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Macfarlane, Angus; Manning, Richard; Ataria, Jamie; Macfarlane, Sonja; Derby, Melissa; Clarke, Te Hurinui – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2019
"Wetekia kia rere" is an expression in the Maori language that refers to "unleashing potential". This paper discusses questions of power relevant to challenges recently identified by government officials regarding learners' experiences of science education in New Zealand schools. We begin by summarising the Treaty relationship…
Descriptors: Place Based Education, Racial Bias, Science Education, Ethnic Groups
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John, Vaughn M. – Research Papers in Education, 2016
How do we account for the close personal bonds and deeply caring relationships forged by educators with learners in many adult educational encounters? The literature is relatively silent on the emotional and relational basis to adult educator work. This is a serious silence, given the stressful nature of adult education in developing contexts such…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Caring, Teacher Student Relationship
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Sanford, Katherine Jane; Hopper, Timothy Frank; Starr, Lisa – Complicity: An International Journal of Complexity and Education, 2015
In order for teacher education programs to act as significant scaffolds in supporting new teachers to become informed, creative and innovative members of a highly complex and valuable profession, we need to re-imagine ways in which teacher education programs operate. We need to re-imagine how courses are conceptualized and connected, how learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs, Case Studies
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Hedges, Helen; Fleer, Marilyn; Fleer-Stout, Freya; Hanh, Le Thi Bich – International Research in Early Childhood Education, 2016
Collaborative and reciprocal teacher-parent partnerships have been established in prior research as vital in empowering ethnic-minority children to be competent learners who value their home background, culture, and language and also learn the language used by teachers as the medium of education. Such collaborative relationships may be challenging…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Teacher Cooperation, Minority Group Students, Cultural Influences
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Stanger, Nicholas R. G.; Tanaka, Michele T. D.; Tse, Vanessa V.; Starr, Lisa J. – Complicity: An International Journal of Complexity and Education, 2013
Pre-service teachers face a complex educational context and Transformative Inquiry is a useful approach for negotiating this terrain. We interpret the movement of students via the adaptive cycle put forth in panarchy theory as they engage in the inquiry process through "winter counts", a Plains First Nation tradition, as expressions of…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Transformative Learning, Inquiry, Indigenous Populations
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Robertson, Carmen – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2012
This article explores the concepts advanced from the Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC)-funded project, "Exploring Problem-Based Learning pedagogy as transformative education in Indigenous Australian Studies". As an Indigenous art historian teaching at a mainstream university in Canada, I am constantly reflecting on how to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Canada Natives, Interdisciplinary Approach, Courses
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Adds, Peter; Hall, Meegan; Higgins, Rawinia; Higgins, Te Ripowai – Teaching in Higher Education, 2011
When the Maori goddess, "Hinetitama", asked the Maori god, "Tane", who her father was, he replied, "Uia ki nga pou o t whare ... Ask the posts of your house". This traditional Maori (indigenous people of New Zealand) story implies a cultural teaching pedagogy that utilises the "marae" (a Maori building…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Indigenous Populations, Transformative Learning
Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Spector, J. Michael, Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaias, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2013
These proceedings contain the papers of the IADIS International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA 2013), October 22-24, 2013, which has been organized by the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS), co-organized by The University of North Texas (UNT), sponsored by the…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Cognitive Processes, Learning Processes, Short Term Memory