functions of schooling that was hoped for was at the level of social class and religious and racial integration in providing shared experiences as the basis of community development.

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Comparative Education Policy Research Unit, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

    Ka-ho Mok (Associate Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and also Convenor) (Associate Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and also Convenor)

  2. University of Sydney, Australia

    Anthony Welch (Associate Professor in the School of Policy and Practice, Faculty of Education) (Associate Professor in the School of Policy and Practice, Faculty of Education)

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Peters, M. (2003). The New Zealand Education Experiment: From Democratic Participation to Self-Management, and from Universal Welfare Entitlement to Private Investment. In: Mok, Kh., Welch, A. (eds) Globalization and Educational Restructuring in the Asia Pacific Region. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403990488_10

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