https://padlet.com/f_kelly1/see3q867dk0n Findings en-us 2018-08-30 02:20:19 UTC 2025-11-19 01:43:23 UTC hello@padlet.com f_kelly1 https://padlet.com/f_kelly1/see3q867dk0n/wish/276460342 E-02 1938 - report on 'NEF' conference 1937]]> 2018-08-30 02:27:24 UTC https://padlet.com/f_kelly1/see3q867dk0n/wish/276460342 f_kelly1 https://padlet.com/f_kelly1/see3q867dk0n/wish/276460723 Dr Isaacs attended the NZ NEF conference (although this photograph from The Telegraph is taken in Australia!). The website outlines the influence of child psychology in the Pacific in the era.]]> 2018-08-30 02:30:10 UTC https://padlet.com/f_kelly1/see3q867dk0n/wish/276460723 f_kelly1 https://padlet.com/f_kelly1/see3q867dk0n/wish/278222385 Why does the lead article have the heading 'The Changing world'?]]> 2018-09-05 23:16:06 UTC https://padlet.com/f_kelly1/see3q867dk0n/wish/278222385 srau194 https://padlet.com/f_kelly1/see3q867dk0n/wish/283993781 This article is useful because it discusses how there was a bit of an issue regarding implementing the new school entrance age change, but the Minister of Education decided to go ahead with it. It also talks about issues regarding teacher shortages that could occur because of the entrance age change. ]]> 2018-09-20 15:48:47 UTC https://padlet.com/f_kelly1/see3q867dk0n/wish/283993781 srau194 https://padlet.com/f_kelly1/see3q867dk0n/wish/284003667 Page 10 of this report of the Minister of Education (1937) is useful as it discusses the effectiveness of the free milk in school which was implemented on 1st of March 1937. It also briefly talks about things they can do to improve (such as warming the milk in winter and getting advice on when is the best time for the students to drink milk). Moreover, shows how many students are supplied free milk and plans to extend it to more students. ]]> 2018-09-20 16:03:49 UTC https://padlet.com/f_kelly1/see3q867dk0n/wish/284003667 srau194 https://padlet.com/f_kelly1/see3q867dk0n/wish/284012568 This source (architectural drawing) is useful as it depicts the typical design the Labour government had  in mind when building the first state houses between 1930s - 1940s.
There were some arguments that these homes were designed with the "dominant Pākehā culture" nuclear family unit in mind as is not a "one size (design) fits all" (see source)]]> 2018-09-20 16:19:06 UTC https://padlet.com/f_kelly1/see3q867dk0n/wish/284012568 https://padlet.com/f_kelly1/see3q867dk0n/wish/284201993 NEF lectures. Teachers attending the seminars of the NEF at Otago Girls High om 1937. 
Significant due the fact that the Government closed all schools for a week to give all teachers the chance to attend these lectures.]]> 2018-09-21 02:27:54 UTC https://padlet.com/f_kelly1/see3q867dk0n/wish/284201993 https://padlet.com/f_kelly1/see3q867dk0n/wish/284215130 https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/PATM19311214.2.34?end_date=31-12-1939&phrase=1&query=education+school+schooling&start_date=01-01-1930
This article conveys before the abolishment of the Proficiency Exam in 1936, many students would not move on to secondary school. They would have to go straight into the workforce after completing primary education. This illustrates how the Proficiency Exam isolated secondary education from a majority of students.]]> 2018-09-21 04:05:18 UTC https://padlet.com/f_kelly1/see3q867dk0n/wish/284215130 f_kelly1 https://padlet.com/f_kelly1/see3q867dk0n/wish/326061053 This article / image from the Auckland Star 1933 shows boys growing cabbages in a school garden as part of the nature study/gardens movment. The gardens were likely also a benefit (or necessity) in the Depression era. Frances]]> 2019-01-30 21:50:00 UTC https://padlet.com/f_kelly1/see3q867dk0n/wish/326061053