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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 February 2017
The publication of Roy Shuker's The One Best System? has stimulated debate concerning “revisionist” interpretations of the history of New Zealand schools. The essays below help to introduce our readers to these controversies, which concern both methodological and ideological issues in the study of history of education. Three prominent historians offer their criticisms of this important volume, and Shuker provides a detailed response and reflection upon current scholarship in New Zealand. N. D. Daglish is a member of the Education Department, Victoria University of Wellington; Gary McCulloch is senior lecturer in Education, University of Auckland; Pavla Miller is a member of the Department of Sociology and Politics, Phillip Institute of Technology, Bundoora, Victoria; and Roy Shuker teaches at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand, in the Department of Education.
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2 McCulloch, G., Education in the Forming of New Zealand Society: Needs and Opportunities for Study (Auckland, 1986), 46.Google Scholar
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3 To a degree, these were indicative of the state of the field. See McCulloch, Gary, Education in the Forming of New Zealand Society: Needs and Opportunities for Study (Wellington, N.Z., 1986).Google Scholar
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