dc.contributor.author | Thrupp, Martin | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-12-17T20:27:30Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014 | |
dc.date.available | 2014-12-17T20:27:30Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Thrupp, 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.issn | 0028-8276 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10289/9022 | |
dc.description.abstract | It 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.extent | 6 - 20 | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | NZARE | |
dc.relation.uri | http://www.nzare.org.nz/nzjes.aspx | |
dc.rights | This article is published in the New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies. ©2014 NZARE. Used with permission. | |
dc.title | At the eye of the storm: Researching schools and their communities enacting National Standards. 2013 Herbison Lecture | |
dc.type | Journal Article | |
dc.relation.isPartOf | New Zelaand Journal of Educational Studies | |
pubs.begin-page | 6 | |
pubs.elements-id | 85060 | |
pubs.end-page | 20 | |
pubs.issue | 1 | |
pubs.publication-status | Published | |
pubs.volume | 49 | |