In pursuit of equity and effectiveness: mapping a policy intervention in Aotearoa New Zealand Seminar
- Time:
- 12:00 - 13:00
- Date:
- 16 March 2021
- Venue:
- Online event
For more information regarding this seminar, please email EducationFOS@soton.ac.uk .
Event details
This talk presents research with New Zealand school leaders on a long-standing government policy: Investing in Educational Success (IES). The talk will survey the policy context: a bi-cultural South Pacific nation characterised by economic and political stability, a strong sense of freedom, rights and peace, yet lacking social equity and constrained by a neoliberal ethos. It explores the tensions in policy implementation and argues for a new, theoretically informed, policy articulation.
What are the key messages of your talk?
Policy is, and must be, both planned and emergent. Policy actors benefit from mapping their context, and its inhabitants.
What are the implications for practice or research from your talk?
The research shows the centrality of relationships in critical perspectives. The research also highlights the benefits of ethnographic methods.
If you are interested in attending, please email us at EducationFOS@soton.ac.uk.
Speaker information
Associate Professor Annelies Kamp (PhD), University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Annelies works with contemporary social theory to explore the intersection of young people, education, training and employment. Her research foci include critical studies of youth transition; the teenage parent and education, leadership and the 'joined-up' policy agenda.