Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Terry Locke -- The professional English teacher in the context of reform / Terry Locke -- The English Study Design as enacted activist professionalism / Terry Locke -- The construction of English / Terry Locke -- The design of English programmes / Terry Locke -- The shaping of pedagogy / Terry Locke -- The ESD and the assessment of English / Terry Locke -- The grail of a reliable, standards-based qualifications system / Terry Locke -- The political arena revisited / Terry Locke -- References / Terry Locke -- Glossary of abbreviations / Terry Locke -- Timeline ofreform in New Zealand / Terry Locke -- ESD Year 12 External Examination: 2001 / Terry Locke.

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New Zealand has been a veritable “laboratory” for a range of social experiments in the last twenty years, including an arranged marriage with neo-liberal economic policies during the late 80s and 90s. These experiments extended to education, where students, teachers, teacher educators and researchers have experienced wide-ranging “reforms” in administration, curriculum and qualifications. The most contentious of these have been a series of untrialled and radical qualifications reforms. This book offers a critical examination of these reforms from the perspective of a group of educators who resisted them by doing the unthinkable: devising their own national qualification and making it work.