Editorial: Are our kids getting a fair deal?

One of the biggest challenges in this country is to raise Māori achievement in literacy. Māori are the first nation, and it seems unjust that their literacy levels are not on a par with those of Pakeha despite massive efforts to close this gap. In this review it will be argued that Māori children in New Zealand fail to receive a "fair deal" (equity) in learning to read for a number of reasons, but primarily because our schools employ the wrong method of teaching reading. They do not receive a fair deal in other curriculum areas as well, possibly because the same philosophical assumptions about learning that drive our present teaching of reading are also prominent in other subject areas such as science and mathematics (see Matthews, 1995). However, this review will restrict its attention to reading.

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The Vendée Globe: a fair deal, for the sustainable development of Sables d’Olonne?

Sustainable Development and Planning VIII ◽

10.2495/sdp160201 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

M.-M. Damien

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

The Sustainable Development ◽

Fair Deal

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Russian Views of the osce and the 2016 German Chairmanship

Security and Human Rights ◽

10.1163/18750230-02601004 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 26 (1) ◽

pp. 25-32

Author(s):

Andrei Zagorski

Keyword(s):

Political Dialogue ◽

Russian Politics ◽

Fair Deal

The article explores the challenges of the German osce Chairmanship against the background of the current stalemate within the osce and Russian policies. It argues that, despite the current engagement of the osce in Ukraine and its renaissance in Russian politics, the task of revitalizing the osce has not become easier. The German Chairmanship may be considered a success if it manages to unblock political dialogue within the osce and to redefine the agenda for future structured dialogue, which could be accepted as a fair deal in conjunction with the wider debate over a vision for a Wider Europe.

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