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6. Education for Living

1
Grace Cochrane, 'Truth or Trap: The Australian Contemporary Crafts Movement's Pursuit of Art
Ideals', PhD thesis, University of Tasmania, 1998, p.54.Grace Cochrane, also an expatriate New
Zealander, was familiar with the history of New Zealand craft.
2
Quoted in Lauran Edwin Massey, 'The Educational Policy of Peter Fraser, the New Zealand Labour
Party's First Minister of Education, 1935-1940', University of Auckland, 1968, p.44.
3 Douglas Gordon Price, 'A Study of the Philosophy Underlying Labour's Educational Reforms in New
Zealand, with Particular Reference to the Period, 1935-1940', Victoria University of Wellington 1965,
p.58.
4
Beeby’s doctoral studies in psychology were undertaken at London University and Manchester
University.
5
Noeline Alcorn, To the Fullest Extent of His Powers: C.E. Beeby's Life in Education, Wellington,
1999, p.55.
6
William Renwick, ‘Fraser on Education’, in Margaret Clark, ed., Peter Fraser: Master Politician,
Palmerston North, 1998, pp.216 p. : ill., ports. ; 21 cm, p.73.
7
Alcorn, p.80.
8
Franz Cižek was a portrait painter but was better known for his reforming work in the field of art
education.
9 William Boyd and Wyatt Rawson, The Story of the New Education London, 1965, p.49.
10
Paul L. Dengler in A. E. Campbell and C. L. Bailey, eds, New Education Fellowship Conference
Modern Trends in Education: The Proceedings of the New Education Fellowship Conference Held in
New Zealand in July 1937, Wellington:, 1938, pp.xxi, 504 p. : ports, p.236.
11 Arthur Lismer in ibid., p.230.
12
Alcorn, p.112.
13 H. G. R. Mason, Education Today and Tomorrow, Wellington, 1944.
14
ibid., pp.17 - 9.
15 C. E. Beeby, The Biography of an Idea: Beeby on Education, Wellington, 1992, pp.142 - 3.
16
Carol Henderson, A Blaze of Colour. Gordon Tovey. Artist Educator, Christchurch, 1998, p.93.
17 Primary School Syllabuses: Art and Crafts in the Primary School, Wellington.
18
C. E. Beeby, Which Are the Frills in Education?, Wellington, 1974, pp.5 - 6.
19 ibid., p.6.
20
Community education courses were given formal recognition by the Social and Cultural Committee
of the National Development Conference in 1969. See J. C. Dakin, The Community Centre Story:
Being an Account and a Discussion of New Zealand's Experiments with Community Centres and
Kindred Institutions, Wellington, 1979, p.175.
21
Robin Gardner-Gee, 'A Practice Called Craft in a Country Called New Zealand: Readings of Craft
New Zealand 1982 – 1993', MA thesis, University of Auckland, 1996, p.59.
22
W. B. Sutch, 'Education for New Zealand's Future', 1961, p.22.
23
Peter Beatson and Dianne Beatson, The Arts in Aotearoa New Zealand. Themes and Issues,
Palmerston North, 1994, p.69.

7. Craft Education

1
Grace Cochrane, 'Australia and New Zealand: Design and the Handmade' in Sandra Alfoldy, ed.,
Neocraft: Modernity and the Crafts, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 2007, p.63.
2
Norman Potter, What Is a Designer: Things, Places, Messages, 3rd edn, London, 1989, p.78.
3
Tanya Harrod, The Crafts in Britain in the 20th Century, New Haven, 1999, p.228.
4
Some of the graduates of these courses, or courses similar to them, became tutors in New Zealand
polytechnics.
5
Peter Dormer, The Meanings of Modern Design: Towards the Twenty-First Century, London, 1990,
p.150.
6
James W. Crandall, 'Secondary School Crafts: Confusion and Concepts', Art Education, 17, 8, 1964,
p.7.
7
Janet Koplos and Bruce Metcalf, Makers: A History of American Studio Craft, Chapel Hill, NC, 2010,
p.214.
8
Philip Meeson, 'Art or Nature: A Problem of Art in Education and Teacher Training', British Journal of
Educational Studies, 22, 3, 1974, p.293.
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