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The Development of Steiner / Waldorf Education: Looking Through the Lens of Time
(Research on Steiner Education (RoSE), 2022)Steiner Waldorf education has undergone many developments since it was first introduced in Stuttgart in 1919. Some of these have been the result of pedagogical experience, others in response to outer requirements, while ... -
On Reading Love in Frankenstein and the Song of Songs
(Newcastle University, 2022)This essay draws together the Song of Songs and Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein in order to engage in a comparative reading, one text alongside the other. The theoretical frame that holds this rereading is Cixous’s school of ... -
Resurrecting Science Education by Re-inserting Women, Nature and Complexity
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)The development of capitalism and then science over the last 500 years or so has produced a very specific way of organising the relations between humans and the rest of nature. Both depend on excluding—and “cheapening”—women, ... -
Student Agency in Non-traditional Learning Spaces: Life In-Between and on the Fringes
(Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia (PESA), 2021)Non-Traditional Learning Spaces (NTLS) boasting innovative building designs that embody an array of modern technology, visually and functionally sever schooling practices from the factory model, suggesting a reconceptualisation ... -
A Changing Story of Reading at Huntly College
(National Library, New Zealand, 2021) -
Reading for Pleasure For the Collective Good of Aotearoa New Zealand
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DIY (Do-It-Yourself) Electronics, Coin-operated Relic Boxes and Techno-animist Shrines
(The MIT Press, 2021)The author uses creative practice and DIY electronics as the vehicle for a practice-led inquiry into the similarities between techno-animism and material agency. Combining technology with aspects of magic and religion, ... -
Te Tupu o te Rākau: Stages of Growth of Māori Medium Education
(University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada, 2021)Over the past 40 or so years, a small sub-sector of state-funded education has developed in Aotearoa New Zealand, in which the language medium is te reo Māori (the Māori language). Te reo Māori became an endangered language ... -
Including Māori Language and Knowledge in Every New Zealand Classroom
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Flexible and Innovative Learning Spaces: An Exploration of Parental Perspectives on Change, Consultation and Participation
(SAGE Publications, 2021)The role played by innovative educational environments to support learning for the 21st century has attracted the interest of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development at the global governance level and at ... -
PBRF Changes: Encouraging On-Going Fiddling with the Rules While the Academy Burns?
(School of Education, Auckland University of Technology, 2021)Over the last 18 years successive governments have tried various schemes to reward and encourage good research, without actually conducting much research into the effectiveness of the rewards and discouragements inherent ... -
PBRF Changes – Encouraging On-Going Fiddling With the Rules While the Academy Burns
(School of Education, Auckland University of Technology, 2021)Over the last 18 years successive governments have tried various schemes to reward and encourage good research, without actually conducting much research into the effectiveness of the rewards and discouragements inherent ... -
Renewing Steiner Teacher Education: A Conversation With Florian Osswald
(Other Business, 2021)This article contains an interview between the author and Florian Osswald, one of the co-leaders of the Steiner education movement worldwide, held at the end of the four-day Asian Steiner Teacher Educators’ Conference in ... -
Public Education Unbounded: Reflection on the Publicness of Green School New Zealand
(NZAROE, VUW, 2021)Green School New Zealand is a private school whose school fees confirm for critics the inequity of private education, but the school may contribute to an alternative vision of public education if its commitment to ... -
Education for Freedom for All? The Relevance of Contemporary Theory to Steiner Education
(Research on Steiner Education (RoSE), 2021)This article considers three current approaches to education for social justice: culturally responsive pedagogy, critical pedagogy and decolonisation. It is informed by the work of Gloria Ladson-Billings, Paulo Freire, ... -
Theoretical Approaches to Researching Learning Spaces
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2021)Contemporary learning environment designs bring to life schools featuring loose fitting, flexible layouts that upset the stable certainty of the four-walled classroom. This article presents the argument that adopting a ... -
Individual Reading Styles: A Narrative Approach to Understanding Reading Behaviour
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2021)This article reports on the findings from a study that intended to consider the validity of a model of reading comprehension. In the process of coding the resulting verbal protocols, the ‘feel’ or experience of the actual ... -
Reconnecting Teachers and Their Work. Mid-career Teachers Engaging in Qualification Based Practitioner Research
(University of Cumbria, 2021)Encouraging all students to meaningfully engage with feedback on summative assessments is a vexing challenge for educators (Watling, 2016). Using formative feedback techniques as a formal part of a summative assessment ... -
Lived Spirituality: Exploring the Richness of Inner Work
(2020)This article investigates and documents inner processes which underlie and support my professional life – a livingeduational- theory based on what I term 'lived spirituality'. Influenced strongly by the work of Rudolf ... -
Teachers’ Work in a Pandemic
(School of Education, Auckland University of Technology, 2020)