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This book proposes the model of the 'ethical teacher' - one who understands both the moral purpose of education and the importance of viewing the process of teaching as basically ethical in nature.

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The first comprehensive New Zealand text on supervision. It marks a paradigm shift in how we conceptualise and practice supervision and invites the practitioner and supervisor to engage in the process of deconstruction and reconstruction of their supervision story and practice in order to meet the needs of people they work with.

An amusing collection of personal observations, profiles, news stories and columns that examines the social and political changes in higher education. Expect in August.

Explores the importance of the university identity and describes how it has been eroded by developments in the New Zealand system. At the conclusion the authors put forward a set of principles that they believe are essential to the idea of a university and the expression of that idea in governance and management.

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Slavoj Zizek is regarded as one of the pre-eminent European cultural theorists of the last decade. His growing body of work has generated considerable controversy and transformed the way we think about issues of popular culture and politics. This volume provides a critical reflection on Zizek's ideas and his intellectual itinerary. As well as bringing a Zizekian analysis to a discussion of the cultural and social aspects of nationhood in New Zealand and the Southern hemisphere, it will provide readers with new material and fresh perspectives on Zizek's thinking on psychoanalysis, multiculturalism, television and the new media, ethics and politics. It is proposed that Z... read more

Facing the Challenge is the first book published in New Zealand that focuses exclusively on foundation learning for adults. Written by experienced tutors, managers and researchers, it showcases local expertise and experience in the teaching of literacy, language and numeracy to adults.

This book fills the gap in the literature on teaching methods by offering a conceptual understanding for those who want to know the background to the method. Clarifies what cooperative learning really is all about and shows how it can be applied in New Zealand classrooms where there is a need to work effectively with others.