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Confidence in Adversity: A Biography of Guy Macpherson tells the compelling story of a quintessential New Zealander born to English parents and raised in rural poverty between the world wars by his father and Maori stepmother. With only a minimal education, he devoted many decades of his life to political reforms, biculturalism, rural education, and adult literacy. Guy Macpherson's finishing school was the 27th Machine Gun Battalion, fighting in pitched battles in Greece, Crete, and North Africa during World War II. He returned home with PTSD, bought the family "home farm," married his...

In this book Reynold Macpherson initiates a politically-critical theory of educative leadership as a fresh line of inquiry in the practice, research and theory of educational administration and educational leadership.

Divided into four parts, the book introduces the sub-discipline of political philosophy to the field of educational administration, management and leadership. It does this by clarifying the knowledge domain of each and identifying how four political ideologies, specifically pragmatism, communitarianism, communicative rationalism and egalitarian liberalism, have...

In this book Reynold Macpherson initiates a politically-critical theory of educative leadership as a fresh line of inquiry in the practice, research and theory of educational administration and educational leadership. Divided into four parts, the book introduces the sub-discipline of political philosophy to the field of educational administration, management and leadership. It does this by clarifying the knowledge domain of each and identifying how four political ideologies, specifically pragmatism, communitarianism, communicative rationalism and egalitarian liberalism, have primarily...

Who is this woman? She was born in Leeds, U.K., died in Kaitaia, New Zealand, and appears in both the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography and the Bibliography of Australian Literature... She was raised a Quaker, converted to and campaigned for Islam, had a life-long interest in spiritualism and died a devout Catholic... She made a foundational contribution to socialist feminist journalism in The Maoriland Worker using the principles of Christian socialism and Leninist-Marxism... She was an associate of Pat Lawlor and Robin Hyde, helped lead the New Zealand Movement against War and Fascism...

The Institute of Inspectors of Schools of New South Wales was established on 14 January 1914. It incorporated the traditions of the "inspectorial system" developed by William Wilkins, the first permanent district superintendent and inspector of schools appointed by the National Board of Education on 1 July 1854. Although the inspectorate was abolished on 1 April 1990, the Institute of Senior Educational Administrators continued to provide industrial coverage for chief education officers and to serve as their professional association. This history is a sociological and political examination of...