VOLUME 3(5) • 2015
PARTNERSHIP, POWER AND EDUCATION
ABSTRACT. The collection gathered under the heading of this Special Issue of Knowledge Cultures arises from a one-day conference hosted by the School of Education of Auckland University of Technology, on 4th July 2014. This conference was an opportunity to formally acknowledge the establishment of t..
EDUCATION AS THE POWER OF PARTNERSHIP: THE CONTEXT OF CO-LABOR-ATION
ABSTRACT. This paper discusses the changing use of the concept of “partnership” in three contexts: community partnership; partnership as part of public-private partnerships (PPP), and; partnership as the co-production of public goods. The paper introduces the politics of partnership as an aspect of ..
“EDUCATION AS THE POWER OF PARTNERSHIP: THE CONTEXT OF CO-LABORATION.” A REPLY TO MICHAEL PETERS
ABSTRACT. In his keynote address to the educational ideas and education policy special interest groups of the New Zealand Association for Research in Education, Michael Peters usefully identified three “notions” of partnership in education: (i) community governance; (ii) public private partnerships;..
COMMUNITY, PARTNERSHIP, AND COLLABORATION
ABSTRACT. We can be grateful to Michael Peters for giving us a very illuminating account of a variety of ways of conceptualizing partnerships, community and collaboration. Above all Peters’ boundless optimism is so refreshing when a critical viewpoint almost always leads to a skeptical view that “it..
PARTNERSHIP AS INTELLECTUAL KINSHIP
ABSTRACT. Michael Peters (2014) draws a distinction between three different notions of partnership in New Zealand education policy: a “community” concept derived from liberal democratic theories of governance; a “public private partnership” model; and the idea of partnership as “collaboration.” He l..
SYMBOLIC POLICY AND THE EDUCATIONAL MYTH OF BICULTURALISM
ABSTRACT. Using the concept of symbolic policy and drawing from an anthropology of policy approach, this paper explores the ways that bicultural education policy creates and sustains a myth of partnership between Maori and Pakeha/European settler-descendants. Drawing from doctoral research undertake..
PARTNERSHIP, HEALTH AND AGEING RESEARCH. WALKING THE TALK & LESSONS LEARNT
ABSTRACT. In a new initiative, in the School of Population Health at the University of Auckland, a cohort of the oldest old indigenous Maori and non-Maori people have been encouraged to volunteer for a study of ageing. The objectives of the research entitled, Te Puawaitanga o nga tapuwae kia ora ton..
POWER AND PARTNERSHIP: MAKING-UP EARLY CHILDHOOD KNOWLEDGES
ABSTRACT. Talk about knowledge economies is often the source of great tension for the early childhood teaching profession because of its capacity to polarize views on the kind of role economics should play in the lives of young children. In this article our interest is to show both the pedagogical i..
THE ROLE OF FRIENDSHIP AND PARTNERSHIP IN AN EDUCATION FOR LIFE
ABSTRACT. Partnership as a term is used in various ways in education. Partnerships exist between teachers and students, teachers and parents, teachers and colleagues, schools and communities, as well as between educational institutions, governments and society as a whole. Drawing on Schmid’s philoso..
POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH SUPERVISION AS A PARTNERSHIP IN THE CONTEXT OF FREIRE’S DIALOGICAL PEDAGOGY
ABSTRACT. Paulo Freire dismissed “banking education,” suggesting instead, “problem posing education.” Problem posing education uses student daily life and context as a valid text for a dialogical education. Such an education de-emphasizes the teacher as expert who has private ownership of knowledge ..
DOMESTIC TERRORISM, YOUTH, AND THE POLITICS OF DISPOSABILITY
ABSTRACT. In this article, I argue that the changing conditions youth now face in the new millennium, and the degree to which they are under assault, are entirely new. This is particularly evident as they face a market-driven society that punishes contemporary youth by treating them largely as commo..
THE BURSTING BOILER OF DIGITAL EDUCATION: CRITICAL PEDAGOGY AND PHILOSOPHY OF TECHNOLOGY
ABSTRACT. This conversation explores the relationships between information technologies and education from the perspective of a Frankfurt School philosopher. The first part of the conversation provides a brief insight into distinct features of Andrew Feenberg’s philosophy of technology. It looks int..