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Kiwi kids once led the world in reading – this 1950s primary school syllabus still has lessons for today

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dc.contributor.authorBoyask, Ruth
dc.contributor.authorMilne, John
dc.date.accessioned2025-12-17T02:28:15Z
dc.date.available2025-12-17T02:28:15Z
dc.date.issued2025-05-09
dc.descriptionThere is a well-known whakatauki (Māori proverb) that goes: “Ka mua, ka muri” – “walking backwards into the future”. It applies to many areas of life, but in education the idea of looking to the past to inform our way forward seems more relevant than ever. New Zealand was once a world leader in reading. In the early 1970s, as leading literacy educationalist Warwick Elley reminds us, Kiwi teenagers performed best of all countries participating in the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement. [...]
dc.identifier.citationThe Conversation, May 9, 2025. https://theconversation.com/kiwi-kids-once-led-the-world-in-reading-this-1950s-primary-school-syllabus-still-has-lessons-for-today-253719
dc.identifier.doi10.64628/AA.g6hxpe4cm
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10292/20416
dc.publisherThe Conversation
dc.relation.urihttps://theconversation.com/kiwi-kids-once-led-the-world-in-reading-this-1950s-primary-school-syllabus-still-has-lessons-for-today-253719
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dc.subject390304 Primary education
dc.subjectNew Zealand
dc.subjectTeaching
dc.subjectPhonics
dc.subjectReading
dc.subjectLearning to read
dc.subjectstructured literacy
dc.titleKiwi kids once led the world in reading – this 1950s primary school syllabus still has lessons for today
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