Learning our living : a teaching autobiography
"Charmaine Pountney is a passioner learner and teacher. Here are her 55 years of first-hand experience of education - in homes, kindergartens, schools, teachers' colleges, universities, polytechnics, and on mara, farms and the [Internet]. She's been a teacher of English in the biggest secondary school in the country and in a small kura kaupapa Maori, a principal (three times), a university dean, and a community education tutor in her own kitchen and the local fire brigade hall. ... One of our staunchest defenders of our young people, their families and the public education system, she's also a fearless critic of outdated exams, poor teaching, mediocre scholl, s inadequate bureaucrats, politicians and media coverage of schools and education. ... [Here she] shares her own educational journey, her ... vision of how we could become a 'learning nation', and why we should. ..."--Back cover
Print Book, English, 2000
Cape Catley, Auckland, N.Z., 2000