Te Whakatere au Pāpori

Navigating Social Currents

Global Migrations Conference presentation: Forced Migration and Mothering Kiwisitos

26th – 28th November | Quad lecture theatre complex, Otago University, Dunedin

Hear Te Whakatere au Papori member Carolina present at this year’s Global Migrations Conference about how different typologies of social capital contributed to the resettlement experience of Colombian women who were pregnant when they came to New Zealand.

Mandated testing hurts our education system

In this blog post, Tom Pearce explains the risks of mandatory testing regimes in primary schools. High stakes testing narrows the curriculum and results in impoverished teaching practices. So what do teachers need in order to actually use this data for improvement?

Public schools, not charter schools, need the Government’s support

This blog post by Tom Pearce, originally published in The Post, considers the case for charter schools in Aotearoa, and finds the evidence for their effectiveness severely lacking.

Workshop: All you need to know about selecting a conference, writing an abstract and more

10am-12pm Wednesday 15th May | Location: B201-377

This workshop with Professor Carol Mutch will explore all you need to know about selecting a conference, writing an abstract, and choosing a format for the presentation.

Governing in crises: Rural school board experiences of urbanisation during COVID-19

This blog by Dr Wendy Choo, Dr Jennifer Tatebe, and Dr Lina Valdivia looks at how South Auckland, Christchurch, and Tauranga rural school boards and principals navigated the dual pressures of COVID-19 and rapid urbanisation in their local community.

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.

We ask how children and young people:

come to understand their social worlds and their place within them through lenses such as identity, citizenship, participation, community or children’s voice;
make sense of unexpected happenings in their social worlds through lenses such as resilience, disaster response and recovery, transience, migration or becoming refugees; or
make sense of the social issues they face such as poverty, friendships or bullying.

Since its launch Te Whakatere au Pāpori has hosted an international conference, presented symposia at four international conferences and held regular faculty-wide research seminars, as well as producing three special issues of peer reviewed journals and a range of other research outputs.

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