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dc.contributor.authorThrupp, Martin
dc.date.accessioned2014-12-17T20:27:30Z
dc.date.available2014
dc.date.available2014-12-17T20:27:30Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.identifier.citationThrupp, M. (2014). At the eye of the storm: Researching schools and their communities enacting National Standards. 2013 Herbison Lecture. New Zelaand Journal of Educational Studies, 49(1), 6–20.en
dc.identifier.issn0028-8276
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10289/9022
dc.description.abstractIt is with enormous pleasure that I deliver the 24th Herbison Lecture. I thank the NZARE Council for inviting me and I acknowledge those in the audience who have previously given the Herbison. Today I'm talking about my research and academic activism around National Standards and there's a nice circularity about giving this lecture in the South Island. It was at the NZARE conference in Christchurch back in 2007 that I gave my first conference paper on the National Standards, little knowing that responding to this policy would consume me for the next six years. But the RAINS project has been a high point of my career and as they say down here in the Mainland - "good things take time”. The paper I gave back in 2007 was called "The proposed National Standards for New Zealand's primary and intermediate pupils: Any better than national testing?" (Thrupp, 2007). It's a question we now have a few answers to I think. In my lecture today I'm interested in developing the metaphor of the "eye of the storm" as a kind of refuge, a quiet place where you can get on and do some good work despite the academic and political storm that swirls around. So I offer a case study of someone trying to muddle through various academic issues and dealing with the difficult politics of doing policy-relevant research. I also want to get to the substantive findings of the final RAINS report that we are launching after my lecture today.
dc.format.extent6 - 20
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dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherNZARE
dc.relation.urihttp://www.nzare.org.nz/nzjes.aspx
dc.rightsThis article is published in the New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies. ©2014 NZARE. Used with permission.
dc.titleAt the eye of the storm: Researching schools and their communities enacting National Standards. 2013 Herbison Lecture
dc.typeJournal Article
dc.relation.isPartOfNew Zelaand Journal of Educational Studies
pubs.begin-page6
pubs.elements-id85060
pubs.end-page20
pubs.issue1
pubs.publication-statusPublished
pubs.volume49


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