The New Zealand Principal Post‐Picot

Gives a brief sketch of the history of education in New Zealand prior to the publication of the Picot Report in 1988. Comments on the ways in which Picot recommendations have been subverted and the effects of the changes to date in the principal′s role. Highlights the need to contest the wholesale imposition of managerialism if the values fundamental to a broad‐based humanistic education system are to be preserved and examines the essential role of the principal in this contestation. Also refers to aspects of professional organizations which could lend support to the principal.