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The legacy of Education To Be More for early childhood education in Aotearoa New Zealand

In 1980, Geraldine McDonald wrote: ‘Measures to promote the rights of children are frequently disguised ways of controlling the role of women.’ McDonald’s challenge to policymakers is cited in the 1988 report of the Early Childhood Care and Education Working Group, Education To Be More (a.k.a. the Meade Report). It’s on page 40, in a […]

Andrew Gibbons

Andrew is a Fellow of the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia. He is an associate editor of Educational Philosophy and Theory and bass player for Ocean Beach.

Mobilising tofā sa’ili for ECE leadership

A talanoa confronting dominant conceptualisations from a Pasifika perspective

Maria Cooper & Jacoba Matapo
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Maria Cooper and Jacoba Matapo University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand   Abstract Leadership is about all of us, but dominant frames of leadership serve only a few. In this commentary, we challenge the dominance of Western notions of leadership as linear influence relationships in order to shift Pasifika engagement from the margins. For us, […]

Full Citation Information:
Cooper, M., & Matapo, J. (2021). Mobilising tofā sa’ili for ECE leadership: A talanoa confronting dominant conceptualisations from a Pasifika perspective. ACCESS: Contemporary Issues in Education, 41(2), 26-32. https://doi.org/10.46786/ac21.2955
Article Feature Image Acknowledgement: Photo by JJ Ying on Unsplash