Breadcrumbs List.
Education and society
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Female leaders need support not the abuse they so often endure
1 May 2023
Opinion: At a time of global challenges, we need the best leaders to respond. To ensure that happens, Dawn Freshwater writes that women leaders need support to deal with the abuse they face because of their gender.
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Abuse in Care extension necessary to do the job right
18 April 2023
The second extension of the Royal Commission's final report is to be welcomed, says Stephen Winter, but provides no reason to delay redress, which the Government agreed to implement over a year ago
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A voyage into the Māori past on Enderby
5 April 2023
How Māori lived on the sub-Antarctic island of Enderby is the focus of an ambitious expedition involving scientists from the University of Auckland, the University of Canterbury and Ngāi Tahu.
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Strong communities are essential when disaster strikes
2 April 2023
Opinion: Because pro-social behaviour emerges so often after disaster, community empowerment should be central to disaster mitigation and recovery argues Steve Matthewman
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Schools don't need National’s dull, narrow curriculum
2 April 2023
Opinion: The danger of National's policy is that it undoes much of an informal pact with Labour to depoliticise education at a time of real struggle, argues Peter O'Connor.
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Experts adopt creative approach to question contemporary education
1 April 2023
Professor Peter O'Connor and Dr Claudia Rozas Gómez bounce ideas about education back and forth in a series of letters.
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All the chat's about AI, but humans rule
1 April 2023
Opinion: Artificial Intelligence tools used for writing present a much-needed opportunity to reimagine education assessment, says Associate Professor Alex Sims.
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Indigenising our universities: Tēnā tātou 'here we all are'
27 March 2023
Opinion: In a three-part series, Te Kawehau Hoskins and Alison Jones explore the value of an evolving Treaty partnership to higher education. Part 1: Who is the ‘we’ at our institutions.
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Historians launch special edition journal to support Māori history taught in schools
24 March 2023
Te Pouhere Kōrero 10 is authored by a collective of established Māori historians who will speak at National Library of New Zealand, in Wellington on March 28.
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The insidious politics of mental illness
24 March 2023
Questioning the mental health system and labels given to various conditions by psychiatrists is the focus of a special issue of New Zealand Sociology.
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The truth is, our kids aren’t good at writing
9 March 2023
Standardised tests aren't perfect but they do warn us there is something wrong in our school system, says Professor Gavin Brown, and if don’t like the results, we shouldn’t ignore the test data.
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From revolution to pandemic: the life of a social anthropologist
7 March 2023
From the streets of Prague after the 1989 revolution to the violent Fiji coup of 2000 and the Covid pandemic, Susanna Trnka’s life and work have often been at the centre of historic events.