Breadcrumbs List.
Faculty of Education and Social Work
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The secret to getting through lockdown: helping others
8 May 2020
New York-born PhD candidate Kelly Misiti has been hit hard by the impact of Covid-19, awaiting news from her family while she watches the tragic events unfold from the other side of the world. But there’s one thing that gets her through – helping others.
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Lockdown reveal about child abuse reporting
7 May 2020
Opinion: A drop in reports to Oranga Tamariki during lockdown reflects that often it is teachers who notice and report child abuse or neglect, writes Briar O’Connor.
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The vā that binds: a Pasifika education story during Covid-19
3 May 2020
Opinion: As we rethink learning in light of Covid-19, any review must go wider than technology and inequity when it comes to Pasifika students, writes Jacoba Matapo.
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Vanishing into the virtual realm: the teacher after Covid-19
30 April 2020
Opinion: Now, we professors are reduced to a form of teaching that is little more than teaching’s mechanics: finding (and sometimes producing) teaching material for ‘best outcomes’, argues Alison Jones.
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Sexuality in the time of Covid-19
24 April 2020
Opinion: This unprecedented situation is likely to significantly impact the sexual practices of the population, argues Professor Louisa Allen.
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Education after Covid-19
24 April 2020
As the trillions of dollars that have been miraculously conjured to bailout the economy have to be recouped, and as an over-heating world tries to get back to normal, we may well see the rise of alternative visions and models of schooling and education, argues Professor John Morgan.
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Creative resource ready for teachers as schools go back
24 April 2020
In response to Covid-19, a project to support primary school teachers with a rich, arts-based set of resources when they return to school next week has been developed by a team at the University of Auckland.
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The future of schooling: A dark vision
24 April 2020
Opinion: We must be wary of the rise of an ‘EdTech’ future, argues Gavin Brown.
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Teachers are central to the health of our societies
24 April 2020
Opinion: In a post-Covid-19 world, children will be hungry for learning, deserving of opportunity and wanting to belong. Teachers will be there for them in ways that online tools aren’t, argues Associate Professor Fiona Ell.
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Family and education in a pandemic
24 April 2020
Opinion: The family should not be a tool for shifting the burden of cost away from the collective responsibility of the state and its obligation to educate its young, argues Kirsten Locke.
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40,000 students, 6,000 staff online in 48 hours
22 April 2020
As Covid-19 hit home, all staff and students at the University of Auckland needed to be able to teach, learn and work entirely off campus within 48 hours.
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Conflict, climate and contagion: refugees suffer
20 April 2020
Opinion: As the world and NZ shut borders, millions of refugees are forgotten in high density camps. Jay Marlowe argues we can't only look inward in fighting Covid-19.