I am back to Aotearoa New Zealand my soul home after my travels and would, like to dedicate this post to celebrating change, returning home, acknowledging my many homes and my many teachers. I have been away the last seven years mainly based in Switzerland and travelled back to New Zealand on work and leisure, […]
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” Leo Tolstoy (or herself) The Cambridge dictionary defines change as “make or become different ” The first step to change is change thyself Fear is the twin sister of change I am a fan of change. Not change for the sake of […]
The Early Childhood profession today There is a considerable amount of legislation in New Zealand that governs the profession through the early childhood regulations with auditing bodies like the New Zealand Ministry of Education, the Education Review office and the New Zealand Education council. These organisations ‘ keep an eye’ and audit compliance as well as quality in […]
Dedication This reflective piece is dedicated to my Teacher and spiritual mentor Nancy Kung. Nancy believed in dialogic teaching and her work was influenced by Parker Palmer’s philosophy on teaching and education, the concept of ‘Āta and much more. Nancy’s teaching practice was truly from the heart. Nancy passed when I was halfway through my post grad […]
My qualitative research on emotional labour experiences of early years educators resulted in some significant revelations via in-depth interviews, narratives and reflections. These were not surprising by any means but issues faced by teachers in the sector all over, across the globe, mostly unvoiced, unspoken and resulting in teacher stress, burnout and turnover. Through my research I […]
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