The School of Critical Studies invites you to the launch of Te Whakatere Au Pāpori website.
8:55am-12pm Thursday, 21st September | N415, Epsom Campus
Join us for the launch of our brand new website, tewhakatere.auckland.ac.nz, enjoy some morning tea, and hear from our researchers both abroad and in Aotearoa on their current work. Te Whakatere au Pāpori | Navigating Social Currents is a research unit based at the University of Auckland’s Faculty of Education and Social Work. Te Whakatere au Pāpori was instigated in 2012 to bring together researchers interested in how children and young people navigate and negotiate their social worlds.
The timetable for the seminar is as follows:
9.00: Tania Fu – Educating for citizenship and water governance
- My PhD research is underpinned by the idea that young people are not passive in climate changes and should be able to have a say in the communities and climate problems they are inheriting. In this presentation, I will share examples of participatory research with young people in two coastal, structurally disadvantaged cities.
9.15: Noah Romero – TBC
9.30: Tim Kerr – School leaders’ sensemaking in multi-layered crises
- How do school leaders in primary schools in Central Province, Papua New Guinea make sense of the challenges faced in multi-layered crises? Despite the Pacific being one of the most vulnerable regions in the world to natural hazards and the intensifying impacts of climate change, there is limited empirical research that draws together stories of school leaders in crisis response and recovery in Pacific contexts. I will share a brief overview of my study, highlighting examples from the literature review of the connection between sensemaking and school crisis leadership.
9.45: Marta Estelles – The political implications of safety discourses in education
- My research on the discourses of safety in education was prompted by the perversive use of this term during the Covid-19 pandemic. In this presentation, I will show some of the dangerous political implications of the use of this term in both educational policy and practice in Aotearoa New Zealand.
10.00am: Questions for virtual presenters
- My research focuses on the influence of urbanisation on previously small and rural communities and the schools that have served them. Study findings indicate changes and challenges as shifting school identities and practices.
11.00: Jack Webster – Digital citizenship education through a postdigital lens
- Digital citizenship education is viewed as a means to prepare students to face up to the challenges of living, working and participating in an evolving, complex digital society. I will share a series of guiding questions that uses postdigital theory to build upon existing digital citizenship narratives to empower learners as active, critically-informed citizens.
11.15 Tom Pearce – The enactment of informal formative assessment
- Informal formative assessment is a key part of effective assessment practice. However, many teachers struggle to break free from traditional, teacher-led assessments that stand in the way of student agency and empowerment. I will share some evidence from the literature on how informal formative assessments can help teachers to adopt a more dialogic practice.
11.30: Carol Mutch – Community connectedness, pre-and post disaster
- My decade of disaster research has highlighted how communities that were more connected pre-disaster were able to mobilise more quickly when disaster hit. I’ll share three examples of communities that have learned the importance of enhancing community connectedness.
11.45: Questions for in-person presenters
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