Mervyn Wilkinson Hancock MA NZ, Dip.Soc.Sci NZ 1

In his early years in the 1940s, the number of positions he held and the interests he developed, provided the basis for his later career: a clerk at the Herald in Auckland; a position in the Child Welfare Division in the Department of Education in Wellington; full and part-time study at Auckland and...

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Published in:New Zealand sociology 2016-01, Vol.31 (1), p.228
Main Author: Fraser, Graeme
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Careers
Child welfare
Councils
Education
Five year plans
Social sciences
Social services
Social work
Sociology
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Summary:In his early years in the 1940s, the number of positions he held and the interests he developed, provided the basis for his later career: a clerk at the Herald in Auckland; a position in the Child Welfare Division in the Department of Education in Wellington; full and part-time study at Auckland and Victoria Universities. [...]it was his selection as one of fourteen students in the new School of Social Sciences at Victoria University that was to provide the impetus for a career that would span more than four decades. [...]those years we shared at Massey also clearly demonstrated his commitment to the University community, to academic standards and to integrating these with rigorous supervised practice into a pioneering four year social work degree.
ISSN:0112-921X
1173-1036